Alison Edgar uses the DISC personality model to explain the importance of your client’s different personality types and how to ensure that you apply those psychological principles to your sales strategy.

A quick book recommendation from Robert to go alongside his interview with Gordon Glenister.

The Future is Flex: Download the Ultimate Guide to Flexible, Hybrid and Agile Working Models from our friends at We Are Adam.

Read our book review of Employee Engagement 2.0: How to Motivate Your Team for High Performance (A Real-World Guide for Busy Managers by Kevin Kruse.

Published now, the book ‘Back to Basics: 21 ways to increase marketing performance and success‘ will guide you through the key steps to ensure you have nailed the basics.

Here’s my latest book. It is a total of two lines. 14 words.

Every morning, write a list of things that need to be done.

Do them.

This is not the ultimate checklist of checklists but it is a great resource for making sure you have considered key issues in growing your business.

In this eBook, Chris Martinez of Dude walks you through the top 25 mistakes that agencies make when out-sourcing teams and give you the corresponding solutions that you need.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold more than 25 million copies in 40 languages worldwide. The audio version has sold 1.5 million copies and remains one of the best selling nonfiction business books in history.

Agencies are among the worst for not getting the Customer is King philosophy (despite the weasel words on their websites). Read why from Robert Craven in this two-minute article.

A simple book that focuses on the working habits of 161 inspired minds, from Beethoven to Kafka via Einstein, Freud and van Gogh.

Download the 114-point blueprint for running a thriving digital agency from Paul Barnes, MAP.

Read Robert Craven's review of the Robert Soloman's book.

In essence, it says three things:

Think big, start small

Follow urgent, expensive problems

Be fearless

Read more in Robert Cravens book review.

Book review: Kleon’s premise is that we should steal/borrow ideas from everything around us, combine them, and as a result you will create something entirely new.

Book review from Robert Craven and GYDA Member Hub.

We've got an interview with the awesome Bo Burlingham coming up in our April 2021 issue. If you haven't read any of his books, start now!

This may be the book that agency owners should give to every one of their clients. And their clients’ board of directors… It is so rare to find a book on social media that is free of touchy-feely nonsense. One that a grown-up can read. A breath of fresh air.

It is refreshing to find a book that aspires to “become part of your day-to-day life, your ‘living book’ with page corners folded, notes scribbled throughout, and full of makeshift bookmarks.”

Read Robert Craven's review of The Coaching Habit Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier.