6 Books Every Content Creator Should Read

Cherry-picking the advice you follow will help you move fast and save time

Sinem Günel
The Startup
Published in
5 min readApr 5, 2021

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Reading a great book is like borrowing the brain of the author. If it’s a good one, you get a condensed collection of their lessons and strategies.

And in the best case, the book is a shortcut and helps you save some time.

In 2021, anyone willing to do the work can build and scale an online business. Thousands of courses, articles, podcasts, and books can teach you how to escape the rat race and build a digital business around content creation.

The problem is that most people don’t like the idea of educating themselves and starting from scratch.

But the reality is that you don’t need to start from scratch and make lots of mistakes. You can rely on the expertise of people who’ve been there and done that.

My major in marketing taught me nothing about online marketing in the 21st century.

We studied concepts like AIDA and did some experiments on traditional customer behavior, but I didn’t learn a single strategy that’s relevant to today's fast-moving marketing world.

The following books, however, helped me build a 6-figure online business within a year:

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Sinem Günel
The Startup

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