Content Marketing Trends, Pet Peeves and the Best Business Books of All Time [Special Episode] (299)

In this special Thanksgiving episode, Joe and Robert answer these seven questions: 1. What are we currently reading? Joe is reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Robert is reading Unflattening by Nick Sousanis and Blockchain: Bubble or Revolution. 2. Most influential book of all time and why? Joe's influential books are Think and Grow Rich from Napoleon Hill and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Robert's are Peter Drucker's Practice of Management, Levitt's Marketing Myopia, Awakening to Your Life's Purpose and The Alchemist. 3. If I wrote a new book right now, what would I write about? Joe would write on the Web 3 Business Model for Content Creators or the sequel to The Will to Die. Robert would write about the wisdom worker. 4. Favorite/best TV show of the year. No contest...Ted Lasso. 5. Favorite current gadget. Joe likes the Ember Heated Coffee Mug and Robert likes Cometeer Coffee. 6. Biggest marketing trend of next 12 months. Joe believes NFTs and the metaverse will be a fad for marketers, but the big trend will be content marketing M&A. Robert believes that powered-by-AI is on the rise. 7. Current marketing or content creation pet peeve? Joe fighting the "do not build your content house on rented land" battle. Robert hates longer than needed blog posts or videos. --------- Liked this show? SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google and more. Catch past episodes and show notes at ThisOldMarketing.site.