How to Find Great Information

Anyone who has a blog or website knows that content is king. However in this increasingly busy worked we often neglect or blogs and websites and in the long run that can hurt your business and brand. Have you ever visited a dormant blog… it feels like visiting a ghost town. Bad for you and much worse for the brand that was putting out the blog. Websites that never change there front page (landing page) are also hurting themselves and looking sales because your offers are either out of sink with what the market needs that week or worse you just talk about yourself. Remember it’s not about what you sell it’s about solving other peoples problems. That is where people see value.

To make life a bit easier hear are some great resource that will help you get fast and up-to-date information on practically anything. Good hunting…

Then the next question is how you can find these stories, videos, and blog posts. I have four methods for you to use:

StumbleUpon
If you sign up for the service, you can tell it the subjects you’re interested in. Then when you “stumble,” it will only take you to pages that other StumbleUpon users have liked in that subject. To really use StumbleUpon well, gets its toolbar. Like 14,846,969 others, I use the Firefox version because it lets me pick categories and share pages via Twitter, Facebook and email.

SmartBrief
SmartBrief is a company that’s in the business of providing associations with good content for its members. As such, they have subject matter experts who search every day for good content. All you have to do is go to its website or subscribe to its email newsletters to benefit from their effort and expertise.

Alltop
Alltop is the online version of the magazine rack in your bookstore except that it has 900 subjects and is free. It aggregates news by topics, presents the five most recent stories from the best websites and blogs about a subject, and gives you a preview of each story.

Interns
You could hire people—usually interns—to find stuff for you. For $10 to $20/hour, there are lots of starving, smart people who will comb the Internet to look for good content. They’ll probably use StumbleUpon, SmartBrief, and other tools, but what do you care if they’re doing what you could easily do for yourself?