Comments on: Are you "Tuned In" a.k.a. listening to your market? http://www.sparkminute.com/2008/06/01/are-you-tuned-in-aka-listening-to-your-market/ Social media, brand journalism, content marketing, and all things tech Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicolas Schriver http://www.sparkminute.com/2008/06/01/are-you-tuned-in-aka-listening-to-your-market/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Nicolas Schriver Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:14:51 +0000 http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=350#comment-224 Thank you for this article. I have two comments To listen: I am totally agree with you. When I explain about blogging, I always explain that one of the key rewards you could get is to know better about your business. You can know more from other bloggers, comments on your blog. This is very important because by analyzing what is going on in your blogosphere, you are able to make adjustment as you say. People think about the blog as a loudspeaker, but they forget it is mainly about weaving some relationship with an audience. About the competition I follow on a regular basis the blog of Alain Theriault, a business coach and professor at HEC Montreal. He says that if he hears an entrepreneur saying he has no competition, he doesn't like that. Competition is good. If you have some other people thinking about the same kind of idea, that means that there is really a market. Thinking you are the only one to know it all and you will invent something noone has ever thought is just impossible. Whether you are lying, or your idea does not have any value because no one wants to get into the market. Thank you for this article. I have two comments

To listen: I am totally agree with you. When I explain about blogging, I always explain that one of the key rewards you could get is to know better about your business. You can know more from other bloggers, comments on your blog. This is very important because by analyzing what is going on in your blogosphere, you are able to make adjustment as you say. People think about the blog as a loudspeaker, but they forget it is mainly about weaving some relationship with an audience.

About the competition
I follow on a regular basis the blog of Alain Theriault, a business coach and professor at HEC Montreal. He says that if he hears an entrepreneur saying he has no competition, he doesn’t like that. Competition is good. If you have some other people thinking about the same kind of idea, that means that there is really a market. Thinking you are the only one to know it all and you will invent something noone has ever thought is just impossible. Whether you are lying, or your idea does not have any value because no one wants to get into the market.

]]> By: David Meerman Scott http://www.sparkminute.com/2008/06/01/are-you-tuned-in-aka-listening-to-your-market/comment-page-1/#comment-223 David Meerman Scott Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:53:45 +0000 http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=350#comment-223 Hey David! Many thanks for the great writeup of our new book in context of that discussion. Yikes. A great business idea that some one just dreamed up and one that has no competition. Good luck with that. By the way, I'm loving my Flip. You introduced me to this Tuned In product when we shared dinner in San Francisco. Take care, David Hey David!

Many thanks for the great writeup of our new book in context of that discussion.

Yikes. A great business idea that some one just dreamed up and one that has no competition. Good luck with that.

By the way, I’m loving my Flip. You introduced me to this Tuned In product when we shared dinner in San Francisco.

Take care,
David

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