Monday, April 22, 2019
MarketVolt’s Monday Mash-Up
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Quick Read
Seth Godin on “Great Marketing”
I love Seth Godin’s blog. Short posts. Big, useful ideas. Here’s a recent post that gets to the essence of great marketing.
Recommended Browsing
EQ Offers Great, Unique Content for Business People
I was honored to speak (and then do some follow-up video sessions) last week at EQ Leadership Labs, a business conference in St. Louis. EQ covers the startup community in St. Louis, but you don’t have to be from STL to find value on the EQ website. EQ is “passionate about sharing the journeys and best practices of startups, entrepreneur support organizations and other individuals and groups.” Great articles and videos deliver on that promise and make this one of my go-to websites for business insight.
Recommended Viewing and Reading
Tim Sanders Preaches the Power of Love
The keynote speaker at the EQ conference (see above) was Tim Sanders. In 2002, Sanders published his first (and still his most famous) book: Love is the Killer App. Here’s the video he released to promote the book and introduce the key concept: We find success when we help others
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes died on this day in 1616. In his great novel Don Quixote, he wrote:
“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”
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Until next time, enjoy the rest of this week and the weekend.
Tom