Comments on: Microleading Your Tribe

By: Laura "Pistachio" Fitton

Laura "Pistachio" Fitton — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:41:07 +0000

Thanks for this! Amazingly enough @guykawasaki is one of the folks who, by virtue of being willing to listen to and acknowledge my wild-ish ideas about Twitter, helped me gain credibility in a big way. It was a pleasure and a privilege helping him see the value and get started on Twitter in the first place.

Once again, thanks for the call-out and the kind words.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:24:53 +0000

Thanks Monica. I appreciate your feedback and I agree with you. When I wrote that, I was thinking about people who would rather form close relationships with a small group of people rather than looser relationships with a larger group. But those people probably aren’t out to form a tribe of their own.

Of course, every marketer or brand is out to try and form the biggest tribe possible so they are much more interested in larger numbers.

By: Monica O'Brien

Monica O'Brien — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:38:21 +0000

I don’t agree with “quality, not quantity.” As a leader, you always need to be looking behind you to make sure someone’s still following. I do think people with 200 followers get a great deal from their network (or 1000+, which is what my small network is), but if your purpose is to market something or increase your blog/business visibility, more is clearly better, even if those people are not as loyal to you.

Thanks for sharing the post with me via Twitter!