2002–2005
1,118 posts
2005 582
December 2005
- Squid soup, part I: The Myth of the Product Adoption Lifecycle
- Squid soup, part II: Inertia and White food
- Squid soup, part III: The Cutting Edge?
- Quick question
- Zero
- Boy am I in trouble.
- Clean firetrucks
- Judging a book by its cover
- The two obvious secrets of every service business
- Search is hard
- Where do sneezers come from?
- A New York minute
- Useful fear
- Horizontal Knowledge
- Promotion, self-promotion and [insert ad here]
- The new whiteboard seminar (you’re invited)
- Blog issues
- Changing behavior
- The e-consultancy interview
- If everyone had a foundry
- Here come worldwide gimmicks
- 1918 and more
- For Jerry Shereshewsky, on his birthday
- What are you afraid of?
- Please hold
- RSS breakthrough
- odd and end
- The new source for free photos
- Do you produce?
- Posture matters
- Working the system, step by step
- A high-profile competition
- Out of the corner of your eye
- Missing a simple truth
- The needle, the vise… and the baby rattle
- a beautiful thing
- Don’t change, sue
- real good for free
November 2005
- Welcome to the hobby economy
- Human battering rams
- Not just trash, but attractive trash…
- Great Marketers are Architects
- Who’s that wearing the Spurs jersey?
- Pickles?
- The inanity of the American consumer
- A Norwegian analysis of web 2.0
- Can more than 50% be wrong?
- No good home pages?
- Classifieds are next
- Woot + CEO Reads = Free books
- Symbols and faces
- What’s that?
- The New Face of Big Ideas (a contest)
- Desktop coffins
- On pricing
- Making fun of ticketmaster is of course…
- The thing about giving blood
- Not what it used to be
- Make your own beanie
- RSS Three months later
- Aluminum hats?
- Understanding the Zero Profit Condition
- what’s a backup?
- remember AOL keywords?
- People, not things
- Bad news for the lazy
- How to Run a Useless Conference
- Practice makes perfect?
- Anonymous generosity
- How the New Marketing changes Local Max
- Lost Boots and the whole hog
- Understanding Local Max
- T shirts are the new bumperstickers
- Worth 1,000 bullet points?
- Of course TV ads work
- Mine, ours, everyone’s
- Revenge of the nerds
- Ramit was ahead of me
- Authenticity and Pedro
- Monetizing noodles
- Monetize this
- More on WOM
- the problem with word of mouth
- Selling Is Dead
- Do you work for the highest bidder?
- A million dollars here…
October 2005
- Tools vs. Craftsmen
- Remember Felix?
- Swan song?
- The kids say “thanks.”
- Opening the microlending system
- All your base [are] belong to us
- Are you tired? Busy?
- Seth in New Jersey
- Ben’s insight
- Changing the game
- On Mediocrity
- Peace of mind
- The proximity effect
- Squidoo samples
- Understanding the Long Tail
- Setting the record straight on Yak Shaving
- Let it be sloganized
- The new rules of naming
- “I Just Like It”
- Winners from the last round
- About the Squidoo Beta
- What if everybody read it?
- Repaired Liars recommended reading list
- Fools, money, parted
- More on the Soup Peddler
- Thanks to you
- Tires are a commodity?
- Jeff Jarvis on Squidoo
- No accounting for taste
- The best customers leave first
- Sunday pictures
- Another Moo review
- The next free ebook (Squidoo!)
- (another) Big Moo Review
- Abundance and the TBR
- Matt Blumberg on the Big Moo
- Tim O. on Web 2.0
- Simple, useful and free
- Meryl on Moo
- When comments work
- Countdown to October 14
- Being purple with variety
- Updated time for my speech on Friday
- actually, it’s how you tell it
September 2005
- Open Big
- David Galbraith disagrees with me
- What to drink while looking at your Donald Trump watch…
- Here it comes
- the browser wars
- Check out web 2.0
- Viral ideas and inside baseball
- What about Ringo?
- What makes an idea viral?
- Live online
- Don’t use Photoshop while driving
- Hired
- Justin and Ashley
- Catching up on my blog
- Sold out!
- The only book on my coffee table…
- How much would you pay to be on Oprah’s TV show?
- Wow! a great viral blog…
- Be like Dell?
- Billboard irony
- What do you think?
- Do billboards work?
- Would you buy life insurance at a rock concert?
- Business literature winners
- Dave on semantics of persuasion
- OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT!
- Mooing at the DMV
- The long tail, in practice
- Private Idaho
- Just one reminder
- Not what I thought he was going to say
- Feature Creep
- Yes, we got our uniforms
- Marriott’s new bed
- The end of Akron, part I, stale bread
- The end of Akron, part II, football
- Keep the change…
- Gillette ups the ante, unveils 5-blade razor – U.S. Business – MSNBC.com
- Commentary on customers, or the web?
- Bureaucracy = Death
- email weirdness, part II
- Nano is the new Turbo
- Fear of loss, desire for gain
- $5,000.00 Bounty if you find us a chief engineer
- Good, better, best
- email weirdness
- What I did today (marketing is where you find it)
- Andrew on free
- Viral Marketing … in the details
- Is “free” all it’s cracked up to be?
- Who’s There? the new ebook (free for now)
- musubiai
- Forty to One
- More on Knock Knock and a reader sequel…
- Yes, we have no more galleys
- Free KnockKnock ebook now available
- Please don’t buy my new ebook
August 2005
- BuzzMachine, disrobed
- The scary thing about blog ads
- Wish I said that
- RSS clarifications and amplifications (of course)
- What’s RSS?
- Managing the vague
- More on negative feedback
- On uniforms
- Negative feedback worth less?
- Supply and demand
- Today’s blue light special
- The future of affiliates and SEO?
- Review of the Big Moo
- Who’s side are you on, anyway?
- Hard to be nice (easy to be mean)
- Lots of publishing news today
- The Big Moo ([poetically] reviewed)
- What Bootsy said
- The best thing I never said
- Hurry
- Clueless
- Will you help us?
- The problem with lawyers (part of an ongoing series)
- Let’s just say the unlikely happens
- Weasels
- Pseudofeatures and the Purple Cow
- Two kinds of writing
- What would Jerry do?
- Tiny cuts
- The wrong question
- Are they really purple?
- it’s the product….
- Look who’s talking
- No amateurs here!
- Gravity is not just a good idea…
- I changed my mind yesterday
- The long life of a great idea
- A picture might be worth 2,000 words
- The new normal
- overheard in the elevator
July 2005
- Did you believe?
- The magic word
- But it’s only a commodity…
- Beans
- Where do you get your advice?
- the other side of the seatbelt story
- Advice for authors
- Simple permission marketing
- But it’s not that hard!
- Old media collides with the new (an ongoing series)
- Inside and Outside
- Coincidences
- Thank you, Bob Cocksedge, for teaching all of us
- Before you spend a lot of time and money on a logo
- No such thing as side effects
- More than twenty years…
- The rage of the copyeditor
- the best powerpoint of the month
- Seth’s new car (you can help make it real)
- Stuck (with a bump on the head)
- Byron’s gone
- London Times restaurant critic gets the Cow
- Sometimes, it’s the odd ideas that spread
- Telling stories at the Borough Market
- There will always be an England
- Spirals?
- On Whale Oil
- The Threat of Pigeons and Other Fundamentalists
- Boy, cold air makes you smart
- The Mediocre Emergency
June 2005
- made you think!
- Retail Alphabet Game
- One more riff on the 4 curve titles
- 3 million emails for $500
- Google, video and podcasting
- Shark Attack!
- More curve names
- Penguin stew
- naming the curves
- The four curves of want and get
- I’m not at Gnomedex
- Buzz marketing
- Well of course they work!
- My money, your cause, what now?
- SPAZZSTICK for tired, sleepy lips
- This Is Broken
- Marketing has a marketing problem
- Recycled: The myth of the CMO
- technical chops come second
- Lying with a name
- Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
- Great Enough!
- Double SUV storytelling
- More on good enough
- What sort of screws are in your house?
- The seduction of “good enough”
- Thirty seconds
- On Branding
- A podcast alternative…
- Cynical?
- Picky Cats
- The Power of Four
- Where’s the money
- Podcasts, the long tail, and you
- Lying and winking
- Journalists don’t always matter
- On being alert
- The first sequel to Knock Knock
- Ronald McDonald and Richard Simmons?
- Cash-Strapped Airlines Try In-Flight Advertising
- Treating people like they’re smart
- more on small
- Small is the new big
- See you in London?
- Live by the cow…
- Changing minds is different from surprising people
- We don’t have to care, part I
- We don’t have to care, part II
- So Seth, you haven’t been on Swedish TV lately
May 2005
- worth way more than it costs…
- A great quote from Oscar Wilde
- Three posts you might have overlooked
- A misplaced vowel
- Cookies you can feel good about
- More on lying politicians
- Is J. D. Salinger a Liar? Are You?
- ChangeThis, reborn
- I’ll be at metacool today
- “I just write this stuff down”
- People like telling stories
- My Secret Project and the Bounty
- This is real marketing
- A blog I liked
- Speaking of podcasts
- Two more thoughts about podcasting
- Thinking about podcasting
- 55,000,000
- On the other hand
- Web pages are so ugly!
- Search is lousy
- Do you know Rich…
- The Marketplace Radio Interview
- The Placebo Affect*
- We need immediate action!
- If you have a review
- The book tour comes to a blog near you
- $17 billion a year
- share of wallet
- A letter from Kentucky
- The Knut Masco story
- Another story in photos
- This site is now run by autoblogger
- Telling a story with a picture
- Michael Pollock is a liar
- Fundable… a next big thing?
- Whatever happened to ChangeThis?
- Visualizing your story
- What will be on your tombstone
- More downgrading
- Stagnation is easy, change is hard
- Who do you trust?
- Welcome back!
- Tom filters…
- Are you checking on yourself?
- Affiliate sales of Knock Knock
- Everybody has a doppelganger
- Seth’s New eBook is ready
- Hostage to the fans (and the bureaucracy)
- Is Steve Jobs a hero?
- The one and only
- How cool is this
- Mark’s probably right
- Radio’s next
- Same people, different moment
- Do you judge a book by its cover?
- If you have a web site
- We and They
- Almost a year ago…
- The end of the cosmic jukebox
- What I learned at summer camp
- public service announcement
- Perfect
- On Critics, Criticism and Remarkability
- The Reviews are trickling in…
- What Every Good Marketer Knows
- The New Digital Divide
- It’s national tell-a-friend-about-blogs week!
- Seth’s favorite blog posts, part II
- Funny 2
- TED in the UK
- Brownian motion at work
- I bet you think this post is about you
- Boring and successful means boring and cheap
- Hello
- So a rabbi, a priest, a talking duck and a blonde walk into a bar…
April 2005
- Nouns and verbs
- Things that change
- Of course you’re not a commercial photographer
- Target gets remarkable
- Vindicated!
- “Airport Barber Stylists”
- Creative trademark infringement
- When advertisers insist on interruption
- Playing by (and losing by) the rules
- Do as I do?
- Heaven jokes
- Race for the top, race to the bottom
- Amazon changes
- “We’ve done the right thing all along”
- What’s the always?
- Are your people like your customers?
- Making your sneezers into heroes
- Don’t tell me you make a commodity
- When a word is worth $1,000 (each)
- Coming to an NBA game near you
- So, go ahead and make the hole square!
- A surprise from Denmark
- Sorry, we’re full
- REAL–Compared to what? The Pale Imitation
- No relation between price and quality
- more on Daylight Saving Time (dumb cows!)
- “This time, it’s different”
- public service announcement
- Sometimes, The Long Tail isn’t there
- Hugh says it better
March 2005
- Outrageous!
- Noses cut to spite faces department
- Does language matter more?
- Death plus a fine
- People or systems?
- Adventures in travel
- Five things to do today
- You can always be mean later (respect works)
- Apple’s newest ipod launches first of April
- Marketing is where you find it
- Tito’s Vodka: How A Story Can Make Things Better
- Kind words…
- Please come to a seminar in my office
- Who’s watching whom?
- You too can be famous!
- Shortcuts
- Spec it… done.
- You Can’t Change the Game
- Amazon’s Time Machine
- On the short list
- RSS Addict!
- Questions for Seth Godin
- Astonishing
- Godin’s Leveraged Effort Curve
- End of discussion
- Think about parsley
- Randall on a trillion commercials
- Good news about marketers and RSS
- An interview with Hugh
- Boy am I in trouble.
- Skeptico: Five apples
- My Wifi Rant
- A Warning About Ostrich Farming
- Cheap, loud and smart
- When your customers hold you back
- Pre-bankruptcy marketing
- Stop for a second
- MBA mail
- What happens next?
- Again with the RSS?
- More books worth reading!
- Bedtime reading?
- Where is the rainbow? (long tail, part 2)
- Thinking about the Long Tail (part 1)
- More on the mba book list
- A new tool for raving egomaniacal authors
- Blogging doesn’t matter
- Part of the 30?
- BATMAN: in Lego
- David Schatsky: Cookie Grumbling
- Foaf
- The 30 books, part 1
- Good news and bad news
- Here comes Blog Spam
- File under: stats that cannot be true
- The Best Posts of 2005 (so far… 10 weeks, 10 posts)
- Very good is not nearly good enough
- First Time Here?
- If they didn’t do this on purpose…
- Finding the wall
- Would you/could you have done it?
- Watching the blogosphere
- Endless data
- More on Eyetrack
- Eyesite
- Milton Glaser threw me out
- Putting the card in upside down
- The six percent solution
- Excerpt from my new book
- My new book, my new blog
- Brand loyalty
- Expectations Matter (Part 1 of my visit to Apple)
- Treat different customers differently (part 2 of my visit to Apple)
- Don’t Shave That Yak!
- The Tolstoy Rule
- The ever-worsening curse of the cog
- The power of habit
- Unusual?
- Before & After, the magazine worth reading
February 2005
- Step by step
- The secret army of ad clickers
- Great moments in corporate sliminess
- The Walmart Paradox
- The missing link
- Something Extra
- Some people like being underdogs
- Well, it’s product specific
- Blogs make everyone louder
- Joe Taylor gets it right about little steps
- Sooner or later, it’s about better
- Phil Lempert on RFID
- In search of the big win
- Today’s whiteboard session
- More on bad ideas
- The persistence of really bad ideas
- Need vs. Want
- Doing the iPod shuffle
- The new promotional mantra
- What bloggers do next…
- Jobs you didn’t knew existed
- A new terminology
- Great moments in marketing doublespeak
- Who decides? The New Middle.
- Wow. Thanks for buying all those books!
- Banner of the week.
- ChangeThis vindicated
- Cost of Hard Drive Space
- So, what will it take to succeed?
- Why this “Internet thing” is just starting
- Special Super Bowl Post (Blink)
- Amazon and Coffee
- How does a company with SOUL respond to a mistake?
- Last chance for my seminar
- I don’t get it
- the Purple Hotel
- What do you do after you make a mistake?
- Great job (last part, for now)
- Great job (part 2)
- Are you looking for a great job? (part 1)
- I’ve been remiss
- Mitch Joel discovers…
- Fix your computer
- Welcome to Seth’s Blog
- When the echo chamber is everywhere
January 2005
- Redundant restatements
- Seminar changed
- Seminars: Announcing the Whiteboard Sessions
- And then moments later
- Not just local, but vivid
- Who, exactly, makes the little tiny gloves?
- BitTorrent part 2
- What you need to know about BitTorrent (part 1)
- The Google Watch Continues
- 165 Apple commercials
- Warren Buffet on Gratitude
- It’s the list!
- Juxtapositions on Demand via Mark Hurst
- Not even close–the worst mission statements…
- More about words
- Thinking about words (part 1)
- In the blink of an eye
- Do you know Arthur Rubin?
- Joi explains it all for you
- Numanuma
- Sell Side?
- Artifacts
- Care
- Grazefest 04!
- And it’s even a dial phone
- Seems pretty late and pretty lame
- The Selfish American
- Rules for failure
- “A loyalty card is a piece of plastic”
- The end of candor
- Do not use for personal hygiene
- 25,000 copies sold
- In violent agreement!
- Mob justice
- No one knows you’re a dog
- My oversight
- How to Sell Anything To Anyone
- Is there a “search engine industry”?
- Speaking of Apple
- It’s about going to the edges
- The myth of the CMO
- The HughTrain
- More reviews
- Is there a future in selling digital words?
- The Selfless Spammer!
- Stuff I don’t get
2004 279
December 2004
- News from Australia
- Yes, it’s true
- The other side of the shards of glass coin
- Now in menthol, too!
- Thought for the Solstice
- A new hierarchy
- Blog disclosure
- More on politics and marketing
- Sometimes, Purple Cows are
- The Music Industry: Aspen Report
- Add to the list!
- All politics is…
- Oh, why didn’t you say so?
- The top 1,000 things to know
- Voice recognition and change
- Michael Crichton on global warming
- Guy Kawasaki on bozos and hockey
- Elephants! Doing the Impossible
- Google Suggests
- Why ask why?
- Holy Hot Air Balloon, Malcolm!
- RSS is being built in to email clients
- public service announcement
- The Best Seth Godin Posts of the Year (2004)
- The Yellow Pages was the Internet of its day
- Rob Walker nails BzzAgent
- Just in time for the holidays
- Reader Mail (part 2)
- Reader Mail (part 1)
- Sleeping at night
- Turkey Bingo
November 2004
- Upgrading the blog experience
- “The ads might become irritating…”
- My new google idea
- should the IT guys run your website?
- If you have a yahoo account
- Thanks, it’s working!
- Hoodia!
- Summer Camp?
- The limits of ecommerce?
- private goes public, again
- Grilled Cheese
- Thinking about digital media
- A cow in more ways than one
- Free Godin ebook
- A Little Like Francisco Franco
- Abraham Lincoln and the new Travelocity
- Some people collect comic books
- a billion here, a billion there
October 2004
- What happens when it’s all on tape?
- Beware the CEO blog
- Limits
- Safe is Risky
- Is there a right way?
- why do these things spread?
- The Selfish Marketer (part XIV)
- More Malcolm: The Talent Myth
- Don’t tell me you’re not in the fashion business.
- Just ask Dave!
- The most important book of the year
- The next blog thing
- “But I might learn something if I read that”
- On copyright and on spectrum
- The newspaper of record
- Holy smokes!
- Getting Backwards
- HELLO, my name is Scott
- the disposable restaurant
- Why is this surprising?
- Quality is not a given
- The edge beyond Geranimals
September 2004
- Book Em Danno!
- JudysBook
- Now that there’s a name for it
- Three kinds of blogs
- Less than a Decade
- If someone steals your car…
- More proof that TV is dying
- Reality TV is the new Dot Com
- Number Ten
- Lies to protect the status quo
- The edge is always moving.
- Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership
- So long to Fast Company
- More on woot
- A modest customer service proposal
- Are the cameras on?
- You’ve seen this before, no doubt
- Less
- One more thought about the echo chamber
- The echo chamber (part 2)
- The echo chamber (part 1)
- The last Dobbs Ferry Seminar
August 2004
- It happened again
- what happens when storage is free?
- John Battelle on upside down advertising
- Brand new ebooklet for free
- Brand New Tom Peters, just published
- Shape of things to come?
- A rare plug
- Gnome Way!
- good news and bad
- The All Powerful Oz
- Do you have a black and white TV?
- A note to subscribers
- Time to take action?
- Seth can’t type
- ChangeThis is now live.
- And from the Russian judge…
- Yes, words matter.
- Time for another seminar
- Starting Over
July 2004
- Not sure which is more surprising…
- The Cliff
- How far…
- Seth Godin: Spammer
- Are blogs backward?
- Purple Cows as a force for good
- More of a rollout than a launch
- Disappearing channel scarcity
- Did they spell my name right?
- So, the Alexa fan club…
- So, when did you last visit Hotbot?
- Maybe I’m biased…
- More blending
- What is a Plog?
- Conference in November
- Maybe you shouldn’t ask
- More on Blended
- But is it a vegetable?
- Blended
- Thank You.
- Better living through hyperbole
- Jeff Cerny’s insight
- The problem with search engine optimization
June 2004
- The $400 model car
- Very Pressurising
- Tradition!
- The Provincetown Helmet Insight
- Cheaters (part 2)
- Cheaters (part 1)
- Not the kind of purple cow I meant.
- My site is busted
- Brand Journalism?
- In the end, copy wins
- On purpose?
- Amazon forgets!
- Opt in, Opt out, Opt cheat…
- Doing it on purpose
- Needles, haystacks & magnetism
- The Free Prize Outside
- Audiences are not a tool
- Are we all journalists?
May 2004
- The Curse of Great Expectations
- The next time…
- Eureka?
- The Ringtone Magazine
- A federal offense?
- Flying on Song
- Five years from now…
- BzzAgent’s Free Prize Inside Contest Blog
- Revenge of the spam filters
- On thinking big…
- Happy Birthday, Brad
- Be Bold!
- Why can’t it be fun?
- Who do you trust?
- Copy as decoration
- Bright red ideas!
- Please come to a seminar in my office
- Next stop: Branding Blog
- Ripping the lid off ideaviruses
- marketers are neanderthals
- Have you seen Flickr
- Forbes.com reviews the new book
- the online bus tour continues
- Next step on the blog tour
- Free Prize reviews are posted
- SHAMELESS Free Prizes
- Price War!
- Now shipping
- The “final” Free Prize
- what happens when storage is free?
- Meditating on the free prize…
- The clowns respond!
- You’ll find me at the 800CEOREAD Blog
- You’re very smart
- Is it still irony
- On the edge with Decent Marketing
- What does your brand sound like?
- Brand Autopsy–the tour continues
- Hitting the (virtual) road
- Why did it take me so long…
- I’m an idiot (read these blogs)
April 2004
- A free eBook for loyal readers
- Differentiation and Segmentation
- Banana Guard!
- Bigger than blogging
- just cause it’s weird…
- Prematurely edited!
- Stick with me kid
- Tracking the conversation
- People don’t know how to search
- Some bars are higher than others
- Rob Walker’s brilliant insight
- Worthwhile is the name
- How hard is it…
- It’s going to get ugly
- Google’s big opportunity
- The problems with April 1
- What does radio have to do with anything?
- The end of mass marketing
March 2004
- World Peace through Bovine Humor
- Apple is a fashion company
- The Tandoori Free Prize
- Become a Bzzagent?
- More on crankiness
- The New Google
- Maybe I’m just cranky
- Purple Turkey?
- The state of the art?
- The way it’s supposed to work
- What it says on the label
- What is the Free Prize?
- Could be a great summer (interns wanted)
- A feud with Tufte?
- A site worth stealing?
- Worth a thousand words?
- The New Scarlet Letter?
- My Prius and the Parking Garage
- If stupidity is against the law
- I’ve made the switch to RSS
- The price of wow…
- Like this…
- Qualibit!
- Cool News finds the Purple Cow
- March 25th at my office
February 2004
- Fred Wilson toots
- Easier than RSS
- Purple Cow and a Red Urinal
- More proof of the end of the TV-Industrial complex
- 500 entries so far!
- Another seminar in my office
- One of those magical ideaviruses
- The problem with anonymous (part VII)
- Looking for a few remarkable stories
- Feedback on feedback
- An amazing content bargain
- A watershed
- Trying to figure out Orkut (part 2)
- The more you give away
- Probably more than you wanted on Pepsi
- No purchase required
- The beginning of the end?
- The thing about the Yellow Pages
- Rank your teachers?
- Do I care what my friends search for?
- 26,000 Alcoholics a day
- You will like this site
- I love this statistic
- Small world…
- Two great questions: #2
- Two great questions: #1
January 2004
- Michael’s menu response
- Amazon now does restaurants
- The difference between the web and email
- Actually, he’s way more eloquent than Courtney Love
- open source permission marketing
- When people have limited data
- I’m not a doctor and I don’t even play one on TV
- The post office doesn’t know…
- My site…
- Turning Naming upside down
- A Major New Project
- Qa 3
- True story (about the power of marketing)
- The Jan. 8 Non-Profit seminar…
- Purple Cow thinking comes to Detroit
- Fog City News
2003 207
December 2003
- Christmas Card Spam
- Pope on!
- 2 new seminars!
- This new washer is even colored purple
- End of the year lists
- Coming up for air
- How to get a Purple job
- Been looking for my Fast Company columns?
- I had a dream…
- Disagreeing with myself
- 800 x 600?
- Forrester Research
- Rikard shared this tool with me…
- Like Google adwords, but different
- Don’s free ebook project
- Free ebooklet!
- Are you an enthusiast?
November 2003
- On ideaviruses
- A purple bank?
- My post about the ipod
- A Purple Cow?
- Cufflinks
- Hard to imagine
- Bush’s Poodle?
- I had to delete this entry
- Civil War
- THE MEATRIX
- It’s bad enough
- They just write them down…
- Thank you.
- Thanks, Tim
- Red found this one.
- Weird, twisted riff…
- Re webpage optimization
October 2003
- It’s not a cow if I don’t think it’s a cow
- Say it ain’t so, Jerry!
- Smart entrepreneurial advice
- Yet another idea worth stealing
- Today’s Free Idea
- Pom Wonderful
- Astonishing new functionality from Amazon
- Free hot spots are a Purple Cow.
- My note to Susan
- Windham mountain and sharp-eyed readers
- This is how ideas spread
- Unrelated web news
- I don’t usually point to websites I like…
- My friend Miller
- Post 2
- White Collar Spam
- What would happen…
- Traffic doesn’t matter
- Not just for formal testing
- Note to my Italian readers…
- Business card of the week
- What happens when everyone has…
- Easy to start…
- Add a zero
September 2003
- Why Web Ads Don’t Work
- Does the Web make you mean?
- Helping Jack with web design
- Some people still don’t get the permission thing
- The DMA steps in it again
- Liars, cheats and fools
- Candidate Camera
- A fascinating experiment
- Everything You Need to Know About Being Selfish
- Gasp
- How can you not love this!
- Are you saying what you think?
- I won’t be there
- The greatest thing…
- Are you thinking about RSS?
- fun facts about purple at kraft
- Lesson from yesterday’s seminar
- Far Better Than I Could Have Said It
- Audio… the next frontier?
- Messages (and messengers)
August 2003
- Purple Cows Gone Bad
- I drink a lot of tea
- Wiki, blogs, weak ties and what you need to know right now
- At least they’re not Procrastinators
- Word on the street
- Purple Cows keep showing up
- Viral Subtitles
- It’s not everyday
- Breathtaking
- Beware This New Spam
- David Byrne on PowerPoint!
- Information is where you find it
- I keep coming back to Cool News
- From my friend Marcia, a little Zen
- No room left
- So much for branding
- Best summary yet of Purple Cow
- Its easy to be
- So who is laci
- Talking to ourselves Too much
- The big difference between marketing a product and a candidate
- As long as we’re talking about Google…
- What should Google do now?
- Thomas Dolby is a genius
- A long time ago…
- Liquid Democracy
- Spam of the Week
July 2003
- A big virus
- I’d like you to meet Joi Ito
- The polar bear is real. Really.
- Sharp-eyed analysts…
- Maybe I’m just in a bad mood today
- A story worth thinking about
- I don’t make this stuff up!
- The last workshop (for a while)
- The next big thing?
- I liked this…
- A good ideavirus
- Politics and the Internet (Dean isn’t “raising money on the Internet”)
June 2003
- How wrong is the DMA? How right is Verizon (huh!)
- A purple magazine
- Naming a business
- Marketers are lying scum
- 1001 i passed a
- Remarkable is where you choose to make it
- The difference between Apple and Amazon
- I got a note about keywords today
- Next stop, Phoenix
- The bestselling pdf ebook in the world?
- It’s not purple if it’s not worth remarking about
- Breaking news #1
- News tidbit 2
- Another voice in the wilderness
- Scary reader mail
- The difference between information and data
- Harvesting Chickens
May 2003
- Blurbs and Cows
- Live and in person
- The problem with “self-regulation”
- Does a simple form matter?
- True Story
- Maybe you should change your name
- Price War!
- Moooo York Times!
- Half sold out
- Just what I was thinking!
- A reading list
- Finding your own otaku
- An ad that’s remarkable
- Time to start milking the cow (part 2)
- Time to stop milking the cow?
- The For-Charity Version…
- Free! Disembodied voices.
- A Nike Insight (the Cow again)
- The Death of TV (cont’d.)
- The event of the season!
- Manual as marketing tool
- The power of a hit
- Thanks.
- Business is never static
- Free First Week Bonus
- Can Cows Blush?
- Countdown and update
- It works. It’s fun. It’s yellow (and black).
- Hear me live.
April 2003
- It’s a beautiful night in DC
- Overlooked in the hoopla
- One Week Left to Nominate
- Spam spam spam (part 1)
- Spam spam spam (part 2)
- Spam spam spam (part 3)
- Spam spam spam (part 4)
- Now we’re talking complicated!
- Less than $13!
- Today is Astroboy’s Birthday!
March 2003
- Are you remarkable enough to be in my new eBook?
- I’m probably not supposed to tell you about this
- Madonna decides she likes file sharing
- No, it’s not April Fools day yet
- Have you ever changed your mind online?
- Pay you a nickel?
- Upstairs is for thinking…
- Sometimes the elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top
- Another cow auction
- More cool mail
- Less than 20 minutes
- Udderly breathtaking
- A correction and a question
- No, she’s not a maniac.
- New on the Purple Cow Website!
- You can come to my workshop for free
- Announcing the Purple Cow workshop
- I’ve been on the wagon for a long time
- Free bonus chapter of my new book
- Today’s top story
- Twinkie cake!
- I took a lot of flak about my story about NOBS…
- A blockbuster in the making
February 2003
- 185,000 visits later, an ideavirus hits critical mass
- So, how did a chocolate bar turn into a Purple Cow?
January 2003
2002 50
December 2002
November 2002
- When people become cogs
- I probably have better things to do
- The power (and the fear) of self determination
- My friend Lionel died Friday
October 2002
- Who says creativity is dead?
- Spend the day at my office?
- Is tricking people a valid business strategy?
September 2002
- Well, almost what I would have done…
- A Blog I like
- Sometimes it feels like…
- Ironic Marketing Award of the Week
August 2002
July 2002
June 2002
- So, if you could design a new kind of record business…
- Where are the optimists?
- Robert Heinlein said…
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- Stopping spam (in our lifetime)
- A big smile from CD Baby
- Adventures in the Music Business (part 2)
- Adventures in the Music Business (part 1 of many)
- The Loch Ness Monster of Internet Marketing: The Gold Box is missing
- The Gold Box is not earthshattering, but I LOVE IT
- Slashdot and NPR
- Turning good deeds viral (and winning free money)
May 2002
April 2002
- Unreal estate?
- Speaking–Live, in person and free
- Proof that the media assault is ubiquitous
- April Fool’s webpage of the year