Follow-up on Seth Godin ( Networking) From Yesterday

Follow-up on Seth Godin ( Networking) From Yesterday Yesterday was a fun day, although the people I was with are all bloggers and I think I saw more than one sign of withdrawal from not being by an Internet connection for more than seven hours! Im not going to put any notes about Seth Godins presentation here because (a) I didnt take any (!!), and (b) there are a ton that Ill link to at the end of this post. Great notes, videos, pics, etc. It was interesting to see the comments from yesterdays post that I titled Im Not Going To See Seth Godin Because they ranged from ya! Right on! to I agree that $50 is too much and unaffordable. I dont disagree with that at all there is no way I was going to pay $50 to do something like this last year. In fact, there are opportunities every week for me to drop $50 on network things here locally that I choose not to do because I dont think the speaker or crowd merits it. However, there are ways to be creative about it Ill share one way to get in for free: Find out who the sponsors are (it shouldnt be hard its usually plastered all over the marketing materials) Network your way into that company Find a decision maker and begin to develop a relationship (remember, it just starts with hi.) Let them know that you are in transition, or that you arent in a position to drop $50, but youd really, really like to go, and do you have an extra tickets that I could have? (or something like that) Obviously, you have to get over the pride thing a little, but I knew the sponsors at this event, and I knew they were scrambling to get all their tickets out! The presentation was awesome, the networking was awesome. It was way cool. So heres my recap. Weeks with lots of work (not me, I was pretty busy with JibberJobber stuff but was ccd on all the coordination e-mails) paid off big time. Seths presentation was awesome. Towards the end of the QA session he asked who wanted to do the book signing, and who wanted to continue QA. About 1% wanted to do the book signing, so we got another 20 minutes or so with QA. Ive never seen a more diverse set of questions, and he answered them masterfully. Ive heard people say (and Seth has also) that Seths blog is where he writes about obvious stuff, and it isnt worth reading. After hearing him for almost 90 minutes yesterday I have a new appreciation for his perspective and thoughts, and dont see his blog as just pointing out the obvious anymore. He wowed me. This is the wordmob team that worked to get Seth here: Here are links to various things that can give you a better feel for what we experienced: Ash Buckles, CTO of BridesClub.com is the biggest Seth Godin fan I know. He had his head shaved by Seth Godin: see it on flicker Steve Spencer, owner of Twelve Horses (which was a major sponsor) had a huge role in this event. HUGE thanks to Steve for being involved and all the work he did to make this happen. You can see him here with Ash (I think Steve did some follow-up shaving on Ashs head: see it on flicker and here are 11 seconds of Ashs fame on YouTube. Phil Windley, local tech superstar took some great notes and has some excellent pictures here. Phil801, one of the founding members of WordMob and owner of TagJungle, with a recap on the day and his mishaps getting Seth back to the airport (pretty funny! Thanks to Jimmy Zimmerman and Brian Corrales for essentially saving the day!!). Chris Knudsen, who has said he isnt blogging for the summer (but seems to blog more than normal :p) has some great notes in an easy-to-read bullet format. Quick comments from the Buzz Booster team on the event (thanks for the photo I stole :p). Finally, true to her name, the NewsPaperGrl has multiple posts broken out into subjects (all of these came out of the presentation): Utah Bloggers Chime in on Seth Godin’s Visit Recommended Books from Seth Godin If Seth Godin was a Teacher I Saw Seth Godin’s Socks Today Thats it for this week have an excellent weekend! Follow-up on Seth Godin ( Networking) From Yesterday Yesterday was a fun day, although the people I was with are all bloggers and I think I saw more than one sign of withdrawal from not being by an Internet connection for more than seven hours! Im not going to put any notes about Seth Godins presentation here because (a) I didnt take any (!!), and (b) there are a ton that Ill link to at the end of this post. Great notes, videos, pics, etc. It was interesting to see the comments from yesterdays post that I titled Im Not Going To See Seth Godin Because they ranged from ya! Right on! to I agree that $50 is too much and unaffordable. I dont disagree with that at all there is no way I was going to pay $50 to do something like this last year. In fact, there are opportunities every week for me to drop $50 on network things here locally that I choose not to do because I dont think the speaker or crowd merits it. However, there are ways to be creative about it Ill share one way to get in for free: Find out who the sponsors are (it shouldnt be hard its usually plastered all over the marketing materials) Network your way into that company Find a decision maker and begin to develop a relationship (remember, it just starts with hi.) Let them know that you are in transition, or that you arent in a position to drop $50, but youd really, really like to go, and do you have an extra tickets that I could have? (or something like that) Obviously, you have to get over the pride thing a little, but I knew the sponsors at this event, and I knew they were scrambling to get all their tickets out! The presentation was awesome, the networking was awesome. It was way cool. So heres my recap. Weeks with lots of work (not me, I was pretty busy with JibberJobber stuff but was ccd on all the coordination e-mails) paid off big time. Seths presentation was awesome. Towards the end of the QA session he asked who wanted to do the book signing, and who wanted to continue QA. About 1% wanted to do the book signing, so we got another 20 minutes or so with QA. Ive never seen a more diverse set of questions, and he answered them masterfully. Ive heard people say (and Seth has also) that Seths blog is where he writes about obvious stuff, and it isnt worth reading. After hearing him for almost 90 minutes yesterday I have a new appreciation for his perspective and thoughts, and dont see his blog as just pointing out the obvious anymore. He wowed me. This is the wordmob team that worked to get Seth here: Here are links to various things that can give you a better feel for what we experienced: Ash Buckles, CTO of BridesClub.com is the biggest Seth Godin fan I know. He had his head shaved by Seth Godin: see it on flicker Steve Spencer, owner of Twelve Horses (which was a major sponsor) had a huge role in this event. HUGE thanks to Steve for being involved and all the work he did to make this happen. You can see him here with Ash (I think Steve did some follow-up shaving on Ashs head: see it on flicker and here are 11 seconds of Ashs fame on YouTube. Phil Windley, local tech superstar took some great notes and has some excellent pictures here. Phil801, one of the founding members of WordMob and owner of TagJungle, with a recap on the day and his mishaps getting Seth back to the airport (pretty funny! Thanks to Jimmy Zimmerman and Brian Corrales for essentially saving the day!!). Chris Knudsen, who has said he isnt blogging for the summer (but seems to blog more than normal :p) has some great notes in an easy-to-read bullet format. Quick comments from the Buzz Booster team on the event (thanks for the photo I stole :p). Finally, true to her name, the NewsPaperGrl has multiple posts broken out into subjects (all of these came out of the presentation): Utah Bloggers Chime in on Seth Godin’s Visit Recommended Books from Seth Godin If Seth Godin was a Teacher I Saw Seth Godin’s Socks Today Thats it for this week have an excellent weekend! Follow-up on Seth Godin ( Networking) From Yesterday Yesterday was a fun day, although the people I was with are all bloggers and I think I saw more than one sign of withdrawal from not being by an Internet connection for more than seven hours! Im not going to put any notes about Seth Godins presentation here because (a) I didnt take any (!!), and (b) there are a ton that Ill link to at the end of this post. Great notes, videos, pics, etc. It was interesting to see the comments from yesterdays post that I titled Im Not Going To See Seth Godin Because they ranged from ya! Right on! to I agree that $50 is too much and unaffordable. I dont disagree with that at all there is no way I was going to pay $50 to do something like this last year. In fact, there are opportunities every week for me to drop $50 on network things here locally that I choose not to do because I dont think the speaker or crowd merits it. However, there are ways to be creative about it Ill share one way to get in for free: Find out who the sponsors are (it shouldnt be hard its usually plastered all over the marketing materials) Network your way into that company Find a decision maker and begin to develop a relationship (remember, it just starts with hi.) Let them know that you are in transition, or that you arent in a position to drop $50, but youd really, really like to go, and do you have an extra tickets that I could have? (or something like that) Obviously, you have to get over the pride thing a little, but I knew the sponsors at this event, and I knew they were scrambling to get all their tickets out! The presentation was awesome, the networking was awesome. It was way cool. So heres my recap. Weeks with lots of work (not me, I was pretty busy with JibberJobber stuff but was ccd on all the coordination e-mails) paid off big time. Seths presentation was awesome. Towards the end of the QA session he asked who wanted to do the book signing, and who wanted to continue QA. About 1% wanted to do the book signing, so we got another 20 minutes or so with QA. Ive never seen a more diverse set of questions, and he answered them masterfully. Ive heard people say (and Seth has also) that Seths blog is where he writes about obvious stuff, and it isnt worth reading. After hearing him for almost 90 minutes yesterday I have a new appreciation for his perspective and thoughts, and dont see his blog as just pointing out the obvious anymore. He wowed me. This is the wordmob team that worked to get Seth here: Here are links to various things that can give you a better feel for what we experienced: Ash Buckles, CTO of BridesClub.com is the biggest Seth Godin fan I know. He had his head shaved by Seth Godin: see it on flicker Steve Spencer, owner of Twelve Horses (which was a major sponsor) had a huge role in this event. HUGE thanks to Steve for being involved and all the work he did to make this happen. You can see him here with Ash (I think Steve did some follow-up shaving on Ashs head: see it on flicker and here are 11 seconds of Ashs fame on YouTube. Phil Windley, local tech superstar took some great notes and has some excellent pictures here. Phil801, one of the founding members of WordMob and owner of TagJungle, with a recap on the day and his mishaps getting Seth back to the airport (pretty funny! Thanks to Jimmy Zimmerman and Brian Corrales for essentially saving the day!!). Chris Knudsen, who has said he isnt blogging for the summer (but seems to blog more than normal :p) has some great notes in an easy-to-read bullet format. Quick comments from the Buzz Booster team on the event (thanks for the photo I stole :p). Finally, true to her name, the NewsPaperGrl has multiple posts broken out into subjects (all of these came out of the presentation): Utah Bloggers Chime in on Seth Godin’s Visit Recommended Books from Seth Godin If Seth Godin was a Teacher I Saw Seth Godin’s Socks Today Thats it for this week have an excellent weekend!