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Understanding behavioral economics is quite helpful when you want to understand what works in marketing.

Understanding behavioral economics is quite helpful when you want to understand what works in marketing.

Phil Barden – Decoded

A smart repackaging of Khanemean for marketeers that is indeed worth a second edition nine years after initial publication

Consumer brands should prioritize investment in mental and physical availability

Consumer brands should prioritize investment in mental and physical availability

How brands grow – Byron Sharp

Some basic statistical concepts (regression to the mean, conditional probability) presented with much fanfare are sufficient to marvel marketeers.

Corporate executives don’t have a clue about what customers and employees experience

Corporate executives don’t have a clue about what customers and employees experience

Martin Lindstrom – The ministry of common sense

This marketing guy can’t stop whining about his 1st world problems (and when pushed by his editor to deliver another bestseller decided to to make it into a book, together with his ghost writer).

Make sure you create value, and maintain power over transactions on your platform

Make sure you create value, and maintain power over transactions on your platform

Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Olstyne, Sangeet Choudary – Platform revolution

Remember: there are many ways in which platforms can fail!

You have to work hard before good stuff manifests itself

You have to work hard before good stuff manifests itself

Mike Dooley – Playing the matrix

Feel-good take on: ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch’ from the guy who (somewhat pretentiously) signs his daily newsletters with: “The Universe.”

Exposure  therapy is highly effective to overcome fear of rejection

Exposure  therapy is highly effective to overcome fear of rejection

Jia Jiang – Rejection proof

Contageous enthusiasm of authentic curiosity comes across best in his Jia Jiang’s youtube videos (cf. Olympic rings).

Cognitive biases can be leveraged in a gazillion of ways to make Marketing more effective

Cognitive biases can be leveraged in a gazillion of ways to make Marketing more effective

Roger Dooley – Brainfluence

Impressive laundry list of neuromarketing applications, ranging from solid science-based insights to intuitively appealing generalities.

Geoffrey Moore – Crossing the chasm

Geoffrey Moore – Crossing the chasm

A cutting-edge tech company marketing to early adopters has to completely reinvent itself to appeal to the mainstream market.

Written in an entertaining laid-back style that more business books could use and – above all – surprisingly relevant over 25 years after first publication in 1991.

Martin Lindstrom – Small data

Martin Lindstrom – Small data

Information that is typically not captured in ‘big data’ is essential for creatives shaping a marketing message.

The author suggests a (false) dichotomy between small and big data.

Mathew Dixon et. al. – The Effortless experience

Mathew Dixon et. al. – The Effortless experience

Don’t try to delight your customers, just make sure they don’t get annoyed; that is more cost effective.

A down-to-earth, data driven, perspective on customer service.

Shane Atchison – Does it Work?

Shane Atchison – Does it Work?

Marketing should be treated as a data-driven, fact-based, result-oriented discipline; which it still is not.

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