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The Two-Oar Recruiter

Grow your recruiting business faster by treating sales and marketing as equals.

Most recruiters row with one oar: sales. This book shows you how to pull with both.

By Steve Goldhaber · 2025
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The Two-Oar Recruiter
About the book

Keep both oars in the water.

Most recruiters row with one oar. They sell hard, make the calls and push for the next search, and they wonder why the boat keeps spinning in circles.

The Two-Oar Recruiter shows how to pull with both oars: selling and marketing in sync. It walks through getting noticed before you ever speak, building credibility by showing instead of telling, and converting when trust and timing align.

It ends with the Two-Oar 90-Day Challenge, a practical plan to get both oars in the water.

What you'll learn

Three things nobody tells you.

01
The sales hustle that's breaking you

Why sales alone keeps you busy but stuck, and what marketing actually is.

02
Getting noticed before you ever speak

How to fill the top of your funnel so prospects know you before you call.

03
Building credibility: show, don't just tell

How to earn trust in the middle of the funnel and convert when the timing is right.

Inside the book

The chapters.

Nine chapters and the Two-Oar 90-Day Challenge.

01
The sales hustle that's breaking you
02
The forgotten oar: what marketing actually is
03
The two-oar principle: selling and marketing in sync
04
Filling the top of the funnel: getting noticed before you speak
05
Building credibility in the middle: show, don't just tell
06
Converting at the bottom: when trust and timing align
07
The delivery loop: how execution reinforces brand
08
Momentum over muscles: what real progress looks like
09
Trust is a currency you build, not a sale you close
10
The Two-Oar 90-Day Challenge
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About the author

Steve Goldhaber.

Steve has spent about 30 years in marketing, including 10 years at Digitas and years leading global digital marketing and content at Aon and JLL. He founded 26 Characters, a B2B content studio based in Chicago.

He is also the author of What’s Your Problem?, The Recruiter’s Dilemma and The Two-Oar Recruiter.

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