How Rationality F’s up your B2B Strategy
Marketing Against The Grain
Intro
The hosts explore the difficulties of modern marketing amidst rising customer skepticism and privacy concerns. They highlight HubSpot's new trends report as a crucial tool and respond to a reader's inquiry about effective marketing resources.
How do you balance rationality and irrationality as a business leader? How do you position your company and product to disrupt the market? Kipp and Kieran go on a deep dive on how playing it safe is actually hurting your business, how to know when to hire a head of marketing vs. a product marketer, using emotions to position your product, and more!
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Links Mentioned:
- Loom https://www.loom.com/
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2/
- The Hard Things About The Hard Things by Ben Horrowitz https://a16z.com/book/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things/
- Hooked by Nir Eyal https://www.nirandfar.com/hooked/
- Rework by Jason Fried https://www.amazon.com/Rework-Jason-Fried/dp/0307463745
- The Platform Revolution https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Revolution-Networked-Markets-Transforming/dp/0393249131
- Stratechery https://stratechery.com/
- Not Boring Newsletter https://www.notboring.co/
- The Hustle Newsletter https://thehustle.co/
- Milk Road Newsletter https://www.milkroad.com/
- Positioning The Battle for your Mind by Al Ries https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/0071373586
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448
- Principles for The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/dp/1982160276
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-NIKE/dp/1471146723/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1654105299&sr=1-1
- Direct Mail Copy That Sells by Herschell Gordon Lewis https://www.amazon.com/Direct-Mail-Copy-That-Sells/dp/0132147505/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2544SEVJ4RL7Q&keywords=Direct+Mail+Copy+That+Sells&qid=1654105342&s=books&sprefix=direct+mail+copy+that+sells%2Cstripbooks%2C68&sr=1-3
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30RQWSPYFT6FV&keywords=on+writing+well&qid=1654105374&s=books&sprefix=on+writing+well%2Cstripbooks%2C78&sr=1-1
- New Rules of Marketing PR by David Meerman Scott https://www.davidmeermanscott.com/books/the-new-rules-of-marketing-and-pr
- The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-Prosperity-Evolves-P-s/dp/0061452068
- Twitter Blue https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue
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