The Best of Venmarkmedia 2011

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This year has been by far the most productive when it came to writing about the topics I love most:  Social Media, Content Marketing and Business and Lifestyle Design.

This coming year the plan is to continue expanding on these topics, write more frequently and get some guest posting going as well.

But anyway here are the posts that struck a nerve the most throughout all categories, and that I fancied the most as well ...

Enjoy!

The Client is Always Wrong – A contrarian view for sure, the focus was on customer-provider relationship (...and results ) mostly regarding service-driven businesses, but definitely applicable to product models as well.

Out Teach Your Competition – One of my favorites! This strategy or should I say culture, will make you more money over time than anything else you have done in the past!

Website Elements that Enhance Your Social Marketing – On the importance of designing with marketing in mind.

Be Dead Wrong – Again a bit against the grain, but for a very good reason … Read it, is short and sweet!

Only People Have Ethics – This post was inspired by one of Seth Godin’s articles on his blog. I took a bit of issue with it, but writing about it helped understand it much better!

How to Make Your Business a Utility Platform for Others – Again inspired by an interview between Mitch Joel (Six Pixels) and Derek Sivers, two guys that definitely got it right!

How to Engage Your Customers Around their Passions – If you keep it this simple the results will always be there!

Zen-Listen Your Way to a Better Business – It all starts here when you are little and learning your way through life, and in your Business Social Media Marketing as well!

Website Costs, and Other Pricing Questions – This post which was in essence a curated piece of content, got me the second biggest, both Design and Marketing Gig for this year! A testament to content marketing as a viable strategy for any business today. The bonus? My new clients are a couple of really cool guys to work with :-)

Keyword Research Makes You a Better Person – Why does it? Because it makes you care about what your potential clients care about!

Begin Your Internet Marketing Efforts with Design in Mind – If you don’t start with a design process (of any kind) it doesn’t much matter what else you do.

The Small Business of the Future, Why it’s Yours to Have – Another one of my faves, the world is changing fast and so must we and they way we do business.

How the Modern Entrepreneur Visualizes the Ideal Customer – The best in the business do this, and so must you!

What Does Content Marketing and Michael Jordan Have in Common? – Believe it or not a lot more than you think …

Fire Your Marketing Person and Hire a Digital Marketer – This post didn’t make me very popular with traditional marketers, but hey!

Google Loves Bloggers – A snappy overview of recent Google changes and what’s to come that will affect content marketing in general.

So Many Technologies So Little Time! – One of my best reads (The New Small) this year on emerging technologies and their effect on small businesses. Grab it, you’ll thank me later!

21 Riveting Social Media Stats – These are only getting larger folks, so be a player not a spectator.

… and with these I say see you on the other side and have a Happy New Year!

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