There are a lot of resources out on the web and it takes some time to sort through them all and decide which are most relevant to your business. We have a few websites that we follow for professional reasons and thought that we’d share these.

For Social Media

Mashable: This is a great site for quick overviews of anything going on related to social media. It contains short articles with tips for using social media channels and more.

For Public Relations

Help a Reporter Out: As a PR professional you can sign up to receive leads from reporters looking for sources. It is a lot to sort through, so for business may be best left to your PR agency, but interesting none the less.

Pitch Engine: This is a great site for getting your press releases out to bloggers.

For Marketing

Seth Godin’s Blog: These are Seth Godin’s thoughts on marketing related topics. We find it interesting and relevant.

For Article Publication:

Ezine Articles: This is a good site for publishing articles. We write articles and then submit them here for both our business and our clients’ businesses.

For E-Mail Marketing

iContact: We like iContact for e-mail marketing because it is affordable and offers the ability for us to design and program branded templates for our customers. They can then manage their e-mail marketing campaigns once we set up their template.

For Short URLs
bit.ly: If you use Twitter, you know you need to shorten websites urls when positing links. This is our favorite though there are several others with similar capabilities.

Enjoy!