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Joe Pulizzi

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I'm a traditionally published and indie author. My latest is

Burn the Playbook: Are You Made for More? Build a Life on Your Terms - (2025, Tilt Publishing) - ORDER NOW.

Before that, I wrote Epic Content Marketing, second edition: Break Through the Clutter with a Different Story, Get the Most Out of Your Content, and Build a Community in Web3 - (2023, McGraw-Hill) - ORDER NOW with Brian Piper.

In 2021 I published the #1 Amazon marketing bestseller Content Inc.: Start a Content-First Business, Build a Massive Audience and Become Radically Successful (With Little to No Money) - (2021, McGraw-Hill) - ORDER NOW

My other nonfiction books include:
- Killing Marketing (2017, McGraw-Hill)
- Content Inc. (2015, McGraw-Hill)
- Epic Content Marketing (2013,
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“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.”
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“A blog post is like a miniskirt … it needs to be long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it interesting.” And”
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“Your customers don’t care about you, your products, or your services. They care about themselves.”
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