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Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead

Covered extensively by the media including The London Sunday Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Independent (UK), Billboard, Reuters, UPI, ABC News, Canadian Business Magazine, the Street, and The New York Post.

Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead | David Meerman Scott

Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead

Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead | David Meerman Scott

What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History

Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead gives you key innovations from the Dead’s approach that 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!

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 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.

About the Authors

"A welcome change from the standard business books"

Covered extensively by the media including The London Sunday Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Independent (UK), Billboard, Reuters, UPI, ABC News, Canadian Business Magazine, the Street, and The New York Post.

“...enlightening and liberating...”

“Like all the best teachers, this book inspires you to do your own thinking in your own way, and I found it enlightening and liberating.”

Financial Times

Financial Times

“...a welcome change from the standard business books...”

"A welcome change from the standard business books… Scott and Halligan provide examples of modern-day companies that are illustrating the lessons.”

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

“...accessible, entertaining and thought-provoking...”

"the book, like the band, defies expectations and proves to be accessible, entertaining and thought-provoking. Not bad for a bunch of dirty hippies.”

 Risk Management Magazine

Risk Management Magazine

“Fits four decades’... into the context of recent American marketing"

“Fits four decades’ worth of guitar solos and weed smoking into the context of recent American marketing.”

The Guardian (UK)

“...a well-written and sprightly little book...”

“…a well-written and sprightly little book. If you learn these lessons, you will have a better company and you will have a better life…”

Management Today

Management Today

“Marketing gurus Halligan and Scott take a crack at codifying the Dead’s non-musical innovations… that correlate with emerging business principles. It’s a trip that’s surely been long and strange; but as [they] remind us, it’s also been profitable.”

Canadian Business Magazine

Canadian Business Magazine

“Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead explores the phenomenon created by the Grateful Dead showcasing the extraordinary power of music and the innovations the Dead developed to connect and bond with their audience.”

Michael Lang, co-creator & Producer of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Festival and author The Road to Woodstock

Michael Lang, co-creator & Producer of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Festival and author The Road to Woodstock

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