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The art of making and marketing work that lasts is a meditation on how to create classic books, businesses, and art that does more than just disappear. The growth hacker marketing book also started as an article and you can read more about that journey in a separate lecture in this course. Growth hackers have thrown out the old marketing playbook and big budgets and pr teams and replaced it with tools that are testable, trackable, and scalable. Ryan holiday is the author of the obstacle is the way. John briggs, president of holiday house, announced today that he has sold the independent childrens publishing house to a new company formed by growth equity investment firm trustbridge partners. Here with 2 years of exhausting photographic detail is. If youve never thought about sending anything more than an annual holiday letter out to your email contacts, nows the time to rethink that plan. The art of making and marketing work that lasts hardcover july 18, 2017. Now this is a tough book, a really tough book, but it is so amazing. If you only read a few books in 2018, read these medium. Holidays controversial clients heaped praise on the book. A primer on the future of pr, marketing and advertising ive had a lot of executives, marketing students and budding entrepreneurs ask about how to exactly apply growing hacking to what theyre doing. Ryan holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business.
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