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RECAP THING:
Welcome to Hot Links, a new thing I just made up. Here are the most clicked-on links of the week (in order)
1: Office Hours #20: 6 Brands to Watch (Spring/Summer '19)
This was a runaway leader. If you enjoyed what you saw here, then you’ll want to stay tuned for the new Brands to Watch report that will be a deeper dive on one brand per newsletter. As a reminder, The Brands to Watch report will only be available to paid Office Hours subscribers.
2: 39 Must-Have Free Content-Creation Tools for Content Marketers
Simply a list of resources you can use to ship content faster. More of this stuff to come.
3: Office Hours #34: 5 Books That Will Change How You See The World
I regret not removing the paywall on this one sooner. If you haven’t read this one yet, do so!
4: How To Do The Best Content Marketing On A Limited Budget
This one contains a bundle of free tools and templates to help you get things shakin’.
5: How Slack’s Content Strategy Expanded from a Single Page to a Media Company
If you write, market products or are in charge of a team looking to pivot to something new, give this a read.
MUSIC THING:
It’s Friday, so here’s a bunch of playlists that I have made for your listening enjoyment.
If I owned a Cool Men's Boutique, this would be the store playlist
Songs you forgot from the 90s/2000s
Songs you forgot from the 2010s
Every one-hit wonder I could think of from the last 60 years!
Yacht Rock > Everything Else
Synthpop/New Wave
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