So what's the best way to choose a banker, a real estate agent or an attorney these days? There was a time when their skill as a lender, a seller of property, or a negotiator of deals was all that mattered. But over lunch today, my friend Ed Brenegar, his son Stewart and I discussed another, interesting possibility.
Does the size of a person's social network make them more valuable?
Would you choose one dentist over another because they had more Facebook friends? Would you select a banker because they had more LinkedIn contacts than their competitor? Maybe you should.
Metcalfe's Law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users. Metcalfe's Law is true of human social networks as well, so the value of our personal social network is enhanced when we add connected users. That means that, given equal dentistry abilities, the dentist with 300 LinkedIn connections is a far better choice than the one with 3.
In a marketplace desperate to find every competitive edge I wonder whether service providers will begin advertising the size of their network while offering to friend you if you patronize them?
Spread the fire. GS
There are many ways on how to choose a dentist, for me i choose a dentist having many client. Because if the dentist have many client it means his services are good.
-heather-
Posted by: orange county cosmetic dentist | February 24, 2009 at 07:25 PM