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July 13, 2007

Top Marketing Blogs - A First Cut!

Probably a total fluke, but this consumer-obsessed marketing blog managed to make Forrester analyst Peter Kim's first cut at a Top Marketing Blog ranking. My current slot is #5, but here's an important caveat (before you high-five me). Peter narrowed the criteria to "the most popular blogs written by client-side marketing professionals. These are people who are doing their brands a favor by engaging customers and prospects in conversation." Put another way, these are blogs that are not directly linked to the formal marketing services. Many other superb marketing blogs -- far more insightful than my own -- didn't make the cut! Also important, Peter's taking suggestions. (I read or subscribe to most of the other blogs on Peter's list, but there are a few new ones I knew little about, so use his list to push your frontier of awareness.)

Posted by Pete on July 13, 2007 at 05:42 AM in Industry & WOMMA Scoop, Influencers & Megaphones, Shameless Plug | Permalink

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Congratulations Pete! No matter what you say, you deserve it :)

Posted by: Meikah | July 17, 2007 at 03:01 AM

Congrats Pete! Great to be in such good company!
Eric

Posted by: Eric Kintz | July 18, 2007 at 09:23 PM

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