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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