David Meerman Scott
A great overview of grassroots marketing, recently updated. Highly recommended if you are just getting started with marketing.
Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer
Bryan Eisenberg, John Quarto-vonTivadar
A must-have if you want to do split-testing. Lots of great concrete ideas, plus some good marketing gems.
Duct Tape Marketing: The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide
John Jantsch
Great general book - probably the first marketing book I read.
Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
Jennifer Grappone, Gradiva Couzin
Good overview of SEO, with suggestions for small steps you can implement over time.
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Seth Godin
You need a product that stands out in the crowd. Seth Godin's books are all useful and entertaining.
eBoot Camp: Proven Internet Marketing Techniques to Grow Your Business
Corey Perlman
Another good beginner, overview book about marketing on the Internet
Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
Seth Godin
This is really useful for understanding why you need a list!
Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
Chris Brogan, Julien Smith
John Fox's MemoryMiner has a cool gallery feature, so I took John up on his idea for a blog post. Only somebody like Justin Williams (Cocoa developer, and also, I'm told, a popular singer who is quite a sensation with the young ladies) would be able to pull something like this off!
(Apparently a lot of developers will be bringing promotional buttons to WWDC. I thought about doing that for Karelia but I'm worried that idea has already "jumped the shark." What kinds of swag would be better?)
