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Friday, May 25, 2007

Join the Brandstorming Revolution

We admit it. We can't do this all on our own. We need help.

Specifically - your help. Durbin Media Group is an interactive marketing firm. I left my job as a staffing salesman to join Franki's interactive marketing firm in January of last year. We rebranded, and I brought my skills in social media and blogging to her design, development and marketing expertise.

Since then, we have been busier than a one-armed paper hanger, working on projects for product, marketing, staffing firms, PR firms, corporate blogs, and social communities. Our real strength has emerged in concepting, designing and executing targeted communities of interest.

If you want to build a loyal group of online evangelists for your product, service, or employment brand, we're the people to turn to, not just in St Louis, but nationwide. Our clients in the last year have been in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Jose, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, and New Zealand.

So why am I writing this? We need some help. We've been scheduling work out as far as four months, and in many cases, have been passing on work for current clients to competitors because we just can't get it all done.

We've decided to move from a two-person consulting firm focused on quality to a full-fledged interactive agency focused on quality. Our goal is to find talented web designers, social media consultants, and copywriters who want to work with two cutting edge talents on fresh projects.

Our process is simple. We want dependable, creative, and fabulous Web 2.0 people to work with us, initially as project based, but eventually as full-fledged contractors or employees. We will be heavily involved with the work, and can either bring you projects you work on independently, or farm out web work as it comes in.

To ensure quality for our clients, we will be monitoring and signing off on all projects - but if your quality is good (clean code, beautiful design), we can serve as your selling and accounts payable (and collections) arm. Basically, we're going to build an agency from the ground up. Initially, we need a CSS 2.0 designer or two, but if you're talented, we can find work for you.

So why would you work with us? Because we can make you better at what you do. Working with us means joining a team of creative people - our goal is to make you better, work hard, and deliver a great product. All of our business is referral based, and we live off our reputation.

If you're interested, forward us an e-mail with a list of your skills (don't bother with a resume), some url's of projects you've worked on, and what you're looking for in an hourly corp-to-corp or 1099 rate to info [at]durbinmedia{dot}com.

For examples of what we do, check out http://www.shakadoo.com and http://www.lifeinaventicup.com

1 Comments:

Anonymous reese said...

Hey, I'm excited for you guys! Are you doing any searching locally, too?

11:04 AM  

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