Quirky Traits the Richest and Most Successful Marketers Share. By, Ben Settle

Posted on | June 14, 2010 | No Comments

By Ben Settle

I’ve been blessed to know a lot of great marketers.
Not just so-called “gurus”, either.
But mostly just extremely successful marketers who work their own projects and never teach what they know (i.e. instead of selling shovels to gold diggers, these dudes have a secret map to the gold which they KEEP to themselves.)
Anyway, lately I got to thinking about these people.
What makes the best of the best “tick”?
What makes them stand out?
What advantages do they have over everyone else?
And I realized a lot of them (almost all) share certain traits that have probably had a lot to do with their rise to the top. Traits not necessarily found in other groups of people (including entrepreneurs).
Here are a few of these traits…
· Love breaking rules
· Sense of humor
· Stubborn
· Open minded to new ideas
· Yet, don’t suffer fools gladly
· Obsessed with their work (it’s not “work”, it’s play)
· Passionate
· Relentless
· Contrarian (especially when it comes to marketing)
· Aggressively guard their time
· Laser-like focused on their goals
· Short attention spans (strange, but true)
· Geeky
· Driven by someone they have to “get back” at
· Optimistically pessimistic (i.e….

they do everything in their power to arrange for things to go as planned, but also expect things to go wrong and behave accordingly)
There are many more traits than this. Probably dozens and dozens more. But it can’t hurt to study this list whenever you get stuck and need a little inspiration.
I mean, who knows?
Some of their “stuff” may just wear off on you.

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