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This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To…
The most important lesson I can share about brand marketing is this: you definitely, certainly, and surely don’t have enough time and money to build a brand for everyone. You can’t. Don’t try. Be specific. Be very specific.
from This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To… by Seth Godin
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Everything gets easier when you walk away from the hubris of everyone. Your work is not for everyone. It’s only for those who signed up for the journey.
from This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To… by Seth Godin
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The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone.
from This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To… by Seth Godin
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People don’t want what you make They want what it will do for them
from This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To… by Seth Godin
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How many people would reach out and wonder (or complain) if you didn’t send out that next email blast? That’s a metric worth measuring and increasing.
from This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To… by Seth Godin
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If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the other most desired emotions, you’ve done something worthwhile. The thing you sell is simply a road to achieve those emotions, and we let everyone down when we focus on the tactics, not the outcomes. Who’s it for and what’s it for are the two questions that guide a
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You do people a service when you make better things and make it easy to talk about them. The best reason someone talks about you is because they’re actually talking about themselves: “Look at how good my taste is.” Or perhaps, “Look at how good I am at spotting important ideas.
from This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To… by Seth Godin
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