Best of the Best of 2013 Lists for Small Businesses

Behind on your reading? Start with this list of books on content marketing. From Small Biz Trends

WordPress is often used as a cost effective content management system for small business. WPBeginner shares ten corporate themes from several sources.

If you're going to steal, they say, steal from the best. "No matter how far the marketplace advances, there will always be problems that plague consumers and that no company can seem to solve. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because it creates a niche for the right company to fill. For example, motorists experience considerable straining when cleaning their windshields from the inside."

A CNN article on women who influenced events in 2013. Several tech/biz leaders on the list.

TopRank's yearly list of women that rocked social media. (Editor's note: I'm quite biased as I made the list last year.)

Business travel is still a necessity, even with the great advances in video conferencing, sometimes you just have to be there.

And yes. There's an app for that.

If one of your New Year's Resolution's is to get your LinkedIn act together, here's a great resource from them on the best company pages.

Doing some advertising in 2014? Learn from the best of advertising, and what not to do from the worst, at least according to the Wall Street Journal.

From the Forbes article: "Locales in Colorado, North Carolina, Texas and Utah populate the top of our rankings, but they are all looking up at an Iowa metro."

A look back at the best technology stories, including interviews and profiles, from Forbes.

Video footage about the leading women of 2013, from #wgbiz allies over at CNN Leading Women

Did you know there was a bionic eye? From the site:

"We've already counted down the biggest and best tech stories of 2013, but behind the stories are the awe-inspiring advances that drive both science and the commercial tech industry forward."

A round-up from the best apps from The US edition of the Guardian.

Interesting list from a smaller publication.

The 10 images that best portray some of the biggest moments in business in 2013.

It doesn't always go well when sites do a best of round-up of their own posts. But it's pretty great when you find them at a great resource with multiple authors. If you're at all interested in search engine optimization for your site, this is a must-read and a must-bookmark

Ann Handley shares with us words that hopefully won't make it into 2014. My favorite is "impactful". IT IS NOT A WORD. :)

Top technology stories of 2013 from CNN.

Yes! Gadgets! And when you read about them for your company, it's called "research". Thanks Engadget.

Great mix of stories, some inspirational, some instructional, others on finance and tech, all from The New York Times

Greg Jarboe | December 24, 2013 | Comments Google's YouTube dominated the video marketing headlines again this year - but the launches of Twitter's Vine and Facebook's Video on Instagram as well as AOL's acquisition of ADAP.TV provided lots of interesting sidebars.