Comments on: Whuffie Math

By: T Wienck

T Wienck — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:18:20 +0000

Love the way you think! I am a not an “influencer” and have only discovered your blog this a.m. in searching for how Twitter works for a presentation for a service org. I am an educator interested in marketing-don’t have a blog-DO have friends, family members, my “soup” people who will love your blog and book who ARE influencers. You are so right-social networking and the internet level the playing field in terms of who’s important and influential. Your publisher is missing the boat-internet networking today is like a cell phone in the 90s or a regular phone in the 30s….can’t wait to read the book!

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By: Maggie McGary

Maggie McGary — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:39:57 +0000

Little Professor! I loved that thing!

Awesome, awesome post. I’m getting so sick of the concept that a person’s worth these days is about the sum of the number of his/her blog subscribers, followers on Twitter, fans on Facebook, and so on. “Word of Mouth” seems to be getting more and more about paying to put words in the mouths of the coolest, most popular “influencers” out there. The whole point of word of mouth is that it’s about relationships between people and authenticity and the coolness of watching a message spread out of genuine excitement and passion.

The ironic thing is that, courtesy of social media, you never know who will be a nobody one day and a celebrity the next. Look at the whole Susan Boyle thing.

Anyway, great post and I’m looking forward to your book.

By: Tara Hunt

Tara Hunt — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:00:09 +0000

Hey Steffan,

Awesome offer, but the advanced copies are all gone! I would totally be honored to send you a book when I get my stash replenished (just ordered them) as your video of me at Web 2.0 Expo was SUPER useful for me! So email me (go to my contact page if you don’t already have it) your snail mail addy.

By: Steffan Antonas

Steffan Antonas — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:43:07 +0000

Tara,

How about this…why not send a book with message. You can have the book for free, as long as you put pass it to a friend? 20 becomes 40. I’m sure you have enough people who are interested that will be willing to at least put it in the hands of someone they think will also enjoy it. It could be like the Sisterhood of the traveling Whuffie book . Send me the contact info to your publisher. I’ll read it and blog about it (I was going to anyway after your Web2.0 talk)…and then I’ll give it to Nate Ritter – I know he’ll want to read it…and so on. Pass it along.

By: Jesse E

Jesse E — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:54:06 +0000

Tara, I just found your book at Chapters yesterday.
I’m almost half done already and I have Googled and researched almost every uh, case study, if you will, that you cite in your book and I am absolutely blown away at how simple and effective whuffie really is.

I’m 18 years old and I’m helping with the start-up of a brand-new company. It’s my job to create buzz. Yesterday, I didn’t know what to do next after I had already started a blog on blogger, a facebook page, a couple ads on facebook, signed up for twitter, and created a stumbleupon account and saw no buzz from it and felt disappointed. I was being one of those lame corporate bloggers by accident. Your book is quickly changing my mind and causing it to churn out new ideas for our company.

I’ll be keeping an eye on you, that’s for sure. Thank you for existing!

PS: I absolutely agree with your post. That’s a major reason why I plan on being my own boss one day! Haha

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By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:55:37 +0000

Slapping my head that I never ran into your blog until today, after reading the above, I’ll certainly be back. I like your style and your words flow smoothly. Not to mention your knack for logic.

If you or your publisher are looking for more folks to send comp copies, I’d enjoy one. I have a backlog of books I need to write some blog reviews of, would love to add your intellect to my short list.

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