Comments on: What Does Your Authority Index Say About You?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:00:24 +0000

In reply to Mark. Hmm I dont know about nature being efficient. Doesnt it take ages to get things done? Sure its good at packing and reusing energy.

By: WG Moore

WG Moore — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:58:40 +0000

Many companies start out with exactly this business model: First build popularity and following. Second, build dependence. Third, start monetizing the business. Fourth, go public. Sometimes number four comes before number 3.

VCs don’t throw millions of dollars at a project without all the due dilligence and expectation of getting it back many times over. Your business, and the way you have developed it says much more about your business acumen than those who started Twitter. Thus, in the eyes of investors, you are a better investment.

By: Louisse

Louisse — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:03:23 +0000

You’re making an assumption here which I don’t think you state explicitly – you assume the objective of the Twitter user is to wield influence over a large number of people.

By: Dena TasarÄ±m

Dena TasarÄ±m — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:44:45 +0000

Wow… Never thought about that. Nice… and thanks for the clip and the article :)

By: BlackHost

BlackHost — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:32:45 +0000

In reply to Rob McCance.

How about a 1200 employee company (owned by a Fortune 100 entity) whose gross sales in 2009 were $1.7 Billion dollars, and the parent company (to remain nameless) forced these 1700 employees to take 3 weeks of unpaid time off in 2009.???

Yes that was me taking 3 weeks of unpaid time off. Me being one of 1700 north american employees who generated $1.7 billion in sales, to take 3 weeks unpaid time off.

Thus, I have ramped up my (side) internet bussinesses to stick it to the “secondary division CEO” who received a $10 Million “retainage” bonus, while most every employee in my divison (my division being the largest of the total 170, 000 worldwide total employees) taking 3 weeks of “unpaid time off”.

Oh, tell about 45,000 employees under you that they have to take 3 weeks unpaid leave, while you (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ALUMNI) so you can maneuver yourself a $10 MILLION DOLLAR RETAINAGE BONUS.

To quote Barney Miller”¦

We are all going to hell in a handbasket!

By: Matt Markezich

Matt Markezich — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:59:19 +0000

The reason Twitter is so valuable though is not based off anything empirical besides it’s number of users and the site’s overall activity. (which is somewhere near 50million messages a day now, I think?)

If Twitter took your advice and charged, I’d imagine it’s actual value would decline DRAMATICALLY. I think this solely off the number of users it would lose. Yes, they would be bringing in more money than $0 but they would also lose over half their user base.

If Twitter wanted to make money, which I’m sure they do. They’d be wise to adopt a Facebook style approach or something similar, in my opinion.

Just to be elementary for a second: The second you raise the price on anything, there’s going to be a shift in the demand for that thing. And on a service such as Twitter, I’d imagine it’s elasticity of demand is a very high number.

By: Black Host

Black Host — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:32:21 +0000

I used to be a Twitter naysayer, wondering why and how someone could have 4023 followers and following 4063 people. There aren’t enough hours in a summer solstice day to view the inane tweets of 4000 people. That is undeniable.

The fact is that Twitter works for me as a way to make “some” sales with just my blood, sweat and tears…and my time.

In my main internet business, my adjacent web competitors spend upwards of $30K per day in PPC advertising. Yes, I said “PER DAY”.

Every and I mean EVERY keyword and keyword combination of ANY product or service is dominated in the search engines by goliath corporations with ad budgets in the millions yearly. How is an every day web entrepreneur gonna survive.

Social media helps me along. I am not an Ashton Kutcher with 1 million following me, but to me Twitter and many other social media services have become outlets for business, NOT for Johhny to know what Susie is doing right now. Who the &#*($ cares, right?

Social media has been taken over by business, period.

By: Chris Pearson

Chris Pearson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:13:00 +0000

In reply to Kevin Spence. Thanks, man. I'd blush, but I'm too worried about that homeless dude :D

By: Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:33:12 +0000

I’m a little late to the post here, but Chris does practice what he preaches in terms of responding to tweets. He doesn’t know me from the homeless dude stalking him from the tree outside (seriously, he’s out there), but still responds to my tweets. And that’s pretty awesome.

If Thesis wasn’t already great enough, that interaction has solidified my loyalty to his brand.

By: heper

heper — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:44:41 +0000

The game theories that reqiure much liquidity have to die at the economy of this time. You should create 10 units of value by spending 1 unit of asset and that is what producing added-value. For this you need to have a hi-tech process system.
That was another opinion from me but the new century’s winners will be the new tech owners.