Books like Building a StoryBrand

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This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

Seth Godin · Business

This Is Marketing is Seth Godin's most comprehensive statement of what marketing is and isn't.

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02

Obviously Awesome

April Dunford · Business

Obviously Awesome is April Dunford's practical guide to product positioning — the often misunderstood discipline of defining where your product fits in the competitive landscape so that the right customers immediately understand its value.

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03

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger · Business

Contagious is Jonah Berger's analysis of why certain products, ideas, and stories spread through word of mouth while others, equally good or better, remain obscure.

Both dig into marketing.

04

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Seth Godin · Business

Purple Cow is Seth Godin's argument that the era of traditional marketing — mass advertising, interruption, and promotion — is effectively over, and that the only reliable route to growth is making something so remarkable that people talk about it without being paid to.

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Permission Marketing

Seth Godin · Business

Permission Marketing is Seth Godin's 1999 manifesto arguing that the dominant marketing model — interruption, buying attention, broadcasting to audiences who didn't ask — is fundamentally broken and becoming more broken.

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All Marketers Are Liars

Seth Godin · Business

All Marketers Are Liars — later republished as All Marketers Tell Stories — is Seth Godin's argument that successful marketing is not about facts or features but about stories that confirm what consumers already believe about the world.

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Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen · Business

Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares · Business

Traction is Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares's systematic guide to customer acquisition for startups.

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Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business

Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.

Both dig into strategy.

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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · Business

Blitzscaling is Reid Hoffman's argument that certain markets — primarily those with strong network effects and winner-take-most dynamics — reward companies that prioritize speed of growth over efficiency, even at the cost of significant operational risk.

Both dig into strategy.

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Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne · Business

Blue Ocean Strategy is Kim and Mauborgne's case that the most successful companies don't compete in existing markets by beating rivals at their own game — they create new market spaces where competition is irrelevant.

Both dig into strategy.

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Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love

Anthony Kennada · Business

Category Creation is Anthony Kennada's account of how Gainsight, where he served as chief marketing officer, built the customer success management category from scratch — and the broader argument that this approach to marketing, creating a new market category rather than competing within an existing one, produces compounding advantages that conventional brand-building rarely matches.

Both dig into marketing.