Top 10 Marketing Blogs – 2007/2008
By Michael StelznerThe endless nominations arrived. The nominees have been carefully examined. What follows are the top 10 marketing blogs.
These folks excel at sharing their insight and craft with the world. Read each of these marketing blogs every day and you will greatly advance your knowledge.
- Seth Godin’s Blog: Seth Godin finds marketing insight everywhere – make him a daily read.
- MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog: Many of the marketing world’s greatest minds share their wisdom here.
- Duct Tape Marketing Blog: This blog is a gold mine for small businesses and includes regular insights that are easy to implement.
- Techno//Marketer: A very good blog on leveraging online tools for marketing (and includes helpful videos).
- Buzz Marketing for Technology: This excellent blog, by BearingPoint’s Paul Dunay, helps businesses learn how to stand out in a noisy world.
- Create Value or Die: The title of this blog says it all. Learn how to create value for visitors.
- Web Ink Now: The ultimate stop for learning how to generate publicity for your business, from author David Meerman Scott.
- Web Strategy by Jeremiah: Great social networking blog with embedded podcasts (for those of us who are reading-challenged) by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang.
- The Buzz Bin: Excellent social media and PR blog by author Geoff Livingston.
- Diva Marketing Blog: A cornucopia of marketing insight comes from marketing diva Toby Bloomberg.
Congratulations to the winners. Be sure to check out these awesome blogs!
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November 6th, 2007 at 5:46 am
What an honorable list of blogs to be included in. This is amazing! Thank you so much for including us. When I saw the nominations I didn’t think we’d be included given who else was nominated. Thank you.
November 6th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Michael — I am truly honored to be on this list in such outstanding company. Thank you for sharing the methodology as well.
November 6th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Goeff and Matt;
You guys have really amazing blogs.
Since this has come up, I am going to explain how this contest worked:
#1 - We asked our 20,000 readers to nominate their top marketing blogs
#2 - Only blogs that were nominated more than once made the initial list
#3 - We reviewed dozens of blogs for (a) quality of posting content and (b) frequency of posting. Only blogs that had very high quality content and posted very regularly are among the finalists.
#4 - The final 10 are presented here, based on the nominations of our readers
November 6th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Michael - Thank you to you and your readers for this over the top honor. Made my day! Thanks to Nettie Hartsock for the initial nomination.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Thank you, Michael. The MarketingProfs blog is in great company here — and some of these blogs/bloggers are my personal favorites, as well! Thank you for the honor.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Michael,
I’ve been on the road and unable to access the Web for like 24 hours. I’ve been in withdrwals, to be honest. What a great surprise to find my blog together with such estemed company.
Many thanks for compiling the list.
Best,
David
November 7th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Mr. Stelzner,
before you are going to censor this comment just like you did with the comments of Jennifer Mattern and Bill Sledzik, you should go and read this:
http://www.contentious.com/archives/2007/11/06/boiling-down-blogging-ethics-what-would-you-do
November 7th, 2007 at 8:10 am
And this: http://toughsledding.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/if-you-think-im-losing-faith-in-web-20-heres-why/
November 7th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Hey Folks;
I want to publicly apologize for deleting a few comments here yesterday.
What I did is pretty much censorship.
I realize it was a stupid mistake I made and I hope you accept my apology.
Mike
November 7th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Here is what I said in response to your comment at my blog:
I, and others in the blogosphere, might be more forgiving if you’d put those comments back up for all to see. I’m not being combative here, just fighting for a little transparency.
And here was your response:
Bill - Done
Of course, it isn’t done. The comments remain off line.
Details here: http://toughsledding.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/if-you-think-im-losing-faith-in-web-20-heres-why/#comment-11877
November 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Praise!!
Here are the comments that I deleted. Thanks Jenn at NakedPr.com for keeping her emails:
Jenn at NakedPr.com original comment:
Michael,
Love the blog and the effort on creating the list. It would be great though if the post mentioned a bit about how these blogs were chosen, as there’s already a bit of rumbling around about how it’s just another subjective list that people are taking as an authority source on blog rankings, albeit a bit misguided.
It’s certainly nice to see some of your favorites (I’m assuming that’s what we have here… if there was another process I’d love it if you clarified it for me a bit).
MY RESPONSE:
Jennifer;
Since you asked:
This list was selected first based on nominations to this blog and our 20,000 reader newsletter. Something like 60 nominations came in.
Blogs needed to be nominated more than one time to qualify.
Then all blogs were critically analyzed for the value of the content and the regularity of their posts.
Hopefully that answers your question.
If a blog was not nominated, it did not make the list.
Mike
BILL SLEDZIK’s COMMENT:
I’ll admit I’m not a regular reader here. I was drawn in by the buzz your list generated. Mission accomplished.
I spent a good bit of energy in my PR career trying to land my clients on lists like this, but I have to say I’m finding the selection criteria a little dubious, and your response to Jennifer a bit lacking. As I understand it, a top marketing blog needs just TWO nominations (from a list of 20,000 readers)? Then they are “critically analyzed.” By whom?
The passive voice is telling here. It’s sounding more and more like someone picked their favs and posted the list. That’s OK, it’ll pull in plenty of links and traffic, and, sadly, that’s the name of the game in Web 2.0. But let’s not make this list into more than it really is.
I’m not a marketing blogger, so there is no envy here, none at all. But you did miss some really good ones!
MY COMMENT:
Bill;
I think quality of the blogs on this list stand on their own.
This is a contest put on by www.WhitePaperSource.com.
I am the executive editor.
To be “considered” multiple nominations must have come in. If they did not, they were not considered.
Then the nominated blogs went through an analysis on our end for quality and frequency.
If you want to understand better how the process works, see the top 10 blogs for writer’s nominations that are coming in right now by going here:
http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/11/02/top-10-blogs-for-writers-20072008-seeking-your-nomination/
Mike
November 9th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Wow! There are some gems in here, even for an old-world guy like me!
November 12th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I was thankful just to be nominated, thanks! I wish I weren’t working so hard right now - I would have done some guerilla marketing.
Thanks Again!
Doug
February 25th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Great list of blogs. I just started a blog this year. Maybe one day, I’ll be on a top 10 list (he he). Not a writer by any means but I having written a few articles and it’s becoming contagious.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
When will I be among that list…
*wondering*
March 19th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Great site and thanks for the fab lists.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Nice list, i wish i will be in the top next year!! so thank you dude and be ready to nominat me !!
March 29th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Excellent list - bookmarked, stumbled and ready to be referred on.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Bookmarked as well
May 15th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Great Share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Great list, I just came across this list now in a search myself.
How about SEOBook.com for marketing? The website has contributed countless amounts of quality articles for advancement of the SEO World, marketing and conversion.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Thanks much for the list. Reading through each of the sites will be a time-consuming process - is there one in particular that would be good to start out with?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Ah, finally, I’ve been looking for something like this and the blogs are amazing! Just wanted to say thanks
June 16th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Great resource list Michael. If you get a chance, can you please do a review and top ten list for Ebooks about Marketing. I love blogs, but find that the information is very scattered at times, and love the simplicity that an Ebook offers for researching and learning.
July 5th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hopefully I will be on that list soon =)