The Category Design Toolkit & A Marketer’s Guide To Category Design

Nicolas Cole
4 min readDec 7, 2021
Category Pirates

I just published 2 new Category Pirates books!

ARRRRRR!!!!!

3 years ago, almost to the day, I started writing these books on Category Design with two other collaborators (and brilliant business thinkers).

Pirate Christopher had already written a book called Play Bigger.

Pirate Eddie had already written a book called Superconsumers.

And I had already written a book called The Art & Business of Online Writing.

But even 3–5 years ago, the subject of category design was relatively new. Very few people were talking about it, and even fewer understood how to execute it. And the unfortunate truth was, almost anytime we heard someone declare themselves an expert in category creation or category design, what we found instead was just the regurgitation of business clichés that we new, for a fact, were either wrong or massively conflated (“Building an authentic brand is all that matters!”).

So, we set out to educate people.

--

--

Nicolas Cole
Nicolas Cole

Written by Nicolas Cole

100M+ Views | 5x Author | Co-founder of Ship 30 for 30 | Want to start writing online? Get the Ultimate Guide: https://startwritingonline.com