21 must-read business books like Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter by Eddie Shleyner

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Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter

By: Eddie Shleyner

4.81

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Based on one of the copywriting industry’s most unique and celebrated newsletters, VeryGoodCopy dis…

If you liked the business plot in Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter by Eddie Shleyner , here is a list of 21 books like this:

1. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

By: Michael E. Gerber

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small busine… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads by Luke Sullivan

2. Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads

By: Luke Sullivan

4.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this second edition of the irreverent, celebrated Hey Whipple, Squeeze This, master copywriter L… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy

3. Ogilvy on Advertising

By: David Ogilvy

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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4. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

By: Charles T. Munger , None

4.42

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational"

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

5. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

By: Chip Heath , Dan Heath

4.30

Format: 256 pages,

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6. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded Marketplace

By: Al Ries , Jack Trout

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Pos… read more

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7. The Brand Gap

By: Marty Neumeier

3.92

Format: 594 pages,

THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books o… read more

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8. The Boron Letters

By: None , None

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Series of letters written by copywriting legend Gary C. Halbert explaining the secrets to effect ma… read more

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9. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

By: Seth Godin

4.00

Format: 279 pages,

The old saying is wrongwinners do quit, and quitters do win. Every new project (or job, or hobby, o… read more

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10. Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

By: Gino Wickman

3.00

Format: None pages,

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? Don't let common pro… read more

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Cover of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

11. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • nonfiction
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

12. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cover of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke

13. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

By: Annie Duke

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro

14. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

By: Robert A. Caro

4.44

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson… read more

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  • nonfiction
"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"

-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

15. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald  Miller

16. Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

By: Donald Miller

4.27

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stori… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See by Seth Godin

17. This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See

By: Seth Godin

3.94

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER & INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA game-changing approach to ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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18. Hell Yeah or No

By: Derek Sivers

4.26

Format: 122 pages, ebook

A collection of thoughts around re-defining yourself, changing focus, and saying yes to less read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"People often ask me what they can do to be more successful. I say disconnect. Even if just for a few hours. Unplug. Turn off your phone and Wi-Fi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create. That’s what’s rare a…"

-Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No

Cover of In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante

19. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

By: Elena Ferrante

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Cover of The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish

20. The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

By: Shane Parrish

4.08

Format: 216 pages, Audiobook

The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key h…"

-Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

Cover of The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less by Sahil Lavingia

21. The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less

By: Sahil Lavingia

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Pay attention.”—Jason Fried A revolutionary roadmap for building startups that go the distance   … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World by Todd Rogers

22. Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World

By: Todd Rogers

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life . Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday by Rob Walker

23. The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday

By: Rob Walker

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking, gorgeously illustrated gift book that will spark your creativity and help you … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters: A Resource for Writing Headlines and Building Creative Confidence by Dan Nelken

24. A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters: A Resource for Writing Headlines and Building Creative Confidence

By: Dan Nelken

4.54

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From aspiring to expiring copywriters, this book will help you become a more efficient, more confid… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Can you be better? Yep. Are you good enough today? Hell yep."

-Dan Nelken, A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters: A Resource for Writing Headlines and Building Creative Confidence

Cover of SELL LIKE CRAZY: How to Get As Many Clients, Customers and Sales As You Can Possibly Handle by Sabri Suby

25. SELL LIKE CRAZY: How to Get As Many Clients, Customers and Sales As You Can Possibly Handle

By: Sabri Suby

4.26

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

$1.33 billion in sales. That’s what this ‘selling system’ is responsible for generating, in 416 dif… read more

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Cover of Useful Not True: whatever works for you by Derek Sivers

26. Useful Not True: whatever works for you

By: Derek Sivers

4.62

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need by Todd Henry

27. Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need

By: Todd Henry

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A practical handbook for every manager charged with leading teams to creative brilliance, from the … read more

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Cover of Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew  Wilkinson

28. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

By: Andrew Wilkinson

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Wilkinson, touted as the Warren Buffett of tech, pulls back the curtain on the lives of the … read more

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Cover of Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter by Eddie Shleyner

29. Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter

By: Eddie Shleyner

4.81

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Based on one of the copywriting industry’s most unique and celebrated newsletters, VeryGoodCopy dis… read more

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Cover of Make It Punchy: How to Write Simple Tech Messaging That Wins Hearts, Minds & Markets by Emma Stratton

30. Make It Punchy: How to Write Simple Tech Messaging That Wins Hearts, Minds & Markets

By: Emma Stratton

4.75

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Sell your tech (without getting technical).B2B tech marketing is confusing buyers with technical ja… read more

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  • business
Cover of This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life) by Seth Godin

31. This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life)

By: Seth Godin

3.64

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An essential guide to thinking strategically in a complex, ever-changing world.From Seth Godin, one… read more

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24 best-selling nonfiction books like Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter by Eddie Shleyner

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

Michael E. Gerber

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads

Luke Sullivan

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Charles T. Munger , None

4.42

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7 Best buisness books like Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy

Transform Your Habits

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads

Luke Sullivan

4.64

Transform Your Habits

All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World

Seth Godin

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries , Jack Trout

3.54

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