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Is it time to drop the ball?
Posted on October 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
What comes to mind when you think about the phrase ‘dropping the ball’. Author Tiffany Dufu has a different definition in mind. That useless guy at work that never responds to emails and frequently flakes on meeting action points? For her, dropping the ball is about figuring out what really matters, then dropping or delegating […]
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Posted on April 3, 2016 Leave a Comment
by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares Traction is aimed at startup marketing, as you might expect it focuses on testing (rather than guessing), and running short experiments to find what the authors call your ‘core traction channel.’ It’s a really practical read and provides some interesting stories from successful start ups (they interviewed forty founders) including […]
The New Rules of Sales and Service, David Meerman-Scott
Posted on April 3, 2016 Leave a Comment
I’m a huge fan of David’s other books on content marketing and I highly recommend one of his earlier books Real Time Marketing and PR. His latest book focuses in on sales and while I didn’t get as much out of it as his marketing series it’s still a useful guide. In particular I like […]
Scrum Marketing: Applying Agile Methodologies to Marketing, by James Wright
Posted on March 3, 2016 1 Comment
Recently I’ve become a bit obsessed with agile methodology (of which scrum is a subset) and how marketers can learn from this. Agile is different way of working (or project managing) that was started by those smart software developers. Lately I’ve been reading a lot (including this book) on how this can be adapted and […]
Buyer Personas (by Adele Revella)
Posted on December 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
I picked up this book via David Meerman Scott’s work as he talks a lot about crafting personas for marketing teams. While our company won’t be adopting the exact methodology thats described (it follows quite an unscripted style of interviewing) I do think there is wisdom in reminding ourselves of the absolute importance of knowing […]
The Membership Economy (Robbie Kellman Baxter)
Posted on June 30, 2015 Leave a Comment
Few marketing books focus exclusively on membership systems. And me being a marketing manager at a membership organisation, I couldn’t download this one fast enough! The book certainly widened my view on a ‘traditional’ membership organisation as it used technology examples (premium vs freemium) and examples like the CrossFit phenomenon. I would have loved to see some […]
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