Get Mike a Job

Total Hockey

Just had a great interview with Total Hockey for their Web Operations Manager position. They are a local Saint Louis company that has been expanding both its retail locations and web presence. The people I spoke with were great, down to earth guys.

So this would be a job doing marketing on the web for a hockey company. Sounds like a great fit to me.  I should hear back in a couple of weeks.

Stats from the updated Facebook ad

The Facebook ad was not getting any impressions so I adjusted the settings. It is now targeting the keywords “job” and “recruiter” and going nationwide. I jumped from 4 impressions and 0 clicks from the first week to over 6,000 impressions and 4 clicks in the first day with the new perameters. Still a shot in the dark, but only costs $1 per day. Video.

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Why

After seeing the same handful of positions posted on every job board I was really fed up with searching online. Since I am looking for an opportunity to help people improve their marketing through the use of social media I decided to start a campaign for myself using these tools.
How

Social Media Tools

Here’s an outline of the tools I set up listed chronologically:

1. Twitter- I chose a name that was short enough … Continue Reading
   
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GetMikeAJob on Digg

You can Digg the GetMikeAJob site here. Thanks!

If you tweet about this site, please use the #getmikeajob hashtag.

What are hashtags? Here’s an introduction from the Twitter Wiki:

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

Hashtags were developed as a means to create ”groupings” on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. The hash symbol is a convention borrowed primarily from IRC channels, and later from Jaiku’s channels…. Continue Reading

Google results from social media in less than 48 hours

I just started the Get Mike a Job campaign less than 48 hours ago, but there are already 7 results on the Google search engine results page (SERP). The domain name has not been indexed yet, but there are results from YouTube and Twitter.

So if you aren’t sure if social media works, or how you can possibly measure it, take a gander at these results.

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