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Recommended Reading

We’ve compiled a list of interesting books centered around marketing that Nick and I have read ourselves which we find would be useful to you on your digital marketing journey.

Business (Marketing, Copywriting, Sales, Etc.)

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Extraordinary Transformation: An Entrepreneurial Blueprint for Leaders Who Seek Transformational Growth by Nido Qubein

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Profit First: Transform Your Business From a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
by Mike Michalowicz

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The Adweek Copywriting Handbook
by Joseph Sugarman

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Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene M. Schwartz

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
by Al Ries, Jack Trout, Philip Kotler

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Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports by Howard M. Schilit

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Money Loves Speed: From Stress to Success: Revealing the 8 Laws of Attracting Money Fast by Dr. Joe Vitale

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber

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Agent of Influence: How to Use Spy Skills to Persuade Anyone, Sell Anything, and Build a Successful Business by Jason Hanson

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Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins

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The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization by Peter F. Drucker

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Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger 

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Exactly What to Say by Phil M Jones

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Storynomics: Story-Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World by Robert Mckee

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A technique for producing ideas: A simple five step formula for producing ideas by James Webb Young

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Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential by Greg Crabtree

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The Go-Giver by Bob Burg John David Mann

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The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic and Dreamers into Millionaires (The Wizard of Ads Series, Volume 1) by Roy H. Williams

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Objections: The Ultimate Guide for Mastering The Art and Science of Getting Past No by Jeb Blount

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The Halbert Copywriting Method Part III: The Simple, Fast, & Easy Editing Formula That Forces Buyers To Read Every Word Of Your Ads by Bond Halbert

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Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland

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The Contract and Fee-Setting Guide for Consultants and Professionals by Howard L. Shenson

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Selling Local Advertising: The Best Kept Insider Secrets To Create Local Advertising Sales, FAST! by Claude Whitacre

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Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done by Charlie Gilkey

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A Happy Pocket Full of Money, Expanded Study Edition: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now by David Cameron Gikandi

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Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World by Brendan Kane

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The Million Dollar Media Rep: How to Become a Television and Radio Sales Superstar by Michael Guld

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Scientific Advertising: Complete and Unabridged by Claude C. Hopkins

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SELL LIKE CRAZY: How to Get As Many Clients, Customers and Sales As You Can Possibly Handle by Sabri Suby

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The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies by Chet Holmes

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Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan

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Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea by Seth Godin

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Almost Alchemy: Make Any Business Of Any Size Produce More With Fewer And Less by Dan S. Kennedy

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Superfans: The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Successful Business by Pat Flynn

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Making Them Believe: How One of America's Legendary Rogues Marketed ”The Goat Testicles Solution” and Made Millions by Dan S. Kennedy

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Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling by Jeb Blount

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SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham

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All about Them: Grow Your Business by Focusing on Others by Bruce Turkel

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Copywriting Secrets: How Everyone Can Use the Power of Words to Get More Clicks, Sales, and Profits…No Matter What You Sell or Who You Sell It To! by Jim Edwards

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They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer by Marcus Sheridan

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80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More by Perry Marshall

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff

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Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million by Cliff Lerner

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Overdeliver: Build a Business for a Lifetime Playing the Long Game in Direct Response Marketing by Brian Kurtz

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Retargeting Recipes: 7 Spicy Strategies That Will Heat Up Your Conversions & Make Your Campaigns Sizzle by Justin Brooke

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Networking Magic: How to Find Connections that Transform your Life by Rick Frishman

Personal Development

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The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco

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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Compete to Create: An Approach to Living and Leading Authentically Dr. Michael Gervais

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The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz

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The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vince Lombardi–The World's Greatest Coach (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series) by Vince Lombardi

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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke

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How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

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Persuasion: The Subtle Art of Getting What You Want by Mark Morgan Ford, Will Newman

79

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Rhiannon Beaubien

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An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones , William Wilson 

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Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates by Karin Hurt, David Dye

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Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be by Steven Pressfield

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One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer Ph.D.

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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

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The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life by Todd Herman

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The Seven Forces of Success by Joseph Sugarman

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High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard

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The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg PhD

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Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work by Steven Pressfield

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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright, Bradley Hope

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The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Your SELF to Elevate Your BUSINESS by Hal Elrod

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Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims

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The Trick To Money Is Having Some by Stuart Wilde

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Renegade Millionaire: 7 Secrets To Extreme Wealth, Autonomy, And Entrepreneurial Success by Dan S. Kennedy, Lee Milteer, Adam Witty

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The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by Brian P. Moran

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There's a Customer Born Every Minute: P.T. Barnum's Amazing 10 “Rings of Power” for Creating Fame, Fortune, and a Business Empire Today — Guaranteed! by Joe Vitale, Jeffrey Gitomer

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Reverse Engineer Your Future: Stop Waiting for Success — Go Out and Make It Happen Now by Paul James

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Million Dollar Habits: 10 Simple Steps to Getting Everything You Want in Life by Robert Ringer

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DaVinci and the 40 Answers: A Playbook for Creativity and Fresh Ideas by Mark Fox

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The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind by Richard Wiseman

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Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet by Jesse Itzler

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Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level by Mark Divine

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Instant Rapport by Michael Brooks

Other Books

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The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

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How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

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How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

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