Category — Freebie Friday

Today’s Freebie Friday is a little different. Usually, I direct you to a useful report, or download.

Today, I’ve got real, hold in your hands books. You see, I have too many books (I can’t believe I just said that). They’re piled up everywhere, there’s not enough room for me.

So, I’m giving some of them away.

Leave a comment (or email me) telling me which one you want. I’ll contact you Wednesday to tell you if you’ve won.

Links are to Amazon for full descriptions.

They are (drumroll):

1) Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch

2) Accidental Branding by David Vinjamuri

3) The Plan-as-You-Go Business Plan by Tim Berry (foreword by Guy Kawasaki)

4) And Now a Few Words from Me by Bob Garfield

5) Trout on Strategy by Jack Trout

One per person.  Please mention the name of the book you want in  your comment.  I’ll contact you (if you win) to get your mailing address.

A few months ago, Seth Godin got 70 big thinkers together to share their thought, secrets, and ideas about what’s important. They include Seth himself, Dan Pink, David Meerman Scott, and Gary Vaynerchuk.

It’s called What Matters Now and it’s full of ideas that will inspire you, change the way you look at the world, and get you going for the new year.

Get your free what-matters-now-ebook.

Or, if you’d prefer a real, hold-in-your-hands, curl up on the couch, printed book version, you can buy it here. All proceeds go to Room to Read.

Read it and send it to your friends. Share how it inspired you in the comments.

More Freebie Friday goodies and downloads

The headline is the first thing readers see. It can make (or break) the rest of your ad, email, or post. But sometimes, you get stuck. Your brain is blank. You’ve tried 7 different ways to write great headlines, and still nothing.

Today’s Freebie Friday is a list of 102 Great Headlines, from Chris Garrett. Just download, pick one, and fill in the blanks. How easy is that?

Get the list here. No signup or email required.

For those new to this blog, Freebie Friday is a once-a-month feature. On the last Friday of each month, I’ll point you to a free report, template, or e-book that will help you improve your marketing. To get older Freebie Friday giveaways, click here.

Continuing with the email marketing theme this week, today’s Freebie Friday has 10 tested email templates. A good layout can get more attention and speed your message past the spam filters. Creating your own can be a pain (especially if you’re not an HTML whiz).

Don’t forget to send a plain text version too (since some images get stuck in spam filters).

Click here for your free email templates.

We’ve all heard a lot about social networking; joined LinkedIn, commented on forums, or started to use Twitter.  But, can you actually get leads from all of this?  Or is it just a giant time waster?

Today’s Freebie Friday is a new case study from Marketing Sherpa.  It spells out how one marketer uses LinkedIn to raise awareness of their products, qualifies leads he gets, and shares marketing materials (without being pushy and obnoxious). Find out how LinkedIn is different from other networks and lead generation tools and how to tailor your marketing to get more (and better) leads from it.

Hurry to read  this (free access ends after August 5th)

Generate more leads with LinkedIn.