Alan Stevens: Seven Lessons in Personal Marketing I Learned From Pickup Artists

Alan is self described as a father, geek, vegan, and software artisan. He regularly speaks at conferences and user group meetings about how to be a better software developer. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Programmer Award for C# in 2009, 2010, &2011. 

"A few years ago, I stumbled on a mention of something called the seduction community in a talk by Merlin Mann (http://bit.ly/euAAJD). After a few Google searches, I found the book The Game by Neil Strauss and read it. The book tells the story of how Strauss, a writer, became involved in the seduction community and what he learned there. What he found was a bunch of nerds that used a left brain approach to courtship and in the process uncovered a series of repeatable approaches to social dynamics based on a rich set of principles of human behavior and motivation."

I quickly saw the applicability of these routines and principles beyond the realm of attracting a mate. I've studied the books and recordings of the professional instructors of this material and now I want to share what I found to be of greatest value. I applied these principles to my professional networking activities with pleasant success and look forward to sharing these ideas with you.