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24 alternatives to An Inaccurate History of Advertising
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An Inaccurate History of Advertising launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · its alternatives →
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An honest book about entrepreneurship & making money online
2014 · its alternatives →
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Persuade the toughest clients and win new prospects
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Playbook For Building a High Velocity Sales Machine
2015 · its alternatives →
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Maximizing advertising results through effective frequency
2016 · its alternatives →
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Proven strategies to make your pitch & influence decisions
2017 · its alternatives →
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Hi, I have been reading marketing and business books recently and found plenty of them are filled with meaningless corporate jargon. These books could often be 1/3 of the original length and much more straightforward. I wrote a tiny library to calculate the amount of meaningless jargon in any text for myself, and open-sourced it later because someone may need this.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An illustrated explanation, from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
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Funny reminders that correlation does not imply causation
2014 · its alternatives →
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We are all creative — there is a creator in you.
2016 · its alternatives →
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There's a mantra that real writers know but beginners don’t.
2016 · its alternatives →
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How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter, a…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Highest value-per-word resource on advertising & copywriting
2015 · its alternatives →
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