• Platform

  • Get Noticed in a Noisy World
  • By: Michael Hyatt
  • Narrated by: Michael Hyatt
  • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (782 ratings)

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By: Michael Hyatt
Narrated by: Michael Hyatt
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Publisher's summary

In Platform, Michael Hyatt, one of the top business bloggers in the world, provides down-to-earth guidance for building and expanding a powerful platform.

To be successful in the market today, you must possess two strategic assets: a compelling product and a meaningful platform. In this step-by-step guide, Michael Hyatt, former CEO and current Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers, takes readers behind the scenes, into the new world of social media success. He shows you what best-selling authors, public speakers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and other creative minds are doing differently to win customers in today’s crowded marketplace.

Hyatt speaks from experience. He writes one of the top 800 blogs in the world and has more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. His large and growing platform serves as the foundation for his successful writing, speaking, and consulting practice.

In Platform, Hyatt will teach readers not only how to extend their influence, but also how to monetize it and build a sustainable career. The key is to build a platform. It has never been easier, less expensive, or more possible than right now.

The book includes:

  • Proven strategies,
  • Easy-to-replicate formulas, and
  • Practical tips.

Social media technologies have changed everything. Now, for the first time in history, non-celebrities can get noticed - and win big! - in an increasingly noisy world.

©2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc. (P)2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc.

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Lots of Quality Info, Not-So-Great Voice Over

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I'd recommend PLATFORM, but not in audiobook form. So much of the content would be better as reference. (ex. If I want to read about one specific related to maintaining a blog, I'd look it up in the glossary.) As an audiobook, it's kind of a mess. Hyatt's a more than credible source and a quality author, but he should have hired someone else to do the voice-over. He sounds like a nice guy, but his voice gets irritating after a while and makes the production feel cheap. The info contained in the book is far from cheap, so it's unfortunate. This is the case of a great writer/director also needing to act in his own movie, and the movie suffering for it...so to speak.

How could the performance have been better?

Different Voice-Over Talent, content chapters broken up by specific names for sections

Who do you think would benefit most from listening to Platform?

Anyone looking to establish a web presence and expand their brand.

Any additional comments?

Re-record this with Dylan Baker's voice (see: "Steve Jobs" audiobook) and break up the content even more with specific names for sections, include a .pdf glossary, and this would be excellent. Otherwise, it's a mostly-lazy audio translation of an otherwise good book.

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Basic

If you've never heard of Facebook and have no idea how to use basic internet functions this book is for you. Otherwise the over enthusiastic narrator just makes you think your getting loads of "priceless" information that you probably already know!

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How Books on Business Should Be Done

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Michael Hyatt's "Platform", offers a significant amount of practical advice and step-by-step processes. Unlike many of his peers, there is very little "fluff" in this book and its contents could not be so easily summarized in a pamphlet.

I work as a marketing director for a company as well as developing my own side businesses of graphic design and photography. I expected useful information for my personal projects but was surprised by how much of the information was relevant to my full time job as well.

If the thought of building your brand via web-based means makes you weak in the knees; i highly recommend this book.

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Bringing it all together

Much like Time Ferris's "4 Hour Work Week" there is nothing brand new in this book, except that these authors bring a bunch of existing topics together very well and synthesize the information so it's easily consumed.

For that reason alone it's worth buying this book instead of 10 others and trying to piece the messages together

Save yourself the time and money and read this first if you want to know how to promote yourself as a brand in this noisy world.

You'll get more confident which goes along way to getting started.

Regards
Todd

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No"Wow Factor"

That "wow factor" this book talks about... yeah, it's totally missing. From all the books I've bought from Audible, this has been the only one to make me feel like I wasted my time.

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A must read!

This audiobook is fantastic. Mr Hyatt generates tons of great ideas for you to get your name out there as well as the pros and cons of each. He shares from his successes and failures. He really got my mind going.

I loved it so much, I just downloaded the book as well so I can refer to it as I build my "platform". Tons of ideas. You will not be disappointed.

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Great book. So good I bought the hardcover also

Michael give so many details to be how to in building an online business/blog/social media presence. Great book

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Expect to Take Notes

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, there's a lot of goo information Hyatt points out that is very useful in building your presence in the on-line world. Some of it is basic, but most of us don't do it, and some of it is knew and we should start doing it.

What did you like best about this story?

Hyatt is good at making things practical and putting things into a useful context

Any additional comments?

There are too many on-line gurus around these days, and Hyatt's book helps those who actually know what they're doing stand out from the charlatans.

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Excellent tips

What made the experience of listening to Platform the most enjoyable?

Michael Hyatt shares useful tips that I have already put into action and I'm not even completely finished.

Any additional comments?

This book is written as a reference book so I'm still planning to buy a physical copy to read and refer to in the future. I'll probably listen again in the future as well.

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Except for the beginning

What made the experience of listening to Platform the most enjoyable?

This is a great book once you get by the introduction. Very practical ideas, lots of details on getting started and improving your social reach.

What other book might you compare Platform to and why?

Inbound Marketing, Connected Culture

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