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All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
The underground classic that explains how marketing really works and why authenticity is the best marketing of all.
Atomic Habits by James Clear
An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.
Content Inc. by Joe Pulizzi
How entrepreneurs use content to build massive audiences and create radically successful businesses.
Data-Driven Marketing by Clearbit
This ebook covers everything from website personalization, to SEO, to competitive marketing and PR, breaking down exactly how they use data to grow faster.
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
The Way of the Essentialist involves doing less, but better, so you can make the highest possible contribution.
Everybody Writes by Ann Handley
The go-to guide to creating ridiculously good content that attracts and retains customers.
Getting More by Stuart Diamond
How to negotiate to achieve your goals in the real world.
Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
A primer on the future of PR, marketing, and advertising.
Growth Hacking by Julian Shapiro
Learn professional growth hacking — from acquiring new users to optimizing conversion. By the guy who runs growth for many of your favorite tech companies.
Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Megan Brown
How today's fastest-growing companies drive breakout success.
Hooked by Nir Eyal
Learn how to build habit forming products and increase customer engagement through strategic product design.
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.
Influence by Robert Cialdini
His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.
Intercom on Jobs to be Done
This ebook helps you understand the real job customers are using your product for.
Intercom on Marketing
A thousand theories, practices, techniques and formulas exist for marketing your product. But which ones matter to startups?
Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business."
Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
Whether you’re selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, Pitch Anything will transform the way you position your ideas.
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The hidden forces that shape our decisions.
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
Transform your business by being remarkable.
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
This book introduces the powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired.
Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
The New York Times bestselling guide to creativity in the digital age.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
Two world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors present the definitive rules of marketing.
The Content Marketing Playbook by Hiten Shah
Build a content marketing machine and grow your SaaS company.
The Conversion Code by Chris Smith
A step-by-step blueprint for increasing sales in the modern, Internet-driven era.
The Growth Hacker's Guide To The Galaxy by Mark Hayes and Jeff Goldenberg
The ultimate compendium of growth hacks for the modern digital marketer, written by marketing veterans Jeff Goldenberg and Mark Hayes.
The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
The timeless art of turning trials into triumph.
The Science of Selling by David Hoffeld
This book shows you how to align the way you sell with how our brains naturally form buying decisions, dramatically increasing your ability to earn more sales.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
Traction by Justin Mares and Gabriel Weinberg
How any startup can achieve explosive customer growth.
When Coffee & Kale Compete by Alan Klement
Alan Klement helps teams and individuals become great at making and selling products that people will buy.
Akimbo
Seth Godin's latest genius outlet, philosophizing about people, business, and human behavior.
Building a StoryBrand
If you need help with brand, messaging, or positioning, this podcast is a must-listen.
Content Love Podcast
Marijana Kay brings on guests to reverse engineer how they've done content marketing and gives listeners actionable takeaways for their business.
Copyblogger FM
Sonia Simone and a team of rotating experts discuss the week’s news and updates in the fields of content marketing, email marketing, copywriting, conversion optimization, and more.
Everyone Hates Marketers
Louis takes a unique approach, focusing on marketing that isn’t shady, aggressive, or manipulative.
FlipMyFunnel Podcast
Sangram brings tech founders, executives, and authors to talk about marketing and growth.
Ground Up
Ground Up features amazing guests and a great interview format to reveal their growth strategies and lessons learned along the way.
Growth Everywhere
Eric Siu interviews entrepreneurs about how they grew their businesses.
Growth Mapping Podcast
Sujan is a marketing legend in the space and has bite-sized episodes that give you plenty of inspiration for your next marketing opportunities.
Growth Marketing Today
A podcast focused on growth, Ramli features many unconventional titles and guests you might not hear anywhere else.
Inside Intercom
Inside Intercom gives great perspective on all types of roles in SaaS and tech.
Marketing Over Coffee
Every week hosts John J. Wall and Christopher S. Penn record the show in a local coffee shop to share tips on marketing.
Marketing School
Industry experts Eric Siu and Neil Patel offer users unconventional marketing wisdom that will make you want to kick some of your traditional strategies to the curb.
Noah Kagan Presents
Noah broadcasts everything from case studies to interviews with industry experts.
Online Marketing Made Easy
Amy Porterfield shares what will work—and what doesn’t—in the world of digital marketing.
Perpetual Traffic
DigitalMarketers's Ralph Burns, Keith Krance, and Molly Pittman discuss breakthrough strategies for using paid traffic to get more leads and more sales.
SaaS Breakthrough
David finds unique marketers and founders to talk about the strategies and tactics they're using today.
Seeking Wisdom
Unscripted, entertaining, deep, and challenging, Seeking Wisdom with Dave Gerhardt and David Cancel never fail to deliver something insightful.
Social Media Marketing Podcast
Each podcast episode focuses on new social media features and strategies, providing listeners with actionable tips they can use to improve their social media results.
The Animalz Content Podcast
The hosts, Jimmy Daly and Jan-Erik Asplund, talk through topics like taking your content upmarket, how to support a sales team and the science behind successful blog posts.
The Art of Paid Traffic
The go-to podcast for Facebook and Instagram ads.
The Copywriter Club Podcast
Fitting for a copywriter podcast, Kira and Rob describe it as, "Ideas and habits worth stealing from top copywriters." How great is that?
The Growth Hub Podcast
Featuring tech entrepreneurs and marketers from all over to talk growth.
The Humans Strike Back
A podcast by Hotjar and co-hosted by Louis and David, it focuses on bringing out the humanity of business.
The Science of Social Media
Your weekly sandbox for social media stories, insights, experimentation, and learning.
CXL Live
CXL Live is a must-attend growth marketing conference for mid to large enterprise growth and optimization professionals.
Call to Action Conference
Join 1000 digital marketers and learn from 20 exceptional marketing experts at the annual Unbounce Call To Action Conference in Vancouver BC.
FlipMyFunnel Conference
#FlipMyFunnel is a B2B marketing and sales conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
Growth Hackers Conference
The Growth Hackers Conference features leading growth marketing experts who share their insights and experience on what it takes to grow companies today.
HyperGrowth
Hypergrowth is a one-day, one-stage event organized by Drift that brings together leaders who have built brands, sparked movements, and found ways to unlock unprecedented growth.
Inbound
Inbound is the conference by HubSpot, held in Boston, Massachusetts featuring four days of inspiring talks from political figures, professional athletes, and marketing thought-leaders.
LTV Conf
LTV Conf is Europe's leading annual SaaS conference held in London, England.
MozCon
MozCon is a three-day event where speakers share next-level advice on SEO, brand development, CRO, the mobile landscape, analytics, customer experience, social and content marketing, and more.
SaaStock
SaaStock is a three-day global gathering of SaaS leaders in Dublin, Ireland featuring 3,000+ founders, executives, and investors.
SaaStr
SaaStr Annual is the largest B2B software conference in the world and provides the technology community an unbiased look at what is happening the industry.
Social Media Marketing World
Social Media Marketing World is a mega-conference for marketers in San Diego, CA.
The Yearly Carnage
The Yearly Carnage is a strategy-driven marketing conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Traffic & Conversion
Traffic & Conversion Summit features thousands of marketers in San Diego, California to learn what's new, what's hot, and what's actually working right now in digital marketing.
100+ Awesome Women Marketers You Should Follow
Are you a woman in marketing? You're not alone! Check out this list of 100+ women digital marketers you should follow right now .
300+ Free Resources for Marketing
Marketing resource templates in Google Docs, Coda, Airtable, Trello, Tettra, and more.
7 Tips for Building a Career in Marketing
How can you transition from your current role into marketing? This article by Buffer explains how to transition into and build the skills and experience necessary for a career in marketing.
Become a specialist if you want a career in digital marketing
There are 1000x more generalists than specialists in Digital Marketing. Linkedin lists 1.4M people with the role of Marketing Manager but only 1,100 Technical SEOs, for example. This post explores how to succeed as a specialist in marketing today.
Content Marketing Career Growth Community
Jimmy Daly created a Slack community for people who work in content marketing that want to talk about career growth.
Customers from Content by Grow & Convert
Become a top 1% content marketer.
Demand Curve
Learn advanced growth marketing. Pay nothing until you get a job. In 9 weeks, hone the professional skills and tools needed to land a great growth marketing job. We'll then help you get hired in a new role. It's 100% remote.
DigitalMarketer Training Membership
Educational video content, step-by-step execution plans, virtual workshops, certifications, and checklists for marketers.
Forget The Funnel
Become the badass marketer you've always wanted to be. Marketers at fast-growing tech companies often run into the same fundamental problems and FTF helps you overcome them with in-depth weekly workshops.
GenM
A new way for students to learn marketing skills free — take courses online and get placed with real companies.
GrowthMentor
GrowthMentor connects marketers with startups and founders. Build your audience, get paid to consult on what you know best, and connect on-demand.
How to Land Your Dream Marketing Job by Becoming a Top Performer
What makes a top performer, a top performer. This article by The Storyteller Marketer gathers and distills advice from marketers who have landed their dream job.
How to Learn Digital Marketing for (Nearly) Free in 6 Months
Nat Eliason went from zero marketing knowledge to being a professional digital marketer for a major company in nine months—and you can too
Marketing Examples
A gallery of real world marketing case studies. Updated every day.
Million Dollar Marketer
Create a 7 figure SaaS growth blueprint in 8 weeks.
Morning Brew
The daily email newsletter covering the latest news from Wall St. to Silicon Valley. Informative, witty, and everything you need to start your day.
Reforge
Reforge is masterclasses for experienced practitioners who want to continue leveling up their skills.
SaaS Marketer Essentials
SaaS Marketer Essentials fills the gaps most marketers experience when they go from individual contributor to leader with a 12-week online training program that teaches how to set the foundation of their company’s marketing.
Sheets for Marketers
#1 place for SEO tools built in Google Sheets. Learn how to make SEO tools, automate boring tasks and up your marketing game, without ever leaving Google Sheets.
The Daily Carnage Newsletter
Your handpicked list of the best marketing content delivered to your inbox each day.
The GrowthHackers Community
Articles, discussions, AMAs, and training by growth hackers everywhere.
The Hustle
Your smart, good looking friend that sends you an email each morning with all the tech and business news you need to know for the day.
Zest
Find the best marketing content curated by real human beings.
Zest Enlight
Zest Enlight enables you the knowledge-building content you need, when and where you need it, backed by community curation and AI.
Exec-Level Guidance for Founders Ready to Invest in Marketing
You’re a founder, not a marketing expert. Don’t risk your company’s growth on a bad-fit hire.
Buffer's Hiring Process
An inside look at how Buffer hires and retains top talent.
Buffer's Transparent Salary Calculator
An easy calculator based on salary averages and cost of living.
Growth Tools Hiring SOP
A comprehensive hiring guide from Bryan Harris, founder of Growth Tools and marketing expert.
Hiring Brief Template by Elevate
An open-sourced template designed to help you clarify and define the new role, and aid in identifying what to look for when vetting candidates for the role.
How To Hire Better Marketers Using This One Simple Technique
Benji Hyam explains how the traditional hiring model is broken and a simple solution to bringing in better candidates with a better predictor of success for the role.
How founders are unknowingly failing their marketers
Georgiana Laudi and Claire Suellentrop explain the struggles of both founders and marketers, and what founders can do to better enable their marketers.
How to Find and Hire a VP of Growth for Your Business
Whether you're trying to find a VP of Growth or any other related marketing or growth position, check out these tips to optimize your recruitment process.
Indeed's Salary Averages
Salary estimated from 4,000+ employees, users, and past and present job advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months.
So You Think You’re Ready to Hire a Marketer? Read This First.
First Round’s Marketing Expert Arielle Jackson works directly with early-stage founders and the same question eventually crops up: Is it time to hire a full-time marketer?
Textio
Proofread and screen your job descriptions and language for anything that could hurt your brand, reputation, or chance of hiring a great marketer.
The 3 Stages of Hiring a Happy & High-Performing Marketing Team
A detailed Forget The Funnel workshop by Thinkific’s Director of People & Culture Tia Fomenoff.
When & How to Hire a Great Marketer for Your SaaS
In this webinar for Baremetrics, Gia Laudi goes in-depth on a workshop for SaaS founders looking to hire a marketer. Understand how to prepare, attract, vet, and retain a great marketer.
Why Founders Market Their Products Too Late
Dave Bailey explains how founders predictably underestimate the importance of hiring marketers.
Why Marketing Has Become The Hardest Position to Hire For
Benji Hyam explains the difficulty of screening and vetting for marketing roles and how to take a better approach to find the perfect match.