Tag Archive: Seth Godin

Why the Case Study needs to die

princess and the frog

The case study as an element of marketing communications has outlived its usefulness. It’s one of those things that exists as a short-hand for ‘how xyz company benefited from using our product/service’. We’re used to case studies from text books we read at school or university. We’re drawn, to like moths to a flame, to…

Lifetime Value, Caveat Vendor

Seth Godin urges businesses to consider the lifetime value of a customer, not just the value from the first sale (or indeed the latest sale). Go and read it, it makes sense, but bear in mind his argument is based on a particular kind of product or service, one where lifetime value of a customer…

What’s the last Purple Cow you bought?

Seth Godin (and others) are always talking about being ‘remarkable’. Given that we’re all susceptible to remarkable things and feel a need to share them so I thought I’d share my most recent purple cow with you. That’s the exterior of the building our apartment is in. We moved home about a month ago and…