Marketing Resource: Twitter 101 for Businesses

"Twitter 101 for Businesses", from the folks at Twitter, is getting a lot of attention right now as an introduction to Twitter.  If you're interested in using Twitter for marketing or just need a basic rundown on how Twitter works, it's definitely worth a look.

SEOmoz: Considering The Big Picture

While SEOmoz is a great resource for insight into search engine optimization and web publishing, I also found this post by Danny Dover, Ten Resources That Changed How I View the Internet, worth considering.

If the "tyranny of the urgent everyday" keeps you from stepping back and taking account of the bigger picture, this post may give you an easy way to take that step.

Free Press Release Sites Reviewed

Marketing Sherpa has a review of 13 free press release distribution sites.

A lot of their stuff goes behind a pay wall though this might not.  Nevertheless, check it out sooner rather than later!

Web Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

Mashable's Sean P. Aune brings you 200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis aka Our New Daily Reality.

Online Business Toolbox by Mashable

Mashable has a really great list of 270+ Tools for Running a Business Online that builds on last year's 230+ Tools for Running a Business Online.

Kim Ellis & Wendy Day To Launch In The Know Seminars

Kim Ellis and Wendy Day are teaming up to offer In The Know, a series of monthly online music industry seminars.

Official Site:
In The Know Seminars

Google Advertising Tools: Insights for Search, Ad Planner, Trends for Web Sites

Google's Insights for Search launched today.  Described as an extension of Google Trends, Insights for Search has a number of features that marketers will find of use.

Danny Sullivan shares a quick demo of Insights for Search.

Also from Danny Sullivan:
Google Ad Planner Launches, Offers Site Demographic Profiles
Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites

Escaping the Long Tail: Indie Arts & True Fans

Kevin Kelly on escaping the trap of long tail economics by finding 1,000 True Fans.

Via The Secret Music Life Of Kat.

Wired: Freeconomy With a Too Quick Deadline

Chris Anderson is doing some stuff about Freeconomy at Wired and it's definitely worth a look given our always fluctuating business environment.

Apparently there was a very brief free offering of the March issue focused on the whole Free thing.

They offered it Monday and now it's gone.  It's weird what a strong flash of rage I felt to have just found out and yet to have already been cut off from something I really wanted.

Yeah, it was free for other people.

There's some other stuff worth looking at from the above link but I ain't linking to anything else on there.  You'll have to sort it out for yourself.  There's a video but I didn't watch it cause Anderson looks pretentious and I'm in annoyed mode.

Yes, there's a downside to how you handle "Free".

Via Agenda Inc.

Business Plan Resources via Business Week

Business Week gathered together a group of brief useful articles in a special report on business plans.

Via My Global Hustle.

Artists House Music: Music Industry Career Guide

Jimmy Iovine on Breaking Into the Music Industry

I recently ran into this music industry website, Artists House Music, that seems to have a lot of good career education resources for those trying to break into the industry.

When this Jimmy Iovine video hit the blogosphere, I didn't realize that it was from Artists House Music, but now the dots connect.  I'm sure Mr. Iovine has some great things to say but I couldn't get past the first two minutes.

High point of the first two minutes:

"the song thing is very important"

I think I'll put than on a t-shirt!

Video via Hypebot.

Over at Hip Hop Press:
Music Industry Heavyweights and Educators Discuss the Future of the Music Industry on ArtistsHouseMusic.org

Resources: Press Release Distribution, Ad Networks & Tools, Web Coding

Mashable has:
20+ Free Press Release Distribution Sites
30+ Ways To Advertise Yourself
250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web

Mashable has a lot more of this kind of thing but I can't find any categories or tags on their site.  You can scroll down to the bottom of each post for more links but somebody's missing something.  If it's me, please clue me in.

There is a link on some pages to TAGS but that goes to a networking feature.  I can't believe I wasted my time trying to find something so basic and still can't.

This works: Search Mashable: Toolbox

A Systematic Guide to Building Your Personal Brand Online

A new group of manifestos is available from Change This including Build Your Brand in Bits and Bytes about building your personal brand online.

William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson present a systemic approach to evaluating and improving your online brand presence.  It's nicely organized with the possibility of going analytical or simply browsing the sections for new ideas.

I think this would be a useful document for anyone considering issues related to online brands and it might be just the thing for folks looking at the Internet in relationship to their personal brand and feeling totally overwhelmed.  If that's where you're at, this looks like a good place to start.

Though geared to individuals, folks considering larger brands will also find it relevant.

William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson are the founders of Reach Branding Club.

Hypebot's 100 Free & Affordable Music Promotion Tips

I'm reposting this list of links to Hypebot's "100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion Tips" because the series is now complete.

1 to 10 ~ 11 to 20 ~ 21 to 30 ~ 31 to 40 ~ 41 to 50
51 to 60 ~ 61 to 70 ~ 71 to 80 ~ 81 to 90 ~ 91 to 100

Definitely worth a good look.

Smart Editor: Web Results While You're Typing!

Programmable Web discusses Smart Editor a very cool app for any writer and maybe a lot of websurfers.  You write in a box on the left and it brings up related web links in a box on the right.

Try something poetic.  I found some very cool things.  Ok, then I found some boring things but it's a fun tool.

Official Site:
Smart Editor