I'm starting a very interesting social experiment with 300 of my "connections" on SocialURL. Inspired by my most recently read book "The Tipping Point", I spent the last 2 days hunting down 300 profiles that had these criterias:
1. People who belonged to both MySpace and Facebook (Connectors)
2. People who had over 150 friends on SocialURL (Salesmen)
3. People who had lots of diverse interests (Mavens)
If you've read the book you know that each profile character above represent key people who create an epidemic. What I'm doing with 300 is trying to build personal relationships with them over the next 3 months. Selectively spreading my vision of SocialURL like a religion and out of the 300 the probability is that 40-144 will spread my words around to their existing 150+ contacts.
It is a proven fact that you can move an army with 150 soldiers if you are a great leader with interpersonal skills. Jesus started Christianity in this very same way- with small groups in a very short period of time. The HIV epidemic in the US was traced back to 1 flight attendant who had sex with over 1000 men in the span of 30 days. (last example was a bit random and morbid but you get what i'm hinting at)
It does help that i have experience as a Christian Evangelist during my college days and also have proven network marketing skills with (Quickstar the online extension of Amway). But worry not- I no longer sell soap or spread religion (at least not in that particular order:)
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