Showing posts with label podcast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podcast. Show all posts
Monday, 23 November 2009
Friday, 20 March 2009
iTunes - music to our ears
The gold medal. A CBE. Perhaps the occasional Knight of the Garter. These treasures and trinkets all sit comfortably in the great pantheon of decoration. However, a new pretender to the crown marches on the collective sub conscious. "New and Notable" are two heavyweight words to be conjured with if you're in podcasting. And we are. The newest production bairn to the Wonkana stable is a really vibrant and highly listenable careers podcast known as "You're Hired".( http://www.ethosrecruitment.com/ ) It's the official podcast of Ethos Recruitment who have offices in Towcester and Daventry.
Julia Doherty, Director of Ethos and top Twitter user (try saying that after a yard of chateau neuf de pape!) works closely with us to deliver great content on all aspects of the job market. Julia hosts the podcast and interviews a fresh guest every month, whilst handing out great advice on topics like interview skills. The good people at iTunes have sat up and taken notice and "You're Hired" has just made it onto their "New and Notable" list at the top of the podcast store. Move over OBE, a new accolade is in town and Ethos and Wonkana have it.
Julia Doherty, Director of Ethos and top Twitter user (try saying that after a yard of chateau neuf de pape!) works closely with us to deliver great content on all aspects of the job market. Julia hosts the podcast and interviews a fresh guest every month, whilst handing out great advice on topics like interview skills. The good people at iTunes have sat up and taken notice and "You're Hired" has just made it onto their "New and Notable" list at the top of the podcast store. Move over OBE, a new accolade is in town and Ethos and Wonkana have it.
Friday, 13 June 2008
I now pronounce you salesman and wife
I've never envied sales people. Whether it's the preposterous facade of the car sales exec who disappears upstairs for 10 minutes "to really try for you....I'm going to get the best price for your car", or the white socks brigade of those high street electrical retailers who accost you before you're barely over the threshold.
Nobody will ever sing " hi diddledy dee, a salesman's life for me ".
As a business in the frugal throes of year one, we can ill afford to lavish good currency on retained sales staff let alone a company car and assorted perks. We need what one businessman called "lovers". Lovers of what we do. Those who've really latched onto podcasting, what it can do for a client and that we always deliver a tip top service. Then when they've done that, signed a particularly girthsome order and concientiously licked our shoes to a high polish, they can have a commission cheque. They can be an odd breed, existing between the shadows of targets and regular one to ones. Ah one to ones - the last refuge of the scumbag. A slow and deliberate applying of the thumbscrews to an otherwise affable individual, who dares to carry a business card adorned with "media sales executive". It might as well say " I interfere with animals".
Now I don't claim to be a salesman, but selling is what you have to do in those early and intoxicating days of a new business. As the venerable Mr Sharkey of the Pokercast declared "you have to be able to take no as an answer."
I honestly wouldn't mind the occasional "no", even something more surly would suffice. Anything rather than message non grata. The email that goes unacknowledged. Those who have heard our stuff want to talk. And well they might! Believe me, I'm not selling useless crap. This perfectly illustrates my point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rcr4ojLcSM
It's a bit good. And that's only one of our products. Give us a fair shot and we could be mutually beneficial.
Nobody will ever sing " hi diddledy dee, a salesman's life for me ".
As a business in the frugal throes of year one, we can ill afford to lavish good currency on retained sales staff let alone a company car and assorted perks. We need what one businessman called "lovers". Lovers of what we do. Those who've really latched onto podcasting, what it can do for a client and that we always deliver a tip top service. Then when they've done that, signed a particularly girthsome order and concientiously licked our shoes to a high polish, they can have a commission cheque. They can be an odd breed, existing between the shadows of targets and regular one to ones. Ah one to ones - the last refuge of the scumbag. A slow and deliberate applying of the thumbscrews to an otherwise affable individual, who dares to carry a business card adorned with "media sales executive". It might as well say " I interfere with animals".
Now I don't claim to be a salesman, but selling is what you have to do in those early and intoxicating days of a new business. As the venerable Mr Sharkey of the Pokercast declared "you have to be able to take no as an answer."
I honestly wouldn't mind the occasional "no", even something more surly would suffice. Anything rather than message non grata. The email that goes unacknowledged. Those who have heard our stuff want to talk. And well they might! Believe me, I'm not selling useless crap. This perfectly illustrates my point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rcr4ojLcSM
It's a bit good. And that's only one of our products. Give us a fair shot and we could be mutually beneficial.
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Some guys have all the luck
No, today's title isn't designed to pay homage to the late exponent of soulful ballads Robert Palmer or leopard print king Rod Stewart ( although with the legsome Penny Lancaster in tow, Rodders has clearly had his fair share of the stuff! ). I'm referring to a chap with one or two aces up his sleeve, along with some other fortuitous cards.
Ladies and Gentleman, Mr Michael Greco.
Yes, the croak-voiced romeo from Eastenders, Beppe di Marco. The Pokercast with Littlewoodspoker.com, the trusted name in gaming, say those in the know has just secured an interview with this cool-handed thesp. Michael is one of a raft of actors who has been lured by the draw (groan) of poker. He's good too. Having been mentored by "Mad" Marty Wilson, Greco went on to appear in the 2005 Poker Million, World Speed Poker Open (that's playing with alacrity, not the illicit substance) and the European Poker Tour in Dublin.
It would seem oppotune at this point to paste in a timely link thus :
http://www.littlewoodspoker.com/poker-lounge/online-poker-podcast
The Pokercast is monthly, free to subscribe to and on top of all things poker. That most assiduous of sports writers, Peter Sharkey along with Aussie Col trains his gaming cross hairs on tournaments, features, poker news, facts, interviews and the odd promotion or two.
Listen out for Michael and how he scooped £100,000 following the climax of the 3rd round of the Grosvenor Poker Tour in Cardiff and why acting is a solid training ground for the art of the false tell. It's a Wonkana production and far be it from us to be immodest, it's rather good.
Ladies and Gentleman, Mr Michael Greco.
Yes, the croak-voiced romeo from Eastenders, Beppe di Marco. The Pokercast with Littlewoodspoker.com, the trusted name in gaming, say those in the know has just secured an interview with this cool-handed thesp. Michael is one of a raft of actors who has been lured by the draw (groan) of poker. He's good too. Having been mentored by "Mad" Marty Wilson, Greco went on to appear in the 2005 Poker Million, World Speed Poker Open (that's playing with alacrity, not the illicit substance) and the European Poker Tour in Dublin.
It would seem oppotune at this point to paste in a timely link thus :
http://www.littlewoodspoker.com/poker-lounge/online-poker-podcast
The Pokercast is monthly, free to subscribe to and on top of all things poker. That most assiduous of sports writers, Peter Sharkey along with Aussie Col trains his gaming cross hairs on tournaments, features, poker news, facts, interviews and the odd promotion or two.
Listen out for Michael and how he scooped £100,000 following the climax of the 3rd round of the Grosvenor Poker Tour in Cardiff and why acting is a solid training ground for the art of the false tell. It's a Wonkana production and far be it from us to be immodest, it's rather good.
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