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Books like Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

The best books like Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable are This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, and Blue Ocean Strategy. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin is about marketing, innovation, differentiation. 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.

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  2. 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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  3. Blue Ocean 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 innovation.

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  1. 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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  2. 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.

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  3. Competing Against Luck
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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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  4. Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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    Disciplined Entrepreneurship

    Bill Aulet · Business

    Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.

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  5. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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    Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Peter F. Drucker · Business

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.

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  6. Permission Marketing
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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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  7. The Art of the Start 2.0
    The Art of the Start 2.0

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    The Art of the Start 2.0

    Guy Kawasaki · Business

    The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's updated guide to launching a company, product, or movement.

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  8. The Lean Startup
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    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · Business

    The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.

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  9. The Power Law
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    The Power Law

    Sebastian Mallaby · Business

    The Power Law is Sebastian Mallaby's history of venture capital, told through the people who built the industry from its roots in postwar military research to its current position as the primary financing mechanism for technology startups worldwide.

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Books like Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable: quick answers

What are the best books like Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable?

The best books like Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin are This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, such as marketing, innovation, differentiation.

What should I read after Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable?

A natural next read after Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable is This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin. Shares marketing and entrepreneurship with Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable. Other strong choices are Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore.

What books are similar to Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin?

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable centers on marketing, innovation, differentiation. Books with a similar feel include This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin, Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore, Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller, Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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