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I love books and have a personal library of hundreds of volumes. I’ve also started using the Amazon Wishlist feature to sort of bookmark resources I’d like to have. A few of the following are not on my list because I already have them. Others, I haven’t read but would like to own. The first eight are books on Amazon, the last three are ebooks I’ve read and have appreciated.
So please understand three things about this post: 1.) It’s not necessarily a “recommendation” or “endorsement” – just a wish list, 2.) The links are all Amazon links (except the last two) and yes, they are affiliate links, and 3.) The descriptions are from Amazon’s Product Description, they are not my own words.
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
Whether you’re just starting out or have been blogging for years, these two professional bloggers show you how to turn your passion for blogging into extra revenue. This practical guide to creating and marketing a blog with the potential for generating a six-figure income shows you how to choose subject matter that works for you, handle technical issues, and evaluate your blogs success so that you can use your blog to generate income indirectly.
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging
The editors of The Huffington Post–the most linked-to blog on the web–offer an A-Z guide to all things blog, with information for everyone from the tech-challenged newbie looking to get a handle on this new way of communicating to the experienced blogger looking to break through the clutter of the Internet. With an introduction by Arianna Huffington, the site’s cofounder and editor in chief, this book is everything you want to know about blogging, but didn’t know who to ask.
Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers
Among more than 102,000,000 blogs, a few stand out as influential, ground-breaking, and singularly successful. These thirty bloggers, who write about everything from business trends to parenting, have been featured in Wired magazine, Popular Science, and on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and 20/20. In one-on-one conversations with Michael A. Banks, these innovative, creative thinkers have shared their tactics, their philosophies, what drives them, how they mine for subject matter, and their personal secrets for success. Come and learn from the masters.
Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
In Trust Agents, two social media veterans show you how to tap into the power of social networks to build your brand’s influence, reputation, and, of course, profits. Today’s online influencers are web natives who trade in trust, reputation, and relationships, using social media to accrue the influence that builds up or brings down businesses online.
The book shows how people use online social tools to build networks of influence and how you can use those networks to positively impact your business. Because trust is key to building online reputations,, those who traffic in it are “trust agents,” the key people your business needs on its side.
The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web
Blogs, networking sites, and other examples of the social web provide businesses with a largely untapped marketing channel for products and services. But how do you take advantage of them? With The New Community Rules, you’ll understand how social web technologies work, and learn the most practical and effective ways to reach people who frequent these sites.
Written by an expert in social media and viral marketing, this book cuts through the hype and jargon to give you intelligent advice and strategies for positioning your business on the social web, with case studies that show how other companies have used this approach.
Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone.
Through the use of timely case studies and fascinating stories, SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION offers a complete set of the latest tactics, insights, and tools that will empower you to reach a global audience and consumer base-and, best yet, you can do this pretty much for free. Digital marketing expert Mitch Joel unravels this fascinating world of new media-but does so with a brand-new perspective that is driven by compelling results. The smarter entrepreneurs and top executives are leveraging these digital channels to get their voice “out there”-connecting with others, becoming better community citizens, and, ultimately, making strategic business moves that are increasing revenue, awareness, and overall success in the marketplace-without the support of traditional mass media.
The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success
Virtually every business can use social media to increase sales and profits, and The Social Media Bible will show you how. Part One introduces you to social media, and gives you a helpful framework, and presents practical and tactical tips for using some of these tools. Part Two introduces you to over 100 social media tools and applications in fifteen different categories, giving you a quick rundown of the features and functions of the tools that should become part of your social media strategy. Part Three offers mini exercises and assessments to help you conduct a social media audit of your company, your competition, and your customers, so you can craft the perfect strategy for your business.
Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide
Duct Tape Marketing is the small business marketing road map – A collection of proven tools and tactics woven together in a step-by-step marketing system that shows small business owners exactly what to do to market and grow their businesses… This guide combines insights gained from over twenty years of successfully working, in the field, with real-life small businesses… There are no theoretical complexities presented in Duct Tape Marketing – just simple, effective and affordable marketing that sticks.
MaxBlogPress $365k Blog Formula
I’ve enjoyed using this little course and have benefited from it personally. It’s grown my blog and even though you can’t put it on the shelf in hardback form, it’s a really nice resource to have around for every blogger.
Wordpress SEO Secrets
This one is another gem offered up by a master of blogging and SEO, one of the more important aspects of getting the word out there about your blog and its message.
Problogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog
This is one of the best ebooks I’ve read and helped me tremendously in starting this blog. It contains 31 days of principles and actions – a great ecourse, though I admit I flew through it in about five days – couldn’t wait.
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These are some great books. I haven’t heard of most of them but will look into purchasing them! Thanks for sharing these.
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No problem. Glad I could suggest something new.
although you cloak your affiliate links, you still need to declare them.
Thanks John. You’ll notice I put a paragraph in at the top letting everyone know that every link in the article is an affiliate link. I’ll also be adding a sitewide disclaimer showing that everytime you see a /go/ link, it’s an affiliate link.
I’ve seen on your blog that you often put in parentheses something like (aff) to denote them. I do this sometimes, but find that most people don’t understand what it means, and some of my links are auto-generated too, so I don’t always add them individually.
What plugin are you using for your affiliate links?
Brad Harmon´s last blog ..What are People Saying Online About Your Small Business?
I use the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Plugin. I dig it.
Brandon,
Have you read Trust Agents? I keep hearing about this book in people’s comments, but it’s almost like a passing mention.
Is it very good? Is it a more of a how-to or an overview approach?
Thanks,
Brad
Brad Harmon´s last blog ..What are People Saying Online About Your Small Business?
It’s on my wishlist. I have skimmed it at B & N. It’s basically about the idea that business and marketing hinge on the issue of trust. What can I do to build others’ trust in me? Provide value. Fix problems. Full disclosure, etc.
I think I will add it to my list of books to read. It has grown quite large lately. Maybe I can start knocking some of them of my list over the holidays.
Brad Harmon´s last blog ..How to Set Up a Listening Post on Twitter
Bought and read in one day the ProBlogger book earlier this year, was excellent. I am not a big fan of anything Huffington puts out, but will look into the others!
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I’ve never been able to get into Huff Posts’ blog, but they seem to know a thing or two about the approach. I’d start with the others first.