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

The best books like Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love are This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See, Obviously Awesome, and Contagious: Why Things Catch On. Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love by Anthony Kennada is about category design, brand strategy, marketing. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

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

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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.

    Both dig into marketing.

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  2. Obviously Awesome
    Obviously Awesome

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    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.

    Both dig into marketing.

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  3. Contagious: Why Things Catch On
    Contagious: Why Things Catch On

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    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.

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  1. Building a StoryBrand
    Building a StoryBrand

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    Building a StoryBrand

    Donald Miller · Business

    Building a StoryBrand is Donald Miller's argument that most companies fail at marketing because they communicate from the wrong perspective.

    Both dig into marketing.

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  2. Crossing the Chasm
    Crossing the Chasm

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    Crossing the Chasm

    Geoffrey A. Moore · Business

    Crossing the Chasm is Geoffrey Moore's analysis of why so many technology companies succeed with early adopters and then stall before reaching mainstream customers.

    Both dig into marketing.

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  3. Growth Hacker Marketing
    Growth Hacker Marketing

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    Growth Hacker Marketing

    Ryan Holiday · Business

    Growth Hacker Marketing is Ryan Holiday's short, accessible introduction to a marketing philosophy that emerged from Silicon Valley startups in the early 2010s.

    Shares marketing and growth with Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love.

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  4. Hacking Growth
    Hacking Growth

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    Hacking Growth

    Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown · Business

    Hacking Growth is Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown's guide to building a growth function — an organizationally distinct, cross-functional team focused on finding and exploiting opportunities to accelerate customer acquisition, retention, and revenue.

    Shares marketing and growth with Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love.

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  5. Product-Led Growth
    Product-Led Growth

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    Product-Led Growth

    Wes Bush · Business

    Product-Led Growth is Wes Bush's guide to a go-to-market strategy in which the product itself is the primary vehicle for customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion — rather than sales and marketing teams that generate leads and hand them to the product.

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  6. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
    Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

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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.

    Shares marketing and growth with Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love.

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  7. Where the Suckers Moon
    Where the Suckers Moon

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    Where the Suckers Moon

    Randall Rothenberg · Business

    Where the Suckers Moon is Randall Rothenberg's exhaustive account of a single advertising account review: Subaru of America's 1991 search for a new agency.

    Shares brand strategy and marketing with Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love.

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  8. All Marketers Are Liars
    All Marketers Are Liars

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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.

    Both dig into marketing.

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

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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 growth.

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

What are the best books like Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love?

The best books like Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love by Anthony Kennada are This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin, Obviously Awesome by April Dunford, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love, such as category design, brand strategy, marketing.

What should I read after Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love?

A natural next read after Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love is This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin. Both dig into marketing. Other strong choices are Obviously Awesome by April Dunford, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller.

What books are similar to Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love by Anthony Kennada?

Category Creation: How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love centers on category design, brand strategy, marketing. Books with a similar feel include This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin, Obviously Awesome by April Dunford, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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