Unhappy with your occupation? Your dream job could be a few-clicks-and-the-making-of-a-video-away! If you are 100% content with your career, just laugh at the video, leave me a cool comment, and move on. Everybody else: Check out FutureResume.com.
FutureResume.com is a new company I am excited to tell you about. In the same way video dating companies have revolutionized the way people find love, so now FutureResume.com has applied the video concept to job searching and more importantly … job applicant screening. From their about page:
Companies waste a significant amount of time and money searching for and interviewing prospective candidates only to learn what might have been expressed up front in a short video introduction. FutureResume.com simplifies the selection process by allowing candidates to show their personality and professional commitment right on our website.
Folks, if you are out work, looking to change careers, or just starting out, this is the place I would start with a video and the services they offer. To show you how it works, I have made a short video myself for this post. Vote for me here.
This video is part of a current contest which you can enter as well. Here’s the contest details.
Okay, so I covered the first two letters of value: “V” for visceral and “A” for aphoristic. Now the third: “L” for linkage! Link love is the #1 way to make friends and influence people (namely bloggers you link to on the web. After you’ve written your visceral post of around 200 words and given it a catchy and creative title, it is important before you press the “publish” button to add 3 deeplinks (links to other posts on your blog) and 3 linkloves (links to other blogs). This can become a standard practice and you will find it easy then. IT IS VERY CUMBERSOME AT FIRST. You need to try and automate the process however you can. It should be like brushing your teeth every morning. Just to give you some of my tips:
For backlinks I have a shortcut to my most popular posts page. I open it in a new tab and getting relevant backlinks that are my most popular is as easy as copy/paste. This helps with rank and authrity. It also links your best stuff for people who are interested in it. REMEMBER: The best way to include links is within the context of your writing. Just inserting them random looks like spam and worse than that, it turns off your readers. You can automatically insert links in your blog (I recommend for a 200 word post 3 backlinks and 3 linkloves) and have it enhance your content.
For linklove: I use WordPress. As I add new faves to my blogroll, I can go to Manage / links in the admin section an choose the “blank” window feature. Then when I want to get a link open to check out or copy, all I need to do is click. I try to consistently link to my favorite blogs and I notice they really appreciate it. ONE NOTE: Chelle reminded me that the anchor text that the url is assigned to is important to rank, so choose appropriate words. For example: I really like this guy, if guy is the anchor text, then they only get juice for the word guy. If I says: “This guy knows music!” Then you link more effectively to his site about pop culture, music, and being a D.J..
Linkage of external sites along with the 2 types listed above is the third letter in blog value. Coming up tomorrow: The mysterious “U.” Keep following these guidelines and who knows, maybe you’ll be lookin’ into those las vegas hotels
What I have read in the FAQ’s at Entrecard, and my own experience bears it out, is that the EC cost to advertise on a site is not proportionate to that site’s traffic. It is based on how many sites they drop on.
For this reason, as you consider what sites to advertise on within Entrecard, make sure you go through to the actual site and measure either it’s Technorati rating, or Google PageRank, etc. That will be a much better indicator of whether they are worth your EC credits for a day of advertising. I have found dozens of blogs with a zero rating on the two sources mentioned and yet cost 3-400 EC’s to advertise. A blog like that probably is either brand new or doesn’t have much content. All the high EC’s show is that they either have the clicking system gamed with a program or something or they have enough spare hours in the day to click and click and click.
For this reason, look for the low EC “diamonds in the rough” that have a high rating on the sources mentioned. I recommend making them your favorites, then you don’t have to search for them everytime it’s time to buy. Their EC cost will stay low unless they start clicking all day long which most good serious bloggers don’t really have time to do I think. I am planning on clicking less. Having a high EC cost really isn’t of much worth. What do you think of this tip?
What I have read in the FAQ’s at Entrecard, and my own experience bears it out, is that the EC cost to advertise on a site is not proportionate to that site’s traffic. It is based on how many sites they drop on.
