18 books like The Long Tail

What to read after The Long Tail — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies Bruce Clay · 2009 · 800p · ≈ 26h · Moderate If you have a business, you want your Web site to show up quickly when people search for what you're selling. Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies has the whole story on how to build a site that works, position and promote it, track and understand your search results, and use keywords effectively. And it includes a $25 credit on Google AdWords, to get you off to a good start! Ten… Shares: Electronic commerce, Marketing, Business

Inside the Tornado Geoffrey A. Moore · 1995 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Inside the Tornado is the bestselling guide to the high-stakes world of high tech. Extending his investigation (in Crossing the Chasm) of the life cycle of new technology-based products, Geoffrey A. Moore provides useful guidelines for moving products beyond early adopters and into the lucrative mainstream market. Shares: Marketing, Business

How Brands Grow Byron Sharp · 2010 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This book provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do, how consumers behave and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty. How Brands Grow presents decades of research in a style that is written for marketing professionals to grow their brands. Hundreds of… Shares: Marketing, Business

This Is Marketing Seth Godin · 2018 · ★ 3.9 · 267p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerInstant New York Times BestsellerA game-changing approach to marketing, sales, and advertising. Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses, lectures, and bestselling books. He is the inventor of countless ideas that have made their way into mainstream business… Shares: Marketing, Business

How to Write Copy That Sells Ray Edwards · 2016 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Communicate with potential customers—and persuade them to buy: "The best copywriting teacher I know." —Michael Hyatt, New York Times–bestselling author of Your Best Year Ever This book is for everyone who needs to write copy that sells—including copywriters, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. Writing copy that sells without seeming "salesy" can be tough, but is an essential skill. How to Write Copy… Shares: Marketing, Business

Advanced Marketing Management Dr Nikolaos Dimitriadis, Neda Jovanovic Dimitriadis & Dr Jillian Ney · 2018 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Marketing as a practice is facing unprecedented challenges: a changing media landscape, an increasingly complex customer journey, innovative technologies, start-ups which disrupt traditional channels and a new generation of tech-savvy clients. How should students and practitioners adapt to this shifting landscape and address the skills gap that many of today's marketers face? Advanced Marketing… Shares: Marketing, Business

Eat Your Greens Wiemer Snijders · 2018 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate How can we sell more, to more people, and for more money? The marketing world is awash with myths, misconceptions, dubious metrics and tactics that bear little relation to our actual buying behaviour. Eat Your Greens is inspired by the genuine advances in marketing science. It challenges us to change the way we think, by taking the huge body of knowledge gained from data and technology and… Shares: Marketing, Business

Ice to the Eskimos Jon Spoelstra · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate You.That's Right. YOU.You've got a problem.You've got a product that's not first in its class.It's not even second.You've got to find a way to market that product.What Are You Going To Do?You're going to read this book, that's what.Let's face it. There comes a time in the life of every business when a product or service does not sell up to expectations.Maybe your product is outmoded. Or hasn't… Shares: Marketing, Business

Marketing Strategy & Management Diane M. Phillips · 2023 Marketing Strategy & Management provides students with a thorough, step-by-step exploration and grounding in marketing strategy concepts, processes, and models. Topics covered include: marketing planning, research and analysis; decision-making; the marketing mix; the management of customer relationships; monitoring/reporting of the strategy; and the crucial role of leadership. The text takes a… Shares: Marketing, Business

Aaker on Branding David Aaker · 2014 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "A highly concise and wonderfully cogent and insightful tutorial on the principles of brand stewardship and leadership." —Joseph V. Tripodi, former Chief Marketing Officer, Subway and Coca-ColaAaker on Branding presents in a compact form the twenty essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands. Culled from the six David Aaker brand books and related… Shares: Marketing, Business

Strategic Marketing Management: The Framework Alexander Chernev · 2019 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Strategic Marketing Management: The Framework outlines the essentials of marketing theory and offers a structured approach to identifying and solving marketing problems. This book presents a strategic framework to guide business decisions involving the development of new offerings and the management of existing products, services, and brands. Shares: Marketing, Business

Dotcom Secrets Russell Brunson · 2011 · ★ 4.2 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Master the science of funnel building to grow your company online with sales funnels in this updated edition from the $100M entrepreneur and co-founder of the software company ClickFunnels. DotCom Secrets is not just another "how-to" book on internet marketing. This book is not about getting more traffic to your website--yet the secrets you'll learn will help you to get exponentially more… Shares: Electronic commerce, Business

The Master Switch Tim Wu · 2010 · ★ 4.1 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In this age of an open internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial… Shares: Internet, Business

Storynomics Robert McKee & Thomas Gerace · 2018 Based on the hottest, most in-demand seminar offered by the legendary story master Robert McKee -- Storynomics translates the lessons of storytelling in business into economic and leadership success. Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Academy Awards and Emmy Awards runs off the page. The cornerstone of his program is his… Shares: Marketing, Business

Marketing and Management Models Helen Strong · 2014 Modern business practice, especially in the field of marketing, depends on the integration of creative and analytical thinking. One of the tools in this process is the use of management models to guide business decisions. However, the inherent power of the models is only released when the people applying them have the ability to gather relevant information and interpret the relationships between… Shares: Marketing, Business

Patterns IBM Redbooks · 2002 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how the IBM WebSphere® ILOG JRules product can be used in association with other IBM middleware products to deliver better solutions. This book can help architects position a business rule management system (BRMS) in their existing infrastructures to deliver the value propositions that the business needs. This book can also help developers design and… Shares: Electronic commerce, Business

Insanely Simple Ken Segall · 2012 · ★ 3.9 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate To Steve Jobs, Simplicity was a religion. It was also a weapon.Simplicity isn’t just a design principle at Apple—it’s a value that permeates every level of the organization. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. It’s what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on Earth in 2011.Thanks to Steve Jobs’s… Shares: Marketing, Business

Growth Hacker Marketing Ryan Holiday · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "A new generation of megabrands like Facebook, Dropbox, AirBnb, and Twitter haven't spent a dime on traditional marketing. No press releases, no TV commercials, no billboards. Instead they rely on a new strategy-growth hacking-to reach many more people despite modest marketing budgets. According to bestselling author Ryan Holiday, growth hackers have thrown out the old playbook and replaced it… Shares: Marketing, Business

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