Our Book Recommendations for Marketing Agency Owners | Episode 061

**Cold Open (Airport and flying tips and business travel)**

**Skip the Cold Open at 9:43**

We've wanted to talk about the books we'd recommend to other agency owners for a while now so we decided to put together a pretty comprehensive list of those.

Jake went deep. Cody provided his top 3-4 books.

Here's a link to each book and article we recommended:

Jake's Recommendations to the Listener

• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
• The ONE Thing (Gary Keller & Jay Papasan)
• Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
• Profit First (Mike Michalowicz)
• Rework (Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson)
• The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Thomas Cleary)
• The Prince (Niccoló Machiavelli)
• Crush It! / Crushing It! (Gary Vaynerchuck)
• The Boron Letters (Gary C. Halbert & Bond Halbert)
• Little Red Book of Selling (Jeffrey Gitomer)
• The Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins)
• The E-Myth Landscape Contractor (Michael E. Gerber & Anthony C. Bass)
• This book is specific to the landscaping niche, but there may be one specific to your niche. If nothing else, check out the general E-Myth book.
• On Writing Well (William Zinsser)***
• Recommended by both of us.

Books Cody Recommended to Jake but Jake Still Hasn't Read Yet

• My Life in Advertising / Scientific Advertising (Claude C. Hopkins)
• The Master-Key to Riches (Napoleon Hill)

Cody's Recommendations to the Listener

• On Writing Well (William Zinsser)***
• Recommended by both of us.
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini, PH.D.)
• Breakthrough Advertising (Eugene Schwartz)
• This is an expensive book.
• Advice is Futile (Edith Zimmerman)
• This isn't a book. It's an article Cody said we'd put in the show notes when he mentioned it in the episode.

Honorable Mentions

• Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss)
• This wasn't mentioned in the episode but Cody has brought this up to Jake on numerous occasions regarding negotiating with clients and vendors -- written by an actual FBI hostage negotiator.
• Stacked Marketer (Newsletter)
• We've mentioned this before but if you want to stay up to date on all things digital marketing, this is the #1 newsletter we both recommend. We unsubscribed to all other marketing newsletters and only subscribe to this one.

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