Seth Godin Quotes

Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.

Seth Godin

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• I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Marketing

• Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Money
  • Marketing
  • Decisions

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Art
  • Movie

• Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Marketing
  • Treat

• I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Marketing
  • Research
  • Saying

• Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • America
  • Opinion
  • Pride

• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Marketing

• We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Different
  • Generation

• Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Marketing
  • Online
  • Shop

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Today
  • Religious

• The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Player
  • Wall
  • Media

• Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Book
  • Best

• The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Business

• Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • People
  • Today
  • Speak

• I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Know
  • Marketing
  • Others

• In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

  

  Peter Sotos
  • Marketing
  • Believed
  • Publishers

• Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • People
  • Should
  • Successful

• I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Death

• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Building

• Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

  

  Keith Donohue
  • America
  • Wonderful
  • Grace

• Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Marketing
  • Average
  • Appealing