May 2021
Beginner
368 pages
6h 50m
English
book
Content Inc., Second Edition: Start a Content-First Business, Build a Massive Audience and Become Radically Successful (With Little to No Money), 2nd Edition
by Joe Pulizzi
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INTRODUCTION
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world: unreasonable people persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable people.
The model described in this book saved my life.
Here’s the synopsis:
I left a six-figure executive media position in 2007 to start a business. Wife. Two kids, ages four and six. Not much money in the bank.
Grappling through more mistakes than I care to mention (and almost quitting in 2009), my wife and I hit our first million dollars in sales in 2011. By 2015, we just missed $10 million in sales.
That same year, I wrote the first edition of this book, Content Inc., which detailed the exact business model we used to go from ...
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