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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Seth Godin

The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way

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