The Best of Seth Godin

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Seth Godin is an author. He is also a marketing expert. He is also an awesome American. Who is Seth? Who knows? Seth is all these things -- and more.

Who Is Seth Godin? 

According to the web

Here's how Googlism describes the man, the myth and the marketeer
  • seth godin is a marketing god
  • seth godin is the author of numerous books
  • seth godin is a former yahoo executive
  • seth godin is a very important voice in the marketing field
  • seth godin is the ultimate entrepreneur for the information age
  • seth godin is an adman's worst nightmare
  • seth godin is a powerful example of what i was trying to explain in the recent monday morning memo
  • seth godin is the founder and ceo of yoyodyne
  • seth godin is a smart man
  • seth godin is een praktijkman op dit terrein en oprichter van yoyodyne

Links I Like 

Top-level must reads

These URLs are the top-of-the-line introductory resources to the mind and work of Seth Godin. Bookmark these!
Seth Godin
The official web site for the author and agent of change
Seth Godin's Blog
Frequent thinking from Seth's head
Fast Company: Seth Godin
Seth was a long-running contributor to this forward-thinking business magazine about innovation and leadership. This page collects all of his columns for the magazine
Liar's Blog
Inspired by the book All Marketers Are Liars, this blog is now defunct -- no longer updated, but still available to read

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Seth in the News 

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Interviews with Seth 

Straight from the Purple Cow's mouth

Q&A's and conversations with Seth
The Seth Godin Interview
"Given Godin's expertise in permission marketing and the online space (not particularly PR), PR Machine solicited Seth Godin, the famed marketing guru, to comment on the integration of blogging, branding and PR."
Across the Hall: Seth Godin
"Fresh from the success of his current bestseller, Purple Cow, Seth Godin is now talking about his next book."
Meet the MasterMinds
"Seth Godin Takes the Prize (And, gives us one too.)"
Treehugger: Interview with Seth Godin
"He founded Changethis.com, a remarkable forum for ideas that published the controversial 'the Death of Environmentalism.' Readers may wonder why Treehugger is interested in 'All Marketers are Liars' -- but the subtitle is 'the power of telling authentic stories in a low-trust world' -- something Treehuggers and Environmentalists try to do daily.
The Apple Matters Interview: Seth Godin
"What does marketing have to do with Apple? Well, how about everything. From the very beginning Apple has been an extremely savvy and adroit marketer. And what better person than to get a pulse on Apple's marketing efforts than Seth Godin?"
Seth Godin on Internet Marketing
From E-Consultancy.com's e-business briefing
Email Exchange with Seth Godin
Gaping Void's Hugh MacLeod does a quick Q&A with Seth
Really Bad PowerPoint, Revisited
"As you can expect, Seth has a few things to say about PowerPoint, especially since his 2001 e-book Really Bad PowerPoint (and How to Avoid It), was an Amazon bestseller."

Clicking on Seth's Head 

New blog entries

What's Seth thinking about... right now? Here's what

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Seth's Books 

Titles by the prolific author

From the most recent to the oldest, here are the books that Seth has written

Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

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The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable

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All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World

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Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea

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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

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Survival is Not Enough: Shift Happens

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Survival Is Not Enough: Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change

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Permission Marketing: Strangers into Friends into Customers

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The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better

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Unleashing the Ideavirus

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The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money

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Ebooks and Audio Books 

Multimedia to be expedient

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Big Moo (Library Edition): Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable

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99 Cows

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Free Prize Inside / Purple Cow

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The Bootstrapper's Bible: Volume 1

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Permission Marketing

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Vintage Godin 

Way back in the past

Before Seth developed into the iconic marketing thinker we know and love today, he developed the following books

If You're Clueless About the Stock Market and Want to Know More

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If You're Clueless About Financial Planning and Want to Know More

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If You're Clueless About Selling and Want to Know More

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If You're Clueless About Getting a Great Job and Want to Know More

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If You're Clueless About Accounting and Finance and Want to Know More

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If You're Clueless About Insurance and Want to Know More

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If You're Clueless about Starting Your Own Business

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If You're Clueless About Saving Money and Want to Know More

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If You're Clueless about Mutual Funds

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If You're Clueless About Retirement Planning and Want to Know More

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The Totally-Terrific $10,000 Trivia Challenge

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Internet Road Map (Fold-It Series)

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Point & Click Investor

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Point & Click Business Builder

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The Traveler's Yellow Pages

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Point & Click Jobfinder

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The Encyclopedia of Fictional People: The Most Important Characters of the 20th Century

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Official Rules of Life

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Presenting Digital Cash

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Wisdom, Inc. : 26 Business Virtues That Turn Ordinary People into Extraordinary Leaders

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Emarketing

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Best of the Net

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Point & Click Internet

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E-Mail Addresses of the Rich & Famous

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Foolproof DOS (The Computer book for non-computer people)

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Foolproof Lotus 123 (The Computer book for non-computer people)

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INFO PLEASE BUS (Information Please Business Almanac and Sourcebook)

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Million-Dollar Words: More Than 1,000 Words to Make You Sound Like a Million Bucks

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The Smiley Dictionary: Cool Things to Do With Your Keyboard

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Ultra Secrets of Game Boy Games

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Show-Me Language Books: Japanese

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Show-Me Language Books: Italian

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Business Rules of Thumb

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The Desk Almanac (Cader Flips Title)

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