DUCT TAPE MARKETING in “TOP 5 BLOGS”

IN A RECENT ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN PRWEB…Duct Tape Marketing placed in the “TOP 5 BLOGS” that Marketing Executives read!!!  Congratulations to our own John Jantsch!

MENG Survey Reveals the Top 20 Marketing Blogs That Marketing Executives Read

Seth Godin’s Blog and Mashable Top the List, With Godin’s Blog Also Named “Favorite,” “Most Valuable,” and “Most Enjoyable to Read”

Old Saybrook, CT (PRWEB) January 12, 2010 — Though there were a number of “Best of Blogs” lists offered by a variety of blogging connoisseurs to close out 2009, the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) (http://www.mengonline.com/visitors) chose to survey their nearly 2,000 executive marketing members to determine which marketing blogs, written by non-MENG members for objectivity, were actually being read by marketing executives.

Seth Godin’s blog, (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/) well-known and respected in the executive marketing community, was the most-read blog capturing 59% of the member responses. It also garnered 34% of the vote for “favorite marketing blog,” 24% of the vote for “most valuable marketing content,” and 35% of the vote for “most enjoyable marketing blog to read,” leading all three categories.

With 38% of MENG members reading Mashable (http://mashable.com/), it ranks as the second most-popular marketing blog, followed with a tie for third place by blogs penned by Chris Brogan (http://www.chrisbrogan.com/) (30%) and Guy Kawasaki(“How to Change the World (http://blog.guykawasaki.com/)”) (30%), and a tie for fifth place by Tom Peters (http://www.tompeters.com/) (20%) and John Jantsch (Duct Tape Marketing (http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/)) (20%).

Each of these aforementioned blogs, along with the following 10 top blogs, received votes in all three of the coveted categories: “favorite marketing blog,” “most valuable marketing content,” and “most enjoyable marketing blog to read.”

They include:

• David Armano’s Logic + Emotion (http://darmano.typepad.com/)

• Mack Collier’s The Viral Garden (http://moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com/)

• Steve Hall’s AdRANTs (http://www.adrants.com/)

• Joseph Jaffe’s Jaffe Juice (http://www.jaffejuice.com/)

• John Moore’s Brand Autopsy (http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/)

• Jeremiah Owyang’s Web Strategy (http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/)

• Shelly Palmer’s MediaBytes (http://www.shellypalmermedia.com/)

• David Meerman Scott’s Web Ink Now (http://www.webinknow.com/)

• Brian Solis’s BrianSolis.com (http://www.briansolis.com/), Defining the Convergence of Media + Influence

• Denise Lee Yohn’s Brand as Business Bites (http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/brand-as-business-bites)

Other Top 20 marketing-focused blogs being read by MENG members, but not listed above include:

• Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim (http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/)

• Valeria Maltoni’s Conversation Agent (http://www.conversationagent.com/)

• Ben McConnell & Jackie Huba’s Church of the Customer (http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/)

• Avinash Kaushik’s Occam’s Razor (http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/)

MENG plans to repeat this study periodically and add marketing blogs that members deem particularly insightful and valuable to them as executives.

About MENG:

The Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) is the premiere international community of executive-level marketers who share their passion and expertise to ensure each member’s success. This not-for-profit organization of nearly 2,000 members fosters career and personal success across virtually all industries and marketing specialties by providing networking opportunities and the ability to share knowledge and best practices. Members must have reached at least the VP level in their organization. Eighty four percent of members have Fortune 500 experience and 70% have earned graduate degrees, the majority of which are from top-20 business schools. To learn more about MENG, post executive level marketing positions, or to access MENG’s database of marketing executives, speakers and consultants, visit www.MENGonline.com. MENG can also be found on Twitter atwww.Twitter.com/MENGonline.

Contact Information CHRIS FAUST FastLane on behalf of MENG http://www.MENGonline.com 973.226.4379

WHY SOCIAL MEDIA IS SO DIFFICULT FOR MOST ORGANIZATIONS — Seth Godin

This is an excellent post by Seth Godin that captures why Social Media implementation is so difficult for most organizations…

“It’s a process, not an event.

Dating is a process. So is losing weight, being a public company and building a brand.

On the other hand, putting up a trade show booth is an event. So are going public and having surgery.

Events are easier to manage, pay for and get excited about. Processes build results for the long haul.”

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 101 PROGRAM for REALTORS

I will be presenting “SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 101: How to Use Social Media to Grow Your Real Estate Business” along with David Gibbs, Publisher, Homes & Land Magazine, THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 from 9AM to 11AM to MAINSTREET ORGANIZATION of REALTORS, 1815 W. Diehl Road, Naperville, IL.  Contact: 630.443.4907!  See you there!

Join me on “Livin’ the Dream” Radio Show Tuesday August 25 2009 12Noon CST

I am excited to be a guest host on “Livin’ the Dream” Radio Show on TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 2009 @ 12NOON CST!  Please join me…here’s the link! www.MyDreamBiz.net “See you then and there!”  Hosts are pictured below from left to right: Leo Wisniewski, John Navin, and Lauren Milligan.

Listen to Livin’ The Dream every week - live every Tuesday at noon CST on the Internet at Contact Talk Radio! Learn how to become a business owner, manage money, or advance your career. Each week, the Livin’ The Dream team brings you valuable information on topics that will resonate with you, challenge you, educate you, and even amuse you If you miss the live show, be sure to check out our Program Archives.

Business Ownership with Leo Wisniewski Financial Management from John Navin Career Advancement by Lauren Milligan

Marketing Systems Poll via LinkedIn

I am working on better understanding why small businesses have such a difficult time implementing a marketing system.  If you are LinkedIn member, I would appreciate your input on this via a poll I generated on LinkedIn.  Thank you for your input!  Here’s the link: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/37113/xgjcp

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