Recommended reading for Marketeers
Thanks to kirillionaire who has been kind to put out the list that Sedth Godin reccomends at the end of This is Marketing. Here is the list with kirillionaire comments along slide.
Crossing The Chasm – Geoff Moore –
The Long Tail – Chris Anderson
My Life In Advertising – Claude Hopkins
Ogilvy on Advertising – David Ogilvy
Adcreep – Mark Bartholomew
Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become? – Michael Schrage
Creating Customer Evangelists – Huba and McConnell
New Rules Of Marketing & PR – David Meerman Scott
Secrets of Closing The Sale – Zig Ziglar
Positioning – Trout & Ries
Purple Cow – Godin (can recommend, even though it predates internet/social media)
Tribes – Godin
All Marketers Are Liars – Godin
Unleashing the Idea Virus – Godin
Direct Mail Copy That Sells – Herschell Gordon Lewis
The Culting Of Brands – Douglas Aitkin (recommend this one too)
Selling The Dream – Guy Kawasaki
The Four Steps To The Epiphany – Steve Blank
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell (everyone should have read this)
Marketing: A Love Story – Bernadette Jiwa (next on my list)
Syrup – Max Barry (a marketing novel!)
Free: The Future Of Radical Price – Chris Anderson
Rocket Surgery Made Easy – Steve Krug
The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook – Levingston and Godin (recommended)
The Regis Touch – Regis McKenna
New Rules For The New Economy – Kevin Kelly
Talking To Humans – Giff Constable (an extended blog post)
The Tom Peters Seminar – Tom Peters
The Pursuit of Wow! – Tom Peters
Start With Why – Simon Sinek (mandatory reading for anyone in marketing)
The Experience Economy – Pine & Gilmore (again, predates some social media but still good)
Meaningful Work – Shawn Askinosie
The Ultimate Question 2.0 – Fred Reichheld
Business Model Generation – Osterwalder & Pigneur
The War Of Art and Do The Work – Steve Pressfield
I hope to update this list with links to where you can buy these books.