Saturday, November 26, 2011

My Virtual Mentors

As the Director of New Business Development for TDG Marketing Inc., www.tdgmarketing.com, one of the greatest challenges is keeping abreast of the ever evolving channels to help deliver powerful integrated marketing programs for our clients.


I've been fortunate to have found many great virtual and written mentors, leaders in Social Media marketing for business.  My top ten marketing guru's + 1 are (alphabetical order):


Andres Silva Arancibia (SmmMarketing Magazine) @andressilvaa


Ann Handley (co-author "Content Rules") @MarketingProfs


C.C. Chapman (co-author "Content Rules") @cc_chapman


Chris Brogan (co-author "Trusted Agents") @chrisbrogan


Dan Zarrella (author "The social media marketing book") @danzarrella


David Meerman Scott (author "The new rules of Marketing and PR") @dmscott


Eve Mayer Orsburn (author "Social media for the CEO") @LinkedInQueen


Laura Fitton (author "Twitter for Dummies") @pistachio 


Mari Smith (author "The new relationship marketing") @MariSmith


Neal Schaffer (author "Maximizing Linkedin for sales and social media marketing) @nealschaffer


Susan Gunelius (author "30 Minute social media marketing") @susangunelius


To all of these very generous leaders, I owe thanks.  This is not an exhaustive list but I wanted to share my appreciation for those that have helped to direct my activities, expand my knowledge and improve my efforts to help clients, colleagues, community members, and friends make an emotional connection with their key stakeholders.


More to come, thanks for reading
Gordon


To find out more about the above you'll find them all at www.twitter.com