Why Building Your Fan Community Is More Important Than Your New Product Build

Patrick Hanlon
3 min readSep 14, 2022

Evidence shows that over eight out of ten new product and service introductions fail in the marketplace. According to one study, 50% of U.S. startup companies fail within the first four years and 14% are due to poor marketing tactics.

The typical problem is that new product developers are not solving a true consumer problem or…

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Patrick Hanlon

Author of “Primal Branding,” “The Social Code,” writer on Forbes, Medium, Inc., East Hampton Star. Founder primalbranding.co