This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See
A game-changing approach to marketing, sales, and advertising, by bestselling author and renowned business thinker Seth Godin
Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses, lectures, and bestselling books. He is the inventor of countless ideas and phrases that have made their way into mainstream business language, from Permission Marketing to Purple Cow to Tribes to The Dip.
Now, for the first time, Godin offers the core of his marketing wisdom in one compact, accessible, and timeless package.
This is Marketing shows you how to do work you’re proud of, whether you’re a tech startup founder, a small business owner, or an executive at a large corporation. Great marketers don’t use consumers to solve their company’s problem; they use marketing to solve other people’s problems. Their tactics rely on empathy, connection, and emotional labor instead of attention-stealing ads and spammy email funnels. When done right, marketing seeks to make change in the world.
No matter what your product or service, this book will teach you how to reframe how it’s presented to the world, in order to meaningfully connect with the people who want it. Seth employs his signature blend of insight, observation, and memorable examples to teach you:
* How to build trust and permission with your target market.
* The art of positioning–deciding not only who it’s for, but who it’s not for.
* Why the best way to achieve your marketing goals is to help others become who they want to be.
* Why the old approaches to advertising and branding no longer work.
* The surprising role of tension in any decision to buy (or not).
* How marketing is at its core about the stories we tell ourselves about our social status.
You can do work that matters for people who care. This book shows you the way.


The Philosophy of Modern Marketing Iâve owned my business for 21 years, but Seth Godinâs book, This Is Marketing, has transformed the way I think about marketing. I think this book could be called, The Philosophy of Modern Marketing, or Marketing that is Truly Effective.I used to think of marketing as a series of tasks I needed to do each month in order to drum up new business.Now I see marketing as a noble adventure with the intent to create meaningful change in some part of the world. On page 144, Seth talks…
November 20th, 2018 at 9:39 pmThis is Genius! In a word, genius. “This is Marketing” is a must-have book for fans of Seth Godin, practitioners of marketing and leaders who seek to make change. If you have read his other works, many of the concepts will be nostalgic. However, this book binds them all into one place for easy reference and builds upon them to set a foundation for the future of marketing. The chapters are indexed and the concepts easy to digest yet profound. I found myself…
November 20th, 2018 at 9:42 pmThis should be the new Marketing Textbook / required reading for all I had the honor of getting an advanced look at This is Marketing and it’s one of those books that is packed with such wisdom that I found myself often needing to pause after a page or a passage to integrate his thoughts into my projects and myself. I found myself consistently nodding and smiling and thinking, “YES!” as I read. As far as I’m concerned, this should be the marketing text that every school, organization and team is required to read before putting anything into the world. Seth’s…
November 20th, 2018 at 9:45 pm