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Marketing Bookmarks from HubSpot
Marketing, Business, & Tech Blogs to Read
- Convince and Convert | Thoughtful posts on content and social media marketing.
- Copyblogger | Content marketing and copywriting articles.
- Search Engine Land | Must-read news about search marketing & search engines.
- Moz Blog | Articles on modern-day SEO and inbound marketing.
- Seth's Blog | Pithy marketing and business posts from Seth Godin.
- Social Media Examiner | Social media marketing how-tos, research, case studies, and news.
- ProBlogger | Blogging tips applicable for all inbound marketers and content creators.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog | Stay up to date on changes to Google.
- Search Engine Watch | Articles on everything related to search engine marketing and optimization.
- Matt Cutts | Gadgets, Google, and SEO.
- Inside Facebook | Articles on Facebook and the Facebook Platform for developers and marketers.
- AllFacebook | Articles on Facebook news, Facebook marketing, and using Facebook for business.
- HubSpot's Inbound Hub Blog | Articles about all things inbound marketing and sales.
- Content Marketing Institute | Content marketing strategy, research and how-to advice.
- Priceonomics | Data crawling, visualization, and analysis.
- Harvard Business Review | Business articles and case studies.
- CMO.com | Digital marketing insight for CMOs.
- A List Apart | Articles about the state of the web, design, content, UX, industry, and business.
- Copyblogger | Content marketing and copywriting articles.
Find Content to Share / Get Inspired
- Quora | Find common questions and answers related to any topic.
- Brain Pickings | "A human-powered discovery engine for interestingness."
- Reddit | "The front page of the internet" with countless sub-communities, all voting up the best content.
- TED Talks | Listen to "ideas worth spreading" from remarkable and inspiring people.
- Medium | Thought-provoking ideas and stories from writers all over the world.
- Feedly | Create your own one-stop destination to read all the blogs and news that matter to you.
- Popular Quotes | Check out popular book titles, which books your network is reading, or share quotes from prominent authors.
- Most Popular News on Alltop | Check out the top stories across multiple news sites.
- StumbleUpon | Stumble upon all kinds of great resources based on your interests.
- Writers on Writing | A complete archive of the NYTimes Writers on Writing column to inspire you to write.
- PSFK | Highlights the most unique, artistic, and creative things happening in marketing.
- The Latest | Surfaces the best links on Twitter into one easy-to-use list.
- Facebook Studio | A Showcase of Successful Social Marketing to Use For Inspiration
- Brain Pickings | "A human-powered discovery engine for interestingness."
Free Social Media Tools
- Topsy | Twitter search, monitoring, and analytics.
- GaggleAMP | Leverage employees, partners, customers, and fans to share social content.
- Buffer | Schedule social media posts to publish later.
- Twitter Chat Schedule | Know which Twitter chats are happening when.
- Click to Tweet | Create customized 'Tweet This' links.
- Pinterest Social Plugins | Embed 'pin' buttons and other plugins into your site or blog.
- Twitter Social Plugins | Embed Twitter share buttons and other plugins into your site or blog.
- Facebook Social Plugins | Embed Facebook share buttons and other plugins into your site or blog.
- LinkedIn Social Plugins | Embed LinkedIn share buttons and other plugins into your site or blog.
- Followerwonk by MOZ | Twitter Analytics, Follower Segmentation, Social Graph Tracking, & More
- GaggleAMP | Leverage employees, partners, customers, and fans to share social content.
Free Content Creation Tools
- Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
- Google Fonts | Grab new and different fonts to spruce up your site pages, presentations, ebooks, and more.
- 5 Free Infographic Templates | Create 5 different infographics in PowerPoint.
- The Essential PowerPoint Template for Killer SlideShare Presentations | You don't have to create your SlideShare presentation from scratch with this template.
- 5 Essential Blog Post Templates for Any Marketer | Get in the habit of writing 5 different types of blog posts with these fill-in-the-blank templates.
- How to Create Ebooks From Start to Finish [+ 5 Free Templates] | Customizable InDesign and PowerPoint templates to save you time when designing downloadable ebooks.
- 50 Pre-Designed Calls-to-Action for Your Customization | Create your own CTAs with this PowerPoint template.
- 75 Free Stock Photos Ready for Use Anywhere | No royalties, fees, or worries.
- 160 Free Stock Photos with a Business Theme Ready for Use Anywhere | No royalties, fees, or worries.
- Pictaculous | Upload a photo to generate a color palette.
- Placeit | Generate product screenshots in realistic environments, such as a computer, smartphone, or tablet screen.
- Creative Commons Search | Find images and content you can adapt and/or use for commercial purposes.
- Compfight | A Flickr image search tool that works better than Flickr search itself.
- Unsplash | 10 new high-resolution, free-to-use photos every 10 days.
- Infogr.am | Create infographics and online charts.
- Squarespace Logo | Create a simple logo for anything for free.
- Dictionary.com | Check your spelling and grammar!
- Thesaurus.com | Find synonyms and antonyms when you're writing.
- WordHippo | Find similar or opposite words, words that rhyme, words that have a specific ending, and more.
- Canva | Simple graphic design for blogs, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, and more.
- Butterick’s Practical Typography | Learn the basics of typography and why it matters in writing, marketing, and design.
- Word2CleanHTML | Convert Word documents to clean HTML to insert into your CMS of choice.
- Storify | Curate and collect content (ex: tweets from an event) into one place to tell a story.
- Hack Design Toolkit | Discover the best design tools based on the type of project you're working on.
- Hack Design Lessons | Get a free crash course in graphic design put together by professionals.
- CopyPasteCharacter | Copy and paste common text symbols.
- Pixabay | Find and share outstanding free images you can use commercially.
- Coffitivity | Listen to different background noises to get you in the mindset to create.
- Adobe Kuler | Create color schemes for design projects.
- Google Fonts | Grab new and different fonts to spruce up your site pages, presentations, ebooks, and more.
Miscellaneous Web Tools
- Annual Marketing Budget Template | An Excel spreadsheet to use as the basis for your annual budget planning.
- URL Decoder/Encoder | Turns encoded JavaScript URLs from complete gibberish into readable gibberish.
- URL builder | Create URLs with tracking tokens to measure the performance of individual links / content.
- KnowEm Social Media Optimization (SMO) Tool | Test your site to see if your content is optimized for social sharing.
- Google Webmaster Tools | Manage how your website is indexed by Google so you can maximize your visibility in search engine results pages.
- Übersuggest | A keyword research tool based on Google suggested searches.
- Lorem Ipsum Generator | Generate dummy text to use in content projects before actual copy is finalized.
- Bitly | Create, share, and track short URLs.
- Every Second on the Internet | Visualizes the amount of content uploaded to the web every second.
- IFTTT | Create your own if:then rules for the Internet to get time back in your day.
- Pocket | Save content you don't have time to consume now for later.
- Rapportive | Pulls in social accounts so you know who your email contacts are around the web.
- Balsamiq Mockups | Sketch wireframes for any project. 7-day free trial.
- Google Trends | Analyze trends in search volume.
- URL Decoder/Encoder | Turns encoded JavaScript URLs from complete gibberish into readable gibberish.
Free HubSpot Tools
- HubSpot's Marketing Grader | Grade your inbound marketing efforts and get suggestions.
- HubSpot's Blog Topic Generator | Get a week's worth of blog post suggestions.
- Signals by HubSpot | See who opens your emails.
- HubSpot's A/B Test Calculator | Find out if your test results are statistically significant.
- RetweetLab | Find out what content you tweet gets retweeted most and when.
- HubSpot Academy Certification Programs | Become Inbound Marketing Certified for free.
- HubSpot's Marketing Resources Hub | Free marketing tools, ebooks, webinars, templates, and statistics.
- SocialShareCheck Chrome Plugin | See how many social shares the web page you're on has gotten.
- HubSpot's Blog Topic Generator | Get a week's worth of blog post suggestions.
Must-Read HubSpot Resources
- Free Ebook | SpotNotes: 5-Minute Guides for 5 Top Marketing Books
- HTML Hacks for Marketers: Decoded | Learn the most common HTML hacks every marketer should know.
- Free Ebook | The Marketer's Pocket Guide to Writing Good
- Free Ebook | Design It Yourself: The Marketer’s Crash Course in Visual Content Creation
- Free Ebook | How to Generate Leads Using Facebook
- Free Ebook | An Introduction to Pinterest for Business
- Free Ebook | Introduction to LinkedIn for Business: How to Use LinkedIn Company Pages
- Free Ebook | 5 Simple Tips for Generating Leads on Twitter
- Free Ebook | How to Master Facebook Marketing in 10 Days
- Blog Post | A Step-by-Step Guide to Flawless On-Page SEO [Free Template]
- Blog Post | 30 Terrible Pieces of Social Media Advice You Should Ignore
- Blog Post | 11 Simple (But Critical) Tips for Creating Better Landing Pages
- Free Ebook | How HubSpot Does Inbound: Creating a Content Machine
- Free Ebook | The 30 Greatest Lead Generation Tips, Tricks & Ideas
- HTML Hacks for Marketers: Decoded | Learn the most common HTML hacks every marketer should know.
Miscellaneous Must-Read Marketing Articles
- Tom Fishburne: Marketing Worth Sharing | The Marketoonist's notes from a Google keynote on creating marketing people actually care about.
- Moz: The Brand of SEO and the Trend of Inbound Marketing | Thoughts on modern-day SEO, or what it takes to get found on the web today.
- Fast Company: Seth Godin on Permission Marketing | Thoughts on how the web will change the way marketers reach consumers.
- Google: 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web | An interactive ebook on how the web works.
- The Oatmeal: How to Get More Likes on Facebook | A comic on how not to grow a Facebook fan base.
- The Technium: Better Than Free | How to create value when so much can be copied.
- The Oatmeal: Making Things | A comic on thoughts and musings about making things for the web.
- For Entrepreneurs: Optimizing Your Customer Acquisition Funnel | How to clear blockages in your sales and marketing funnel.
- Brain Pickings | Advice on Life and Creative Integrity from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson
- LinkedIn Today: My First Job: Will (Happily) Work for Free | Career lessons from Byron Deeter.
- Moz: The Brand of SEO and the Trend of Inbound Marketing | Thoughts on modern-day SEO, or what it takes to get found on the web today.
Marketing-Related TED Talks
- Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are | Video on TED.com
- Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice | Video on TED.com
- Philippe Starck: Design and destiny | Video on TED.com
- Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com
- Derek Sivers: How to start a movement | Video on TED.com
- Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Video on TED.com
- Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread | Video on TED.com
- Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing | Video on TED.com
- Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found | Video on TED.com
- Joseph Pine: What consumers want | Video on TED.com
- Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story | Video on TED.com
- Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral | Video on TED.com
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius | Video on TED.com
- Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | Video on TED.com
- Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice | Video on TED.com
Marketing-Related SlideShare Presentations
- The Undeniable Authority of the Social Customer | Learn how consumer behavior has changed and what to do about it.
- 10 Things Your Customers Wish You Knew About Them | Learn how to better understand your customers.
- Digital Strategy 101 | Explore core concepts, deliverables, and thought-leaders in the digital marketing space.
- Rethinking the Mobile Web | Rethink designing websites for mobile devices.
- Upworthy: 10 Ways To Win The Internets | Learn what Upworthy knows about winning attention.
- Crap. The Content Marketing Deluge. | How not to create content that's simply more noise.
- The Brand Gap | How to bridge the distance between business strategy and design.
- What Would Steve Do? 10 Lessons from the World's Most Captivating Presenters | Learn how to captivate an audience like Steve Jobs.
- You Suck At PowerPoint! | "It's not the program that sucks, it's you."
- 7 Tips For Getting Featured on SlideShare | Learn what to do to get your presentations featured.
- 10 Powerful Body Language Tips for Your Next Presentation | Improve the way you present yourself for greater impact.
- How to Become a Better Speaker | Get the confidence and tips you need to become a better speaker.
- Displaying Data | Use these 5 principles to present your data in the clearest possible way.
- Design Your Career | Figure out what's really important and make some new choices for 2014 and beyond.
- Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It | How to make a few simple, impactful changes to management behaviors.
- How to Build SEO into Content Strategy | How to intertwine SEO and content in ways that make sense.
- The Seven Deadly Social Media Sins | What your brand should avoid on social media.
- Can't Buy Me Love | Rand Fishkin on how to earn your audience's attention without spending a fortune.
- The Evolution of Advertising: How Consumers Won the War for Their Attention | Learn how the advertising industry has evolved over the last century.
- How To Create Presentation Slides That Are Out Of This World | Spice up your next corporate presentation.
- 86 Revealing Charts From the 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report | 86 insightful charts to use in your next presentation.
- 10 Things Your Customers Wish You Knew About Them | Learn how to better understand your customers.
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