What Seth Godin Wants You To Know About Marketing in 2019 The Industry expert urges companies to be relevant, not loud.
By Jason Feifer •
This story appears in the December 2018 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
If anyone knows marketing's future, it's Seth Godin. The longtime guru of the subject and author of 19 books -- his new one is called This Is Marketing, and he has a new notebook in partnership with MOO -- preaches a kind of invisible marketing. "The word marketing should mean "What do we call it when we make something people want?' " he says. That'll become increasingly important as 2019 brings more digital noise. His challenge: Be relevant, not loud.
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How will marketing continue to change in 2019?