Key take aways from Permission Marketing by Seth Godin

  • its more expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain one
  • seek to build trust in every interaction
  • levels of trust
    • visitor
    • friend
    • customer
  • Types of marketing
    • permission marketing
      • continue to educate them on the problem space they are interested in
      • can use high frequency
        • treat correspondence with users as a one-on-one conversation
        • better to do the correspondence manually first to learn what works and what doesn’t
    • interruption marketing
      • catch their attention quick enough with a quick unique value proposition
      • use sparingly. It can be quite expensive
  • On sales lead lists
    • not useful if bought
    • the people on the list did not give you any permission to spam them
    • focus on inbound marketing
  • focus on creating content that is very deeply focus on the space that you are working on

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