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After nearly 50,000 votes for over 250+ nominated authors, Accelerate! Move Your Business Forward through the Convergence of Search, Social and Content Marketing, a best-selling Internet marketing book by Arnie Kuenn, has been voted a Winner in the 2012 Small Business Book Awards. Accelerate! brought in over 2,500 votes and qualified as one of the 10 Overall Winners with the highest number of votes in each category. Accelerate! provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of what it takes to execute a successful content marketing plan, no matter how big or small the business.

The Small Business Book Awards is presented by the Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication, which, along with its sister sites, serves over 4,000,000 small business owners, stakeholders and entrepreneurs annually and recognizes business books that were published in 2011. Small business owners often seek advice and information through books. While there are many thousands of books published each year, it’s those of interest to small businesses and entrepreneurs that the Small Business Book Awards honor.

“Thanks to everyone for making Accelerate! an award-winning book. It was an honor to be recognized in a class of so many compelling marketing books. The companies that are succeeding right now are the ones creating content that engages their customers and brings in the business,” said Kuenn. “That’s where this book comes in and I’m glad it’s a resource for so many business owners.”

Accelerate!, is available for sale on Amazon.com and Kindle and includes case studies, the best and most-used tools in the industry, along with contributions from industry experts including; Jay Baer, Joe Pulizzi and Rand Fishkin.

About the Author
Arnie Kuenn is the founder and president of Vertical Measures, a search, social and content marketing company based in Phoenix, Ariz. He has held executive positions in the world of new technologies and marketing for more than 20 years. Kuenn is also the author of Accelerate! Move Your Business Forward through the Convergence of Search, Social and Content Marketing.

About the Small Business Book Awards
The Small Business Book Awards, now in its fourth year, enable the small business community to nominate, show their support for, and vote on their favorite business books. The top 10 winners will be selected by readers based on number of votes as the Best Small Business Books of 2012, while the top five vote-getters in each category become Category Winners. Voting commences February 1, 2012. In last year’s Awards, over 41,000 votes were cast by the community. The Small Business Book Awards initiative is produced by Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication, which along with its sister sites, serves over 4,000,000 small business owners, stakeholders and entrepreneurs annually.