Rand Fishkin: The Contrarian Canon
Rand’s counterintuitive worldview built logically from the foundation up.
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Why It Matters
Do not skip sections here. Rand’s later arguments regarding audience intelligence make significantly more sense once you have internalized his initial deconstruction of legacy marketing metrics.
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