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jad on Jan 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Plat...

In marketing circles, this "verbal minority" is referred to as "tastemakers":

"One that determines or strongly influences current trends or styles"

from: http://www.yourdictionary.com/tastemaker

jarek on Jan 16, 2011 [–]

I'm not sure I follow the connection from being "verbal minority" to being a "tastemaker". You can definitely be both, but just being one doesn't mean you're the other.

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