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Re: Staying Energized Admidst Turmoil

Seth Godin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:50:51 -0000

MAD

The thing is, you are appreciated. Last night, we were using your art, as we do every night, and I spent five minutes talking to a friend about how gifted and focused you are.

Thanks for doing what you do.

Re: Seth Godin likes good head

Seth Godin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:28:30 -0000

it's a great photo!

Re: Suggestion: Talk To The Source

Seth Godin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:32:37 -0000

I guess it's about how a blog positions itself. If you have a blog that has a reputation for thorough journalism, then Google should consider it news and people should believe it. If, on the other hand, your blog is about a conversation and a thought that popped into your head based on assumed facts, people ought to expect that.

Fred's problem, and I agree, is that the expectation of the news consumer is that if it's referenced and cross referenced and discussed, it must be true. The easiest way in the world to avoid that is at the source.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Seth Godin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:54:04 -0000

not nearly an even trade, Fred.

Thanks for the shoutout. You're a rock star.

Re: Seth Godin Urges Agents to "Hyperspecialize" - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

Seth Godin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:05:10 -0000

You can just nod sagely, Andrew.

My advice is free, and worth exactly what it costs! Use it at your own peril.

The goal of my blog isn't to tell people what to do. It's to get them to question what they're already doing, and consider whether a different path might work out better.

Re: Why Seth Godin is a Pompous Jerk (sometimes)

Seth Godin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:11:10 -0000

Well, since a lot of the conversation is about the ideas in the book, it made sense to make this a requirement. Plus, the book is free as an audiobook at Audible and in your library, and... it costs $12 or so.

As for pitching, I think if you ask the people in the triiibe, I haven't done much of that. At all.

But thanks.

Re: Don't go to business school?

Seth Godin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:48:51 -0000

Actually, you'll never hear me say that college was a waste, or that the business I started there was a waste, or that studying Zig Ziglar was a waste or that my first job out of Stanford was a waste. So I think I'm being fair to my past in judging what mattered.

The only two things wrong with business school are how much it costs and how long it takes. If it was free and lasted six months, it would have been an astonishing value!

Re: Triiibesiversary

Seth Godin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:11:12 -0000

An astonishing effort, by each of you, especially you Megan!

thanks so much. Can't wait to see what's next.

Re: What’s The Difference Between You And Seth Godin?

Seth Godin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:54:43 -0000

Old?

Old!

This is a great post. Thanks for writing it.

Re: Face To Face Board Meetings

Seth Godin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:13:01 -0000

Fred, you never once missed a board meeting at Yoyodyne. It made a difference.

Re: Seth Godin is experiencing a Lean Transformation

Seth Godin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:59:03 -0000

No, not really.

The point isn't the formatting of the page. The point is that you write on it. The act of writing is a verb, it's motion, it causes change.

Re: The Year's Most Pirated Digital Books - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

Seth Godin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:53:07 -0000

Why are those numbers "enough to worry publishers"?

Those numbers should delight publishers. The enemy isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Re: Seth Godin: His Brand, In Public

Seth Godin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:30:54 -0000

I guess it's a bit like a trade show, John. You don't have to go, you don't have to have a booth. If you think it's worth having a booth, that it's easier and more efficient than building your own trade show, then you do it. I don't think the guys who run ABA or CES are holding companies hostage, do you?

Re: I’ll Dive on that Intention Grenade

Seth Godin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:43:54 -0000

If you had checked my blog this morning, you'd see a clarification and a new way it's being approached. Sorry if the original launch was confusing.

Re: Blog Stars

Seth Godin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:37:10 -0000

I'm so delighted to not be on this list. I never set out to be a star blogger, I'm just an author who blogs. I'd be a terrible community leader, if being a community leader means moderating electronic discussions.

The semantics do matter a bit. I don't think it's productive to say one thing is a blog and one thing isn't, so I'm pleased that you're coining a new term here. Not sure 'star' is as illustrative a term as you could find, but it'll do for now, I guess.

Next thing you need to take on is whether or not this scales. It certainly is likely that there will be a long tail of these star communities, but how do you use this medium to have 5,000 active participants? Dunbar's number will destroy it. Perhaps it becomes more like pub culture... lots of pubs in the UK, none with 5,000 people in attendance.

Re: Blog Stars

Seth Godin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:30:55 -0000

This is silly, I think.

If opportunity for profit is the metric, then your selections make very little sense, KM. The two wealthiest women in the world (Oprah and JK Rowling) wouldn't qualify, because of the scaling issue of direct digital engagement with low-profit individuals. Either you need to make a lot of money per tribe member (very difficult in a digital transaction) or you need to make a little money from a ton of tribe members (almost impossible given your criteria.)

If 'ability to directly influence a conversation among digitally-enabled subgroups' is the metric, then you're probably on to something.

Re: Are Kindle Users More Valuable Than Regular Readers? - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

Seth Godin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:15:19 -0000

Amazon has reported the stats I used. They could be making them up, but I doubt it.

As for #2, no publisher has a blanket return policy in the long run. If Walmart returns a ton of books, they won't have the privilege of buying that many next time. And my guess is, Walmart won't be returning a ton of books.

Re: Are Kindle Users More Valuable Than Regular Readers? - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

Seth Godin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:17:30 -0000

Well, I'm not a consultant either, but I think I understand some of the mechanics here.

First, Kindle books cost nothing to make on the increment, so the profit margin is higher and there's no risk of returns.

As for Walmart, I don't know what you mean by "consume more resources" but I do know that while the customers are paying less, Walmart is paying the same to buy the books from the publisher.

Not sure if you've ever purchased Polaroid film or a Barbie Doll, but Walmart and Kmart and the rest never sold these items above cost. It wasn't discounting that killed Polaroid, of course, it was digital...

Re: Depends How You Define Value

Seth Godin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:14:43 -0000

Where's the part where I said Twitter has no value, Chris?

Thanks for reading. I'll try to be more clear next time...

Re: Just call me Tenzing Norbook, I guess.

Seth Godin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:07:16 -0000

Not sure what I did to ignite snark, but yes, of course I'm aware of what great librarians are doing and I think many of my readers are as well.

The question is, are the taxpayers, boards and others that need to think about this issue thinking about it the way enlightened librarians like you guys are? I'm guessing that if they shut down the dvd section at my library, people would go screaming! And if I look at the physical arrangement of the dozen libraries I've visited in the last month or two, I'm not seeing an architecture that matches this mission.

So, yes, keep plugging. And here's hoping that the paying public decide it's important too.

Re: Linchpin – embrace the lizard brain

Seth Godin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:03:44 -0000

Thanks Becky. I appreciate the time and effort and joy you put into this one.

Re: Seth Godin is Tired… : Never Stop Marketing

Seth Godin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:49:21 -0000

Thanks for this. I'm not quite as angry as you've theorized, but if I sound impatient, that's probably a good thing for my readers!

Re: Linchpin and the missing link

Seth Godin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:21:06 -0000

Thanks for making the trek, Anne, and for your insights!

Re: Notes on Seth Godin’s Linchpin, part 2

Seth Godin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:03:49 -0000

Great stuff. But the first 100 pages say not just "you can do it," but really important, "you must do it, do it now, or you're toast."

Re: Notes on Seth Godin’s Linchpin, part 2

Seth Godin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:47:47 -0000

Your notes are stellar

and, as you guessed, it's not a book written for people who are already linchpins (other than to give them a tool to explain themselves to their inlaws!)