Local Marketers in search of fresh ideas would be well served to review a few of the 150 Best Marketing Blogs according to Ad Age.

This is an impressive list of more than 150 blogs—1141, as of this post. At quick glance, the list includes many names I need to explore and some of my favorite marketing thinkers including:

• #5 Seth Godin, a best-selling author, world famous blogger and the father of the permission-based marketing movement.
• #23 Marketing Profs, a resource I count on at least weekly to give me great email subject lines, and one line zingers.
• #25 Duct Tape Marketing, renowned small business marketing guru
• #29 Avinash Kaushik, leader in web analytics and Analytics Evangelist for Google

Give the list a read. You'll find some great new ideas, and if you are like me, your next problem will be executing on all the great practices.