We're Engaged and Planning our Wedding!!

This is a pic from the night Shan popped the question. Please check the wedding info section on our blog as we'll be updating it periodically with our wedding plans.

A little bit about Simply Hired

You might notice what is called a widget on the right hand side of the page. This is a product that Simply Hired offers called Job-a-Matic. So far 1,500 of them have signed up for this service...in less than 4 months. This is going to allow us to ride the Web 2.0 wave that has been called the Long Tail or the Blogosphere. These publishers can sell postings on their board, and if they do Simply Hired gets a cut. We also provide backfill their jobs in case they don't sell that many. This allows for their job content to stay fresh and relevant. I'm not selling jobs. I just did this to see how the process works, but you can see that we have our own little job board on our blog now. It took me 5 minutes.

If anyone clicks on the backfilled jobs the blog gets a cut and Simply Hired gets an even bigger cut. Finally, w/ some of our larger publishers I can bundle a number of blogs into a larger buy and sell them to HP, Apple, etc. This is one part of our 3 prong sales strategy, which also includes Simply Hired (of course) and MySpace (which garners 10% of all page view online).

This component of our strategy allows us to take the jobs to where job seekers are living and breathing online instead of posting jobs and waiting for candidates to find them (i.e. HotJobs, Careerbuilder, Monster, etc). So far...2 months into the job our advertisers have been very receptive to the message.

Now maybe some of you will kind of, sort of, know part of what I do! That means you, Mom. I would love to hear what you all think.