{"id":2788,"date":"2010-12-30T05:55:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:59:32","slug":"my-favorite-quote-of-2010-by-david-meerman-scott-if-you-want-20000-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/my-favorite-quote-of-2010-by-david-meerman-scott-if-you-want-20000-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Quote of 2010 by David Meerman Scott &#8211; If You Want 20,000 Fans&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at 2010 there is one quote I heard that still sticks with me and I often repeat because it just hits home and speaks the truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>&#8220;If you want 20,000 fans you have to do 2000 different things that each get 10 new fans.&#8221;<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; <a title=\"David Meerman Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/dmscott\" target=\"_blank\">David Meerman Scott<\/a>, Author of <a title=\"Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470900520?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=michabrand-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0470900520\" target=\"_blank\">Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bands and businesses want a fast, simple and cheap answer on how to get more fans or customers.\u00a0 As David stated at the SF Musictech Summit there is no easy way, it is work. You can&#8217;t buy one program to instantly give you 20,000 fans. You can&#8217;t hire a company to give you 20,000 fans in one week. You have to work to earn those fans and customers.<\/p>\n<p>When you are staring at your Facebook page or Twitter profile and wondering what to do, repeat this quote and start on a plan for the 2000 different things you are going to do in 2011 to earn those fans and customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at 2010 there is one quote I heard that still sticks with me and I often repeat because it just hits home and speaks the truth. &#8220;If you want 20,000 fans you have to do 2000 different things that each get 10 new fans.&#8221; &#8211; David Meerman Scott, Author of Marketing Lessons from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,12],"tags":[180,604,187,143,605,141],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-music-marketing-2","tag-customers","tag-david-scott","tag-facebook","tag-fans","tag-grateful-dead","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}