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Permission Marketing
Turning Strangers into Friends, and Friends into Customers
By Seth Godin
Read by Seth Godin
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About The Book
The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"—the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.
Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on the hope of snatching our attention away from whatever we are doing. Seth Godin calls this Interruption Marketing, and, as companies are discovering, it no longer works.
Instead of annoying potential customers by interrupting their most coveted commodity—time—Permission Marketing offers consumers incentives to accept advertising voluntarily. Now this Internet pioneer introduces a fundamentally different way of thinking about advertising products and services. By reaching out only to those individuals who have signaled an interest in learning more about a product, Permission Marketing enables companies to develop long-term relationships with customers, create trust, build brand awareness—and greatly improve the chances of making a sale.
Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on the hope of snatching our attention away from whatever we are doing. Seth Godin calls this Interruption Marketing, and, as companies are discovering, it no longer works.
Instead of annoying potential customers by interrupting their most coveted commodity—time—Permission Marketing offers consumers incentives to accept advertising voluntarily. Now this Internet pioneer introduces a fundamentally different way of thinking about advertising products and services. By reaching out only to those individuals who have signaled an interest in learning more about a product, Permission Marketing enables companies to develop long-term relationships with customers, create trust, build brand awareness—and greatly improve the chances of making a sale.
Reading Group Guide
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Discussion Group Questions
1. What is the allowable for your company's product? If you don't know, how would you compute it?
2. What is the lifetime value of a customer to your company?
3. How could a curriculum approach to marketing help increase your sales?
4. Is Permission Marketing better at prospecting or retention? Why?
5. Is mass media dead? What role do ads play in your company's future?
1. What is the allowable for your company's product? If you don't know, how would you compute it?
2. What is the lifetime value of a customer to your company?
3. How could a curriculum approach to marketing help increase your sales?
4. Is Permission Marketing better at prospecting or retention? Why?
5. Is mass media dead? What role do ads play in your company's future?
About The Reader
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, speaker, and the bestselling author of a number of business books, including E-Marketing—the first book ever published on how to do business online—as well as Permission Marketing, This is Marketing, The Practice, and The Song of Significance.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (August 1, 1999)
- Runtime: 2 hours
- ISBN13: 9780743519953
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