I am happy to say that living under the bridge is behind us now. The Social Media Job Hunt experiment lasted only five days before receiving an exciting employment offer, and numerous freelance offers to carry me through the interim. I will miss all my bridge-dwelling neighbors, and will think fondly of our times chasing down rodents… er…dinner, with the kids. Moving was quick. We simply flipped our cardboard house over, put our few belongings in it, and carried it back to the house. Read more [...]

With all the good people that have recently lost their jobs, here's one person who isn't worthy of the job he has: Richard: Hello. Welcome to Real's Live Chat. How can I help you? Todd Mintz: Hello Richard. I'm a current subscriber and for Xmas, I received 6 months of Rhapsody Unlimited. I believe my "renewal" is in October and I'd like to tack on my present to the end of my subscription term. Order number is... Todd Mintz: Are you there? Richard: Yes I am. Richard: Sure, I can help you Read more [...]

“Men with insight, men in granite Knights in armor bent on chivalry.” …Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey I’m probably getting 6-10 new Twitter followers a day and, unless it’s an obvious bot, I always check out the page of each new follower in order to decide whether to reciprocate. Here’s the criteria I use in making my “follow” determination: If the account has the default avatar and or haven’t done any @ tweets yet, I won’t follow back unless I know them. If the Read more [...]

"Satan, your kingdom must come down Satan, your kingdom must come down I heard the voice of Jesus say Satan, your kingdom must come down"...Uncle Tupelo, Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down In search marketing circles, the term "Rockstar" is pretty controversial. It is used to show popularity in the community, but it also can be applied derogatively (to show the person has a huge ego or is a “legend in their own mind”). However, when somebody like Joshua Patrice, aka Syzlak, is not Read more [...]

Todd graciously offered to do an e-interview with me and I certainly wasn't going to pass up that opportunity... 1) You announced that you are getting back into the social media marketing game. What sorts of projects / clients are you looking to associate with? Will you also get back to writing some more most excellent creative blog posts? I am working mainly with digg, reddit, stumbleupon to push social traffic to sites to get them more traction. I've always had a main focus of links, Read more [...]

More than seven million visitors come to Gaia every month to make friends, play games, watch movies in Gaia Cinemas, Gaia's virtual theaters, and participate in the world's most active online community. Gaia provides a fun, social environment that inspires individuality and creativity. With everything from art contests to discussion forums on poetry, politics, celebrities and more, to fully customizable profiles, digital characters and cars, Gaia is a place where teens can create their own space Read more [...]

I didn’t know Joanna Lord nearly as well as most of my previous interview subjects (though I did meet her at Pubcon and she’s an incredibly sweet person). However, when she shared via Twitter the launch of a job search site TheOnlineBeat that she co-founded, after viewing the site, I realized that she and I had a lot to talk about…and here are the results of that conversation… 1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living. My background? Does bookworm Read more [...]

“What is the price of Experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for the price of a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all Man hath, his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, and in the wither’d field where the farmer ploughs for bread in vain.”...William Blake In my entire time online, I’ve only had one confrontation over something I posted. When I wrote a post on the 2007 Domain Read more [...]

I'm long overdue to post SEO t-shirt photos, so here goes: Hayley is modeling the EasyTweets t-shirt which is a service offered by my friend and fellow Sahara patron Alexander Barbara. EasyTweets is a web-based marketing tool that makes it easy to use Twitter to promote and grow your business. Cade is showing off the BigWatah.com t-shirt. Haven't heard about BigWatah? Make sure to check out the site. I plan to write something more in depth about BigWatah sometime in the future. I Read more [...]

This is from "Mukesh" and was left via SalesForce Web-To-Lead: Hello I am SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) basically means optimizing your website through on page and off page factors to get you high rankings and more traffic in the search engines. We can do directory, article submission and one way links. Links will actually help your site to rank high in the search engines. So what are you waiting for? For high Search engine rankings you can contact to Read more [...]