Unleashing the Idea Virus

By: Seth Godin

Narrated by: Seth Godin

Counter to traditional marketing wisdom, which tries to count, measure, and manipulate the spread of information, Seth Godin argues that information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. Godin calls this powerful customer-to-customer dialogue the ideavirus.

In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin examines how companies like Napster and Hotmail have successfuly launched ideaviruses. He offers a recipe for creating your own ideavirus, and shows how businesses can use ideavirus marketing to succeed in a world that doesn't want to hear it anymore from traditional marketers.©2001 Do You Zoom, Inc., All Rights Reserved; (P)2001 Simon & Schuster Audio, All Rights Reserved, SOUND IDEAS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.

First time reading it in 2023

The book has certainly dated a bit and missed on major changes in the market like - digital marketing, the rise of Google and etc. But even so, the philosophies it shared are still highly applicable.

It was more basic than my expectation

I love many books written by Seth Godin. I got this audio-book to listen during my daily drive to work. The book disappointed me with very shallow talk. It didn't have in depth knowledge that I sought. Too basic, too short...

This book Changed my life

Wow, Seth is an original thinker~ I'm listening to this book again and still, I'm learning. For sure one of my favorites and I'm following all these ideas.

Idea Virus

If you have a great product and you want to try a different approach to marketing it to the masses (well, your demographic) then you should get this book. O.K, so after you downloaded it you wil discover that the PDF written version is free (www.ideavirus.com) - you won't care though because to hear the book makes it all the more relevant. Seth inspires, educates and entertains and his book is like a good wine, it gets better each time you return to it.

The future of marketing

I really enjoyed this book. Godin is right on the money when he says your product, your idea has to replicate itself. I think Godin is ahead of his time and those that follow (creating ideaviruses) will do well!