Key take aways from Purple Cow by Seth Godin

  • You have to build the product to be worthwhile of spreading by the evangelizers amongst the early adopters from day 1
    • Be hyper targeted
    • Evangelizers amongst the adopters are the folks that will sell your product to the early majority
  • Seek to be remarkable amongst the audience you are trying to serve
    • Forget about the majority and the laggards – don’t waste bandwidth targeting them
    • cater the message specifically to the audience you are trying to target
  • important to be able to take on their perception to see the world
    • Mirror neurons
    • Meditation might be helpful
  • Balancing Early Adopters and Majority
    • The Majority requires the product be further simplified
    • Early adopters require the product to be remarkable
    • When product gets to the early majority stage, its time to start another side product that will cater to the early adopters

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