What’s a Blog Times 9?

June 7, 2005 -- John Jantsch has created the world’s first Blog Channel at his award-winning small business marketing blog, Duct Tape Marketing.

The Duct Tape Marketing Blog Channel is tightly integrated group of 9 small business topic blogs woven around the entire small business marketing picture – a blog times 9. A small business expert noted for his/her expertise on the topic authors each of the blogs.

Readers visiting the Duct Tape Marketing Blog Channel can start their visit at a blog about branding, public relations or advertising and then simply flip the channel changer to see what’s playing over at innovation, business life or customer service. Need some sales or Internet marketing tips? Click the channel changer again.

The Blog Channel promises to deliver a totally unique experience by acting much like a personal marketing tips aggregator or one-stop small business marketing blog space.

“I’m enthusiastic to say the least. I have been working with small business owners for over 20 years now and I really think that the Blog Channel fills a missing need in the puzzle,” said John Jantsch, chief channel manager and blog authority.

Readers can jump into the channel by visiting http://www.DuctTapeMarketing.com/blogchannel.php or by visiting one of the individual blogs channel partners.

The channel partners authors are:

John Jantsch - Duct Tape Marketing - www.ducttapemarketing.com/weblog.php
Zane Safrit - Business Life - http://life.ducttapemarketing.com/
Georgia Patrick - Customer Counts - http://service.ducttapemarketing.com/
Dan Janal - PR Leads - http://pr.ducttapemarketing.com/
Troy White - Word Wealth - http://advertising.ducttapemarketing.com/
Martin Jelsema - Buzzworthy Branding - http://brand.ducttapemarketing.com/
Jill Konrath - Selling To Big Companies - http://sales.ducttapemarketing.com/
Don The Idea Guy - The Idea Department - http://innovation.ducttapemarketing.com/
Mark Beck - Internet Marketing Unleashed - http://internet.ducttapemarketing.com/

Readers may also subscribe to the entire Blog Channel via an RSS feed and read updates from each blog in their RSS reader of choice.

The Duct Tape Marketing Blog, authored by John Jantsch, was chosen as the “Best Small Business Blog” by the in the 2004 Marketing Sherpa Readers Choice Awards.