ryanholiday

8 ms·

31.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
Hey there, to the people recommending good books to "introduce you to stoicism" I would say: Um, the originals are probably the easiest and most straight forward philosophy ever written. Just read those.
32.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
If marketing = driving new business/customers, there is no different between "marketers" and "growth hackers." They use different tools to accomplish the same task. It's time that marketers realize there is more at their disposal.
33.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
Apologies on my end sir! I hate that as much as anyone
34.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
To be fair (as the guy who did the article), I didn't choose the headline. The article isn't really about growth hacking, it's about a better way of thinking about marketing--which growth hackers are one example of. But headline/article dis
35.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
He definitely goes more into that in the book. Robert tells the stories of the masters from a couple different angles, I think this is just one of the more interesting ones.
36.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
The product itself can at times be news--especially if it is a major technological advancement. What is NOT news is the "event," the perfectly choreographed dance between the corporation and the media, where the company manufactures fanfare
37.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
This is a preposterously naive understanding of how the news business works. Customers dictate what gets produced--no question--but so do a variety of other market factors. Namely, what is cheap and easy to produce for publishers. In the ca
38.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
It's not hate. If I ran Apple, I'd be doing the same thing. But JOURNALISTS are not supposed to carry water for business--let alone a multi-billion dollar corporation that could more than afford to get these messages out another way. What i
39.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
I think that only proves my point more: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-10/apple-the-ot...
40.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
I've known Joseph for a while--I wanted to make sure he got credit for being right about this over a YEAR ago. Meaning GM could have saved $10M if they'd read his blog.
41.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
What do you sell?
42.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
That's true EXCEPT the unit doesn't lend itself to that style of advertising. The biggest ad unit you can by on Facebook is 110x90 pixels. Try selling a car in that space well.
43.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
Or Scam? Or Hustle?
44.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
Jonkee is right. Intent to purchase is the difference
45.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
I agree with Perla and have found the same to be true in my experience. I would agree with him implication though, that the reason those ads work is because they themselves have sketchy business models. Think about what you see a lot of on
46.
by ryanholiday 14y ago
Have you seen the CPM's on Facebook? They have dropped. They're about as close to zero as they come...for a reason.
47.
Shooting the Proscenium Arch: How People Fail to Realize Technology's Potential(forbes.com)
3 points by ryanholiday 15y ago|0 comments
48.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
He briefly mentions the next book in the speech (quoted below) and I'm sure more will come, but the concept of mastery which is a theme in all Robert's books is the common thread between the people he interviewed In the book that I'm writin
49.
How to Lie with Meta-Analysis(blog.sethroberts.net)
1 points by ryanholiday 16y ago|0 comments
50.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
Rob Walker's stuff is very good.
51.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
Headline bait...
52.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
I hate when tech people do this. The source that the coolness is paying off is an Owen Thomas article about ONE quarter of profitability (5.1M) in 2009? I'd say the verdict is more than still out. That being said, Virgin is interesting in t
53.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
Yeah, law firms do this all the time. They sniff that they MAY be the slightest hint of a lawsuit and then they put out press releases and run Google ads trolling for clients. It's also sort of a litmus test to see if they can get some medi
54.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
"If you think you're an entrepreneur, most likely, you are one and nobody can tell you differently." ...which is exactly why people like it so much. It's an unassailable self-description. I think it's best to steer clear of anything that pu
55.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
Entrepreneur is a great example of a word, to quote George Trow, that is an "abandoned shell." It used to have great meaning as being an entrepreneur was incredibly difficult and rare and then technological changes came along and made it me
56.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
Is it a legitimate goal of a blogger? What do we, as the audience, get out of it other than a hazy pseudo-reality? I see what MA gets out of it...
57.
by ryanholiday 16y ago
This looks at the wrong metric. It’s not whether his sources are typically accurate but whether he is generally good at correctly inferring from vague or uncertain evidence. In my experience, analysis is unquestionably the weakest part of T