SMB Marketing Guide

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The Small Business Marketing Guide was a short-lived blog created in a partnership between Hewlett Packard and Federated Media back in 2009. The website featured blog posts and webinars from industry experts including Guy Kawasaki, John Jantsch, Anita Campbell, Jean Aw, Chanpory Rith, John Battelle, and Jeremy Gutsche.

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A screenshot of the SMB Marketing Guide Website

The SMB Marketing Guide would only stay online through late 2010. By 2011 Federated Media had redirected the website to a page on their website telling users the blog had been discontinued. A few years later in 2014 Federated Media would break up into 2 components selling their content marketing division to LIN Media which has since rebranded the company to Hyfn and renaming the core programmatic advertising company as Sovrn.

The one-time kings of content marketing who made a fortune by claiming to be “Author Driven” and championing the success of small businesses and upstarts that would go on to become media giants like Mashable, TechCrunch, and Business Insider quickly abandoned their focus on other small business owners.

We’ve purchased the SMB Marketing Guide brand and plan on using it to help small business owners all over the world in the near future.

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