Love iis iin the aiir for Siimon Reynolds
The love affair with adland’s Siimon Reynolds continues… well at least for Siimon Reynolds.
For those of you who’ve been wondering what Reynolds has been up to of late, wonder no more.
While working as chairman of online network, OMG and securing a deal with Penguin to write about about how to be a high achiever – and be more like Siimon Reynolds – he’s also been busy putting the finishing touches to his new blog which can be found on what can only be described as the Siimon Reynolds Fan Club website.
And the name of his blog you ask? SIICOACH. Yes, that’s right. If you ever need help to become a better person “SIICOACH is a blog with powerful tips and observations about personal success, high performance and entrepreneurship”.
And if not, just go onto his website anyway, and with your friends and colleagues, try to guess how many head shots he had taken before he chose the select few to go on CONTINUOUS loop for all to enjoy.
Does anyone else think this all has a touch of Nick Adams about it??
"The Thinker" pose
Tim – funny as always mate.
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‘You did a good job’ – Warren Buffett.
Outstanding accolade! I think someone once said that to me, just before I was fired…
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It’s been going for five months. There are four comments.
Yikes.
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Found this today: http://lifeatthebottom.com/chi.....siimon.jpg
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And if you visit the home page (or is it hoome paage?) of his blog in a web browser with JavaScript turned off (either temporarily turn it off in the Options/Preferences or install a plugin like NoScript in Firefox), you get all 5 of the banner images showing up in a row, at once!.
That’s five times Siimon Reynolds, or as I like to say, Siiiimon-tastic.
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so what has he done since 1984. Apart from swanning around and selling himself and ideas that never see the light of the day. He is the perfect anti-role model.
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talk about exposing yourself as a fake – with this exercise in cheap and nasty extreme narcissism he has just shot himself in the face and shredded whatever reputation he had for understanding marketing
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Please can we have a mumbrella panel with him and Nick Adams on it? Perhaps we could livestream it from the Mogadishu Hilton (with you here in Sydney of course Tim). We just need two more shy and self-effacing types to make up the awesome foursome. Now who could they be?
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People who write comments like this in my view are cowards and this amounts to pure defamation. Lets face it you are all jealous of this guys success and you clearly dont know him or you wouldnt be say this. You are a bunch of gossips and losers who have clearly dont nothing with your lives. This is a disgrace that this sort of thing is allowed to happen. why dont you all just crawl back in the holes from where you came.
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Oh Dear. Loser watch…what can I say about that post of yours? Actually I won’t say anything because I would never knowingly pay out on a challenged person.
Good for you for learning about the interwebs and the computing systema’s!
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whats with all the angst if he hasnt done anything – in yr opinion – since 1984? For those of us that were born around this time, we like him, for all the reason you hate him. get with the times. like what evs!
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What, no “print is dead” comment yet? Nope? Oh well.
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tall poppy syndrome is alive and well.
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Errr, Elissa, you wouldn’t happen to be the recruiter Siimon dumped at the beginning of the year, would you?…Still carrying a torch I see….
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Ego is not a dirty word
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what i find interesting is its a “blog” about “advertising”, with advertising type stuff on the blog. surely someone sees the irony here?
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a twat is still a twat, whether they’ve been successful or not
and whether or not they changed their name to put 2 i’s in it to make themselves more ‘memorable’
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thiis is epiic.
thiis liitle pop tart is exactly why ii got iinto advertisiing…
thank you siimon…you have truly rocked my socks off. You are now my desktop background.
Iinspiration with a capiitol Ii.
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He could have called it “Buzzle” – that’s not being used…
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Actually, I stand corrected… it IS being used!
I wonder if there’s any connection?
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This is a totally professional website, totally. Either this piece of PR has crashed the blog or it wasn’t working in the first place. Simon will be up wrestling with WordPress all night…. poor fella. I like the ‘Products’ section and the fact that Simon ‘customises each speech’ and… flipping hell… the mentornig services! 60k a year for the ‘hands on’ mentoring. I paid $1200 for 12 meetings over six months and I am brushing my teeth twice a day now. Imagine what you get for 60 big ones.
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ii must say all the carry on here iis just really diisappoiintiing
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Sven is one jealous ‘Loser’ . oh and did i mention a coward.. he would say this with his full name and phone number …if you would coward Sven then post it buddy!
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Why has Australia got such a Tall Poppy Syndrome Problem?
Why can’t we learn from his achievements and then go out and further ourselves instead of trying to bash him to make ourselves feel better?
Shame on you Tim for posting such a biased article.
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“Tall poppy????!!!” I always thought poppies were flowers not weeds. This guy is a legend in his own mind whose only skill is promoting himself. It works with easy to please tools like “loser watch”however if you had actually ever worked with him it is seriously a case of Emperor”s new clothes. Incidentally Loser Watch.. or may I use your first name? LOSER…. can’t you see the irony in telling people to use their full names whilst using a pseudonym yourself??
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This forum reminds me of the Mad Max, when our boy Mel, won’t kill off Blaster after their battle in the Thunderdome. “Two men enter, one man leave! Two men enter, one man leave!”
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how much shameless self promotion will siimon do….the blog is rubbish…perfect example of someone living off one famous campaign….
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Dear Loser Watch
i’ve got a Ben 10. Never worn a Loser Watch.
Me also speak no good engrish like you
BUT me no coward
Here are my details. Call me.
Siven Sivenson, 555 555 555
ps…i’ve added an i to my name to make myself more distinctment
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dear MWAHAHA! omgosh! are you still on the market? i still see yr holding a torch for me xxxx
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e eye e eye oh
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A very nasty case of tall poppy syndrome. Why do Australians try to drag people who have had some success down to their own level? Not knowing the writer, that’s certainly how it came across. It’s very unattractive.
You don’t have to like him, you don’t have to like his style, no one is perfect, but everyone has different skills and abilities. Siimon is trying to make the most of his – are you making the most of yours?
Instead of throwing stones, you’d be better off putting the same amount of effort into making something of your own life. It’s so much easier to be a critic than to actually DO something. Encouraging others to be the best that they can be is a good place to start. Setting a good example is another.
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Hey Disappointed, it is possible to encourage and inspire people without being a narsarsistic maniac.
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Some time ago, I worked with Siimon and his team on a couple of projects. I found him to be very personable and professional. I was quite surprised by how he conducted himself in meetings…more quiet and contemplative than I thought he’d be given the hype and the tabloid interest. Interested in the work and getting it right.
I don’t understand how having a website that sells your ‘brand’ in a positive light can be construed in such a negative and personal way by marketing and ad industry professionals.
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Here, here Rascally
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that’s the whole point rascally/christian – he could be a nice bloke, a good mentor and a great ad man – but this website makes him look like a complete wanker – so in that respect it’s simply atrocious marketing. Perhaps he doesn’t know its up and running – maybe his mgt people are at fault?
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@sven
You’re entitled to your opinion of the website. I don’t agree. Unfortunately most of the comments here equate the website with the man, rather than as a ‘brand’ which I think is a misunderstanding of it’s purpose.
I don’t know Siimon personally at all, except for that short time crossing professional paths some time ago. I don’t think that the personal vilification of someone because they have a website for professional promotion is a worthwhile exercise.
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Hey II don’t know what all he’s done( to you)-‘cept for the bowling for AIIDS spot. Seems liike he’s more about self iimprovement and self promotiion. Niice for hiim-EGO? You get that with creatiives BFD. II think iit’s more of an opportuniity for the australiian creatiives to check theiir own sorry state and why they can’t enliighten theiir clients more-this guy obviiously diid somethiing-you’re all stiill talkiing about hiim 20+yrs on
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