I just saw another piece quoting Julien Smith's rant about the declining value of followers as a network grows.
This is just plain silly. 100 people in a network makes for a lot ton of connections. 200 people in that same network gets a lot more potential connections. Even if you never add one extra connection, a network that has grown has MORE value per connection, not less.
The number doesn't matter near as much as the RELATIONSHIP. If I have ONE PERSON on a network and he's my next big customer, a though leader with thousands of readers, or a person with a friend that can connect me to another network of people I'd like to hear from.. ONE is FANTASTIC.
Develop relationships. Not numbers.
Smith’s post helped explain to me the concept of inflation in a social media following. If you start out on a social network early on and that network grows over time, you can only keep up with that growth for so long because, at some point, the service will experience faster and bigger growth than you. The result is that you end up with less “access” and have to make more effort to be able to reach more people. As Smith puts it, “100 friends yesterday has the same value as 200 today.” This feels to me like a never-ending vicious circle.
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- Listen. What is being said about you is as important, if not more than, what you are saying about you.
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