Resources on Marketing

2023 State of Marketing Survey Results

The results are in! Marketing professionals from around the world provided feedback in our yearly state of marketing survey. Categories included Marketing & Organization Priorities, Content Marketing, Social Media, SEO, Email, ABM, and general website.

Email Marketing Best Practices

Email marketing best practice guide for anyone looking to build or send marketing email as a way to communicate to a list of contacts through any system, including paid media, marketing automation, an email service provider, or your personal email account.

User Personas

User personas are fictional characters that represent a brand's ideal customer. They are used in marketing to help businesses better understand and target their audience. By creating detailed profiles of these personas, businesses can tailor their messaging, product offerings, and overall marketing strategy to better appeal to their target customer.

Starting a Career in Digital Marketing: A Comprehensive Guide

Discover the essential steps and skills needed to launch a successful career in digital marketing. This in-depth guide covers the industry, job opportunities, and the education and training required to succeed.

Understanding SEO in Digital Marketing

If you're looking to improve your online visibility and drive more traffic to your website, you've probably come across the term SEO. SEO, or search engine optimization, is a critical component of digital marketing that can help you rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs).

Best Story Wins

Each episode features a conversation with industry leaders about how they win the hearts and minds of their customers and build world-class brands. You’ll learn about their success stories and failures, as well as strategies and tactics for how to take your own marketing efforts to the next level.

The Marketing Book

Weekly interviews with authors of new marketing and sales books. Named by LinkedIn and Forbes as one of the top marketing and sales podcasts. Hosted by Douglas Burdett, a marketing agency principal, former artillery officer, Madison Avenue ad man, and stand-up comedian.

The Update

In this video series, Google leaders and industry experts share insights that businesses need to know now. What are the latest trends? How are companies adapting? Join us each week as we discuss the latest data, new products, and marketing strategies.

The Unmarketing Podcast

Business is built on relationships, so make building them your business. Discussions centered around authenticity, integrity and community served with a side of sarcasm. Hosted by Scott and Alison Stratten.

Online Marketing Made Easy

Ever wish you had a business mentor with over a decade of experience whispering success secrets in your ear? That’s exactly what you’ll get when you tune into the top-ranked Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast with your host, 9 to 5er turned CEO of a multi-million dollar business, Amy Porterfield.

Marketing School

Neil Patel and Eric Siu bring you daily ACTIONABLE digital marketing lessons that they've learned through years of being in the trenches. Whether you have a new website or an established business, learn the latest SEO, content marketing, social media, email marketing, conversion optimization and general online marketing tactics that work today.

Marketing Over Coffee

Marketing over coffee is a weekly discussion of what's new in marketing with John Wall and Christopher Penn

Beyond 8 Figures

Listen to the honest conversations about starting and scaling businesses to $10M and beyond, the realities of being a modern-day entrepreneur, advice for practicing deliberate entrepreneurship, and more!

Everybody Hates Marketers

Everyone Hates Marketers is the only podcast for people sick of marketing bullsh*t. It's reached 1M+ downloads in less than four years.

The Marketing Starter Podcast

The Marketing Starter Podcast is a show for business pioneers where we interview thought leaders from around the world and discuss innovative topics on how to kick-start your marketing efforts and become a more savvy marketer.

The Jam Sessions

The Jam Sessions is the official Rock Content podcast and full immersion in marketing. We bring the most innovative minds in the marketing world to talk ideas, tips, tricks and strategies to make you become an indispensable marketer.

Marketing Matters

Airs on Business Radio, SiriusXM Channel 132 Wednesdays at 5pm ET. Hosted by Wharton Professors Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed. Tune in for Marketing news and interviews with leading CMOs.

Content Matterz

Entrepreneurs often need help communicating their story. That’s where the Content Matterz Podcast comes in! Short snippet episodes giving you ideas, inspiration, and marketing tips.

User Personas Template

User personas are fictional characters that represent your ideal customers based on research and data. They are essential tools for sales and marketing, as they help companies understand their target audience on a deeper level. By creating user personas, companies are able to create more targeted, personalized, and effective marketing campaigns.

Marketing Plan Template

Marketing plan template to help you plan and build your marketing strategy, targeting, branding, and content.

12 Month Content Calendar Template

A 12-month marketing content calendar template to help you plan your content throughout the year.

Content Inc.

In Content Inc., one of today's most sought-after content-marketing strategists reveals a new model for entrepreneurial success. Simply put, it's about developing valuable content, building an audience around that content, and then creating a product for that audience.

Killing Marketing

How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit

Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital

"Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital" is a book written by Philip Kotler and David F. Angelo, published in 2016. The book explores the evolution of marketing in the digital age, and offers insights into how businesses can adapt to the changing marketing landscape.

They Ask, You Answer

"They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer" is a book written by Marcus Sheridan, published in 2017. The book is a practical guide to using content marketing and inbound sales to attract, engage, and delight customers.

Hooked

"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is a book written by Nir Eyal, published in 2014. Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?

The 1-Page Marketing Plan

"The 1-Page Marketing Plan" is a book written by Allan Dib, published in 2017. The book is a practical guide to creating a simple and effective marketing plan that can be distilled onto a single page.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

"Contagious: Why Things Catch On" is a book written by Jonah Berger, published in 2013. The book is a comprehensive guide to understanding why some ideas and products become popular and how to create content that is more likely to spread.

How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know

"How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know" is a book written by Professor Byron Sharp, published in 2010. The book is a comprehensive guide to the principles of brand growth and how marketers can use them to drive business results.

80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More

"80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More" is a book written by Perry Marshall, a business consultant and marketing expert. In this book, Marshall explores the concept of the 80/20 principle, which states that roughly 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes.

My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising

"My Life in Advertising" and "Scientific Advertising" are two classic books written by Claude C. Hopkins, a pioneering advertiser and marketing expert. "My Life in Advertising" is a memoir that chronicles Hopkins' career in the advertising industry, including his successful campaigns for brands such as Quaker Oats and Gold Dust Washing Powder.

Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

"Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing" is a book written by Harry Beckwith, published in 1997. The book is a guide to modern marketing, and it offers practical advice on how to effectively market intangible products and services.

Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

A free, self-paced online course offered by Google that covers various aspects of digital marketing, including SEO, SEM, display advertising, social media marketing, mobile marketing, email marketing, and analytics. The course is divided into 26 modules and is estimated to take approximately 40 hours to complete. Upon completion, participants receive a certificate from Google.

Learn Digital Marketing Concepts

From acquisition and engagement to conversion and metrics, learn the basics of the Marketo platform, and test your knowledge after each short session!

Become a Digital Marketing Specialist

Use your analytical and tactical skills to help grow and develop new opportunities for businesses as a digital marketing specialist. From marketing plans and content strategy to SEO and analytics, this path guides you through the best practices and principles of digital marketing.

Promote a business with content

Take our free course to learn how to promote your business by using the power of content. Find out how tools like social media, video, and content marketing can help businesses get noticed and connect with more customers online.

Promote a Business With Online Advertising

We'll tell you how to create a successful advertising and marketing strategy, and explain how email marketing, video and display ads can help you reach and attract more of the right customers.

Inbound Course: Get Certified in the Inbound Methodology

Learn the inbound methodology and the flywheel as a core part of any inbound business