Books
Fintech
- The Anatomy of the Swipe: Making Money Move
- The Field Guide to Global Payments
- Payments Systems in the U.S.
Product & Marketing
- Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- Forget the Funnel: A Customer-Led Approach for Driving Predictable, Recurring Revenue
- Founder Brand: Turn Your Story Into Your Competitive Advantage
- The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
- The Product is Docs: Writing technical documentation in a product development group
General business
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Fun Money-Making Extras
- Upside: This free app gets you cash back on gas. Use promo code BRYAN636285 to get an extra 15¢/gal bonus on your first purchase.
- Wealthfront: Big fan of Wealthfront's products! If you use this referral link to open a Cash Account, we'll both get a 0.50% APY boost for 3 months, putting it at 5.50% 👏
Playbooks
Growth marketing
- Competitive Conquesting: This is the proven growth marketing playbook — crafted by the genius Nick Lafferty. He developed this throughout his 10+ year career as a growth marketer for high-growth startups like Loom & Mailgun. He's distilled everything into a simple process with clear steps, including excellent examples. I'm a big fan of Nick and this playbook!
Software
Website
- Sprocket Rocket: Platform that sits on top of HubSpot — empowering marketers to create stunning websites that are on brand and deliver better results, without the help fo designers or developers. I've done two website builds with the Sprocket Rocket team (the Hummingbird and Orum websites are powered by Sprocket Rocket). Send me a note at bryan@fintechmarketers.com, and I'll make a personal introduction to Miles and his team — they are phenomenal!
- Carrd: Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything. (Carrd powers my personal website)
- Niceboard: Start a custom job board in minutes with modern job board software. (This is what powers Fintech Marketers!)
- Simplify Gmail: A browser extension for desktop Gmail that boosts productivity, strengthens privacy, and reduces️ stress. From the co-founder of Google Inbox.
Productivity
- Notion: A single space where you can think, write, and plan. Capture thoughts, manage projects, or even run an entire company — and do it exactly how you want. I've helped implement a company-wide Notion structure three times. Yah, I'm a super user & big fan! (Happy to talk Notion tips & tricks if ya want!) 🤓
- Productive PMM: A system built on Notion that helps small product marketing teams and solo PMMs be more productive. It provides one central hub for managing your projects, tasks, goals, collateral, swipe file, and more. It also comes complete with resources and templates you can use to deliver great work, faster.
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