Seth Godin Quotes
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The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.
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Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends
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Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.
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Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.
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All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
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If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
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...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
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If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
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What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
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The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
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The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
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We notice what we choose to notice.
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Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.
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You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.
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You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.
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No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
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Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.
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Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.