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By Seth Godin on October 31, 2009  |  Comments 0

The tacky techie conundrum

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Our Culture (high and popular) is usually created by people who are happy with the systems the world has given them. Magazine…

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By Seth Godin on October 29, 2009  |  Comments 0

Less than zero

The long tail is real, but sometimes the longest parts reach underwater. When there’s enough choices, it means that some things will never get picked.

Charles Blow reports in the NY Times that:

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By Seth Godin on October 27, 2009  |  Comments 0

Sinusitus relief

30,000,000 people suffer from sinusitis, making it the most popular (!) disease in the US. I’ve had it off and on for years.

After much research, I’d like to share three tips:

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By Seth Godin on October 24, 2009  |  Comments 0

Building books that sell in the digital age

Jeff sent over this video, which I didn’t know was online. It’s almost two years old, and more informal (and a lot more self-focused) than my usual talks.

In my presentations, I don’t often go into detail about the tactics I’ve used on books I’ve marketed, so if that’s something you’re interested in, here you go. I hope the lessons from the book business work for you, whatever you sell.

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By Seth Godin on October 22, 2009  |  Comments 0

Sell like you buy

Here are the two most common pleas I hear from marketers,

“Our product is as remarkable as we can make it, and we’re trying really hard and it’s very important to us that people buy it, but despite our hard work, it’s not selling!” (Hint: calling it a purple cow doesn’t make it one).

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Summary Sunday, 11 October, 2009

Helpful tips to add stability to your NWM program.

Crowded at the top

In the 260 weeks from 1966 to 1970, there were only thirteen musical acts responsible for every  #1 album on the Billboard charts.

In the 260 weeks that accounted for the first half of the 1970s, it was 26. (hat tip to…

Promiscuous dispersal of your email address

I just went through the hassle of trying to get some B2B firms the details needed to give me an informed quote on a project.

I visited eight sites. Six of them hide their email address. They use forms of one…

Summary Sunday, 18 October, 2009

About the Author: John Meatte brings a dignified and professional approach to network marketing. He is a top recruiter and network marketing expert who is willing to share his knowledge even with those not on his team. Learn more about Permission…

There isn’t one bestseller list

Corey showed me the list of the most popular Wikipedia articles.

It’s insane. It makes no sense. It has rock stars, dead dictators and body parts on it.

Huh?

The problem with the transom

It’s not difficult to throw something over the transom. That’s not the problem.

The problem is it’s a waste.

The internet has made it so easy to wrap your idea/proposal around a brick and throw it that we forget sometimes that just…

Do marketers have assets?

I gave a talk the other day, and at the end a woman sheepishly asked, “when you talk about an asset, what do you mean?”

It’s a fair question.

For a marketer, an asset is a tool or a platform, something you…

Friction

Diapers Stamps (remember those?) make direct mail work. Because it costs money to send a piece of junk mail, you’ll think two or three times before you mail something to a million people.

Email, of course, is free.

Except it’s not. The friction…

The hierarchy of success

I think it looks like this:

  1. Attitude
  2. Approach
  3. Goals
  4. Strategy
  5. Tactics
  6. Execution

We spend all our time on execution. Use this word instead of that one. This web host. That color. This material or that frequency of mailing.

Big news: No one ever succeeded because of execution tactics learned from…

The end of dumb software

Ical In the age of rapid cycles and connected data, how long are we going to have to settle for dumb software?

Here’s the detail screen from iCal. If I write a long text to go with an appointment, the only way…