Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber-Identifying Early Adopters and Setting Sights on Mass Markets (Presented at NextWeb NY 9/15/08)

Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber - Early Adopters vs. Mass Markets

Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber - Early Adopters vs. Mass Markets Jackie Peters

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Below is an approximate transcription on the presentation, actually, it's my notes, which are probably a better read than the actual transcription...

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Has everyone seen Forrester’s technographic ladder?



Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber - Finding the Blance Between Early Adopters and Mass Markets

Shiny New ToyI like to take a holistic approach to marketing. Most people think that marketing is about promotion, or advertising, but that's a misconception. Marketing encompasses everything a company does to acquire customers and maintain relationships with them. It's about aligning a product with a market.



Caught in the Echo Chamber - Insights into the Marketability of Technology Companies

This is a guest post I wrote for Mashable - I've republished it here.

I am pretty heavily involved in the expanding startup community here in LA, and make my way up to the Bay area on a regular basis. I meet a lot of entrepreneurs and see new startups every day. Many of these companies, and the entrepreneurs who found them are deeply ensnared in the echo chamber, they’re all drinking each other's Kool-aid. We’re talking about people who are not just at the top of the technographic ladder, they’ve gotten to the roof and are looking down on everyone else like they are a bunch of ants.