If you wish to make your business from your blogging activities, this following essential book list will help you, some of them are from my suggestion after I read them, some of them are from my friends. I have tried to put them into different categories to help you improve any aspect of your blogging.
However, I don’t know all of them so if you see my categories are not quite right, do forgive me. The subject in this list is quite diversify, it cover a range of topics including blogging, marketing, creative thinking, copy writing, social media marketing, and other business topics as well as a few blog specific books.
Blogging
- ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
- Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro
- 31 Days to Build a Better Blog – you can read more about this ebook here
- Blog Marketing
- Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business (New Rules Social Media Series)
- Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read (2nd Edition)
- Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
- The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right
- Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging
- Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care
- Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies
- Money For Content and Your Clicks For Free: Turning Web Sites, Blogs, and Podcasts Into Cash
Marketing
- Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series)
- Facebook: The Missing Manual
- Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business!
- The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue
- Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars
- Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business (New Rules Social Media Series)
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 2nd Edition
- All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
- Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success
- Marketing for Smart People
- The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
- Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands
- Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
- Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices
- World Wide Web Marketing: Integrating the Web into Your Marketing Strategy
- Life After the 30-Second Spot: Energize Your Brand With a Bold Mix of Alternatives to Traditional Advertising
- Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media
- Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition
- Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
- Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing
- Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich: Create Winning Ads, Web Pages, Sales Letters and More
- Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day
- Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day
- Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyer through Social Media Marketing
- UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging
- The Social Media Management Handbook: Everything You Need To Know To Get Social Media Working In Your Business
- The Step by Step Guide to Facebook for Business
Copy Writing
- Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
- Write It Right: The Ground Rules for Self-Editing Like the Pros
- 1100 Words You Need to Know
- 1000 Most Important Words
- Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
- On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well)
- Rules for Writers with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates
- Creativity Rules: A Writer’s Workbook
- Choose the Right Word: Second Edition
- The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America’s Top Copywriters
- Advertising Secrets of the Written Word: The Ultimate Resource on How to Write Powerful Advertising Copy from One of America’s Top Copywriters and Mail Order Entrepreneurs
- Breakthrough Advertising: How to Write Ads That Shatter Traditions and Sales Records
- The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells
- Persuasive Online Copywriting: How to Take Your Words to the Bank
- Advertising Secrets of the Written Word
- Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
- The Story Factor
- Tested Advertising Methods
Creative Thinking
- Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
- Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
- Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Perennial Library)
- Growing Great Ideas: Unleashing Creativity at Work
- Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
- A Technique for Producing Ideas (Advertising Age Classics Library)
- Six Thinking Hats
- How to Have a Beautiful Mind
- De Bono’s Supermind Pack : Expand Your Thinking Powers With Strategic Games & Mental Exercises
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