Jul
24
Our Hunt For the Best Marketing Web Sites For Solopreneurs
I’ve gone hunting for the best marketing Web sites for us solopreneurs.
I want/need your help! If you have any favorites, please share them with everybody else in the comments.
As I bag good sites, I will post in the comments, too.
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I had never heard of this one before today. I have a feeling I should have, because it’s excellent. It’s called Jim’s Marketing Blog, and it’s written by Jim Connolly:
http://jimsmarketingblog.com/
He has an eye-opening post about disclosure that he published this week:
http://jimsmarketingblog.com/2010/07/22/disclosure/
Let’s get a couple of the easy targets out of the way:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ (Seth Godin)
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ (Chris Brogan)
There’s no shame if you’ve never heard of Seth and Chris. In fact, you’re in for a treat if you’ve never read their stuff.
Here’s a good one. It’s called Big Marketing For Small Business, by Rajan Sodhi:
http://www.bigmarketingsmallbusiness.com/
You get bonus points for bagging sites that the rest of the world doesn’t know about!
I just got another easy one. It’s the hugely successful Duct Tape Marketing, by John Jantsch:
http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/
Here’s another good one I’ve never heard of before: Marketing Profs. It’s written by…marketing professors. The site is not specifically for solopreneurs, but it has a lot of info that applies.
http://www.marketingprofs.com/
OK, I’m very excited about this one. Never heard of it before today, and it’s very good. It’s so good, I’m going to give it my immediate RSS/Twitter-follow treatment. It’s the Russ Henneberry site:
http://www.russhenneberry.com/
Russ is based in St. Louis, and I really like his focus on tiny businesses. Here is part 1 of a three-part piece he wrote on how to scale up a tiny business:
http://www.russhenneberry.com/2010/07/how-to-raise-prices/
SEO is a huge part of marketing, and here’s an extremely important SEO site that I have used, the SEOmoz.org site:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog
The site also has great SEO tools — some are free and some are not.
Here’s another one of the “big boys” of marketing Web sites, Marketing Sherpa:
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/index.html
It doesn’t target solo businesses, but a lot of the stuff available there can be applied to your business.
Here’s a site I really enjoy — Chris Garrett’s ChrisG:
http://www.chrisg.com/
Chris is a blogging and online marketing specialist, based in Yorkshire, England.
Here’s one that I’m so close to, I forgot about it. Whenever I have a vexing problem, I bring it to the forum at Third Tribe Marketing (affiliate link):
http://thirdtribemarketing.com/aff/re.php?id=480
Third Tribe is a subscription site, and it’s worth every penny, whatever it is they’re charging right now
I found another superb one today, Drew’s Marketing Minute, from Drew McClellan of Des Moines Iowa:
http://www.drewsmarketingminute.com/
Hi Larry,
I’m from Australia, and probably the best site for Aussies is http://www.flyingsolo.com.au – the flying solo name being a reference to running a business “solo”, in some ways a similar name to your own site.
Obviously it’s Australian focused and you are in the USA, but still has a lot of tips and info that would be useful to anyone running a small business anywhere.
Thanks also for some of these other links, some good sites there.
Matt
Some additional ones I follow in my RSS reader:
Hubspot: http://blog.hubspot.com/
Jason Cohen: http://blog.asmartbear.com
David Garland: http://blog.therisetothetop.com/
This list would be incomplete if it didn’t include Naomi Dunford’s IttyBiz, “marketing for businesses without marketing departments”:
http://ittybiz.com/
Hi Larry — thanks a ton for including my site in your “hunt” for the best marketing sites! I am looking forward to having a look around your site as well.
Cheers!
Russ
The hunting continues…and here is an excellent marketing site with a focus on search:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/
The front page has an interesting piece on what to do after your local business receives a bad online review:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/miriam-ellis/the-local-business-owner-who-would-not-b.php
Grokdotcom is an online marketing blog published by FutureNow, and online marketing company:
http://www.grokdotcom.com/
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