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Category: Self Help

  • As a MARKETEER are you making the same MISTAKE?

    The following marketing insight has been adopted from Seth Godin’s book All Marketers Are Liars

    We’d like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.”

  • Why is STORYTELLING the most necessary prerequisite to MARKETING?

    The following marketing insight has been adopted from Seth Godin’s book All Marketers Are Liars

    Stories (not ideas, not features, not benefits) are what spread from person to person.”

  • Is your CHILD this lucky to have you as FATHER?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers

    My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”

  • Do you want to know whether you will be SUCCESSFUL?Pass this test..

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers

    Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

  • Can someone really be a BORN GENIUS?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers

    Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”

  • Are you coming back from WORK highly DISSATISFIED?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers

    Those three things autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

  • Are you too making the MISTAKE of chasing too many CUSTOMERS?

    The following self help and marketing insight has been adopted from Seth Godin’s book Purple Cow

    Do you have the email addresses of the 20 percent of your customer base that loves what you do? If not, start getting them. If you do, what could you make for these customers that would be superspecial?”

  • Why BEING AVERAGE is NOT an option in modern day MARKETING?

    The following self help and marketing insight has been adopted from Seth Godin’s book Purple Cow

    The old rule was this: CREATE SAFE, ORDINARY PRODUCTS AND COMBINE THEM WITH GREAT MARKETING. The new rule is: CREATE REMARKABLE PRODUCTS THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE SEEK OUT.”

  • Which is that SECURE JOB that is FUTURE PROOF?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Seth Godin’s book Purple Cow

    In your career, even more than for a brand, being safe is risky. The path to lifetime job security is to be remarkable.”

  • Why being REMARKABLE may NOT be your CUP of TEA?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Seth Godin’s book Purple Cow

    If you’re remarkable, it’s likely that some people won’t like you. That’s part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise–ever. The best the timid
    can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.”