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Seth Godin

20 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 7 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2010 by Seth Godin · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Seth Godin's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

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Jan 25, 2010 positive
Insight
Godin: The more publishers dislike a book's packaging, the better it sells
“The more agita I cause my publisher, the better the book's going to do. Right? Both the way the book is written, the way the book is packaged, and the way the book is marketed, the more they hate it, the better the book's going to do.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 7:08 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Godin started over 100 businesses and faced bankruptcy for six years
“I started more than a hundred businesses before I had one. That really worked. I was three weeks away from bankruptcy for six years in a row.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 16:22 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010
Disclosure
Godin: Refuses to start any project without total commitment to finish
“I refuse to start something unless I'm prepared to finish it. Now by start, I don't mean brainstorm it. I don't mean prototype it. I mean, after that, there's a day. And on that day, it's, is this good enough to be a book? Is this good enough to be a website? …”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 30:19 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Godin: Squidoo runs with six people who are better than him
“And that's the secret of Skidoo, by the way. Six people, all of them are better at what they do than I am, so I don't bother them.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 24:07 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Godin: Squidoo Reached Top 100 on Quantcast Without Venture Capital
“If you look at Squidoo's traffic, sure, we're number a hundred on the Quantcast chart now, but for the first year, it was pretty quiet. And for the second year, it was quiet, but we were losing money, and we're not venture funded.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 17:22 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010
Disclosure
Godin: Permission Marketing website cost $450, near his highest book marketing spend
“The permission marketing website costs 450 dollars, and that was at the high side of what I've spent to market a book.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 8:43 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 positive
Insight
Godin: In a digital economy, power comes from accumulating respect and attention
“And on the internet, a world of digital goods, where accumulating more stuff isn't worth very much because it's all bits. Guess what the most valuable thing to accumulate is? Respect. Attention. People who think they owe you something. This idea of people open…”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 34:42 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Godin: Shepard Fairey earns over $1M yearly by distributing free art
“How did Shepard Fairey make it so that he's making over a million dollars a year? What's his strategy exactly? Right? His strategy is posters everywhere, free art everywhere, here, go, take it.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 38:18 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 negative
Disclosure
Godin commits to never monetizing his personal blog with advertising
“I would never run ads on my blog. How stupid would that be to pimp out my audience for a hundred bucks?”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 36:01 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 negative
Insight
Godin: Standardized schooling was designed to train factory workers
“You sit in school in a straight row, number two pencil, filling out the little circles, no stray marks. What's that about? It's about training you to work in the factory.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 2:37 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 negative
Opinion
Godin: The New York Times bestseller list is an easily gamed fiction
“Bestsellers are a figment to the New York Times imagination. It's an easily gamed system that has no bearing on reality.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 42:22 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 negative
Opinion
Godin: Traditional MBA organization-building models are completely worthless
“That the model of how you build an organization used to be quite mechanized. I have an MBA. They taught it to me. And it's worthless. None of the steps are true anymore.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 4:55 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010
Insight
Godin: Momentum and Reserves Allow Entrepreneurs to Fail More Quietly
“The difference is once you get going, you have enough reserve that you can fail more quietly Because you can test market. You can put things into a different space.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 16:46 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Godin: Untrained worker wages remained completely flat from 1960 to 2009
“In my presentation last week, I showed a chart. Hourly wage adjusted for inflation from 1960 to present. For untrained workers, you know, burger flippers. 1960, they made 15 dollars an hour. Now, they make 15 dollars an hour. Zero change in 49 years.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 40:03 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 positive
Assertion Supported
Warner: Quantcast reports Squidoo has over 15 million monthly visitors
“He's also the founder of Squidoo, the publishing platform which Quantcast says has over fifteen million monthly visitors.”
Andrew Warner Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 0:28 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Godin: Isaac Asimov wrote 400 books working 6 to 10 a.m. daily
“What did Isaac Asimov do? He wrote 400 books in his career. Right? 40 times as many as me. How did he do it? Every morning he woke up at six o'clock, and he wrote till 10 a.m., and then he was done.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 25:32 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Jan 25, 2010 negative
Disclosure
Godin avoids television, meetings, Twitter, and Facebook to reclaim his time
“Because if you don't watch TV, and you don't go on Twitter, and you don't go on Facebook, and you don't go to meetings, which I don't, there's a lot of time.”
Seth Godin Jan 25, 2010 ▶ 30:48 #214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Apr 9, 2014 negative
Opinion
Godin: Launching platforms solely to interview famous guests is 'bogus'
“The new guest blogging is Start something online and then try to interview, ah, Andrew or Seth or Tim because then you'll get some of their, ah, attention. That's bogus. I mean, what we need are people who have something to say on their own as opposed to peopl…”
Seth Godin Apr 9, 2014 ▶ 7:24 #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration
Apr 9, 2014
Insight
Godin: A creator's next project must be scarier than the last
“The goal of the next thing, it has to be scarier than the last thing, or else we've wasted our platform.”
Seth Godin Apr 9, 2014 ▶ 8:48 #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration
Apr 9, 2014
Insight
Godin: Trying to conquer fear and resistance is a distracting mistake
“Well Steve and I disagree with this about the resistance, but I don't think it can be conquered. I think that trying to conquer it is the problem. That trying to make the fear and the lizard brain go away is what distracts us and takes all of our time and ener…”
Seth Godin Apr 9, 2014 ▶ 3:36 #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration
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