TL;DR: My top 5 of the good stuff I read about Marketing, Web, and more things selected for you (Episode 1 — January 2019)

Samuel Schmitt
4 min readFeb 1, 2019

My reading list shared with you.

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This month I’ve read a lot of good stuff about digital marketing, web technologies, and even more.

What is on the menu today:

  • The best digital marketing tools you might not know in 2019.
  • A guy on an island building apps and eating ramen.
  • A collection of advice and tactics from 40 marketers about Content Marketing.
  • The story of the Head of Marketing who didn’t have a clue about SaaS marketing when he started working for his company.
  • Twitter analytics, if you like analytics stuff.

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Best Digital Marketing Tools of 2019: The Hidden Gem Edition Written by Jonathan Lambert on www.overgovideo.com

If you like to discover new tools, as I do, and if you like lists as well. This article is for you. Indeed, it is a list of tools.

It covers a wide range of digital marketing tools: SEO, Emailing, Social Media, Video / Images editing, automation, reporting… and more.

Have a look.

I quit my job, and I have one year to get to profitability by Andrey Azimov on www.medium.com

The story is not from January, but I found it recently when Andrey become Product Hunt’s maker of the Year.

The story is so cool.

Andrey is a young guy, living on an island. Bali. He decided to quit his job and do a hardcore year.

In this year he will build apps (mainly MacOS app in his case) and try to become profitable. His goal is to get 1000$ per month. With this, he could have a good life on his island.

Follow him, and you can even support him with Ramen noodle.

Inspiring story. Maybe we should all start building apps, and eat ramen on a paradisiac island.

How to Build A Successful Content Marketing Strategy from Scratch in 2019 by Elise Dopson on www.databox.com

Excellent article collecting bits of advice and tactics from 40 marketers about Content Marketing.

Included inside: statistics about marketing and again tools selection to execute your content strategy.

Also, you can have a look at Databox, it is a tool aggregating data from various sources and delivering KPI dashboard.

A must if you want to see if your marketing is on the right track.

How we achieve +65% YoY growth by ignoring conventional startup advice by Tim Soulo on www.medium.com

Tim is the Head of Marketing at Ahrefs.com. In this article, he’s telling his journey as a SaaS marketer.

Tim explained that when he started, he knew nothing about SaaS marketing. He didn’t follow the hype and didn’t follow growth hack strategies that all startups are embracing.

At Ahref, they focus on their customers, build a great product and deliver great educational content for the users of their solution. Simple.

The Straightforward Guide to Twitter Analytics written by Larry Kim on www.hubspot.com

Do you know that Twitter has a great embedded Analytics?

This article explains how it works and offer a list of free twitter analytics tools. If you like to discover new tools, this one is for you.

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Samuel Schmitt

Digital Solution Expert, Digital Marketing Enthusiastic, Former Nerd (still coding)