Favorite fan mail…that has made it through

Awesome layout! It’s cool that we can use these principles in just about anything we do.

Great job, Scott!

Your newsletter has the 2 key components of any good communication – a strong combination of quality (and witty!) content combined with strong design.

One should not be without the other (or in other words, what’s the point of being pretty if it ain’t effective!)

I’m a personal friend of Scott and his family. But first, I worked for Scott. That guy’s a genius and not in the traditional sense either. His ability to communicate his brilliance to average IQ’ers, like me, is pretty amazing.

When I received Scott’s holiday letter…er, Lynch Family Annual Report, I was all grins. It came on top of the usual run of the mill holiday letters that bored me to tears or had me curling my lip up in disgust.

For Scott to say that Slideology has changed his life and that his education has begun has put the task of “finding out more about this Slideology business” at the top of my priority list. I can’t imagine that guy getting more brilliant. It makes my head explode. You must be good. Real good.

Isn’t the point of the book to make presentations that don’t distract from the message? I like it when you talked about the difference between the number of words on a slide or graphic and the category it then fell into: report, teleprompter, presentation.

To me, this is overkill. I want the story, not an annual report. Yes, it is a very fun letter and a clever presentation, but the point is to not make your audience have an excuse to misunderstand, and the compelling info is probably better left in the form of the written letter. Graphics SUPPLEMENT, not replace. Just my two cents.