All Marketers Are Liars – my recap

All Marketers Are LiarsI read a lot of Seth Godin on the Internet, mostly at his blog, but I’ve never bought one of his books. For my birthday and Christmas I asked for two of them:

  1. All Marketers Are Liars
  2. Meatball Sundae

Godin wrote on his blog a while back that all the information in his books are also available for free on his blog, all you have to do is sift through the posts to find it. While that is true, it’s like saying all the ingredients to make mushroom risotto are available in the grocery store and all I have to do is buy them and prepare it. Going to a restaurant is quicker and easier so for the same reason, I asked for these two books.

I only received All Marketers are Liars and I haven’t picked up Meatball Sundae yet but I think a combination of watching Seth on the TED Web site, reading numerous reviews and keeping up with his blog, reading the book wouldn’t add much value to what I’ve already discovered. All Marketers Are Liars is an older book and wasn’t discussed on his site as much as his newer titles so giving it a read seemed like a good investment. In all I read it over two weekends and his style of writing is very conversational which I enjoy. Continue reading

Meatball Sundae

Seth Godin puts out books like … well … fill in your own analogy here. His latest, Meatball Sundae discusses the effects of the demise of traditional marketing efforts and the growth of new methods of getting the word out like online campaigns, viral e-mails and the like.

One of my favourite authors/speakers is Tim Sanders and he recently participated in a teleconference with Seth Godin about the book and its topic. And because Tim preaches a theory I subscribe to, bizlove, he posted the teleconference on his blog!

It’s just over an hour long and is chalk full of good stuff that will definitely expand your horizon on topics like marketing, blogging and core products.

Tim’s posting is here and there’s no reason you can’t put this on your iPod and spend a trip to and from work listening to it.