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Book details for Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable Buy Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
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Seth Godin

Marketing

Sales rank 39,036 Customers rating (based on 213 reviews)
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Brief description of Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last? Face it, the checklist of tired 'P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed -Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few-aren't working anymore. There's an exceptionally important 'P' that has to be added to the list. It's Purple Cow. Cows, after you've seen one, or two, or ten, are boring. A Purple Cow, though...now that would be something. Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable. Every day, consumers come face to face with a lot of boring stuff-a lot of brown cows-but you can bet they won't forget a Purple Cow. And it's not a marketing function that you can slap on to your product or service. Purple Cow is inherent. It's built right in, or it's not there. Period. In Purple Cow, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for marketers who want to help create products that are worth marketing in the first place.

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PublisherPortfolio Hardcover
Release date05/2003
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List price$20.95
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Comments by amazon customers about Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Nothing Substancial There At All
I bought the book with high hopes but after reading it felt that it lacked anything substantial. The concepts presented are very simple and there's nothing new presented in it. There are about 1000 books that are better on branding, marketing, and transforming a business. I would definitely save the money on this one.


Overrated, Generic & Forgettable
I agree with the majority of the points made in the book but I didn't gain anything by reading it. I can quote books that I have read in high school school but I can't quote anything from this book. It was very generic information that isn't unique to the book. That is ironic because the PURPLE COW is centered around being uniques. This book is everything but unique or special. It drags on even though it is very short. I can summarize the entire book for you: TV and mass media were new frontiers 50 years ago so fortunes could be made by putting a lot of money into advertising mediocre products. Today people have seen it all so they don't notice ads anymore. To be successful you need a PURPLE COW, meaning something shocking that causes people to tell their friends. Word of mouth is the BEST marketing because it is effective, economical and hard for competitors to duplicate. Most important it comes from a trusted source, your friend. THE END!

great read!
If you are interested in promoting your brand or business, this is a great book for you. I really enjoyed it and feel that I learned alot from it.

great book on being exceptional
I received this book as a gift from my boss. It's easy to read and goes very quickly. Definitely a book that is more about big ideas/concepts than specifics, although it does have specifics on how you can be exceptional. Several good examples from varying industries. You should be able to apply this information to your business regardless of its details. Every business can use things that are more exceptional.

Purple Cow
It took forever for this author to get to the meat of what this book was about. I would not recommend this book to anyone else.



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