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

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Penguin, Aug 17, 2006 - Business & Economics - 352 pages
As one of today’s most influential business thinkers, Seth Godin helps his army of fans stay focused, stay connected, and stay dissatisfied with the status quo, the ordinary, the boring. His books, blog posts, magazine articles, and speeches have inspired countless entrepreneurs, marketing people, innovators, and managers around the world.

 

Now, for the first time, Godin has collected the most provocative short pieces from his pioneering blog—ranked #70 by Feedster (out of millions published) in worldwide readership. This book also includes his most popular columns from Fast Company magazine, and several of the short e-books he has written in the last few years.

A sample:



   • Bon Jovi And The Pirates

   • Christmas Card Spam

   • Clinging To Your Job Title?

   • How Much Would You Pay to Be on Oprah’s Show?

   • The Persistence of Really Bad Ideas

   • The Seduction of “Good Enough”

   • What Happens When It's All on Tape?

   • Would You Buy Life Insurance at a Rock Concert?

Small is the New Big is a huge bowl of inspiration that you can gobble in one sitting or dip into at any time. As Godin writes in his introduction: “I guarantee that you'll find some ideas that don’t work for you. But I’m certain that you're smart enough to see the stuff you’ve always wanted to do, buried deep inside one of these riffs. And I’m betting that once inspired, you’ll actually make something happen.”

 

Contents

AAA AUTO PARTS
1
ARTISTS CARE ABOUT THE
7
BON JOVI AND THE PIRATES
14
BURGERVILLE
20
CLIFF CLIMBING PLEASE DONT FALL OFF
33
COOKIES AND THE TECHNICAL IGNORANCE OF JOE SURFER
50
DIGITAL DIVIDE THE
63
DING
65
PLEASE DONT MAKE ME FEEL SO STUPID
169
PROMOTIONS
175
QUALITY
183
RESPECT AND THE FULLER BRUSH MAN
192
RIFTING
194
SECRETS TO SUCCESS
208
SOY LUCK CLUB
221
TELEVISION IS THE NEW NORMAL
233

DOUGHNUTS
75
FEEDBACK HOW TO GIVE
81
FLUFFERNUTTER
98
GMAIL
104
HEINLEIN
110
JETBLUE
119
MAYBEPROOFING YOUR ORGANIZATION
134
THE NEEDLE THE VISE AND THE BABY RATTLE
149
OPTIMISM
156
PEZ AND LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE RECORDS
162
TRADITION
239
UGLY THE WEB IS
246
WAKEUP CALLS A WAKEUP CALL ABOUT
253
WHAT THEN?
259
WORDS
265
YAK SHAVING
271
YOU ARE YOUR REFERENCES
272
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
311
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About the author (2006)

Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, a sought-after lecturer, a monthly columnist for Fast Company, and an all-around business gadfly. He’s the bestselling author of Permission Marketing, Unleashing the Ideavirus, The Big Red Fez, Survival Is Not Enough, and Purple Cow.

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