Tag Archives: Blog

Starting Your First Blog

Often times, having a business blog is misunderstood. The social understanding that bloggers waste time complaining about things they don’t like and feeling the freedom to voice their opinion. Although, this is true in some cases, there are many business blogs that focus on speaking to their audience about products and services that are relevant.

Using a blog can also bring about information on new products, ideas of new products that could be released, share pictures or videos or processes (non-private) that viewers would be interested in. In the end, there are hundreds of reasons to build a business blog. There are thousands of ways to implement the messages and media around each post.

Here’s an example of a typical corporate home page. It looks good and references many offerings throughout the site. But you’ll notice the content is pretty light and could take advantage of additional content. This is where a business blog comes in to play; to promote their main product , church chairs, and gives so many opportunities to add in text content, audio and video content and branch out into social media as well.

church chairs

Damn I Need A Job

I first heard about Larry Dinsmore from Jibber Jobber, a Career Management Toolset, when they blogged Damn I Need A Job (dotcom).

Dinsmore has since found a job and created a business as well as inspired many others to stand out from the crowd while looking for employment. He scored tons of media coverage for being catchy and found his way back to employment.

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Think of the media coverage the company that hired him could be getting from this, if properly arranged. Of course, I’m not sure I’d give up my idea to a corporate contract but it’s an idea.

You can use his site to:

  • Search for jobs (I’m not sure how extensive this is)
  • Network with others in the forum
  • Read his blog

It seems Dinsmore has been too busy to keep up with the job search, forum and blog, probably because he’s working again, but maybe he’ll return to his roots eventually.

Lessons he learned and wants you to know:

  • Make your t-shirt message short
  • Wear it everywhere; all the time
  • Get attention by any means possible
  • Be creative

Ultimately, a social media mindset; mixed with local News PR and lots of standing around landed Dinsmore his job. But because he was thinking outside the box he continued to get media coverage, add sections to his blog and promote his idea online.