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Seth's Blog: Marketing lessons from the US election
Seth's Blog: Marketing lessons from the US election
sethgodin.typepad.com — The polls open in a few minutes, and unlike pundits that wait until after the polls have... closed, I thought I'd do the opposite. It's obvious that this is the most talked about election in the history of the world, and I think there are some lessons ... (more) Seth's Blog: Marketing lessons from the US election
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Wikio Top Blogs
Personanondata — I don't know if this means much but I have as many above me as below me. Pressure is on to maintain my position. I have no idea what drives it although I am sure if I have more subscribers and more people linking to me then I should do OK. So, tell your friends and check out all these links. Wikio ranks blogs across a number of categories. 1 The Conscience of a Liberal 2 Calculated Risk 3 Seth Godin's Blog 4 Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se 5 DealBook - New York Times blog 6 Greg ...

“If books on the Kindle were $1...”
Oz and Ends — Here's Seth Godin, author of Tribes, in an interview at The 26th Story: What's the most important lesson the book publishing industry can learn from the music industry? The market doesn't care a whit about maintaining your industry. The lesson from Napster and iTunes is that there's even MORE music than there was before. What got hurt was Tower and the guys in the suits and the unlimited budgets for groupies and drugs. The music will keep coming. Same thing is true with books. So you can decide to hassle your readers ...

A Conversation with Author Ananda Leeke About Her Writing Process
Red Room - Where the Writers Are — ... content on your blogs, social networking sites, and social bookmarking sites. Subscribe to a social media blog, Web site, podcast, or radio show that provides information about new tools, intellectual property law for the internet, and marketing strategies. I subscribe to the following: www.blackweb20.com www.davidbullock.com www.tywebbin.com/next http://barack20.com http://beth.typepad.com www.chrisbrogan.com http://frankgorton.com http://sethgodin.typepad.com http://www.briansolis.com ...

Read This: The Books Behind My Blogging Workshop
Beatrice.com — ... my thoughts about what I was going to say to students during those two sessions. Scott Rosenberg’s recently published Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters was a great resource for discussing the blogosphere’s roots and identifying the stand-out characteristics of the first great blogs, while Bob Walsh’s Clear Blogging provided helpful ideas about effective writing techniques, as did Darren Rowse’s Problogger . Reading Seth Godin has transformed the way I think about not just marketing but also self-presentation, ...

If only publishers and authors would understand the nature of free
Red Room - Where the Writers Are — I know for sure that if publishers put out the E-books first for “free” this would drive hardcover sales through the roof. Why? Try before you buy. Permission marketing first proposed by Seth Godin in his book ...

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