May 24, 2010

daily bizcard 025: john jantsch

Today’s “Daily Biz­card” design, “Pur­pose”, goes to John Jantsch, of Duct Tape Mar­ke­ting fame.

John’s a very cle­ver fellow– one of the most res­pec­ted mar­ke­ting blog­gers in the busi­ness. He could easily make lots of money hel­ping big com­pa­nies solve pro­blems, ins­tead he pre­fers hel­ping out small busi­nes­ses. Which he does, very well.

John has a new book out: “The Refe­rral Engine: Teaching Your Busi­ness to Mar­ket Itself”. It only came out last week, and since he has the same publisher and edi­tor as me, I thought it would be cool to dedi­cate today’s busi­ness card to him. Easy.

The car­ton was ins­pi­red by a great little recent blog post of John’s. “Is Your Pur­pose Patent Still Pen­ding?” And no, I’m not just saying that because he used one of my car­toons to illus­trate the post, the idea of “Pur­pose” in busi­ness is something very close to my heart. John wri­tes about it well:

I firmly believe that one of the foun­da­tio­nal sec­rets to suc­cess in busi­ness is to invent, dis­co­ver, and con­nect what we are doing with a sense of pur­pose that dri­ves the entire enter­prise. You’ve cer­tainly heard many peo­ple talk about the idea of doing work you love, but this is more than that. I’m sug­ges­ting that you must con­nect with some rea­son beyond the fact you enjoy the work, that you must be able to feel a grea­ter sense of value that dri­ves your entire stra­tegy and fil­ters your deci­sions at the highest level.

Con­grats on the new book, John, and keep on figh­ting the good fight etc.

[The Daily Biz­card archive is here etc.]

[Com­mis­sion Hugh]

[John, please send me an e-mail at gapingvoid@gmail.com with your ship­ping address and the details you want on the back of the biz­card, and I’ll send a free box of 100 to you. Thanks!]

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