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Find Your 1,000 True Fans

Whatsoever You Do –- Find Your 1,000 True Fans.

By Carl Kruse

A friend today asked me for a good book on marketing, as if I would know, but I then
remembered the impact Kevin Kelly’s essay “1,000 True Fans,” had on me some years ago
and suggested to my friend he start his research reading it.

As I myself went back to re-read “1,000 True Fans,” it now struck me as one of the sanest and
best approaches to reaching people, e.g., marketing, especially if you are starting out, like my
friend. Kelly’s essay is perhaps the ultimate anti-branding approach to branding.
In looking around the web, I see the essay has found champions such as Tim Ferriss, who
has included it in his latest work, “The Tools Of Titans” (another fantastic read for all things
life-hacking, to not say life-changing) and dovetails with the spirit of people like Seth Godin
who advocate the idea of starting out by marketing to one or two people and taking it from
there; a super condensed notion of 1,000 true fans.

I’m not a marketer but I would not start any new venture – business, artistic or otherwise –
without becoming real close to 1,000 True Fans. Find the essay at
http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

Keep Doing Goodness,
Carl Kruse

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