About Seth Godin
|
| Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of six books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list. |
Recent Article:
The Galapagos Post Office
- For more on Seth Godin visit www.sethgodin.com
Not sure what you can do with this story, but here you go:
On a deserted beach on a small island near the equator, there's a barrel and some ziploc bags. This post office has been here for more than a hundred years. It was built by whalers who needed a way to get letters home to England. The idea was that the last stop you would make on your way home was to the post office. You'd pick up whatever letters were there and bring them back to England.
I dropped two postcards in the barrel ten days ago (no stamps, of course). They arrived on Wednesday. I'm told some notes take as long as a month or two. Apparently, you can send a letter anywhere in the world and count on it showing up. There's actually a shortage of mail... more people want to carry the letters then write them.
Ideas spread in funny ways. In this case, the joy of the person who helps out by delivering the note is probably greater than that of the sender. And the story is so irresistible for both parties that it can't help but spread. By word of mouth or by blog...
Like this article? Share it with your friends
 |
Related Articles |
|
 The marine iguana
|
| |
 Marine iguanas swim. They eat stuff in shallow water, which is surprising behavior for an iguana.
|
|
The Galapagos Post Office
|
| |
Not sure what you can do with this story, but here you go:
|
|
Postal Service Postcard Mailing Guidelines
|
| |
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has different postage guidelines dependent upon how fast you want your postcard delivered; the size of the postcard; whether or not you are a non-profit organization and the n...
|
|
So I Just Wasted 60 Minutes of System Time
|
| |
 This rarely happens to me so when it does, I notice it. And - in my effort to write some of my tricks about work-life balance, I thought I'd call this one out, especially since it was totally my fault.
|
|
Planes, Trains, and AutomobilesShare
|
| |
By the time you read this I'll be in New York (right now I'm on a plane.) If you follow me (or any of my partners) on twitter, you will quickly understand why a Boulder entrepreneur recently referred to twitter as ...
|
|
|
Seth Godin Books
More Seth Godin
|
|
![[Get Copyright Permissions]](http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif){kind=small}
