
A quick understanding of the power of seeing an idea
What happens on the X axis doesn't stay on the X axis.
A map might be more profound than you give it credit for. We make assumptions about what it is and what it represents.
The Quincunx is everywhere
Rogers production adoption lifecycle makes a lot more sense once you see it this way.
Geoff Moore's classic work on how ideas actually spread
Discover how NFTs, crypto, miniskirts and electric cars all follow the same pattern
The Dip is real. If you see it coming, you can be prepared
Half of all the views and sales of things like books and music and videos now come from titles that weren't even carried by bookstores, videostores or record stores 20 years ago.
Positioning is a service. We show up to help people find the choice the prefer, NOT to somehow cajole them that we're better than what they actually wanted.
An introduction and overview of Unleashing the Ideavirus, updated for a new decade
There are five (almost six) graphs that changed the way I see our culture and how our ideas spread:
Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations
Moore's Crossing the Chasm
The Gartner Hype Cycle
Anderson's The Long Tail
My take on The Tip
and Trout and Ries' work on Positioning
Each of these graphs leads to an a-ha, a chance to do better work and to cause the change we seek to make.
Often, though, we get stuck. Stuck because it's easy to nod and say we 'get it' but the picture might get in the way of our understanding.
This 28 minute course will make it easier to find the wisdom.
It also comes with a extra 9 minute rant on the Ideavirus. Along with a link on how to get your copy for free.
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Seth Godin is the author of some of the bestselling marketing books of all time. In this fast-moving course, he explains the five graphs that give us an innate understanding of how ideas spread, how we find customers and most of all, how we serve people by helping them find what they're looking for. A graph we don't really understand is not the map and guide it could be. This quick course helps you see what you've been missing.