Today, there are so many options available and we each have to find a way to find, filter, consume and share the information that is relevant for us. So here, I have curated my own list of the top sites of business and marketing information – some of which are great examples of content curation themselves. The Week  (@ TheWeek ) – if you’re looking for content curation in practice and some pretty excellent coverage of all the news across just about every category,  The Week  fits the bill. Content Marketing #CMI content curationPhoto Source. MORE >>

We all create content. But mean no one wants to call someone else’s (content) baby ugly… This is not just about marketing. This is relevant for all business professionals who write emails, create PowerPoint slides and leave voice mails (And that’s all of us). Inspired by Hubspot’s Inbound Marketing training, Joe Pulizzi’s CMI presentations and my own views, this training seeks to create a world where no babies are ugly – where all our content is interesting… Is Your Baby Ugly? Last month I wrote “ Is Your Content Boring? MORE >>

To succeed in this new era of marketing avoidance and consumer control, B2B marketers are offering useful content to their prospects to earn their attention. Examples of this inbound, content marketing include eBooks, whitepapers, blogs, webinars, videos, podcasts, etc. In a HubSpot eBook, the steps to developing lovable marketing are outlined: Develop a Stellar Marketing Offer - It should be educational and helpful, focus on the right stage of the sales funnel, and be in the right formats. Further explanation on HubSpot 3 in this 7:20 video. That's a relief. MORE >>

This approach extends beyond most marketing automation products to incorporate full Web content management and marketing services. The most interesting recent enhancements are products for search engine optimization (SEO): “competitive intelligence” runs a multivariate analysis to identify factors that contribute to competitive pages’ ranking; and “content relevancy analyzer” scans high-ranking pages find theme words that search engines will use to determine relevance. She tells me nearly all of her clients are larger than that. per month per user. MORE >>

The Hubspot page analysis and grader tools have been combined to give a great dashboard for ensuring your pages are search engine optimised , attracting visitors to your website and converting those visitors into Leads and Customers. Amount of tracked keywords ranked in the top 100 (caveat: unfortunately Hubspot still only works on google.com for rankings so may not be relevant if, like us, you're targeting the UK market so you will still need to use tools like Raven and SEOmoz or the free Rank Tracker from SEO Book for tracking SEO keyword performance). Dashboard view. MORE >>