18 Feb
Posted by: Christopher S. Penn in: Books, Marketing, New media
Joseph Jaffe was kind enough to send me a review copy of his latest book, Join the Conversation. It’s a really, really LONG book, weighing in at 300 pages. I managed to get through it in about two weeks of sporadic reading.
The Good
The book has plenty of case studies and examples of conversational marketing. Everything [...]
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07 Jan
Posted by: Christopher S. Penn in: Books, Jedi mind tricks
Why You Keep Buying Seth Godin’s Books, Even Though You Already Know The Material
Marketer and author Seth Godin is renowned for his short, punchy, effective books about thinking about your business. He’s a bestseller, and his books are widely lauded. Yet inside his books, there’s nothing supremely groundbreaking. You can summarize his last few books [...]
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Some thoughts after reading a copy sent to me by superhero Whitney Hoffman. The Dip is an interesting book, but a lot of the ways it’s been marketed don’t really work with the subject matter, at least not for me. It’s marketed… well, poorly. Every review, every interview I’d heard prior to receiving the book [...]
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