The 31 Best Marketing Books to Understand and Reach Your Customers

The 31 Best Marketing Books to Understand and Reach Your Customers process.st/best-marketing-books August 21, 2018

Marketing is such a vital part of how we do business. So many of us do marketing-related roles, yet how many of us have really read up on the fundamentals? Not enough.

That’s why we’re going to look at some texts from across the marketing field which can help sure up our knowledge.

From advertising to PR, SEO to content, it’s all related.

As a follow up to our wonderfully received article cataloguing the 45 best sales books, we’ve decided to break down the world of marketing literature for you too!

We have some old classics like Scientific Advertising, some newer classics like Blue Ocean Strategy, and a number of this year’s must reads!

Some of these books will put you inside the mind of the customer. Others will transport you into the realm of strategy. Many of the books listed will go super specific into technical approaches.

There’s something for everyone!

Check out our Process Street list of the 31 best marketing books below!

The best marketing books to build and grow brands!

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Marketing can have many different focuses and varying purposes, but in this list we hope you’ll find advice, stories, mistakes, tips, tricks, systems, and processes which can help you in what you’re doing right now, and also in building your broader expertise.

For each book I’ve tried to include a video to provide more context, in case something about that book jumps out at you and you want to explore further!

The videos, where possible, are of the original author explaining some tenet of their work – apart from the classic texts from 100 years ago, where I’ve understandably been a bit looser.

I’ve also pulled the first 7 out for a slightly more in depth treatment. Some because they’re simply interesting books and others because they have powerful insights.

Let’s get started!

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds We’re starting with the oldest of old school marketing texts!

This 1841 text is an early psychological investigation into crowd behavior written by the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay.

The book comes in three volumes, each tackling a slightly different subject: National Delusions Peculiar Follies Philosophical Delusions Mackay acts as a kind of Victorian era James Randi, taking delusional public beliefs and debunking them. He tackles topics such as alchemy, fortune telling, and haunted houses amongst other more serious topics like revered perceptions of historical events, like the crusades.

His chapters on economic bubbles are still often referenced today.

This book earns inclusion as a kind of foundation setting aperitif. What’s more in line with what we do as marketers than understanding how the crowd works and how to bury into its collective unconscious?

You can pick up a copy here: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

The Life of PT Barnum This is another classic text, and one which you may be more familiar with given the recent film adaptation, The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron.

The book is self-authored and this autobiographical portrayal of an extraordinary man is captivating.

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A salesman and a marketer by nature, the text is filled with interesting little moves which will make you, as someone within the industry, smirk at the subtle effectiveness of his tactics.

There is the story of when Barnum opened a museum in New York. He didn’t have many customers but he noticed there was an unemployed man advertising himself for some “light labor”.

Barnum gave the man 5 bricks. One brick was to be placed at the entrance to the museum with the other 4 on the nearby street corners. The man was told to take one brick and walk to the next brick. There he would put the brick down, pick up the new brick, and walk to the next brick – where he would do the same again.

This led the man in a grid until he was back outside the museum. Here, he would present a ticket, enter the building, walk out again, and begin his brick grid all over.

Strange, no?

Barnum writes: Half an hour afterwards, at least five hundred people were watching his mysterious movements.

He had assumed a military step and bearing, and looking as sober as a judge, he made no response whatever to the constant inquiries as to the object of his singular conduct Absurdly simple anecdotes such as this decorate Barnum’s fascinating story and provide a flowing read where you may pick up some tricks in the process.

You can pick up a copy here: The Life of PT Barnum

Buy-ology Martin Lindstrom‘s 2008 text delves into the motivations behind our purchases.

The book is the end result of a three year neuromarketing study on 2081 people. The book looks at the effectiveness of traditional approaches to marketing products; commercials, jingles, celebrity endorsements, logos, and so much more.

Lindstrom builds most of the thesis on the role of the subconscious, while also tying in other connections like the relationship between branding and religion.

Lindstrom came to some fairly surprising conclusions. The counterintuitive nature of his findings partly comes down to the methodology. While people often report acting this way or that way for this or that reason, the real motivators are sometimes not even known to the subject themselves; purchasing is very often a non-rational act.

The study used fMRI and EEG technologies to look at brain activity and reach conclusions from that, rather than self-reporting as is often used. These findings were then compared against real world trends where possible.

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Some of the findings include: Cigarette health warnings stimulate smoking: The warnings tended to trigger cravings in the subconscious in a way that was stronger than the rational awareness of the risks.

Product placement almost never works: Having products in media has almost zero effect unless that product is somehow central to the narrative. James Bond driving an Aston Martin is effective, but him using a Sony Vaio laptop or drinking a Coke is not.

Brain activity during screenings can predict TV failure: One of the seemingly most accurate ways to judge whether a television show will be successful in its first series is the brain activity of people watching it in the test screening. It’s a more accurate measure than whether they say they like it or not.

You can pick up a copy here: Buy-ology

Guerilla Marketing Jay Conrad Levinson’s 1983 book, Guerilla Marketing, shows that at least someone learned lessons from Vietnam.

It was included in Time magazine’s 25 most influential business management books of all time back in 2011. And it deserves its place.

For me, Guerilla Marketing is one of the foundational books underpinning modern startup culture, even if it doesn’t always get given the credit it deserves within this specific niche.

From growth hacking, to “move fast and break things”, to endless discussion of disruption – much of the themes of modern day startup mythology tie into this idea of guerilla warfare transplanted onto business, with Levinson’s text being one of the earliest to bring it all together as a cohesive guide for a specific industry sector.

Making the most of limited resources for maximum impact is a crucial part of any marketing campaign, not just startups.

Now a required reading on many MBA courses, you can pick up a copy here: Guerilla Marketing

The Long Tail Full title: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More is a 2006 book from the Editor in Chief of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson.

The book received considerable acclaim including being nominated for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award .

The rough thesis of the book is that it can be better to focus on selling lots of low-selling products rather than a few high-selling ones.

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The idea is that by selling a greater variety of products instead of focusing on just the most successful ones, you would be able to achieve a greater market share in the long run. He points to the success of companies like Amazon as evidence and their continued success since, particularly in relation to market share, appears to further support his argument.

However, the New York Times did critique the central thesis on the grounds that the motivations for stocking best sellers was normally linked to lack of physical capacity.

Nonetheless, the NYT didn’t disagree with the core mechanisms and saw The Long Tail as predicting an acceleration in the atomization of culture and the emergence of marketplace niches to cater to that.

As brick and mortar limitations seemingly reduce, it could be said that the observations of The Long Tail are becoming increasingly pertinent.

You can pick up a copy here: The Long Tail

Permission Marketing This 1999 text by Seth Godin in many ways seems way ahead of the curve.

With one of the key areas of conversation surrounding social issues at the moment being discussions about the nature of consent, whether in sexual interactions or how companies use our data, Godin’s book is nostradamic in encouraging companies to seek consumer consent.

The classic idea in marketing is that you’re putting your product in front of someone – interrupting them with your approach. Godin believed that this style had reached a kind of saturation point where its effectiveness was dwindling.

The subtitle of the book is: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers. There’s a very touchy feely niceness to the whole idea.

For Godin, it contains 3 core elements: Anticipated: people will anticipate the service/product information from the company.

Personal: the marketing information explicitly relates to the customer.

Relevant: the marketing information is something that the consumer is interested in.

I do wonder whether the success and sheer dominance of Facebook in the new world of advertising has somewhat vindicated Godin’s thesis.

Through intense targeting, Facebook endeavors to show its users adverts which are of direct interest to them. Users can also interact with the adverts to let Facebook know if an advert is not the kind of thing they want to see again. This builds a sense of consent and anticipation, while naturally succeeding in being personal and relevant.

I even appreciate some of the adverts I’ve received on Facebook, introducing me to new products or services which I do want to buy but probably wouldn’t have found otherwise.

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This is Godin’s theory in action. Better for the consumer and better for the advertiser. Godin’s book has a lot to offer in our modern world of advertising.

You can pick up a copy here, if you would like to. Feel free to say no. The safeword is “pineapple”: Permission Marketing

Positioning This 1981 text from Al Ries and Jack Trout presents the idea that the core of marketing is about creating strong brands.

Positioning your brand relative to other brands will be a key determinant of success. That’s the rough thesis.

Ezra Rufino pulls out 6 key lessons to take from the book: 1. Being the top player in any category is important. This isn’t the same as a first-mover argument, but it suggests that once you’re perceived as number one in the niche you’ve crafted, it’s very hard for others to move you from that placing.

2. If you’re not first, consider creating a new niche. Instead of going head to head with your biggest competition, take them on from a different angle. You could offer a specialized service or product which competes on a different footing.

3. Provide the service your customers want from you. Understand how the customer sees you and your business and cater to that rather than focusing too much on reshaping customer wishes and expectations. Play to your positives.

4. Name your brand appropriately. The name should be appealing to the customer, memorable, while also bearing some relation with the service you provide. An example given here which I like is Kleenex; it already suggests what the product does.

5. Don’t weaken your brand through line extension. If you have a successful brand, don’t put it on every extra product you have. This can weaken your brand and create different associations in the minds of the customer. Instead, create a new brand tailored to the new product.

6. Create connections between your brand and other brands. An example given is to be “the Rolls Royce of X”. This lets you cannibalize part of the Rolls Royce brand and sends a clear message to your customers about your brand image. Similarly, don’t associate with brands which have a very different focus to yours.

Branding is a crucial part of marketing and Positioning provides a thorough and actionable guide to maximizing your branding potential.

You can pick up a copy here: Positioning

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Greg McKeown‘s 2014 book feels like a business strategy text which could improve your day to day life.

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The scope of the book is that you should focus on a particular thing and do that thing very well.

McKeown sums the thesis up in an article for the Harvard Business Review: If success is a catalyst for failure because it leads to the “undisciplined pursuit of more,” then one simple antidote is the disciplined pursuit of less. Not just haphazardly saying no, but purposefully, deliberately, and strategically eliminating the nonessentials. Not just once a year as part of a planning meeting, but constantly reducing, focusing and simplifying. Not just getting rid of the obvious time wasters, but being willing to cut out really terrific opportunities as well. Few appear to have the courage to live this principle, which may be why it differentiates successful people and organizations from the very successful ones.

You can grab a copy here (if you think it’s essential): Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything Aaron Draplin‘s 2016 book is like a peek behind the curtain at how the other half live. And by “other half” I’m referring to the people who are good at design.

I’m pretty terrible at design and happy to admit it, but Draplin is one of the best in the game.

You can see his logo design process in the video above from Linkedin to get a flavor of his work.

The book is very visual and would benefit any marketer in understanding the mechanics of developing branding and working with the creative side of the business. CreativeBloq describe the book: Part showcase, part autobiography, designer Aaron James Draplin’s book Pretty Much Everything certainly lives up to its name. This mid-career retrospective is stuffed with countless examples of his influential work, ranging from snowboard graphics to logo designs, and insights into Draplin’s unruly career path.

You can find a copy here: Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything

Content Strategy for the Web Kristina Halvorson has been one of the leaders behind the growth of content marketing online over the last decade.

With her company Brain Traffic she has consulted top businesses on how to leverage content effectively online. Her 2009 text Content Strategy for the Web is a go-to resource for anyone involved in content. It serves as a foundational text while providing clear and actionable paths you can take.

You can get a handle on Halvorson’s approach to content in this webinar: Content Strategy for Website Projects.

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And you can pick up a copy of the book here: Content Strategy for the Web

10x Marketing Formula: Your Blueprint for Creating ‘Competition-Free Content’ That Stands Out and Gets Results From Garrett Moon of CoSchedule, this book is a practical guide – or blueprint – for smashing your content targets.

The 10x marketing approach is about looking for small tips, tricks, and shortcuts which can have a massive impact on ROI. This lean and mean guide is looking to help you achieve marketing targets and do so at an accelerated pace.

The central theme is what Moon refers to as Competition-Free Content, which he outlines in this interview with Heidi Cohen: Regular content marketing is filled with noise, thrashing, and fierce competition. Competition-free content is content that adds tremendous value to your customers and audience that only you can produce. It’s content that stands out through topic, structure, or media type. And it renders competition irrelevant because this is uncontested space.

Instead of fighting your competition in the busy spaces, find the niche route.

You can pick up a copy here: 10x Marketing Formula

Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence As we’re still in the general theme of content marketing, this text looks tightly at the way in which we construct content and how we can improve that via the knowledge we have of the way people think.

It’s all about creating cognitive storytelling strategies to hit the right part of a reader’s brain.

This lets us keep them interested and therefore engaged. Once you have the reader’s attention you can begin to achieve your goals.

You can listen to the author, Lisa Cron, discussing this approach at a TED talk above.

You can pick up a copy of the book here: Wired for Story

Influence: Science and Practice Robert Cialdini‘s 1984 book is about understanding how to influence those around you.

The approach Cialdini boils down to revolves around 6 core principles of influence: Reciprocity Scarcity Authority Consistency

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Liking Consensus In the book he talks about how you can leverage different elements of these while referencing studies in a wide array of use cases.

When restaurants leave a mint at the end of a meal tips increase. When they leave 2 mints tips increase further. When they leave 1 mint, walk away, then return with a second mint accompanied with “an extra one for you nice people” tips go through the roof – a 23% increase. The dynamics of the reciprocity principle can work in interpersonal or business scenarios. Cialdini walks us through the varying examples of each principle.

You can purchase it here: Influence: Science and Practice Or, as you’re my favorite reader, you could use this link too: Influence: Science and Practice

Selling the Invisible This 1997 text from Harry Beckwith examines service marketing and why selling services is different to selling products.

The thesis is that once a customer buys a product they can look at it and be happy with their purchase. Yet, with a service there isn’t always anything to look at – and people keep paying for this service long after the post-purchase glow has worn off and the sales slogans have gone quiet.

As ConsultTCI puts it: Beckwith makes the point that many purchasers of services aren’t even sure what it is that they are buying, since it hasn’t typically been delivered yet. Clients typically cannot evaluate expertise (which is what service marketers are selling), since they lack the technical skills with which to evaluate the expert. In most cases, they cannot tell whether a doctor’s diagnosis was correct, whether a tax return was filed properly, or whether a marketing plan was crafted well.

Accordingly the customer’s motivation may be as much or more risk avoidance (i.e. minimizing the consequences of a bad decision) than trying to get the very best service that might be available.

How does the difference between products and services impact on the way in which we should market them? This book addresses those concerns.

You can get hold of a copy here: Selling the Invisible

Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career This 2013 text from Jocelyn K. Glei is all about taking advantage of the opportunities afforded to us for self-improvement in the modern era.

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Coming in at 260 pages, it’s not too long and offers practical advice relevant for a range of modern scenarios. As marketers battle with technology it’s a constant fight to keep upskilling and keep improving yourself.

This book could give you a good hand in finding ways to bring out the best you.

You can pick up a copy here: Maximize Your Potential

Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey Moore‘s 1991 book has become a bit of a classic.

The subtitle Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers gives you an indication of its content and relevance. It can be a tough gig to explain to someone what your product is and how it works when tech is involved.

The original edition carries the same fundamental understandings, but a 2014 release may be what you’re looking for for some updated content Moore’s work on the diffusion of innovations model is particularly worth your time.

You can grab a copy here: Crossing the Chasm

UnMarketing: Stop Marketing, Start Engaging Scott Stratten‘s 2010 book shows his belief that there are a number of problems with traditional marketing efforts.

Marketing for Stratten is all about building relationships. As the Social Media Examiner describe: Stratten believes business is about creating and managing relationships with current and potential customers. Find people who are already talking about you, engage them and give them something of value. He calls this marketing strategy “pull and stay.” Pull potential customers to your business by engaging them, trade something they value for their name and contact information and stay in touch with them.

You can pick up a copy here: UnMarketing: Stop Marketing, Start Engaging

Managing Content Marketing: The Real-World Guide for Creating Passionate Subscribers to Your Brand You can probably tell that we’re interested in content marketing here at Process Street.

This 2011 book by Joe Pulizzi and Robert John Rose is a practical handbook for getting into the content game.

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One of the key premises of the book is that your product shouldn’t be the only value you provide to your customers. This is where traditional marketing fails, as the only goal of the marketing materials is to get people to buy the product.

For Pulizzi and Rose, content marketing is an example of a prime channel to deliver value to your customers even before they encounter your product. Through this approach you can earn trust and convert more!

You can find a copy here: Managing Content Marketing

Youtility This 2013 book by Jay Baer follows in a similar theme to Pulizzi and Rose’s book in that it’s all about injecting value into the marketing itself.

The big idea behind Youtility is that you’re helping your customer into making a sale.

Baer gives 9 examples of this kind of marketing in action in an article for Convince and Convert: Each year in Montreal, some 225,000 residents changed apartments on July 1. IKEA gave away free moving boxes throughout the city, and increased sales by 24.7%. The boxes also had clever messages, such as “This box is also a curtain”.

You can pick up a copy here: Youtility

Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Simon Sinek tackles meaning and leadership in this 2009 book which became a New York Times Bestseller.

The basic idea is that everyone has a Why which motivates them. Not just a simple one; a deeper, more complex Why which drives them and their choices and helps shape who they are.

Understanding this helps you to lead, helps you to be fulfilled, or could help you sell things.

Sinek pulls from this core idea to show the reader various ways this could be utilized.

You can watch the above video of Sinek discussing the book at a TED event.

Or, you can pick up a copy here: Start With Why

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff This 1997 text from Richard Carlson helps guide you through the minefield of worrying about everything all the time.

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When you’re taking a lean approach to marketing, you’re going to do a lot of stuff that fails along the way. Being able to get back up from that failure is vital to keep going and to really achieve your success.

As Penguin described it when it was published: A book that shows you how to prevent the little things in life driving you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your hurried, stress-filled life.

A book which has helped many, you can pick up a copy here: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Blue Ocean Strategy W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their 2004 book present a theory for marketing whereby you achieve fast growth through going after previously untapped areas of the market.

Wikipedia provides a good summary of the four action frameworks which you need to follow to fully implement Blue Ocean: Raise: This questions which factors must be raised within an industry in terms of product, pricing or service standards.

Eliminate: This questions which areas of a company or industry could be completely eliminated to reduce costs and to create an entirely new market.

Reduce: This questions which areas of a company’s product or service are not entirely necessary but play a significant role in your industry, for example, the cost of manufacturing a certain material for a product could be reduced. Therefore, it can be reduced without completely eliminating it.

Create: This prompts companies to be innovative with their products. By creating an entirely new product or service, a company can create their own market through differentiation from the competition.

You can pick up a copy here: Blue Ocean Strategy

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing Another entry from Al Ries and Jack Trout, this 1993 book serves as a bedrock for learning the fundamentals of marketing.

Of course, given that it was first published in 1993, we have to read the book with a degree of awareness that there may be disagreement on certain points.

Nonetheless, there’s a lot to learn in here for any marketer, particularly someone new to the trade.

You can pick up a copy here: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content 12/16

Ann Handley provides a thorough guide to creating content which caters both to those who want to write, and to those who already write but want to leverage that as part of a great content strategy.

From why you’re writing your content, to how you can repurpose it, to how to wrap in the story of your brand, the book provides a practical guide to building a complete content marketing strategy and approach.

You can pick up a copy here: Everybody Writes

Contagious: Why Things Catch On This 2013 book from Jonah Berger looks at why some things seem to gain popularity while others don’t.

Berger, Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania, pretty much dispels the idea that traditional marketing factors in why certain trends emerge.

Instead, these things become super popular on the back of social influence and word of mouth – which combined account for anywhere between 20-50% of purchasing decisions depending on the scenario.

People trust the person who recommends it, and the person recommending it knows the other person well enough to roughly judge whether they may like it. High levels of trust and targeting form the foundation for why it works.

A must read if you’re considering an influencer marketing approach!

You can grab a copy here: Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook Gary Vaynerchuk is a bit of a celebrity when it comes to this kind of thing. Instead of just using marketing to grow businesses or please clients, he’s used it to boost his own brand too.

His book builds on some of the similar themes we’ve looked so far in that it’s important to be providing value from the first interaction with the customer all the way until you want to land your product sale; your right hook.

In his words: For those who may not be familiar, my entire business philosophy pretty much revolves around the jab jab jab right hook method. Jabs are the value you provide your customers with: the content you put out, the good things you do to convey your appreciation. And the right hook is the ask: it’s when you go in for the sale, ask for a subscribe, ask for a donation.

For Vaynerchuk, landing the jabs is what gives you the right to attempt to land the right hook.

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There’s an element of permission in it when it finally comes.

You can pick up a copy here: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook

Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising Ryan Holiday‘s Growth Hacker Marketing is an important read because it approaches marketing in a different way.

When it comes to growth hacking, it’s useful to think of marketing not as something which supplements the product, but as part of the product. When Hotmail added a message at the bottom of every email telling the recipient they could get free email from Hotmail, that was early growth hacking.

The growth hacking approach is about making a lot out of a little, and finding ways to catch on which are systematic. The hotmail example is a line of code to pin that to the bottom of every email. It isn’t an expensive Super Bowl commercial or a targeted advertising campaign.

The growth hacking approach builds marketing into the product to systemize growth.

Pick up a copy here: Growth Hacker Marketing

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products This book by Nir Eyal builds somewhat on some of the things we’ve mentioned about leveraging people’s psychology to keep them interested, while also telling us a lot about what it is about products which we like.

In Eyal’s words: A company that forms strong user habits enjoys several benefits to its bottom line… A cemented habit is when users subconsciously think, “I’m bored,” and instantly Facebook comes to mind.

They think, “I wonder what’s going on in the world?” and before rationale thought occurs, Twitter is the answer. The first-to-mind solution wins.

The book doesn’t just explore the topic of habit building products, it also guides you through how you can construct them yourself.

How to build them comes down to something called the Hook Model, and you can check out Eyal discussing that in the video above.

You can grab a copy of the book here: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Trust Me, I’m Lying

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Ryan Holiday is back in the list. His 2012 book, which carries the subtitle Confessions of a Media Manipulator, is a kind of chronicle of Holiday’s time working for large companies and strategizing over their publicity efforts.

The different companies covered in the book include American Apparel and Tucker Max, amongst others.

In some sense it’s a damning statement on the nature of online media, in others its a shock marketer’s wet dream. The tactics of leveraging outrage and online conversation are fascinating and strangely prescient given political happenings since publication.

You can pick up a copy here: Trust Me, I’m Lying

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen In this 2017 book from the New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller we find a lesson in storytelling.

Through better understanding how to leverage the key tenets of storytelling, we can uncover new and more powerful ways to connect with our customers and control the image of our brand.

Miller has boiled the idea of reapplying storytelling for marketing down to a concept he calls the StoryBrand 7 Framework. In Miller’s words, it works like this: A CHARACTER who wants something encounters a PROBLEM before they can get it. At the peak of their despair, a GUIDE steps into their lives gives them a PLAN, and CALLS THEM TO ACTION. That action helps them avoid FAILURE and ends in a SUCCESS. The book investigates how this can be deployed best within marketing amongst a range of other considerations and information.

You can pick up a copy here: Building a StoryBrand

Scientific Advertising We started this list with classics so we’re going to finish with a classic too.

You could argue this book is the bible of marketing. Claude C. Hopkins pretty much established what we think of as traditional marketing mindsets or approaches within this 1923 text.

So, if you’re into your historical work, you should really give it a try. There is a huge scope covered in the book and still a vast amount to learn.

Now, I don’t normally do free giveaways, but you’re a special reader and you made it to the end. So thank you. In return you can have this last one for free.

You can access the PDF of the book for free here: Scientific Advertising.

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Don’t say I don’t treat you right.

The best marketing books can keep you learning for life We’ve covered a lot of ground here.

With the videos included, hopefully you can find a book or two which really pique your interest and you can look to buy them.

Reading summaries and watching lectures or long interviews can be great for getting a handle on someone’s work. However, I’m a big advocate for sitting down with a book and just diving in.

That extra commitment to explore the work as the author intended with the right structure and turns of phrase can add so much more to the learning experience.

Hopefully one of these books can help you discover something new and learn how to put it into practice!

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