Seth Godin Quotes About Marketing

Quotes about: Marketing

• People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Believe, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.138, Penguin

• Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

  Seth Godin

  Clever, People, Marketing

• The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

  Seth Godin

  Inspiring, Insightful, Marketing

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.24, Penguin

• Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

  Seth Godin

  Media, Marketing, May

• You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Marketing, Brilliance

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.7, Penguin

• Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, People, Marketing

• Good marketers tell a story.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Stories, Marketers

  Seth Godin (2007). “Small is the New Big: And 183 Other Riffs, Rants and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.314, Penguin UK

• Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

  Seth Godin

  Promise, Marketing, Way

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

• Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Inspire, Marketing

• People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

  Seth Godin

  Business, People, Entrepreneur

• If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Average, Organization

• The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

  Seth Godin

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

• If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

  Seth Godin

  Success, Waiting, Marketing

• Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Winning, Opportunity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.35, Penguin

• Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Marketing, Making A Difference

• By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Definitions, Advertising

• Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Blogging

• Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

• Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

  Seth Godin

  Funny, Thoughtful, Worry

• Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Marketing, Social Media

  "What Every Good Marketer Knows" by Seth Godin, seths.blog. May 9, 2005.

• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Busy, Invisible

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter”, p.50, Penguin

• Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Permission, Interruptions

• Good marketers measure.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Marketing, Marketers

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.203, Penguin

• Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Attention

• Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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