Summary of Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday:A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising

Book excerpt: Growth Hacker Marketing In the not-so-distant past, marketing was an art form steeped in intuition, creativity, and guesswork. It was a world where million-dollar campaigns were launched with no guarantee of success, where the effectiveness of strategies could only be measured in hindsight, and where the boundary between success and failure was often perilously thin. Traditional marketing, with its reliance on billboards, television commercials, and print ads, demanded hefty budgets and offered little in the way of precise targeting or measurable results. Marketers operated on faith and gut feelings, hoping their message would resonate with the masses and drive sales.