Just when you thought that Newspapers are dying a slow and painful death (well in the traditional sense they are) The very talented and creative genius Seth Godin has some advice…
What should not-so-busy real estate brokers do?
Why not start a local newspaper?
Here’s how Seth would do it. Assume you’ve got six people in your office. Each person is responsible to do two things each day:
- Interview a local business, a local student or a local political activist. You can do it by phone, it can be very short and it might take you ten minutes.
- Get 20 households to ‘subscribe’ by giving you their email address and asking for a free subscription. You can use direct contact or flyers or speeches to get your list.
Twice a week, send out the ‘newspaper’ by email. After one week, it will have more than 500 subscribers and contain more than 20 interesting short articles or quotes about people in the neighborhood. Within a month, (if it’s any good) every single person in town who matters will be reading it and forwarding it along to others.”
Read the full post on Seth’s Blog!
He is truly inspiring!
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