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The Real Power to the People

Guest post by: graylin sanders

Article Overview: In 2005 the way the world communicates was changed forever. When Seth Godin and Co Founder Megan Casey Editor in Chief, Gil Hilderbrand Jr. Chief Engineer, Corey Brown COO, Kimberly Dawn Wells, Community and Charity. This small group of people has made an innovation that has provided a new vehicle to put ones ideas, opinions and their enterprise before large audiences of people and all of this for free. Now this is truly a radical concept but if we look at Seth Gobin that would be his reason for being.

The Real Power to the People

In 2005 the way the world communicates was changed forever. When Seth Godin and Co Founder Megan Casey Editor in Chief, Gil Hilderbrand Jr. Chief Engineer, Corey Brown COO, Kimberly Dawn Wells, Community and Charity. This small group of people has made an innovation that has provided a new vehicle to put ones ideas, opinions and their enterprise before large audiences of people and all of this for free. Now this is truly a radical concept but if we look at Seth Gobin that would be his reason for being.

His first know entrepreneurial venture was printing Biorhythms in the local university and selling them for $3o a pop. On the way to Squidoo he received a MBA from Stanford started a book packaging company which he later sold to his employees. Here he meets Mark Hurst and the two formed Yoyodyne and built that into the industry's top interactive marketing company. Godin is a very successful author to his credit is Unleash the Virus which is the most successful E book written to date along 12 other best sellers.

Squidoo gave the world a Lens, a lens being like a blog post that gives the writer known as a Lens master. On this community website the means to get the word out to the internet community what is on their minds. So this is the Power to the People to express their ideas, opinions and their enterprise to the world. This gives everyday people the opportunity to maybe come up with the next idea that will make them the next Agent of Change as Godin is referred to.

After the beta test in October and the launch 2 months later within 6 months Squidoo was at 1oo, ooo lenses. It is in the top 500 sites visited worldwide here in the U.S. it5 is in the top 300 visited sites. Squidoo experienced a 91% growth in 2008 so you would think from those kinds of numbers that they have not quite hit their stride yet. And Squidoo has earned its place along side of the other great entrepreneurial feats created here in America

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