Learning to see how ideas spread: Five graphs (Udemy.com)
Finding the wisdom in five and a half graphs that explain how ideas spread
Created by: Seth Godin
Last updated January 2024
What you will learn
- The five big ideas: Production adoption, The Chasm, Gartner Hype, The Long Tail, and Positioning
- Why we get confused by time and distributions
- How to really and truly understand how and way your ideas can spread
- The smallest viable audience
Course Description
There are five (almost six) graphs that changed the way I see our culture and how our ideas spread:
Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations
Moore's Crossing the Chasm
The Gartner Hype Cycle
Anderson's The Long Tail
My take on The Tip
and Trout and Ries' work on Positioning
Each of these graphs leads to an a-ha, a chance to do better work and to cause the change we seek to make.
Often, though, we get stuck. Stuck because it's easy to nod and say we 'get it' but the picture might get in the way of our understanding.
This 28 minute course will make it easier to find the wisdom.
It also comes with a extra 9 minute rant on the Ideavirus. Along with a link on how to get your copy for free.
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Seth Godin is the author of some of the bestselling marketing books of all time. In this fast-moving course, he explains the five graphs that give us an innate understanding of how ideas spread, how we find customers and most of all, how we serve people by helping them find what they're looking for. A graph we don't really understand is not the map and guide it could be. This quick course helps you see what you've been missing.
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
179 Reviews
Seth Godin
World-renowned entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker
More than 100,000 students online...
Seth is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker who knows what it takes to succeed in business and to be your own boss. In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn).
The penultimate one is called THIS IS MARKETING and it's been a #1 bestseller in its category in the USA, Italy and Korea. And out in late 2020 is THE PRACTICE. Find out more at seths.blog/ThePractice
Though renowned for his writing and speaking, Seth also founded two companies, Squidoo and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo!). This real-world entrepreneurial experience is what makes him the ideal teacher for those who wish to forge their own career path.
By focusing on everything from effective marketing and leadership, to the spread of ideas and changing everything, Seth has been able to motivate and inspire countless people around the world.
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Reviews
By Ric Payne on 4/7/2024
The first 12 modules were excellent as per usual for anything Seth creates. The bonus module 12 continually stopped to the point it was virtually unwatchable. There must be something wrong with the streaming.
By Alexa Rohn on 2/6/2024
For creatives, entrepreneurs and people who want to do work that matters...there are few better ways to spend an hour of your time. I left this course feeling recharged for the project I'm working on and excited to figure out better ways to serve my own niche audience in the long tail. Great stuff.
By Jonathan Titus on 1/5/2024
Seth helps me carve out the time to consider the important things I may not have been paying as close attention to as I thought. This course is exactly what I'd hoped it would be and it's teaching me exactly what I'd hoped it would help me understand better.
By Mel Butcher on 1/3/2024
Seth helps us bring together a number of complex topics, including technology adopt, overcoming the dip, the long tail, and positioning our offering, to name a few. He delivers, as always, and I'm grateful for the throwback to The Ideavirus at the end.
By Anna Cosentino on 1/2/2024
Seth Godin has a way of delivering complex ideas in a very enjoyable way. Whether you are selling a product or an experience, this short course offers great visualization of how trends develop, how longevity and relevance are built and how to choose the better path for what one is offering.
By Mark M Deutsch on 1/1/2024
Easy to understand presentation style, reinforcement of some known material, and some new material. In particular, I appreciated the clarity Seth brought to The Gartner Hype Cycle, The Long Tail, and Positioning by Trout/Ries. An excellent short course that I highly recommend.
By Phyllis on 1/1/2024
What we measure and how we measure are both important. Data w/o context, though, are just numbers. This is a great overview about how to make numbers and data matter. Seth uses his great teaching style and relevant, easy to relate to examples to demonstrate how context + data tell a story.
By Avaleen Morris on 1/1/2024
This was brilliant. This course is for anyone thinking of starting a side hustle, new business or project. I’m thrilled I came across this. What a way to start the year. Rich, heavy concepts explained thoroughly and SIMPLY in 30 minutes! Next- Seth Godin should do a course on how to make courses! He’s a master!
By Carlo Tortora on 1/1/2024
Seth Godin is always over-inspiring. The lecture on how the innovation/adoption bell curve has changed since 1955 to recent times is giving us the practical explanation why we have to look at small groups to be achieved if we want to really trasmit our message/purpose: there is more weird outside the box than normal inside it
By Lilian Mahoukou on 1/1/2024
This course is insightful, practical, and another masterpiece. It's done for actively using it in our endeavors. On our way to building a resilient path, considering different perspectives matters. In a society that promotes shortcuts and any other forms of instant gratification, Seth Godin encourages us to see things differently, adopt the right attitude, and start from the right perspective.
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