Pulizzi Joe - Killing marketing: how innovative businesses are turning marketing cost into profit

Joe and Robert take us, once again, to the bleeding edge of marketing but importantly help us understand how to stay there. Their bold thinking, matched only by their bold personalities, jumps off of each page.

Jonathan Mildenhall, Chief Marketing Officer, Airbnb

Sometimes the manual needs to be thrown out the door. This book rewrites the rules of marketing, putting content front and center to create value and brand loyalists. Push the envelope, change the approach, and dont be afraid to be disruptive.

Jeffrey Hayzlett, primetime TV and radio host, speaker, author and part-time cowboy

Pulizzi and Rose have unlocked the puzzle of what marketing should be in the twenty-first century. Their focus on the two key elements, customers and the income flows those customers create, turns traditional product marketing thinking on its head.

Don Schultz, Professor Emeritus of Service, Northwestern Universitys Medill School

Loaded with ideas to turn content marketing into profit centers. Read it and youll become a believer, as I have.

Al Ries, coauthor, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

World renowned marketing experts Pulizzi and Rose partner to author prescriptive advice to help marketing executives transcend purchased media and ascend to owned media prominence.

Kathy Button Bell, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Emerson

Killing Marketing is the senior executive handbook for what the marketing function should always have been and now can be.

Stephanie Losee, Head of Content, Visa Corporate Communications

Killing Marketing will challenge you to look beyond your known toolkit and change the structure of strategy that will fundamentally and profitably reshape the purpose of marketing in business.

Timothy McDonough, Vice President Global Brand Marketing, Moen Incorporated

Killing Marketing is a controversial idea. But controversial marketing is exactly what is needed to profit successfully in the killing crossroads of traditional and new age business.

Raj Munusamy, Vice President, Content Marketing & Messaging, Schneider Electric

Imagine marketing as a profit center, not a cost center. Sound crazy? Nope. This is the blueprint you need to flip marketing on its head, drive innovation, and claim your spot as a business leader.

Ann Handley, Wall Street Journal bestselling author and Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs

Killing Marketing brilliantly demystifies the full implications of content as a preeminent force in customer experience and business transformation in the post-Internet era.

Carlos Abler, Global Content Marketing & Strategy Lead, 3M

Buy this book and transform where the marketing budget lives on the balance sheet!

Rebecca Lieb, analyst, advisor, and author of Content: The Atomic Particle of Marketing

RIP marketing. Its been real. Killing Marketing just put the final nail in your cost center coffin.

Jason Miller, Global Content Marketing Leader, LinkedIn

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