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 Counter to traditional marketing wisdom, which tries to count, measure, and manipulate the spread of information, Seth Godin argues that information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. Godin calls this powerful customer-to-customer dialogue the ideavirus.

In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin examines how companies like Napster and Hotmail have successfuly launched ideaviruses. He offers a recipe for creating your own ideavirus, and shows how businesses can use ideavirus marketing to succeed in a world that doesn't want to hear it anymore from traditional marketers.©2001 Do You Zoom, Inc., All Rights Reserved; (P)2001 Simon & Schuster Audio, All Rights Reserved, SOUND IDEAS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc. Leadership Management & Leadership Marketing Marketing & Sales Organisational Behavior Personal Development Workplace & Organisational Behavior Business Stress Management Management
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Having read many of the books written by Seth Godin I have to say he does know his stuff. He writes in a manner that is easy to understand and he using examples both big and small to convey his points. In this book he talks about the "idea virus" which he compares to an influenza virus which is passes along by "sneezers". And if a sneezer is surrounded by influential people he can infect many more people who then in turn will infect others. Every company wants a marketing campaign like this but it certainly is difficult to obtain.

A good read with a lot of examples but as usual with this type of book the main themes are repeated heavily. A more practical marketing book which is also written by Seth Godin is called "Permission Marketing" I would suggest read them both but read "Permission Marketing" first.

Nice in theory hard to practice

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Timeless in concept.
Fearless in approach.
Precision in design thinking.
Tactical in process.
And determined in the surrender of release.

A classic

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Reading it made me buy the books mentioned in the program. That is what a good marketing book is about.

Great book! Reading it made me buy other books.

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