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Small Biz Trends Small Business Influencer Awards: My Recommendations ~ Links for Easy Daily Voting

Monday, July 23, 2012 1:24

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Each year, Small Business Trends hosts the Small Business Influencer Awards to recognize the Top Influencers in the Small Business Market.

981 approved nominees are listed for the 2012 SmallBizTrends Influencer Awards. These are the nominees I feel will most benefit my readers and small businesses based on my years of experience.

Here is how the awards voting works:

Those nominated are judged 40% by voting where each person may vote once every 24 hours for as many nominees as they choose.
To make it much easier for me to support those I collaborate with or admire, I create a post that provides links for easy voting.
I encourage you to vote daily to support key people we know and those who have exceptional and recognized expertise in their specialties.
If you are nominated, I recommend you DO vote for yourself as well, so I include GrowMap in the recommendations found below.

These are my 2012 picks as
Small Business Influencers

Influential Collaborators:

Small Business Consulting Expert GrowMap @GrowMap ~ Vote for GrowMap under Small Business Influencers News Outlets
Exceptional Social Media and Content Marketing Expert Kristi Hines @Kikolani ~ Vote for Kristi in Small Business Journalists
Ileane Smith @Ileane ~ Vote for Ileane in Small Business Influencer Awards Experts
Basic Blog Tips @BasicBlogTips ~ Vote in Small Business News Outlets
Ana Hoffman @AnaTrafficCafe ~ Vote under Small Business Experts

Influential Experts:

These are people who are widely recognized as experts in their respective specialties. Most I have interacted with while others I have recommended for years but they don’t know me.

No Analytics Experts are more respected than Avinash Kaushik @avinash ~ Vote for Avinash
eBay Expert and Customer Service Expert ~ Marsha Collier @MarshaCollier ~ Vote for Marsha here

Affiliate Marketing and Small Business Experts

Affiliate Marketing Expert ~ Missy Ward @missyward ~ Vote for Missy
Life Coach ~ Tony Robbins @TonyRobbins ~ Vote for Tony
Small Business Forum ~ StartUp Nation @StartupNation ~ Vote for StartupNation
Small Business Marketing Expert ~ Vote for Patrick Schwerdtfeger @schwerdtfeger

Social Media Experts

Facebook Expert ~ Mari Smith @MariSmith ~ Vote for Mari here
Social Media Influencer ~ LizStrauss @LizStrauss ~ Vote for Liz

Link Building, Local Search, and SEO Experts

The most admired Link Building Expert is Eric Ward @ericward ~ Vote for Eric
Local Search Expert ~ Mike Blumenthal @mblumenthal ~ Vote for Mike here and check out his Google Places Category Tool
Local SEO Expert ~ Andrew Shotland @localseoguide ~ Vote for Andrew
SEO Experts ~ Aaron Wall @aaronwall ~ Vote for Aaron
SEO Software ~ Rand Fishkin @randfish ~ Vote for Rand

Useful Solutions:

Help a Reporter Out @helpareporter ~ Get Free PR and Publicity ~ Vote for HARO
Hubspot @HubSpot ~ Lead Generation Experts ~ Vote for HubSpot
ReadyTalk @ReadyTalk ~ O/S independent Web Conferencing and Webinar Services ~ Vote for ReadyTalk

SEO Tools and Software Solutions

SEOBook @SEOBook ~ SEO Tools, Blog & Forum ~ Vote for SEOBook Tools
SEOMoz @SEOMoz ~ SEO Tools, Blog, & Community ~ Vote for SEOMoz Software

Conspicuously absent are any nominations related to conversion optimization or landing page testing so I haven’t included any experts yet. I may add them here later.

There are hundreds of other nominees, so if you can make the time you may want to peruse the many pages of other nominees to see who else is there.

I included in my picks the very best experts – many of whom I
have been learning from online for going on eighteen years now.

I hope some appreciate the many hours that go into an effort such as this from paging through every page of nominations to adding all those links to make checking them out and voting daily easier for my readers.

Do please consider voting daily for those who give away
their time and expertise so that others may succeed.

Disclosure: GrowMap is a media sponsor – by choice – for the Small Business Trends Influencer Awards and the Small Business Trends Small Business Book Awards.