Comments on: Merlin Mann: The Tony Robbins For Techies (Who Hate Tony Robbins)

By: Dan...

Dan... — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:23:43 +0000

I had similar thoughts while listening to Merlin — particularly your “necessary but insufficient” point. As I was jogging this morning I also realized there were some direct conflicts in his message: openness/transparency/honesty are core to the net vs. don’t share all your pics, just the goods one you’ve photoshop’d.

As Merlin mentioned in the talk, he was still working the kinks out of a new presentation. I really liked his prez, but there were some inconsistencies/oversimplifications he could tweak.

It was great meeting you, and Lea, at IZEAFest…let’s do it again sometime!

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:23:53 +0000

@Jim — happy you found it helpful ;)

By: Lea

Lea — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:16:40 +0000

I totally agree Tony. It was my favourite talk at IZEAfest, and I like how he expanded on his points… but at the same time, I think we all know that merely being awesome and having great content isn’t enough (and it is true in all businesses, not just blogging).

Traffic doesn’t just “come on by” — but he did touch on that… that if you target just one person you really really respect and speak to them, you are more likely to think about and tailor your communication to them in a way that is useful to them and also leaves an impression. So, succinctly: thoughtful and genuine networking does wonders.

I think it would have been nice to mention that real traffic to good sites, at least at the beginning, means promoting yourself ACTIVELY.

But it’s a good message to emphasize that you should work on giving something of quality first, profit later.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:15:06 +0000

Wanted to make it to Izeafest but was too close to blogworld this year. I wanted to see Merlinmann. Thanks for the recap.