Marketing pothole (#2 of 3): I'm too busy

Seth Godin has a great post today: "Marketing pothole (#2 of 3): I'm too busy! I can count on one hand the number of marketers I know who get to do "Marketing" every day. (with a capital M). Accountants do accounting all the time. Salespeople spent a lot of time selling. But marketers, it seems, have a long list of things they do (budgets, coupons, projections, photo shoots, bizdev meetings, meet and greets, etc.) that is technically marketing--cause I think everything an organization does is marketing--but is hardly in the sweet spot......There are more than 50,000 restaurants in New York City. Perhaps 200 of them are marketing success stories. Yet at the other 49,800 restaurants, the owners spend very little time working on their breakout idea, and tons of time doing stuff that feels a lot more important. Once an organization is up and running, it's almost impossible to carve out the time to find the marketing vision that will make all the difference. Are you too busy working to make any money?" Execute a piece of your Marketing Plan every day - make an appointment with yourself to do at least 30 minutes worth. (And measure it).