Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History

by David Meerman Scott, Brian Halligan, Bill Walton Narrated by David Meerman Scott

Overview

THE GRATEFUL DEAD-Rock Legends, Marketing Pioneers

The Grateful Dead broke almost every rule in the music industry book. They encouraged their fans to record shows and trade tapes; they built a mailing list and sold concert tickets directly to fans; and they built a their business model on live concerts, not album sales. By cultivating a dedicated, active community, collaborating with their audience to co-create the Deadhead lifestyle, and giving away “freemium” content, the Dead pioneered many social media and inbound marketing concepts successfully used by businesses across all industries today.

Written by marketing gurus and lifelong Deadheads David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead gives you key innovations from the Dead's approach you can apply to your business. Find out how to make your fans equal partners in your journey, “lose control” to win, create passionate loyalty, and experience the kind of marketing gains that will not fade away!

Editorial Reviews

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"The origins of the book are not in the field of cultural economics. However, it raises some very interesting issues about the area and also of the general relationships between the disciplines of marketing and economics, even perhaps about the nature of American culture." (Journal of cultural economics 2015)

"Sex, drugs, rock 'n roll and ground-breaking marketing communications, what more could you ask?" (Marketing ie, April 2011)

"... there's certainly much to be taken away from this book." (Business Life, October 2010)

"... a well-written and sprightly little book...they may just be on to something." (Management Today, October 2010)

"... offers advice to marketing executives across a broader range of industries." (Director, October 2010)

"... fits four decades' worth of guitar solos and weed smoking into the context of recent American marketing." (The Guardian.co.uk, September 2010)

"Like all the best teachers, this book inspires you to do your own thinking.... I found it enlightening and liberating." (Financial Times, August 2010)

"... a short but inspiring book which will give every business person pause for thought and some good ideas." (TheBookBag.co.uk, August 2010)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170346912
Publisher:	Ascent Audio
Publication date:	08/18/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged

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