Comments on: Tell All Your Friends! Text over Pictures is Bush League! http://www.bryanrahn.com/tell-all-your-friends-words-over-pictures-is-bush-league Search Marketing, Lead Generation and Living Exceptionally. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:14:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nathaniel Broughton http://www.bryanrahn.com/tell-all-your-friends-words-over-pictures-is-bush-league#comment-94 Nathaniel Broughton Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:49:23 +0000 http://www.lifeintheblue.com/2007/03/28/tell-all-your-friends-words-over-pictures-is-bush-league/#comment-94 I would rate my job satisfaction as 'Satisfied' and my happiness at work as 'Very Happy'. I've got to think that most SEM folk, roughly 75-80% would be in this range also. You can tell at the conferences, just how much fun people have barking about search marketing and partying. There's a lot of things that are positive about being in this field - it's still emerging, so you get an inflated sense of importance and 'I'm the shit cause I know this' feeling, it's extremely flexible w/people's schedules, it's something that just about every company in the world would benefit from (and you can provide), and it's basically a 'what you make of it' situation. What I mean is you get out what you put in, and you can apply SEM skills to literally any industry or type of website that you can conceive of. All it really takes is a desire to be successful once you have the knowledge base. There's nothing to hold you back and that's what I like most about it. I think the only negatives are that it is generally a highly competitive sphere (everyone wants to be #1 on Google), and there is a bit of uncertainty involved. It's higher risk but higher reward than most people can handle, but f'n A it's a good ride. It's a life less ordinary but definitely feels like a privileged one to me. I would rate my job satisfaction as ‘Satisfied’ and my happiness at work as ‘Very Happy’. I’ve got to think that most SEM folk, roughly 75-80% would be in this range also. You can tell at the conferences, just how much fun people have barking about search marketing and partying. There’s a lot of things that are positive about being in this field – it’s still emerging, so you get an inflated sense of importance and ‘I’m the shit cause I know this’ feeling, it’s extremely flexible w/people’s schedules, it’s something that just about every company in the world would benefit from (and you can provide), and it’s basically a ‘what you make of it’ situation.

What I mean is you get out what you put in, and you can apply SEM skills to literally any industry or type of website that you can conceive of. All it really takes is a desire to be successful once you have the knowledge base. There’s nothing to hold you back and that’s what I like most about it.

I think the only negatives are that it is generally a highly competitive sphere (everyone wants to be #1 on Google), and there is a bit of uncertainty involved. It’s higher risk but higher reward than most people can handle, but f’n A it’s a good ride. It’s a life less ordinary but definitely feels like a privileged one to me.

]]> By: Jay Buerck http://www.bryanrahn.com/tell-all-your-friends-words-over-pictures-is-bush-league#comment-93 Jay Buerck Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:46:47 +0000 http://www.lifeintheblue.com/2007/03/28/tell-all-your-friends-words-over-pictures-is-bush-league/#comment-93 I would rate Satisfied and Happy with the overall Very Happy being about 75%. I would rate Satisfied and Happy with the overall Very Happy being about 75%.

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