Seth Godin: Lessons from the Master on Winning Freelance Work, Getting Paid, and Being Recognized

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Seth Godin’s interview show notes

Seth Godin is the author of 18 international bestselling books and is best known for his strategic thoughts on marketing. Seth loves creating a ruckus and challenging the status quo with books like Linchpin, Tribes, Purple Cow, The Dip, and Permission Marketing.

In this podcast you will learn:

  • How to avoid being a poor freelancer and a bad entrepreneur

  • How to become the one and only freelancer in your field and win work over the competition

  • Why you can make a lot of money as a freelancer building your business on the smallest viable audience

Seth Godin on freelancing

  • Why freelancers are not the same as entrepreneurs

  • How to become the one and only freelancer in your field

  • How to feed your creative desire and get paid fairly

  • Find out what drew Seth Godin into freelancing and why he left his Director of Marketing role at Yahoo

  • How Seth found his distinctive voice as a freelancer, avoided becoming a middle man, and went on to sell a million copies of a book

  • Why you should find customers with a problem first, before convincing them they have a problem

  • How to find an industry to excel as a freelancer and why you shouldn’t be scared of the dip

  • Why you might not need to live in a hub or big city to succeed as a freelancer and an online community might be the supplement you need

  • The biggest mistake 

  • The most powerful phrase to use as a freelancer to turn down work 

  • Seth’s advice for starting out a freelance career today

  • Why Seth looks up to Steven Pressfield author of The War of Art

  • Hear what Seth’s statement is about marketing today and why he’s written This is Marketing

Being a respected contributor as a freelancer is to somehow develop a voice, technology, technique or method that’s yours and your alone.
— Seth Godin

Seth Godin on writing

  • Why Seth doesn’t believe in writer’s block

  • How Seth created a system to make writing a daily habit

  • What Seth’s best monetary investment as a writer is

  • Seth’s advice to become a better writer

I don’t believe in writer’s block. I believe this is an effort. The way you do good writing is by doing bad writing, and waiting for good writing is foolish.
— Seth Godin

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About our guest, Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the author of 18 international bestselling books and is best known for his strategic thoughts on marketing. Seth loves creating a ruckus and challenging the status quo with books like Linchpin, Tribes, Purple Cow, The Dip, and Permission Marketing. Seth has been founder and CEO of two companies, Squidoo and YoYodyne, the latter which was acquired by Yahoo! Finance in the 90s.

About the host, Adam Rogers

Adam Rogers is the host and producer of the Boston Content Podcast. By day, he is a content marketer at Shopify, the ecommerce platform. By night, he is still Adam Rogers but it's nighttime. He loves writing, but he's sure it hates him. He's a lover of books, music, guitars, and his wife Lacey.

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