Link Journeys for April 23, 2011, the “Back to Basics” Edition

Let’s see what Uncle Mikey has in his grab bag of links from this past week of surfing the intarwebz:

Links

• Interview: Remarkablogger Michael Martine – Increasing Your Bottom Line | Blogging Labs – This is an interview I did with Robb Sutton at Blogging Labs a while ago. Robb’s one of the few original thinkers in the blogging space so check his site out while you’re there.
• Need a Product Endorsement? Look to Bloggers, Not Celebrities – It’s now official. If you want your product/service/whatever to garner influential reviews, bloggers win.
• Are Your Blog Comments Good, Bad or Ugly? is the question asked by Anabel Candy at Successful Blogging (another good blog you should check out and follow).
• Ways to Play Nice with Google – SEO may not be your thing, but you’d have to be living under a rock to not have heard the rumblings on the web about Google’s latest updates to its search algorithms (dubbed “Panda”). If you know enough to be worried or you’re new to SEO, period, you should check this article out.
• Understanding the Most Fundamental Shift in Marketing – John Jantsch’s article here really mirrors a lot of what I believe, but tells the story in a different way that I think you’ll like.

Books

These are affiliate links. One of these damn years, Amazon WILL. SEND. ME. SOME. MONEY. You could call it a long-term goal in life.

• Enchantment – This book I expected to be awesome and, well, I guess I’m gonna be the one guy who’s not so very enchanted with this. How to shake hands with people? Really? But mostly it’s got tons of super-practical “how to” in it and it’s useful for that.
• The Thank You Economy – This book I expected to not like very much because Gary has proven that a one-person empire really does only scale so far and he passed that point a while ago (try to call him or email him if you don’t believe me). However, this is a far superior book to Crush It! Gary does a great job of really showing how business has come full circle back to the small town bazaar or farmer’s market in some ways. Highly recommended.

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