Comments for Curley Contemplations http://reidcurley.com The kind of spontaneous publicity that makes people Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:21:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on High school sophomore raising $4.2 million for Juvenile Diabetes using the Internet and Social Media by High school sophomore raising $4.2 million for Juvenile Diabetes … — Diabetes Information http://reidcurley.com/id85-zip-the-cure-sophomore-raising-4-2-million-for-juvenile-diabetes-internet-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-10 High school sophomore raising $4.2 million for Juvenile Diabetes … — Diabetes Information Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:21:12 +0000 http://reidcurley.com/?p=85#comment-10 [...] admin wrote an interesting post today. Here’s a quick excerptShe was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of thirteen months. Her brother also has diabetes. As a result she has been active with the bJuvenile Diabetes/b Research Foundation. When she was in middle school, she had the idea that … [...] [...] admin wrote an interesting post today. Here’s a quick excerptShe was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of thirteen months. Her brother also has diabetes. As a result she has been active with the bJuvenile Diabetes/b Research Foundation. When she was in middle school, she had the idea that … [...]

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]]> Comment on Early Adopters as True Believers by Tom Corddry http://reidcurley.com/id41-early-adopters-as-true-believers/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Tom Corddry Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:33:34 +0000 http://reidcurley.com/?p=41#comment-2 True believers NEED to have preferences that differ from the mainstream--the reward for being a true believer is a sense of superiority, because one has higher standards, or a more acute and discriminating eye, ear, nose, or palate, or greater insider knowledge--whatever it takes to establish superiority. Companies have made good money catering to true believers, as long as they recognize that they are selling low-volome, high-margin products to the precious few. Sometimes that cachet that comes with success at the high end can be used to build success with differently-branded products, lower-priced and less "excluding" in their design, sold to the broader market. To do this, however, a company needs to avoid being too seduced by the attentions of the true believers, who would rather that they NOT "pander to the masses." True believers NEED to have preferences that differ from the mainstream–the reward for being a true believer is a sense of superiority, because one has higher standards, or a more acute and discriminating eye, ear, nose, or palate, or greater insider knowledge–whatever it takes to establish superiority. Companies have made good money catering to true believers, as long as they recognize that they are selling low-volome, high-margin products to the precious few. Sometimes that cachet that comes with success at the high end can be used to build success with differently-branded products, lower-priced and less “excluding” in their design, sold to the broader market. To do this, however, a company needs to avoid being too seduced by the attentions of the true believers, who would rather that they NOT “pander to the masses.”

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