If your looking to build an audience for the purpose of communicating your message, Michael Hyatt’s Platform: Getting Noticed in a Noisy World is an excellent starting point. This book provides a template for creating a “tribe of followers”, and it offers strategies for achieving your goals of building an online following.

Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012)
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