February 2009
358 posts
Ok starting up again, if you have compelling questions, shoot! #sethldn
If you don’t know who Seth Godin is www.sethgodin.com he’s in the top 10 most popular bloggers and marketeer extraordinaire #sethldn
More questions coming up, just made group picture #sethldn
their attention span is shrinking, you need to be fast #sethldn [a great story to tell would definitely help]
Seth trashing out how instead of spending 500M$ on delevloping the sune spend that money on telling a great story #sethldn [me too approach]
What is changing with engaging with early adopters? #sethldn
You are ignoring money you can make on the long tail, sorry but no other Rolling Stones on the way #sethldn
No interruption with ads anymore, if you aggregate the long tail you are on the spot #sethldn [enabling]
Spectrum used to be scarce, now spectrum is infinite #sethldn
Do you believe commercial broadcasting model is broken/finished? #sethldn
Theoretical answer, you say that at the beginning, we are here for that #sethldn
Do we have permission to send DM on twitter with coupons? #sethldn
The tribe makes things work, you are gonna change what your idea is #sethldn
What is more important being in love with your idea or your tribe? #sethldn
If you suggest something that really makes a difference (papermail vs email), an infinitely better story convinces everyone #sethldn
Average doesn’t bring you anywhere, resistance is directly proportional to how average your story is #sethldn
How do you compete against free? (music industry guy) #sethldn
What would you do when you have gatekeepers that block you? #sethldn
You are in the business to find artists that create tribes, you can sell a long tail of tribe leaders. #sethldn
Reporters are everyone, scarcity is not there anymore. Can you (newspapers) build an issue that matters to a community? #sethldn
There’s a point when you no longer led people, when do tribes become self governed? #sethldn
If it’s too late, practical answer is try to test with no more than five not 1000s if it works try to see what happens #sethldn [good one]
Biggest mistake that video companies do is that they make an idea that spreads but don’t enable to follow up next greatest idea #sethldn
What about Newspapers? #sethldn
Seth says what about radio, music is free there? Internet is radio for everyone #sethldn
Seth just explained a new business model for newspapers in 2 minutes, awesome #sethldn
Seth says tribes are not there just to stay, but they have a mission #sethldn
Permission Marketing featured his face on the book, telling the story about himself #sethldn
Barack Obama did that, the guy that did his campaign read his books, he is the example of it #sethldn
Do u think politicians could learn from you on how to talk to people #sethldn
Being authentic worked for him #sethldn
It was not intentional at the beginning, he PAID to appear on conferences and get in touch with people who cared #sethldn
No meetings, no TV and no TWITTER #sethldn
Where do you find the time Seth? #sethldn
You need to work out priorities, he tweets through emails and replying to them #sethldn
How does Seth Godin market Seth Godin? #sethldn
You build a movement by turning away people with products/ideas that are not going to succeed #sethldn
Loved that last one #sethldn
How do you deal with pressure? #sethldn
yes it is, if you approach the market differently yeah it is #sethldn
Is consumers a bad word? #sethldn
If there’s people that don’t want to hear what you have to say, don’t force them, Find a small group of people and invest on them #sethldn
How do you convince people to understand marketing has changed? v
Focus about fear preventing to follow your ideas, ideas come all the time, challenge yourself instead #sethldn
Q&A starts: When do ideas come to you seth? #sethldn
that’s it Q&A in 5 mins #sethldn sorry I filled your timeline if you are not interested
Find enough people that want to follow you, not a lot of people, enough people #sethldn
Baloon factory is boring until a unicorn makes it into the room, then they start feeling the threat #sethldn
When you have to think about your tribe of people think if you want to make it huge or tiny, nothing in between #sethldn
Kindle is a waste, how cool would it bee to see what are people in my network saying about the book I read on the device #sethldn