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Kevan
P.S. Who’s your pick for today’s Super Bowl? How about today’s best Super Bowl commercial? I’ll take the Chiefs and Amazon Alexa. :)
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Best New Marketing Jobs
Check out these remote-first marketing roles. Let me know if I can help make any connections for you.
I make a habit of checking remote job boards regularly. I learn a lot from these boards, like under-the-radar marketing trends (remember the rise of the growth editor?) and inspiration on how to craft job descriptions for my team. I even share listings with the people I manage, to give them a picture of what to aim for next in their careers.
Among my favorite websites are Angel List, We Work Remotely, and Remotive.io. Here are some neat roles I’ve come across in the past month:
Automattic is hiring a Director of Business Development
Automattic is hiring a Growth Marketing Wrangler
InVision is hiring a Design Advocate
FullStory is hiring a Head of Revenue Marketing
FullStory is hiring a Director of Marketing Operations
FullStory is hiring a Copywriter
Gitlab is hiring a Manager of Marketing Operations
Gitlab is hiring a VP of Demand Generation
Abstract is hiring a Senior Manager of Sales and Marketing Ops
Slite is hiring a Director of Growth Marketing
Aha! is hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager (US or Canada)
Aha! is hiring a Senior Writer
Aha! is hiring a Content Editor
Kinsta is hiring a PPC Marketing Specialist
Kinsta is hiring a Lead Generation Specialist
Fastly is hiring a Content Marketing Specialist
Over is hiring a VP of Growth
Postscript is hiring a Customer Marketing Manager
Animalz is hiring a Content Marketing Manager
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These are the best new products of the year
Plus, everything I loved from Product Hunt in 2019
Every year around this time, Product Hunt announces its Golden Kitty awards, which highlight the top products across a variety of categories in the past year. It’s like the Oscars but for makers.
Here are some of their top picks for 2019. Did you love any of these products?
🥇Product of the Year: Apple AirPods Pro
🥈 2nd Place: Clockwise — an AI calendar assistant
🥉 3rd Place: Disney+
Social Impact Product of the Year:
Wren: calculate your carbon footprintDiversity and Inclusion Product of the Year:
Elpha: online community for women in techFintech Product of the Year:
Predicto: predict sports scores, crypto prices, and moreAI and Machine Learning Product of the Year:
FaceMaze: detect, crop, and filter faces in an imageRemote Work Tool of the Year:
Nomad List 5.0: recommendations for where to work remotelyAudio and Voice Product of the Year:
Descript Podcast Studio: Podcast editing tool. You edit your podcast by editing the textAugmented Reality Product of the Year:
Wanna Kicks: see new shoes on your feet
And their picks for products that no longer exist:
💀 Product Memoriam Winner: Inbox by Google
🥈 2nd Place: Wunderlist
🥉 3rd Place: MoviePass
I love checking out Product Hunt, and I’ve cast my fair share of votes over the past year. Looking back at my vote history, here are some of the products I loved in 2019:
Kampsite — Start building features your customers actually want
Tesla Cybertruck — A futuristic electric pickup from Tesla
Trace by Sticker Mule — Remove the background from any image for free
Previewmojo — Auto-generate social media preview images
Fathom Analytics v2 — Simple & private analytics for bloggers and businesses
Ghost 3.0 — A new business model for publishing
Full Page Screen Capture — Generates a full-length web page screenshot
Instagram Stories Scheduling from Buffer — Plan, preview, and schedule Instagram Stories from within Buffer
Buttsss — A collection of rear end illustrations
SquareDude — A square-sized photo editor
Buffer Analyze — Facebook and Instagram analytics
Revive — Find content decay and win back traffic
Impresso — Create beautiful promotional social videos with your phone
PHOTOMOSH — Vaporware art
Are you on Product Hunt? Drop your username in the comments or hit reply, and we can follow one another! 😊
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Amazing newsletters I can recommend
We are in the golden age of newsletters. Here are a few favorites.
We re-posted an article on the Buffer blog this week about the best newsletters for 2020, and it got me thinking about my favorite ones. Here’s a short list of some great ones I subscribe to or I’ve heard about:
Dense Discovery: a collection of links for digital workers to help them stay positive, think critically, and discover new inspiration
Jacuzzi Club: a curated list of top links from Jacuzzi Club’s brand community (you might recall I featured this newsletter in last week’s issue)
Marketing:
Demand Curve: insights from YC founders on which advanced growth tactics are working for them.
Marketing Examples: two new case studies a week on marketing tactics
No Mercy / No Malice: weekly essays from business professor and author Scott Galloway
Margins: Notes on technology and business
Hot Pod: podcast news
Brand-building and DTC companies:
Tech:
Erin Griffith's Tribute to the Heroes of Business: news and stories about unicorns and tech startups from NYT reporter Erin Griffith
Kyle Chayka Industries: weekly essays on technology and culture
Hiten Shah: weekly roundup of product links and stories
Book recommendations:
Ryan Holiday Reading Recommendation: monthly book recs from author and marketer Ryan Holiday (The Obstacle Is the Way)
Read Like the Wind from Vulture’s literary critic Molly Young
And a couple of favorite newsletters made by readers of my email:
If you’re running a newsletter of your own, I’d love to know about it! Feel free to reply or add a comment to this week’s email on Substack.
Thanks so much for reading. Have a great week!
— Kevan