Seth Godin has a knack for being concise. Some of his posts are only a couple of lines long.
Most advice about content creation says that you can’t do well with short posts. Most tout 500+ word counts as the minimum to shoot for.
And yet, without fail, each one of his posts will garner over 1,000 shares within 24 hours of being published proving that sometimes humans prefer to-the-point.
People share Seth’s content so much, I decided to find out what his top 10 most shared posts are using our social footprint tool.
| Post Title | FB Shares | FB Likes | FB Comments | LinkedIn Shares | Google +1’s | Pins | Total Shares |
| The Triumph Of Coal Marketing | 2,759 | 2,708 | 3,219 | 1,766 | 0 | 2 | 10,454 |
| Back To The Wrong School | 2,719 | 3,663 | 2,233 | 832 | 0 | 30 | 9,477 |
| The Future Of The Library | 2,326 | 2,994 | 1,684 | 2,339 | 0 | 16 | 9,359 |
| Treating People With Kindness | 1,215 | 3,231 | 230 | 2,058 | 577 | 19 | 7,330 |
| The Forever Recession | 1,638 | 2,095 | 908 | 1,620 | 0 | 1 | 6,262 |
| Reject The Tyranny Of Being Picked | 1,218 | 2,306 | 514 | 2,009 | 0 | 17 | 6,064 |
| A Legacy Of Mandela | 1,263 | 2,339 | 124 | 1,003 | 358 | 6 | 5,093 |
| Thinking About Money | 1,025 | 1,578 | 245 | 1,060 | 834 | 47 | 4,789 |
| Voting Misunderstood | 1,685 | 1,938 | 982 | 181 | 0 | 0 | 4,786 |
| Where Do Ideas Come From | 1,379 | 2,298 | 437 | 645 | 0 | 3 | 4,762 |
In a world trending toward microblogs, it’s refreshing to read a post that has so much meaty information. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put quality first, boyd norwood.
That visual reputation of deaths caused by different power sources is brilliant; I can see why it was shared so much. In fact, I’m gonna have to keep that in my back pocket for the next time I see someone talking about how “dangerous” nuclear power is…
I love Seth Godin! There’s something so quaint about the fact that he still writes on a typepad.com blog instead of writing on a blog hosted on his actual website (sethgodin.com). It kinda makes me want to start a typepad blog too, haha.