Business Marketing Resources You Don’t Want to Miss

5 worthy business resources for your viewing pleasure.

Over the past few months, I’ve read through a variety of articles pertaining to social media trends, small businesses, business communication, leadership and business growth and development, just to name a few. I’ve taken 5 business resource articles that I felt you don’t want to miss, compiled them with explanations why they are awesome and links so that you can check them out for yourself!

1.     Internet Marketing Trends and Tactics for 2014

This article not only provides “the five biggest trends and tactics to look for and put into practice in 2014” but it also ends with 33 digital marketing statistics shown in an easy to read infographic. It’s a good read plus it gives you plenty of information displayed in different formats to go off. I appreciate a good infographic and I liked how this one was broken up into particular categories of SEO, digital marketing, content stats, email, international social media and mobile.

2.     20 Business Lessons You Don’t Want to Learn the Hard Way

This article is unique in the sense that it started out as a simple question asked to the community, which then caught on and turned into a list of advice from past experiences of real business owners. Even if you feel like you’ve learned all the lessons to be had in the business world, this article may offer a piece of advice you haven’t yet encountered that you’ll be glad you read about.

3.     3 Social Media Trends You Should Know About

Social media is embedded into my every day life as much as eating and breathing. I’m always looking for things to watch out for, up and coming trends, new apps and platforms. This article pulled from different resources across the Internet to predict the 3 top social media trends that you should know about. This article isn’t just about one person’s expectations, but a compilation of research of informed predictions.

4.     4 Ways That Entrepreneurs Can Help Each Other Build Their Businesses

Audrey Hepburn once said, “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” As an entrepreneur, you know the trials and triumphs that you have had to experience with growing your business, so why not partner together and use your resources to get ahead? This article provides 4 ideas of ways to band together with other entrepreneurs in order to create ways to get ahead that you may not be able to do on your own.

5.     58 Social Media Tips for Content Marketing

Feel like you never get enough advice? This article gives you 58 different social media tips for content marketing. This article doesn’t just list in bullet form, but instead breaks up with examples by each major platform: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube/Vimeo, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Foursquare, Instragram/Flickr, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Slideshare, and Quora. Each section also comes with a visual example, in case the list form wasn’t cutting it for you. Definitely worth check out.

If you haven’t had much time for scanning through the Internet reading up on business trends and developments, I would highly suggest being able to check out at least these 5 resources.

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