46. SECTION II: How to Empower Customers & Drive Sales (getting invited to the party)
47. “ You are interrupting their life. All advertising is unwanted. So if you’re going to crash the party bring some Champagne with you.” Bob Thacker OfficeMax Inc.
56. The Business Goal of Social Web Companies Make EVERYONE a creator! 100% - creators 100% - synthesizers 100% - consumers Try to make it EASIER for everyone to participate in all roles.
71. “ It’s moving slowly now for us, but we’re seeing growth and see it as a huge opportunity for users to build hundreds of thousands of ‘commercials’ for [PETCO products].” John Lazarchic Petco
74. Let’s Get Radical Doc Searls Co-author, The Cluetrain Manifesto Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society “ Advertising is about supply finding and ‘creating’ demand. [There is] nothing wrong with that. At its best, it’s good and necessary stuff. But think about what will happen when demand can find and create supply .”
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