by Michelle Lentz on June 9, 2009
Not long ago I posted about the Murphy-Goode “Really Goode Job.” Just as a refresher, Murphy-Goode Winery is offering a 6-month, $60,000 position to someone who wants to promote the winery via social media. They’ll even provide you with a rent-free home in Healdsburg. Seeing as how I’m a wine blogger and a social media consultant, it seems amazingly up my alley. I want this job. Really bad.
In order to get this job, I created a video. I thought about embedding it below, but really, I want to drive you to the site to vote. You get a screen cap instead. So many people seemed to just sit and talk about wine. I think wine is part of the job, but understanding social media and marketing is more important. So I tried to tell a story, and I used the Wizard of Oz to do it. Of course, it’s also an excuse to dress up like Dorothy.
I also created an accompanying web site at http://www.rainbowgoode.com. It’s fun because it hosts the extended version (after all, it’s hard to tell a story in a minute) and the blooper reel. The blooper reel still makes me laugh. Dogs are fun to work with …
On the site, you can view the various ways I’m trying to market the video, trying to drive votes. I am using every bit of social media I think is relevant – from my LinkedIn groups to this blog, from Facebook to Twitter. I picked up some Google AdWords and grabbed some bit.ly URLs. I’m amazed at the things that were available still.
I’d love to make the Top 50 folks, and hopefully, the Top 10. At the very least, maybe I’ll land a social media job of some sort from all this effort. But in order to do any of that, I need your votes.
The contest ends June 19, so vote soon and vote often!
Cheers!
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by Michelle Lentz on February 26, 2009
by Michelle Lentz
I try to keep the overly personal stuff out of bub.blicio.us, but these are social media related.
First off, I always get to announce when Brian is speaking somewhere, but this time – it’s me! I’m thrilled to have been asked to speak on a BlogHer ‘09 panel: Food Blogging in Time of Recession. I know, I’m not a food blogger. But what’s food without wine? I’ll be speaking, I think, on both finding Recession Wines as well as how to be a wine (and food) blogger during a recession. It sort of cuts back on fancy dinners and such – unless you’re a bit creative. BlogHer is happening in Chicago this year on July 24-25.
Next, my wine blog is up for a local award, although I fully admit there’s a popularity contest element here. In fact, I sort of feel like I’m campaigning for Prom Queen. That said, I’d love if you’d vote for me in the City Beat Best of Cincinnati Awards. My wine blog, among others, is listed as potential Best Blog. (I really wish they’d broken it out into categories, but they didn’t.) All you need to vote is an email address – no worries about whether or not you actually live in Cincinnati.
Once you get to the survey, you can vote on just about everything in the city. (Again, I wonder why they only have one category for blogs.) It’s a fun survey. You can fill out as much or as little as you wish. The BLOG category is listed under PUBLIC EYE. Select the drop-down list and scroll for MY WINE EDUCATION (http://www.wine-girl.net). Do I think I’ll win? Well, my fingers are crossed, but all my favorite local blogs – and closest friends – are nominated too. The competition is stiff. But at least I’m in the mix, yes? You have until March 1 to vote, so vote soon!
Right. So, we’ll now return to our regularly scheduled programming here on bub.blicio.us. 
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