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The Marketing Book Podcast

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May 26, 2023

Email Marketing Rules: 184 Best Practices to Optimize the Subscriber Experience and Drive Business Success by Chad S. White

About the Book:

The most comprehensive email marketing book from the most prolific email marketing author helps you master the most misunderstood marketing channel. 

Updated and greatly expanded, the 4th Edition of Email Marketing Rules demystifies this vital channel, guiding you through its complexities to find the best execution for your brand—the one that serves the needs of your business and the needs of your subscribers.

Volume 1 of Email Marketing Rules discusses 184 best practices that help you…

  • Build productive, safe email lists by identifying valuable subscriber acquisition sources, using appropriate permission practices, and managing inactives wisely
  • Set the right program goals by understanding “deep metrics” and properly interpreting campaign, channel, and subscriber metrics
  • Create relevant messages with subject lines that draw in subscribers while avoiding “opener’s remorse” and designs that focus subscribers on taking action
  • Craft high-performance triggered emails, including welcome programs that set you up for long-term success
  • Effectively plan and produce emails with workflows that allow you to seize opportunities and avoid errors
  • And much more, including understanding the law, optimizing email frequency, using the best landing pages, and doing A/B testing

Volume 2 of Email Marketing Rules discusses strategic frameworks that help you…

  • Understand the channel’s unique quirks, including the strengths and limitations that come from email marketing being granted media (not owned media)
  • Grow your audience while safeguarding your email deliverability and following the law
  • Collect and use subscriber data to create personalized, segmented, and automated campaigns that connect with subscribers and avoid being creepy
  • Measure program success effectively by using each metric appropriately and improving channel attribution accuracy
  • Steadily improve your email marketing program through minimum viable launches, incremental improvements, testing, and innovation nurturing
  • And much more, including 6 extensive checklists for auditing and optimizing your targeting, acquisition sources, cross-channel synergies, and more

About the Author:

Chad S. White is the author of four editions of Email Marketing Rules and nearly 4,000 posts and articles about email and digital marketing. 

He has served as the lead email marketing researcher at four of the world's largest email service providers—Oracle, Responsys, Salesforce, and ExactTarget—as well as at Litmus and the Direct Marketing Association. 

A former journalist at Condé Nast and Dow Jones & Co., Chad has been featured in more than 100 publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Advertising Age

He is a past recipient of the Association of National Advertiser’s Email Marketer Thought Leader of the Year. 

And, interesting fact - he is a graduate of Texas A&M University!

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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/email-marketing-rules-4-chad-white

May 19, 2023

The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work and Thrive in the Next Decade by Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason

About the Book:

This is a handbook for visionaries.

Making outlandish predictions about the future is easy. Predicting the future normal is far harder.

For the past decade, Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason have been on the front lines of exploring the global forces shaping our future normal through their work independently leading two of the most successful trend consultancies in the world: TrendWatching and the Non-Obvious Company.

From donning full-body haptic suits to sampling cultivated meat, their work has taken them into cutting-edge labs, private testing facilities, and invite-only showcases across the world.

Now for the first time, they are teaming up to share a uniquely eye-opening vision of the future unlike any other.

Across thirty fast-moving chapters, The Future Normal spotlights dozens of ideas and instigators who are changing the world.

From biophilic skyscrapers to generative AI, these stories offer an optimistic yet deeply human view of the next decade.

Along the way, they also tackle some of the biggest ethical and societal questions raised by all this progress.

In this book, you’ll read about the ideas and instigators that are bringing about new ways to satisfy our fundamental needs and wants, changing not just their industries but also transforming our wider culture and society.

These are the stories of the future normal, and they are coming sooner than you think.

For anyone looking to get ready, this book will empower you to seize the opportunities that lie ahead in this crucial decade.

About the Author:

Rohit Bhargava is on a mission to inspire more non-obvious thinking in the world. 

He is the 3-time WSJ bestselling author of nine books on marketing, innovation, diversity, and trends including his #1 bestseller Non-Obvious Megatrends. Rohit has been invited to keynote events in 32 countries around the world. 

His insights have been used by the World Bank, NASA, Intel, Disney, Colgate, Coca-Cola, Under Armour, American Express, and hundreds of other organizations to win the future. 

Earlier in his career Rohit spent 15 years in leadership roles at two renowned ad agencies: Leo Burnett and Ogilvy.

And, interesting facts - He is a lifelong fan of anything having to do with the Olympics (he’s been to five so far, was sad to miss Tokyo, but is really looking forward to Paris 2024!) and more significantly, he is now a member of a VERY exclusive club – The Marketing Book Podcast 7-Timers Club!

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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/future-normal-rohit-bhargava

May 12, 2023

Entrepreneurial Marketing: Beyond Professionalism to Creativity, Leadership, and Sustainability by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Den Huan Hooi, and Jacky Mussry

About the Book:

An eye-opening discussion of the future of marketing, from four of the leading minds in the field

In Entrepreneurial Marketing: Beyond Professionalism to Creativity, Leadership, and Sustainability, a renowned team of marketing leaders, including the “Father of Modern Marketing,” Professor Philip Kotler, delivers a groundbreaking and incisive redefinition of entrepreneurial marketing. 

In the book, some of the marketing sector’s brightest minds explore the increasingly essential initiative to build new capabilities beyond the mainstream marketing approach that also considers the effect of digital connectivity on consumers and companies everywhere. 

This book also discusses what marketers need to do to break the stagnation of normative marketing approaches that are often no longer effective in dealing with dynamic business environments.

The authors introduce a fresh entrepreneurial marketing approach, converging dichotomies into a coherent form.

The book also includes:

A post-entrepreneurial-marketing view of the commercial landscape which puts the operational aspect at the center of the action, converging marketing and finance, and adopting technology for humanity

Discussions of the strategies and techniques that will drive the actions of the marketing departments to create value with values that will lead the company to success through the year 2030

Explorations of the paradox between the development of core competencies and collaboration with various parties, including competitors

The latest publication from some of the foremost minds in marketing―and in business, generally―Entrepreneurial Marketing: Beyond Professionalism to Creativity, Leadership, and Sustainability is a must-read combination of unique insight, concrete advice, and implementable strategies that introduce a new mindset for every professional marketer, entrepreneur, and business leaders worldwide.

About the Author:

Philip Kotler is professor emeritus of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he held the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor Of International Marketing. 

He is one of the world's leading authorities on marketing, widely regarded as the “father of modern marketing," author of over 90 books, recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees from schools around the world, and voted as the Number 1 Guru In Management in the list of Top 30 Gurus Of Management (2022).

The Wall Street Journal ranks him among the top six most influential business thinkers. He holds an MA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.

Philip has an incredible international presence - his books have been translated into more than 25 languages, and he regularly speaks on the international circuit.

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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/entrepreneurial-marketing-philip-kotler 

May 5, 2023

Epic Content Marketing, Second Edition: Break through the Clutter with a Different Story, Get the Most Out of Your Content, and Build a Community in Web3 by Joe Pulizzi and Brian Piper

About the Book:

From the “Godfather of Content Marketing”― this completely revised and expanded edition brings marketers fully up to date on the newest content marketing methods and tools, including Web3

When Epic Content Marketing was first published eight years ago, content marketing was just starting to pick up speed in the marketing world. Now, this approach―which includes everything from blogging to YouTube videos to social media―is the core of most organizations’ marketing plans.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition walks you through the process of developing stories that inform and entertain and compel customers to act, without actually telling them to.

In addition to covering all the important social media platforms that have arisen over the past eight years and introducing the “creator economy,” it shows how to update existing content and make new content that performs in strategic ways. Updates include:

  • New content models, structures, and opportunities
  • Content entrepreneurship, content mergers, and acquisitions
  • Subscriptions and audience building
  • Team structure, the importance of community, DAOs, and creator networks
  • Content options, NFTs, and discord servers
  • Making data-driven decisions to optimize content performance

Distributed the right way at the right time, epic content is the best way to truly capture the hearts and minds of customers.

It's how to position your business as a trusted expert in its industry. It's what customers share and talk about.

This updated edition of the trusted guide provides everything you need to succeed in the new world of content marketing.

About the Author:

Joe Pulizzi is the founder of multiple startups including content creator education site, The Tilt, the content entrepreneur event Creator Economy Expo (CEX), and is the bestselling author of seven books including Content Inc. and Epic Content Marketing, which was named a “Must-Read Business Book” by Fortune Magazine.

Joe is best known for his work in content marketing, first using the term in 2001, then launching Content Marketing Institute and the Content Marketing World event. Joe is often referred to as “The Godfather of Content Marketing.”

In 2014, he received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Content Council. He successfully exited CMI in 2016 and consequently wrote an award-winning mystery novel, The Will to Die.

He has two weekly podcasts, the motivational Content Inc. podcast, and the content news and analysis show This Old Marketing with Robert Rose.

His foundation, The Orange Effect, delivers speech therapy and technology services to over 350 children in 35 states.

And, interesting fact - he is now a member of a VERY exclusive club - The Marketing Book Podcast 6-Timers Club!

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https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/epic-content-marketing-2-joe-pulizzi

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