Seth Godin's Top 10 Rules For Success
Inspirational Video
Evan Carmichael
He's an American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public
speaker. He's the author of 17 books: Tribes and Linchpin are his two best-selling
books, while Free Prize Inside was a Forbes Business Book of the Year in 2004.
His Seth's Blog was ranked in the AdAge Power 150 as the number 1 marketing
blog out of the 976 tracked. He's Seth Godin and here are his Top 10 Rules for
Success.
1.
Do it your way
He received an MBA in marketing from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business.
2.
Tell your story
From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker
Software.
3.
Be patiently impatient
He used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions.
4.
Refuse to settle for average
In 1995, Godin launched Yoyodyne.
5.
The product is the marketing
American Express, Microsoft, Sony Music, and Volvo have all used
Yoyodyne services.
6.
Spread your ideas
In 1998, he sold Yoyodyne
to Yahoo! for about $30 million and became Yahoo's vice president of direct
marketing.
7.
Decide carefully
He launched Squidoo, a community website that allowed users to
create pages for subjects of interest.
8.
Life is a series of dips
Godin and Squidoo were profiled on CNN and in the Washington
Post.
9.
Navigate without a map
In July 2008, Squidoo was one of the 500 most visited sites in
the world.
10.
Create something remarkable
In 2012, he launched a Kickstarter campaign which secured him a
book contract with his publisher.
Bonus:
· No one owes you anything.
· Communicate emotionally.
· Lead your tribe.
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