I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds. I read a lot. I believe in order to write well, a copywriter should read 2-3 times more than what he writes. I write a lot so I read a lot. I read a lot because I like to stay abreast of what’s going on in various corners of Internet marketing.
One of the feeds that I subscribe to is the Marketing Pilgrim blog. I thought I’d share with you what I like about Marketing Pilgrim. Here’s my list of top 10 reasons for reading Marketing Pilgrim:
1. The Pilgrim provides excellent insights into what is going on in social and search media every single day
2. These guys think outside of the box - in fact, they broke the box down and took it out back and burned it, so there’s really no box any more
3. Andy Beal’s got a nice smile
4. I like the fact that they challenge industry prejudices - like Google is the best search engine - with uncommon suppositions - like Ask.com is cool, for instance
5. Jordan McCollum isn’t just an excellent writer, she’s a beautiful woman (even though I don’t have a snowball’s chance in the fiery furnace and my wife is going to kick my donkey for saying that); besides, she likes poetry (I’ve heard)
6. They have goofy guest writers that I can make fun of
7. I like trackbacking to the Pilgrim and seeing the traffic that results from it
8. Nick Stamoulis reads it
9. These guys clearly know online branding and I admire that
10. They have pretty colors on their website
11. A lot of other cool people respect Andy Beal and Marketing Pilgrim - people like Advertising Age, Business Week, CNET, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal
12. If I’m having trouble finding something to write about, I can always read Marketing Pilgrim and come up with something - even if it’s totally different than what they’re writing about
13. I’ve forgotten how to count to 10 and need The Pilgrim to remind me
If you do take my advice and start reading Marketing Pilgrim, don’t abandon SEO Service Provider in the process. It’s OK it to read two cool blogs at the same time.
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Very cool list, thanks for sharing. I loved #2.
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