^ Yahoo! to Acquire Yoyodyne, Earthweb News, October 12, 1998, archived from the original on."Joyriding: Play Games on the Internet and Win Big Prizes". "Entrepreneur Profiles: Point, Click-And Here's The Pitch: Yoyodyne uses prizes to get you to read those online ads". ^ a b Kuntz, Mary (September 9, 1998)."The 3 Rules of Successful Business as Taught by Seth Godin (and Your Mother)". ^ a b Trachtenberg, Jeffrey (June 24, 2012).Godin and his wife Helene live in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York with their one son. This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See.What To Do When It's Your Turn (and it's always your turn).Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations.V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone.
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The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better.If You're Clueless about Selling: And Want to Know More.Permission marketing: turning strangers into friends, and friends into customers.eMarketing: Reaping Profits on the Information Highway.Seth Godin's blog was named by Time among its 25 best blogs of 2009. Godin has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans. Godin was inducted into the American Marketing Association's Marketing Hall of Fame in 2018. In June 2013, Godin raised more than $250,000 from readers with a Kickstarter campaign, which in turn secured him a book contract with his publisher for his book "The Icarus Deception." The Dip was a Business Week and New York Times bestseller Business Week also named Linchpin among its "20 of the best books by the most influential thinkers in business" on November 13, 2015.
Free Prize Inside was a Forbes Business Book of the Year in 2004, while Purple Cow sold over 150,000 copies in more than 23 print runs in its first two years. By 2014, it was no longer considered financially viable and was sold to HubPages. In July 2008, Squidoo was one of the 500 most visited sites in the world. In 1998, he sold Yoyodyne to Yahoo! for about $30 million and became Yahoo's vice president of direct marketing. At Yoyodyne, Godin published Permission Marketing: Turning strangers into friends and friends into customers. In August 1996, Flatiron Partners invested $4 million in Yoyodyne in return for a 20% stake. Yoyodyne, launched in 1995, used contests, online games, and scavenger hunts to market companies to participating users. After a few years, Godin sold the book packaging business to his employees and focused his efforts on Yoyodyne, where he promoted the concept of permission marketing. He then met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne (named in jest after the fictional Yoyodyne in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City.