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flattered. speechless.

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So yesterday I announced a special one-week offer at JibberJobber. And I have to say that I’m absolutely flattered and speechless by some of the blogger reactions that I’ve received. (note, there have been a number of people that have forwarded this special to their own networks, lists they manage, etc. Thank you SO much! If you want me to list you here just let me know)…

Scot Herrick - Cube RulesScot Herick writes at CubeRules.com. We’ve known eachother for a while (seems like he is one of the first bloggers that I met so about 9 or 10 months?)… and he has endorsed or recommended JibberJobber before. But I never expected an endorsement like this. Wow.

Rob MerrillRob Merrill writes at UtahTechJobs.com (and other places). I e-mailed Rob last summer and said “hey, I’m a fellow Utah blogger, let’s hook up” and we’ve had a cool relationship ever since. As a matter of fact he’s one of my top favorite recruiters – and a really good friend. His post about JibberJobber and me are very flattering.

John ReinkeThe story behind me and John Reinke is a fun one, and we’ve had a very interesting relationship. John has one of the funnest blogs to read – he is a cynic and critic like no other – he’s quick to give a well-though-out opinion and calls ’em like he sees ’em. This post blew me away.

Harry Joiner - The Marketing Recruiter (Marketing Headhunter)Harry Joiner is one of the most respected recruiting bloggers and has an excellent blog (he’s been a favorite of mine since the beginning – he lives by “quality content”). Yesterday this post went up – it didn’t mention the special but it is a great endorsement of JibberJobber. Thanks Harry!

Carl Chapman - Executive Restaurant RecruiterCarl Chapman and appeared on the blog scene shortly after I did and we hit it off really well. Two ambitious newbies… he’s offered me lots of advice over the last 9 or 10 months and has been very kind to me. I think he loves blogging on anything I do just to put a picture of Jessica Alba there… shoot, he’s the one that got recruiters to call me Jason Jessica Alba! Here’s his post about this… !

Laura MoncurLaura Moncur is a veteran master of the web – she has the oldest quotations website, blogs on a number of blogs, is on twitter, … its pretty cool. I’ve read her personal blog since I got into the Utah blog scene and seen her comments on other Utah blogs… I finally got to meet her in March at the blogger’s dinner – it was really cool (we sat across from one another and her and her husband gave me advice on my pending book). She blogged about the special on her Gadets Page blog… thank you!

Phil801Phil801 is one of those internet folks that kind of doesn’t have a last name – he is his handle 🙂 Even in conversation I call him Phil801! He blogged about the special here, and had some really kind things to say about it.

Kent BlumbergKent Blumberg – wow, I can’t remember how we met exactly but Kent has turned into a very close friend. He is an expert in management and leadership and has been a very close advisor for JibberJobber. When I went to Houston in January he was with me for most meetings that I had scheduled, opened doors for me, and was the definitely of “power connector. Kent has called me on the carpet when appropriate, offered wise advice, and more. You can’t have a more valuable friend than Kent – he is an expert giver.

Mick WistMick and Matt from Insourced have an excellent blog and they were also one of the first to blog on the special… they also have some cool stuff going on at their company! Thanks for hitting this Mick! You are right about the “you probably don’t have too much to lose!” line.

Alex Rudloff - Owner of Emurse (resume creation)Alex Rudloff is the owner of Emurse.com (I send people to his site all the time…) – he might have been the first person to blog on the special.

Valuing a blog – have I arrived?

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At a recent bloggers dinner Ash asked all of us “when has a blogger arrived?” I’ve been intrigued by this question ever since, even though I gave a very flowery response (which I can’t totally remember now). But really, doesn’t it all come down to money? When the blog is worth something? So here’s my JibberJobber blog‘s worth, according to Dane and Technorati:

 


My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?

I obviously HAVE NOT arrived.

Having the guts

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I got an e-mail today from a buddy in Texas:

I am glad to hear your business is doing well. I wish I had your skills to go out and start my own business, but I am too big of a chicken.

So here is my formula for “going out and starting your own business:

  1. Focus 150% on your career, give your life and time and thoughts to “the company.”
  2. Get laid off because of any lame reason.
  3. Work 60 hours a week looking for a job.
  4. Have a great looking resume that has some ghost problem (something that is a problem but you can’t find).
  5. Have an aha moment that is “wow, this would be really cool!!”
  6. Continue to not be able to get a job (much less a couple of interviews)
  7. Figure that going forward on your own business is going to be more fruitful than spinning the job search window (this was months into the job search)
  8. Being okay with giving up all of the corporate perks (steady paycheck, bonus, holidays, sick leave, “cheap” health insurance, etc.)

There you go. There’s my guts. Where are yours?
frog dissection … where are your guts?

Buying ads on Yahoo’s network

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yahoo credit cardSo a few weeks ago I sat down at the computer to buy some ads on Yahoo’s network. I went through their process doing it as quickly as I could (which is hard) because I wanted to be done before the kids got up.

Towards the end I put in my credit card number:

1111111111111111

it was rejected (!) … so I did it again, and again. I double/tripled checked the numbers – I was getting so frustrated! I just spent some valuable time putting this together and now it was rejecting my card! I pulled my personal card and the same thing happened. Dang – why were both of my cards being rejected??

For some reason I thought I’d try it with the spaces, like this:

1111 1111 1111 1111

Guess what – it worked! My thoughts? Why doesn’t a pioneer in the Internet world allow both ways? Why is the spacing such a big deal? Have they tested this??

(of course now I have to go and test my credit card pages and see what’s acceptable – and I realize there are bunches of JibberJobber things that can or should be polished – but we’re working from different budgets here (how’s that for an excuse).)

I bet if I had a Yahoo credit card it wouldn’t have happened… right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Hipcast – podcasting on the cheap and easy

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Hipcast logoI’ve had about 6 podcast interviews over the last 10 months.  I’ve asked my podcasting expert friends how to go about having my own podcasts.  The answers are always overwhelming because I’m not a gadgety, geeky type and I don’t want to have to spend a lot of time on it.

That’s why I was really excited to learn how CM Russell pumps out podcasts so quickly and easily.  I know you can have flashier, funner podcasts (with music at the front or back or whatever) but for someone dry and boring like me this is all I need: Hipcast (their blog – outdated).

Again, I haven’t signed up for hipcast just yet – I’m not ready to make a podcasting committment.  But its cheap – 5 bucks a month on their basic plan (get 2 months free if you pay for a year).  As far as I understand its dumb-proof – just make a phone call into the hipcast system, push some buttons to tell the system what you want to do and you’ll end up with a recording and the code you need to post it on your blog or site.

I like it and this is likely how I’ll do it if/when I start.