Durbin Media Staff Announcements

We've been growing, organically, and have added two new people to our staff of independent consultants. This has been a big deal for Franki and I, as we move from being consultants in our firm, to managing other people.

That's the hard part about growth. You reach a point where you simply can't get all of the work done by yourself, but you're not big enough to start hiring people willy-nilly. Ultimately, you have to make the choice; Ddo we want to manage an agency, or do we want to simply do the work?

It's an entereprenuer's first big step, and the hardest. Talk about magnifying risk. Currently, we're straddling the fence. The two new additions are independent consultants, one working as a blogger, and the other as a designer. While this allows us to take on more projects, if we want to keep them, we need to give them more work, and more interesting work to keep them motivated.

Well, we can always sell more projects, so I'm going to go ahead and throw this out there - we're looking for more bloggers, and more designers, especially designers with Typepad, Wordpress, and Blogger design experience. Designers will work hand-in-hand with the owner of the company on projects, but if they have enough experience, can work directly with our clients. We're very picky about who we work with, but the advantage is you get mentoring from a fantastic designer. Franki does this work - and though I'm a bit biased, she's the best I've ever seen. Send us a note and announce yourself as a fabulous designer.

For bloggers, we're looking for people who have been writing for at least three months, who have either been paid before to write a blog, or who currently make money with their blog using AdSense or other methods. We'll need to see proof of traffic growth in your writing, and incoming link growth in Technorati.

At this time, we're specifically looking for people with a strong knowledge of St Louis (for local clients), marketing, or MySpace. We also like bloggers who write about business topics, and who understand the difference between blogging and writing.

The pay is good. We pay monthly based on the project. It's more than you'll make with Adsense, but we're not paying professional writers what they're used to making. In fact, we're not interested in professional writers - we don't want writers, we want bloggers.

Your duties will be
1) Writing 3-5 posts a week, averaging 16 a month
2) Leaving relevant comments on other blogs (this is an art in itself - we don't comment spam other bloggers)
3) Joining the communities we assign you to (marketing, local areas, pets)
4) Working with clients to help publish their information, without serving as a company shill
5) Utilizing widgets to help build traffic

Durbin Media Group does not write ghost blogs. We don't create fake blogs. We don't astroturf, or write fake comments. Our dedicated bloggers become an extension of a company's marketing and corporate communication departments, and work with the company to introduce social media to their customers, and help provide an online platform for the company.

Working with us, we'll teach you how to blog for business, and pay you fairly for your efforts, including sales referrals and blog referrals. Our business is creating and executing online marketing campaigns, and we'd be happy to have you join us.