Hyperactive on the Net as always. Here are the tabs I currently have open. I thought I would share them as a useful resource for anyone looking to which marketing techniques you should be considering in 2009, as well as who is out there talking about interesting marketing ploys, methods, tools and so on. Where possibel I have included a link to their Twitter profile. If you aren’t using Twitter to promote your business, your blog, your brand, your products, you should make it a priority for 2009.
The Social Media Guru Curve by David Armano
MyBlogLog – a useful tool for following the blogs you post to or read and seeing how they may all fit together
Jim Marketing Blog by Jim Connolly (Top 10 marketing tips for SMEs)
Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008 by Dev Basu
Top 10 brand management tools for your business by Dan Schawbel
Marketing Bully – an interesting take on how to generate money from multiple income streams
Twitter – the brand new Clickthrough Marketing Twitter feed
Gmail
27 Blogging secrets to power your community by Chris Brogan
How to use Twitter as a Twool by Guy Kawasaki
TinyUrl.com – one of the many URL shortening tools around
Ovylord – another useful blogpost about the many things you can do with Twitter by ovylord
Best practice for Twitter thank you notes – note: read the comments as there are some very useful suggestions in there about twitiquette etc. By Dewald Pretorius. Also, take a long hard look at Get Satisfaction and see if your business should be using it for customer support.
The 10 types of users you will meet on Twitter by Ryan Deal
30 Lessons learned by a newbie blogger by EazyCheezy
16 Examples of huge brands using Twitter on SearchEngineJournal by Ann Smarty
Techcrunch UK govt and internet monitoring article by Mike Butcher
BBC News Fibre To The Home story because we all need more bandwidth
Andy Burnham story about website rankings by Steve Bowbrick(BBC Blogger)
So, hopefully, that will help to inspire your marketing plan for 2009! It is weighted towards Twitter research because Twitter is going to become an important tool for any sized business in 2009.