The always entertaining Douglas Burdett created this video book review of Subscription Marketing s a companion to his Marketing Book podcast. If you haven’t heard it, I highly recommend the Marketing Book Podcast as a great way of keeping up on what’s going on in the world of marketing.
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Startup Marketing through Content: A Review of Content Inc
Reading Joe Pulizzi’s new book Content Inc is a welcome shock for someone who lives in the engineering-driven, growth-hacking Silicon Valley. The book’s message: start your business by building an audience with content, before you write a line of code. Once you own the loyal audience, figure out what that community wants and build it. Wait—what? Content […]
Marketing Above the Noise by Linda Popky
A Call to Reason and Strategy As soon as I read this statement, I knew I’d like Linda Popky’s new book: “It’s time to move the discussion away from today’s latest hot marketing tools and tactics to what really counts: convincing customers to trust you with their business – not just once, but time and […]
An Insider’s Guide to the Membership Economy
A Review of The Membership Economy by Robbie Baxter Question of the day: Are memberships one variation of the Subscription Economy (as suggested in John Warrillow’s The Automatic Customer, which I reviewed here)? Or are we really experiencing the growth of a Membership Economy, for which subscriptions are merely one revenue model? Which is a […]
What’s your True Story? (Book review)
David Meerman Scott’s New Rules of Marketing and PR came out in 2007, which seems like a lifetime ago. Now it’s a “marketing classic.” As the world continues to evolve, marketers need to be lifelong learners to stay current. In the interests of continuous learning, I’ve been reading a wide range of books and want […]