Blog Jumping
One of the best ways to grow is to expand your circle of influence. A “circle of influence”
is a phrase used to describe the people around you. The world wide web and social media
has given us the opportunity to expand our “circles” like no other time in history.
My favorite way to expand my circle is by reading blogs. Recently, I was reading one
of my favorite blogs “Shoestring Branding” by Mario Sanchez Carrion and he mentioned on
of his favorite blogs was by Mark Cuban. I don’t know much about Mark Cuban and for
some reason I thought he was a blowhard and I would not like his message. What’s
interesting is; he is probably a blowhard but I enjoyed reading his blog. I started
thinking a great way to expand my circle of influence is to find out what my “influence’s”
are reading. If Seth Godin is one of my favorite bloggers then where is he getting his
inspiration.
Since, I hope I am one of your influencer’s I am going to share my ten favorite blogs aside
from Seth’s Blog since that is a complete given, he’s my favorite.
- Hello, My Name is Blog – Scott Ginsberg
- Very Cool Life – Drew Rozell
- Sales Caffeine – Jeffery Gitomer (actually a newsletter but clearly an influencer)
- Hubspot Blog – Hubspot Marketing Company Blog (sign up for their reports as well)
- Gaping Void – Hugh MacLeod
- The Art of Non-Conformity – Chris Guillebeau
- Fail Blog
- Event Manager Blog – Julius Solaris
- The Marketess – Krista Neher
- LifeHacker
Of course many of these are part of the blog echo-chamber but there are a few relatively
“popular unknowns.”
Share your favorites in the comments on my blog or Facebook.
thanks Brian! appreciate the shout out!
d