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hi val,

this is the only site i use, but i am just starting out on my marketing carrer so i will join other sites as needed. btu this site rules, it got me though mart 101.

i subscribe to NZ Marketing Magazine, but it is the paper version. there website is www.marketingmag.co.nz.

hope this helps

Hi Val:

Newletters:

marketingsherpa
Clickz - all their newsletters
Michael Katz
Jakob Nielsen
Business 2.0
Nick Usborne

Websites:

All the above plus
AMA -marketingpower.com
Fastcompany
Seth Godin
Entrepreneur

Networks:

Local Goups
LinkedIn
Ryze
Grad school network
Sigma Iota Epsilon

Qualities you appreciate about our competitors' services:

ClickZ is the best for Internet marketing - email, SEO, SEM etc.

AMA sponser great webinars for free

Level of involvement with them: I just read for free.

Have you paid them for services - No, none

Given them your email address? Yes, but usually a "disposable"

Are you a subscriber? Yes

A forum participant? My participatory time is spend here at the KHE, I have no time for anything else.

An infrequent visitor? No, I visit them all regularly.

I will ad that I am starting to use my RSS feed/newsreader more and more including for the MarketProfs site. For that news that I really want to read, I am finding this is the way to go.

I hope that helps Val.

Hi Val, Thanks for the great opportunity!

Disclaimer ( all jokes in brackets are not a part of the views of Deremiah, *CPE or Marketing Profs. Viewer discretion is advised.)

(Are you giving us 1000 points a piece for answering this question? :-) Just joking)

Well here we go Val, I know you'll make it worth my while.

Newsletters:

Marketing Sherpa
Shamus
Harvard Business School
Larry Chase
Claude Hopkins
Building Brands
Brian Tracy
Jim Rohn
Forrester
Michael Kimble
Les Brown
Leading Experts
Hard to find Seminars
CRM Guru
Drew Eric Whitman
Watch Dog Journal
Sponsorship


Websites:

Nido Qubein
Mark Victor Hansen
Robert Stuberg
and a few of the above


Networks:

None


Qualities you appreciate about our competitors' services: (They give me money, cars and free hotel accomendations.)

Truthfully Hard to find seminars has great transcripts and audio features mp3 down loads. While Brian Tracy has amazing helpful short powerful emails on about four strong areas of interst for the business minded and I love it. If you need to know more of why I love it send me an email and I'll elaborate.


Level of involvement with them: Purely a free education. Every now and then I order something that helps me to make mo money, mo money, mo money.


Have you paid them for services: No (but I'm starting to feel guilty about getting all this stuff free and I'm thinking about joining the *NA = Newsletter Anonymous and go through a 10 step program).


Given them your email address? Yes and even my mailing address. It's no biggie.

Are you a subscriber? Yes

A forum participant? I participate everywhere I go.
(I use to be a fee agent but with Marketing Profs giving me that huge sign on bonus and a 5 million dollar contract, a new "KHE" Jersey with my name on the back I ain't goin' no where baby.)

An infrequent visitor? Not hardly. I visit them all a few times a week to stay current and knowledgeable about latest trends, changes in technology and strategies. I guess you can say I'm a learnerholic or I'm Geek-N.

Val thanks for letting me be involved and send me an email every now and then to say hello once every other day just isn't enough. Thanks Val. I hope this helps. Is there anything else I can do for you?

Your Servant, Deremiah, *CPE

As you know, I Am a member here. I also subsribe to Hugh MacFarlane's, Tim Pepper's, and Willina Arruda's newsletters. The content speaks for itself.

I am a member of Spoke, LinkedIn and eLance.

At elance, I pay about $75-$100 a month to bid on gigs. There are thoudsands of other members who pay much more than I do. Why do I pay? It is easily reimbursed through the project retainers. I'd rather pay MP or create my own job auction.

I hope this helps!

Hi Val:

Newsletters and websites:
larry chase's web digest
fastcompany
MarketingProfs
Club de la Efectividad / www.efectividad.net/
MicroBanker
Bankrate.com
Ictnet.es
https://www.ecustomerserviceworld.com/
https://www.crmguru.com
https://www.crmadvocate.com/
https://www.customerretention.com/
https://www.theloyaltybuilder.com/
https://www.abcdatos.com/tutoriales/
https://www.emagister.com/index.cfm
https://www.mailxmail.com
https://www.6seconds.org/
https://www.liderazgoymercadeo.com
https://www.rrhhmagazine.com
https://www.hr.com/
https://www.acambiode.com
https://www.sellingpower.com

Marketing communities:
Club de la Efectividad /www.efectividad.net/
Ictnet.es
MarketingProfs

Why? Because they have updated information, related to my preferences, high level of Knowledge and participants, trends, continually development projects, confidence, service, quality, permanent interaction, the opportunity to serve and receive and develop business.

Bye,

Juan Carlos

For my business, Marketing Profs is it. I've subscribed and unsubscribed to most other newsletters listed by the other experts, but found I had no time for or interest in them and my inbox was continually bursting at the seams. I find that if I'm doing research or need more info on a particular query, I'd rather actively look for it online.

Have a good one, Val.

Of the marketing sources, I am most active here. I am active with some small business ones (e.g. AmEx's Open) and some HR related ones (e.g. CiteHR, workforce management, etc.).

I don't pay for any services anywhere - except being a member of American Marketing Association (which I am NOT renewing) and of Business Marketing Association (which I am renewing).

I do look at other web sites from time to time, but none with enough regularity that I can even think of the names right now.

E-newsletters. I get a few produict marketing/management related ones, such as 280Groups and productmarketing.com. I also am signed up for the 4marketeers.com email list, which is a list that mostly informs about events and jobs (not a newsletter of articles).

Networks - ryze, orkut, and linkedin

I think every site I have signed up with I enter an email address. I do someotimes use an email address which gets very heavily filtered for spam.

Geewillakers! It's tempting to check out all of the resources that members are using... I barely have enough time to follow up on those I already subscribe to, however.

I like Sean d'Souza's psychotactics newsletter and website. I find myself going back to reread some of the free articles he posts. Well written, uncommon sense.

I subscribe to e-news from The Darwin Observer (www.darwinmag.com). It's about business innovation, not just marketing. Always interesting.

I get Ralph Wilson's Web Marketing Today e-news, but I rarely read it.

MarketingProfs is the only e-news I read diligently, and KHE is the first and only online forum in which I participate.

I succumbed to LinkedIn, but I haven't really "worked it" yet. No feedback for you there.

Good idea to post the question here, Val. A poll wouldn't have captured the depth of info, hmm?

Hi Val,

Below are the ones that come to mind. I read them to stay informed. Can’t say I always make time to read but when I do it’s often to find something specific.

Newsletters --
Marketingprofs
Emarketer
Peppers Rogers
MarketingSherpa
WebProNews
SEO Today
BrandChannel
BtoB Online
AMA

Web sites --
All the above plus,
AMA
Wired News
eWeek
Line56

Communities/Networks --
KHE is the only one on any regular basis

Fee membership
Currently only AMA

- Steve

eNewsletters:

MarketingProfs
Great articles, widest range of great topics, expert forum.
Marketing Sherpa
Good 'net-centric marketing coverage.
Copy Writer's Round Table (JACKFORDE.COM)
Good resource and topics for copy writing.
Industry-specific
Not relevant to marketing/design issues.

Communities:

MarketingProfs
Only KHE has what I'm interested in at this time.
Industry-specific
Not relevant to marketing issues

Sites:

MarketingProfs
MarketingSherpa
BrandChannel
PsychoTactics
MediaThink
SoftwareSuccess
SoftwareMarketSolution
IdeaBook
WebPageDesignForDesigners
...and about four dozen others...

Pay to play?

Nope. The boss won't pay and I can't afford it. If payment is required, I move on.

SecondWind Network/Adstein - I am a paid member of this organization. As such, I have access to a community forum. Like this site, people will post questions looking for advice or resources. There is not a regular e-news, but there is a print version. I have a fairly high degree of involvement with this community.

b2bonline - It's specific to my niche - B2B. I also receive the monthly print magazine - free.

DMA - On occasion, I use the website for information. I receive e-news. I also receive a print magazine and other publications. I am a paid member of the organization.

AMA - www.marketing.org, AMA e-news, AMA Brand SIG group - I occasionally use the site. I am a paid member of the organization. I am going to be paying dues to join more SIG groups in the next week.

Marketing Sherpa - love the case studies. When doing legwork for a project, I'll check the site. I am not a paid member.

Marketing.org - BMA (Business Marketing Association) National website - When I need it, I'll go there for a whitepaper. I attend the annual conference and I'm the vice president of programming for my local chapter. I have a high degree of involvement with BMA because it most closely matches my niche needs and I feel a need to promote B2B marketing in my area.

There are probably more, but I've overcommitted to reading. I tend to come here and go to SecondWind for a lot of information.

Let me know if I can help any further.

Nila

I receive lots of email newsletters I don't read, mostly because they do not give me specific and detailed answers to problems I'm facing. This forum does provide good info. I'm enjoying focusing my energies on this forum, and I really don't have time for another.