Honest Marketer

Social media allows us to do so much more than even a few years ago. It allows us to interact with people and businesses otherwise inaccessible. For me, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook are weekly play places and my fun turned into my internship. When I started on Twitter a few years ago, I followed a few of the local SEM and SEO companies who I was interested in working for. One of those was Anvil Media in Portland, OR. Their president and founder, Kent Lewis, was another person I started following and interacting with. I was using these tools to hopefully help me in the future, which it turned out, they did.

This all couldn’t have happened without some help from some friends, another part of social media. Kristy Bolsinger, from RealNetworks, came and talked with my marketing class at Willamette. I friend-ed her on Twitter and she infected me with Foursquare Fever. At that point I had a different marketing internship for a company who created cockpit awareness hardware and software. They had a tough first quarter and decided not to have an intern. I launched into action and the friendship that Kristy and I had really helped. She helped with boosting my resume and sent it off to a few people she knows, including Kent Lewis. She also told me to get involved with SEMpdx.

SEMpdx is an amazing networking and business organization. I wrote about my meeting with them Best of SEMpdx so I won’t go into that.

What I didn’t talk about was meeting Kent Lewis and introducing myself to him. I had asked him about what to wear on Twitter before the meeting, which he suggested “pants”. It was a great conversation starter! After talking with him I got connected with Hallie Jansen from Anvil, had a meeting and the rest is history. You’re looking at the Anvil intern. Without the friendships that I cultivated on Twitter and my enthusiasm for SEM, SEO and social media it could have never happened, but I am so glad it did.

THANKS INTERNET!!!

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