Seth Godin Action Figure
August 28th, 2012 by Bob Bly
I was taking a break from writing, noodling around on Amazon, when I came across a most amazing item for sale: an action figure of marketing author Seth Godin.
Godin, who is fairly famous, is the author of Permission Marketing and dozens of other marketing and business books.
Try as I might, I could not envision why anyone would want a Seth Godin action figure … except Seth Godin and maybe his kids.
Would you?
Now I’ve seen everything!
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August 28th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Hahahaha. I would rather have a naked woman in action figure.
As you said, why should we have Seth Godin action figure when what we need is his knowledge?
August 28th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Not me. Not into action figures. Like the fact that his work makes me think. He recommends some daily cartoons (sorry, can’t remember name) and they pretty much leave me cold.
August 28th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Seth’s action figures were put together by another company as a throw in for a book – and as a charity piece. Many of Seth’s followers like the reminder of having Seth on their desk as it makes them think.
The cartoon David Bley refers to is Gaping Void, by Hugh MacLeod. Some are funny to me, and some not so much.
People inspire me, so I might be game to get one of these action figures, as I could use it as counsel to talk at and think “What would Seth do?” Or maybe not.
August 28th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Hi there! I think I need one for Christmas
It looks like he did it for charity: http://bit.ly/NASXVE
September 3rd, 2012 at 7:10 pm
I have one! It’s great fun – I keep it on the desk right next to my Jay and Silent Bob action figures and my husband’s Supreme Court Justice bobbleheads. Sure wish there were a Bob Bly, Fred Gleeck, Eric Ries, and/or Tim Ferriss one to go with it.
Why shouldn’t marketing and business folks be immortalized as action figures? We’re certainly cooler and more useful to society than pro wrestlers who have their own lines of figures. We’re much less scary than overly photogenic vampire actors.
Sure, we don’t have superpowers, but have you ever seen the X-Men or the Super Friends figure out an SEO/social media strategy for some boring B2B product? Ha! We definitely deserve our own action figure heroes!
September 6th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
You said it, Katherine!
Talented copywriters have all kinds of superpowers and thensome.
October 8th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Well, I wouldn’t want one. But I’m sure there are those who would. I guess I fail to see the meaning of a Seth Godin action figure unless it’s some sort of self promotion. It would just be more clutter and I don’t need any of that.
October 10th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
I’ve got the action figures of all the top freelance copywriters. I stick needles in them.