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Best Marketing Books

Topic List90 books curated257 recommendations total

Marketing books recommended most by operators and founders — positioning, brand, copywriting and growth. Plus the pricing case studies that hold up.

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Where to start: Marketing Books recommended most often

Recommended books, ranked by how many of the 134 people behind this list recommended each one.

  1. 1The Innovator's Dilemma41 recommendations · recommended by Andrew Chen, Aaron Levie and Ev Williams
  2. 2Give and Take30 recommendations · recommended by Seth Godin, Changpeng Zhao and Derek Sivers
  3. 3Crossing the Chasm22 recommendations · recommended by Seth Godin, David Cancel and Changpeng Zhao
  4. 4Originals20 recommendations · recommended by Seth Godin, Arianna Huffington and Tim Urban
  5. 5Influence16 recommendations · recommended by Noah Kagan, Max Levchin and Ramit Sethi
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Book cover for “The Innovator's Dilemma”
The Innovator's Dilemma

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

41 recommendations

Recommended by Andrew Chen, Aaron Levie, Ev Williams and 27 others

Book Summary

A dense, methodical autopsy of how well-managed companies fail by doing exactly what they’re supposed to do: listen to customers and invest in high-margin products. The core insight—that disruptive technologies initially look irrelevant—unfolds through relentless case studies from disk drives to steel mills. Useful for its systemic logic, but the repetition can feel academic. You’ll get a precise vocabulary for a paradox, not a step-by-step fix. The theory is direct, yet the historical focus may leave you wondering how to apply it to your own fast-moving industry.

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Book cover for “Give and Take”
Give and Take

Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

30 recommendations

Recommended by Seth Godin, Changpeng Zhao, Derek Sivers and 19 others

Book Summary

A research-heavy exploration of how reciprocity styles—givers, takers, and matchers—shape professional success. Grant uses stories from business, sports, and entertainment to argue that selfless givers can rise to the top if they avoid burnout and exploitation. The book is densely packed with studies, which makes it convincing but sometimes overwhelming. Useful for understanding networking through a generous lens, though the sheer volume of examples may feel like a barrage. Annoying if you want fewer anecdotes and more actionable steps.

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Book cover for “Crossing the Chasm”
Crossing the Chasm

Marketing and Selling HighTech Products to Mainstream Customers

22 recommendations

Recommended by Seth Godin, David Cancel, Changpeng Zhao and 12 others

Book Summary

A practical guide to marketing disruptive technology products, built around the idea that many innovations stall between early adopters and the mainstream. Moore offers a clear playbook for identifying a beachhead segment and dominating it before expanding. The advice is direct and actionable, but the case studies—mostly from enterprise hardware and software of the 1990s—can feel distant. Still, the underlying segmentation logic remains useful for anyone navigating the messy middle of tech adoption.

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Book cover for “Originals”
Originals

How NonConformists Move the World

20 recommendations

Recommended by Seth Godin, Arianna Huffington, Tim Urban and 12 others

Book Summary

Originals reads like a breezy tour of social science studies packaged as career advice. The book’s value is how it upends tidy beliefs—like why the most original thinkers also tend to be chronic procrastinators or how speaking up late in a meeting can be more persuasive. The limitation is its overreliance on startup legends and lab findings that can feel like a grab bag of interesting anecdotes rather than a cohesive manual. If you’ve read modern business books, some insights will feel repackaged.

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Book cover for “Influence”
Influence

The Psychology of Persuasion

16 recommendations

Recommended by Noah Kagan, Max Levchin, Ramit Sethi and 5 others

Book Summary

This is a book that pulls apart the psychological shortcuts we use to make decisions, then shows how to deploy them in business contexts. The writing is clear and heavy on real-world examples from sales and marketing, which makes the principles stick but can leave you feeling like you’ve just taken a master class in manipulation. Its useful part is giving a language for the invisible forces that shape everyday choices. The main limitation: it can feel overly tactical, as if relationships are just a series of triggers to be pulled, offering little on building genuine influence through trust.

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Book cover for “Don't Make Me Think”
Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

14 recommendations

Recommended by Nir Eyal, Brian Armstrong, Andy Budd and 7 others

Book Summary

Krug’s guide feels like a witty, no-nonsense conversation over coffee. It’s packed with practical advice on why users scan, not read, and how to make navigation obvious. The book shines in its brevity and memorable maxims—you’ll finish it in an afternoon and likely revisit its core principles. However, if you seek deep interaction design theory or modern mobile-first patterns, you’ll find it light. Its dated screenshots and web-centric focus may also irk app-only designers. A quick, opinionated primer, not an exhaustive textbook.

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No coverBlue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy

How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

12 recommendations

Recommended by Aaron Levie, Drew Houston, Daymond John and 6 others

Description

A global phenomenon now published in a record 43 languages. Over 3.5 million copies sold. A bestseller across five continents.Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in headtohead competition in search of sustained, profitable growth.

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Positioning

The Battle for Your Mind

10 recommendations

Recommended by David Cancel, Aaron Levie, Ev Williams and 5 others

Book Summary

Witty and fast-paced, Positioning feels like a marketing memo about planting a simple, memorable place for a brand in a skeptical, mediablitzed public's mind. Its useful core is a set of portable heuristics for choosing a single message that reflects your strengths and concedes competitors' claims. The book leans on ad-era examples and blunt prescriptions, so parts read repetitive or anchored to pre-digital media. Take away crisp headline rules, but expect to adapt them heavily for social and digital channels.

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Made to Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

9 recommendations

Recommended by Changpeng Zhao, Derek Sivers, Andrew Gazdecki and 4 others

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea's chancesessential reading in the "fake news" era.Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots…

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Description

A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business". 223 photos.

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Crushing It!

How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influenceand How You Can, Too

7 recommendations

Recommended by Ryan Hoover, Tony Hsieh, Tom Bilyeu and 3 others

Description

Fourtime New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and…

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Hit Makers

How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction

6 recommendations

Recommended by Daniel Pink, Tim Urban, Adam Grant and 1 other

Book Summary

Hit Makers reads like a reporter's tour through the backstage of popular movies, songs, and apps, arguing that so-called overnight successes usually have traceable histories of gatekeepers, early adopters, and promotional networks. Its main strength is a steady stream of vivid case studies that make cultural momentum feel engineered rather than accidental. Annoyances include repeated chapter rhythms and a preference for storytelling over granular tactics. Practical readers may leave wishing for a tighter, more prescriptive how-to.

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Trust Me, I'm Lying

Confessions of a Media Manipulator

6 recommendations

Recommended by Chase Jarvis, Trevor Ncube and Raoul Pal

Book Summary

Trust Me, I'm Lying reads like a whistleblower's confessional crossed with a marketer's playbook: terse, anecdote-driven chapters that walk through stunts used to seed and amplify stories across blogs and aggregators. It's useful if you want vivid, concrete examples of how attention markets prize speed and outrage over accuracy and how that distorts news cycles. Its main limitation is a boastful, self-assured tone and heavy reliance on anecdotes rather than independent sourcing, so readers after balanced, evidence-rich analysis will likely feel unsatisfied.

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Play Bigger

How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

5 recommendations

Recommended by Andrew Gazdecki, Anthony Pompliano, Clint C. Cooper and 2 others

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Traction

How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

4 recommendations

Recommended by Seth Godin, Alexis Ohanian and Andrew Warner

Description

Most startups end in failure.Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don't have are enough customers.Founders and employees fail to spend time thinking about (and working on) traction in the same way they work on building a product.

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This Is Marketing

You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

4 recommendations

Recommended by Derek Sivers, Jessica Alba, Deke Bridges and 1 other

Description

Real marketing isn't about racking up clicks and tweets; it's about connection, empathy, and making a difference. Over the past quarter century, Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog,…

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Book cover for “All Marketers are Liars”
All Marketers are Liars

The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Worksand Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All

3 recommendations

Recommended by Jessica Alba and Joe Gebbia

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No coverMisbehaving
Misbehaving

The Making of Behavioral Economics

3 recommendations

Recommended by Peter Mallouk and Richard Thaler

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Hooked

How to Build HabitForming Products

3 recommendations

Recommended by Joe Martin and Marc Goodman

Description

How do successful companies create products people cant put downWhy do some products capture widespread attention while others flop What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook usNir Eyal answers these…

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No coverConfessions of an Advertising Man
Description

A new edition of the timeless business classic featured on Mad Menas fresh and relevant now as the day it was written "We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness.

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Book cover for “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook”
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook

How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

3 recommendations

Recommended by Chase Jarvis and Daymond John

Description

The New York Times bestselling author and social media expert returns with hardwon advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition by mastering social media marketingWhen managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they often plan for the…

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The Ultimate Sales Machine

Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

3 recommendations

Recommended by Derek Sivers, Noah Kagan and Jackie Vullinghs

Description

Chet Holmes helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept: focus!

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Guerilla Marketing

Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

2 recommendations

Recommended by Drew Houston

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Book cover for “Hug Your Haters”
Hug Your Haters

How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers

2 recommendations

Recommended by Changpeng Zhao and Kevin Folta

Description

Haters are not your problem. . . . Ignoring them is. Eighty percent of companies say they deliver out­standing customer service, but only 8 percent of their customers agree.

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Book cover for “Growth Hacker Marketing”
Growth Hacker Marketing

A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising

2 recommendations

Recommended by Andrew Chen and Andy Budd

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No coverMarketing
Marketing

A Love Story

2 recommendations

Recommended by David Cancel and Seth Godin

Description

"Bernadette's back, and just in time. This is her finest work, a book that ought to be read by everyone on your team, and somehow hidden from your competitors."?SETH GODIN One of the biggest challenges we face as entrepreneurs and innovators is understanding how to make our…

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Permission Marketing

Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers

1 recommendation

Recommended by Noah Kagan

Description

The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"?the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into…

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Book cover for “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding”
1 recommendation

Recommended by Ramit Sethi

Description

The only way to stand out in today's and tomorrow's cluttered marketplace is to build your product or service into a brand. Think Nike, Starbuck's, Xerox, and Kleenex, and you're thinking brands in the biggest and most lucrative sense.

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Book cover for “The New Rules of Marketing and PR”
The New Rules of Marketing and PR

How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly

1 recommendation

Recommended by Ann Handley

Description

"The" benchmark guide to marketing and PR, updated with the latest social media and marketing trends, tools, and realworld examples of success"The New Rules of Marketing & PR, 4th Edition" is the pioneering guide to the future of marketing, an international bestseller with more…

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Buyology

Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

1 recommendation

Recommended by Brendon Burchard

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Book cover for “The 1Page Marketing Plan”
The 1Page Marketing Plan

Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd

1 recommendation

Recommended by Andrew Gazdecki

Description

WARNING: Do Not Read This Book If You Hate Money To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth.

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Traffic Secrets

The Underground Playbook for Filling Your Websites and Funnels with Your Dream Customers

1 recommendation

Recommended by Audrey McClelland

Book Summary

Traffic Secrets reads like a hands-on manual for finding and filling funnels with targeted visitors. It lays out channel-by-channel tactics, audience maps, and headline/copy pairings meant for rapid testing. Most useful are the prioritized lists and ready-to-adapt messaging examples that help you pick one channel and start campaigns quickly. The book's promotional tone and frequent repetition of similar success stories blunt momentum for some readers. It also lacks hands-on exercises for stepwise practice.

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No coverContent Inc.
Content Inc.

How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses

1 recommendation

Recommended by Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré

Description

Survive and thrive in the marketplace without pitching your product. Learn how to build an online content platform that attracts new customers! Every startup and entrepreneur struggles to reach and attract customers. Content Inc.

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No coverYoutility
Youtility

Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype

1 recommendation

Recommended by Gary Vaynerchuk

Description

The difference between helping and selling is just two lettersIf you're wondering how to make your products seem more exciting online, you're asking the wrong question. You're not competing for attention only against other similar products.

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Book cover for “Blue Ocean Shift”
Blue Ocean Shift

Beyond Competing Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

Book Summary

Blue Ocean Shift reads like a pragmatic playbook for organizations trying to move out of direct competition into fresh demand. Its strength is a clear, stepwise approach illustrated by multiple extended case studies and advice for aligning teams around a new strategic direction. That makes it useful for readers working on a concrete initiative, but the book repeats similar planning logic across chapters and favors narrative examples over short checklists, which can feel long for those after quick, tactical takeaways.

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No coverBrand Identity Breakthrough
Brand Identity Breakthrough

How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible

Description

Amazon #1 Bestseller in Public Relations and Selling for Small Business.Does your business have a story to tell It should! Every new product can be unique in its industry.

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Book cover for “Content That Converts”
Content That Converts

How To Build A Profitable and Predictable B2B Content Marketing Strategy

Description

This book is for entrepreneurs and the leaders of B2B businesses who want to use content marketing to bring a predictable stream of qualified leads into their sales cycles, and need a replicable system to make it happen. This book provides that system ?

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No coverInbound Marketing
Inbound Marketing

Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs

Description

Stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in Traditional "outbound" marketing methods like coldcalling, email blasts, advertising, and direct mail are increasingly less effective.

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Book cover for “Killing Marketing”
Killing Marketing

How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit

Description

Killing your current marketing structure may be the only way to save it! Two of the world's top marketing experts reveal the next level of breakthrough successtransforming your marketing strategy into a standalone profit center.

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No coverInfluencer
Influencer

Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media

Description

"I highly advise anyone who has an interest in life online to get this book, sit down, and take notes because you're going to want to hear what Brittany has to say." Iskra Lawrence, Aerie Model and Instagram star (@iskra) If you've ever scrolled through your Instagram feed and…

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No coverThe End of Marketing
The End of Marketing

Humanizing Your Brand in the Age of Social Media and AI

Description

Social networks are the new norm and traditional marketing is failing in today's digital, alwayson culture. Businesses across the world are having to face up to how they remain relevant in the choppy waters of the digital ocean.

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No coverTop of Mind
Top of Mind

Use Content to Unleash Your Influence and Engage Those Who Matter To You

Description

Proven strategies for staying top of mind with your audience from Inc.com s #1 content marketing companyWhat do all successful businesses have in common They re the first name that comes to mind when people think about their particular market.

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Book cover for “Content The Atomic Particle of Marketing”
Content The Atomic Particle of Marketing

The Definitive Guide to Content Marketing Strategy

Description

Content, in all its forms, is the single most critical element of any marketing campaign. Finding a successful equilibrium between content marketing and content strategy is difficult, but essential.

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No coverWhat Customers Crave
What Customers Crave

How to Create Relevant and Memorable Experiences at Every Touchpoint

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Book cover for “Content Chemistry”
Content Chemistry

The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing

Description

This edition has been updated to reflect new Technology, and marketing trends. The result of thousands of conversations about web marketing with hundreds of companies, this handbook is a compilation of the most important and effective lessons and advice about the power of search…

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No coverOne Million Followers
One Million Followers

How I Built a Massive Social Following in 30 Days

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No coverStories That Stick
Stories That Stick

How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business

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No coverEmail Marketing Rules
Email Marketing Rules

Checklists, Frameworks, and 150 Best Practices for Business Success

Description

Email marketing's power is matched only by how incredibly misunderstood it is.Email Marketing Rules demystifies this vital channel, taking you step by step through 150 best practices, providing extensive tactical checklists, and giving you strategic frameworks for longterm…

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No coverMarketing Rebellion
Marketing Rebellion

The Most Human Company Wins

Description

Are you overwhelmed by the breathtaking rate of change in the world Are confusing consumer trends, the unrelenting pace of Technology,, and the breakneck speed of business making you feel irrelevant and lostPathfinding author Mark Schaefer provides an achievable and realistic…

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Book cover for “Master Content Marketing”
Master Content Marketing

A Simple Strategy to Cure the Blank Page Blues and Attract a Profitable Audience

Description

A complete guide for beginners and pros alike which maps out a stressfree, repeatable, stepbystep process for effective content marketing written by a business owner, marketing consultant, and leading authority on the subject.

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No coverPerformance Partnerships
Performance Partnerships

The Checkered Past, Changing Present & Exciting Future of Affiliate Marketing

Description

The term affiliate marketing has been misunderstood and underestimated since its inception. At its core, affiliate marketing represents something overwhelmingly positive: paying only for marketing that delivers actual, quantifiable results.

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No coverThey Ask, You Answer
They Ask, You Answer

A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer, Revised & Updated

Description

The revolutionary guide that challenged businesses around the world to stop selling to their buyers and start answering their questions to get results; revised and updated to address new Technology,, trends, the continuous evolution of the digital consumer, and much moreIn…

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No cover10x Marketing Formula
10x Marketing Formula

Your Blueprint for Creating 'CompetitionFree Content' That Stands Out and Gets Results

Description

The dream of content marketing is that it's going to be a magical funnel that drips money into your bank account. Its lure is that it will create an inbound sales machine.But what should you do when it doesn't work like that Or even at allThat's the question this book is here to…

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No cover#GetSocialSmart
#GetSocialSmart

How to Hone Your Social Media Strategy

Description

This book is a social media guidebook for entrepreneurs, small business owners and real estate professionals. In this book, I teach how to create a smart social media strategy including the ins and outs of: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest and…

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Book cover for “Hacking Growth”
Hacking Growth

How Today's FastestGrowing Companies Drive Breakout Success

Description

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Book cover for “Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This”
Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This

The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

Book Summary

Luke Sullivan writes in a conversational, often funny voice that pulls examples, ad copy snippets, and client war stories into quick lessons on headlines, pitching, and writer–art director collaboration. The most useful material is the practical language and format-aware tips you can borrow for briefs and pitches across print, TV, and social. Limitation: Sullivan leans on anecdote and opinion, so readers seeking tightly structured practice, step-by-step drills, or heavily cited theory will find the book lightweight and occasionally repetitive.

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No coverHow to Write Copy That Sells
How to Write Copy That Sells

The StepByStep System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often

Description

Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted.

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No coverMagnetic Marketing
Magnetic Marketing

How To Attract A Flood Of New Customers That Pay, Stay, and Refer

Description

MAGNETIC MARKETING(R) is a radical, dramatically different seachange in the way new customers, clients, patients or prospects are attracted and in the way products, services, businesses and practices are advertised.

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Book cover for “Overdeliver”
Overdeliver

Build a Business for a Lifetime Playing the Long Game in Direct Response Marketing

Description

Brian Kurtz is the bridge connecting the bedrock fundamentals of direct response marketing to the stateoftheart strategies, tactics, and channels of today.

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No coverThe Choice Factory
The Choice Factory

25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy

Description

Before you can influence decisions, you need to understand what drives them. In The Choice Factory, Richard Shotton sets out to help you learn.

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Book cover for “The Content Formula”
The Content Formula

Calculate the ROI of Content Marketing & Never Waste Money Again

Description

The Content Formula answers the biggest question currently on marketer's minds: what is the ROI of content marketing This book provides a step by step guide for marketers, and is divided into three parts: how to build the business case for content marketing, how to find the…

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No coverThe Lead Machine
The Lead Machine

The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing

Description

Looking to make sense of digital marketing Do you want to rank higher in Google, engage more people on Facebook, and build your email list Do you want to generate more online leads and sales for your businessIf so, then you're just one click away from being able to create a…

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No coverThe Ultimate Sales Letter
The Ultimate Sales Letter

Attract New Customers. Boost your Sales.

Description

Write Well to Sell Big!In the age of email and instant communication, great sales copy is indispensable to closing a deal. But too many sales letters end up in the junk file or the wastebasket.

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No coverCrisis Ready
Crisis Ready

Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World

Description

Melissa Agnes, a leading authority on crisis management and preparedness, provides a clear roadmap to implementing a crisis ready culture and thus building an INVINCIBLE brand.

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Book cover for “Lean Analytics”
Lean Analytics

Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean (O'Reilly))

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No coverPitch Anything
Pitch Anything

An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

Description

About the Book:When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his oneofa kind method to raise more than $400 millionand now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any…

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Book cover for “SEO for Growth”
SEO for Growth

The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs

Description

Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is how people search and find your website on the Internet.(NOTE: Dozens of renowned marketing, SEO and social media experts have endorsed this SEO book.

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Book cover for “Social Media Marketing Workbook”
Social Media Marketing Workbook

How to Use Social Media for Business (2020 Updated Edition)

Description

UPDATED: 2017 Edition of the SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING WORKBOOK!NEW for 2017 Videos follow Jason stepbystep in companion video trainings.

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No coverThe Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period! 2.0
Description

So you want to build a website, or make your current site better Where do you start The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period! 2.0 answers that question and more.

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No coverUnMarketing
UnMarketing

Everything Has Changed and Nothing is Different

Description

Stop marketing. Start UnMarketing. No one likes cold calls at dinnertime, junk mail overflowing your mailbox, and advertisements that interrupt your favorite shows. If this is "marketing," then the world would probably prefer whatever is the opposite of that.

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No coverWeb Analytics 2.0
Web Analytics 2.0

The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity

Description

Adeptly address today's business challenges with this powerful new book from web analytics thought leader Avinash Kaushik. "Web Analytics 2.0" presents a new framework that will permanently change how you think about analytics.

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No coverContent Machine
Content Machine

Use Content Marketing to Build a 7figure Business With Zero Advertising

Description

Content Machine outlines a strategy for using content marketing to build a 7 figure business with zero advertising. By teaching the fundamentals of content marketing, how to create great content and how to stand out from the crowd, it simplifies the otherwise challenging process…

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No coverContent Strategy for the Web
Description

FROM CONSTANT CRISIS TO SUSTAINABLE SUCCESSBETTER CONTENT MEANS BETTER BUSINESS. Your content is a mess: the website redesigns didn't help, and the new CMS just made things worse.

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No coverDigital Marketing For Dummies
Description

Does your digital marketing pack a punch Written with the marketer's best interests in mind, this friendly, downtoearth guide shows you how to use proven digital marketing strategies and tactics to expand the reach of your brand, increase audience engagement, and acquire and…

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No coverEmail Marketing Demystified
Email Marketing Demystified

Build a Massive Mailing List, Write Copy that Converts and Generate More Sales

Description

While many have decried that email is dead, a handful of marketers have quietly been using littleknown email marketing techniques to generate massive results.

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Book cover for “Epic Content Marketing”
Epic Content Marketing

How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter, and Win More Customers by Marketing Less

Description

One of FORTUNE Magazine's Top 5 Business Book MustReads How do you cut through the noise, commotion, and bad information that is right now cluttering up your customers' digital spaceEPIC CONTENT MARKETINGOne of the world's leading experts on content marketing, Joe Pulizzi…

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No coverEverybody Writes
Everybody Writes

Your GoTo Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Description

Finally a goto guide to creating and publishing the kind of content that will make your business thrive. Everybody Writes is a goto guide to attracting and retaining customers through stellar online communication, because in our contentdriven world, every one of us is, in fact,…

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No coverInbound Content
Inbound Content

A StepbyStep Guide To Doing Content Marketing the Inbound Way

Description

Develop and implement an effective content strategy tailored to your business's needsInbound Content is a stepbystep manual for attracting the right people, turning them into leads, and closing them into customers. Today, everyone knows that content is king.

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No coverSelling the Invisible
Selling the Invisible

A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Description

A treasury of hundreds of quick, practical, and easytoread strategies few are more than a page long Selling the Invisible will open your eyes to new ideas in this crucial branch of marketing including why focus groups, valueprice positioning, discount pricing, and being the best…

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Book cover for “SEO 2022”
SEO 2022

Learn SEO with smart internet marketing strategies

Description

Newest edition EXPANDED & UPDATED November 2021No matter your background, SEO 2022 will walk you through search engine optimization techniques used to grow countless websites online, exact steps to rank high in Google, and how get a ton of customers.In this SEO book you will…

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No coverTalk Triggers
Talk Triggers

The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth

Description

Talk Triggers is the definitive, practical guide on how to use bold operational differentiators to create customer conversations, written by bestselling authors and marketing experts Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin.Word of mouth is directly responsible for 19% of all purchases, and…

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No coverThe Anatomy of Buzz
The Anatomy of Buzz

How to Create Word of Mouth Marketing

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No coverThe Conversion Code
The Conversion Code

Capture Internet Leads, Create Quality Appointments, Close More Sales

Description

Capture and close more Internet leads with a new sales script and powerful marketing templates.The Conversion Code provides a stepbystep blueprint for increasing sales in the modern, Internetdriven era. Today's consumers are savvy, and they have more options than ever before.

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No coverThe Road to Recognition
The Road to Recognition

The AtoZ Guide to Personal Branding for Accelerating Your Professional Success in The Age of Digital Media

Description

Ready to reap the rewards of recognition You own a brand. Its name is your name.You need to take ownership of it and earn recognition as an expert in your field. There's no simple shortcut.

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No coverUltimate Guide to Link Building
Ultimate Guide to Link Building

How to Build Website Authority, Increase Traffic and Search Ranking with Backlinks (Ultimate Series)

Description

Link. Rank. Profit. Are you getting lost in the marketing mayhem of search engine optimization and online citations We've got the answer.

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No coverUnleash Possible
Unleash Possible

A Marketing Playbook That Drives B2B Sales

Description

This is a book that should not only be read by marketers. It's a book that should be on the desk of every executive in the company.

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Words that Sell

More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas

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More than 6,000 words and phrases that make the difference between "yaddayaddayadda" and copy that sellsLooking for a better way to say "authentic" Words That Sell gives you 57 alternatives. How about "appealing" Take your pick from 76 synonyms.

Recommended Marketing Books by Changpeng Zhao

Changpeng Zhao recommends 5 books on this list. See all book recommendations by Changpeng Zhao

Recommended Marketing Books by David Cancel

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Recommended Marketing Books by Seth Godin

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Marketing Books: common questions

What are the most recommended marketing books?
The Innovator's Dilemma, Give and Take and Crossing the Chasm are the most recommended marketing books on BookMentions, ranked by how many people recommended them.
Who recommends marketing books?
Changpeng Zhao, David Cancel, Seth Godin and Aaron Levie are among the people who recommend books on this list. Each name links to their full set of book recommendations.
Which of these marketing books should I read first?
The Innovator's Dilemma is the most recommended here with 41 recommendations, which makes it the safest place to start.

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