Wow, It’s a really exciting time right now. I have hardly had time to blog. Shame on me. 😉 I’ve certainly hit the ground running and things are really starting to role. I already have a number of projects in the working.
Blackbird e-Solutions
New Toy…
Woohoo! I have a new toy! I received it from UPS today. Two small boxes of joy….
It’s software, I just installed it on my computer…
It’s the latest version of Quickbooks! For my company.
I know… I’m such a geek. 😉
Online Advertising Jobs Super Hot
I was just reading an article in Fortune Magazine yesterday about how hot the job market for online advertising sales has become. Here’s a link to the article: Hot Job: Selling Web Ads I was quite shocked. If read the article you’ll see they are talking about NYC salaries of $500,000 a year! I mean wow, this sounds like the 90’s again. After reading the article I didn’t really believe it either. So, I jumped over to careerbuilder.com and did a search (online advertising) for the Philly area. Most of the listings didn’t show salaries, but I did find a good example:
$50,000.00 – $200,000.00 /Year
$100,000.00
Full benefits and expense allowance
WOW! I mean it’s a sales job so you are surely expected to work like a dog and you have to perform or you’re gone. I’m not really looking for a “job”, but hey… I’ll keep my options open for that.
You know I started thinking though. With a job like that, a company that has a platform is selling to companies to get them to place their ads on the platform. Now what I do is Search Enginge Marketing (SEM). I help companies get their ads on platforms, i.e. Google AdSense, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. It’s pretty much the other side of the industry. The salaries that are being awarded to the sales people is a sign of how hot the market is right now. So, the question is: “What does that mean for Blackbird e-Solutions?” Well, it means that now is an exciting time to be in the SEM industry, and makes it a great time to offer my service as a premium service. How much can we make in one year??? Hang on because we’re about to find out!!
Moving Forward
Wow, I’ve really been slacking with posting recently. Things have been pretty crazy recently. I’m still waiting on the pics from San Fran. There should be some good one’s I’m sure. 😉
The biggest news right now is I finally received some seed money for my company. It should help me get the marketing side of things going, and start scoring some new clients. Today I had a meeting with another translator that I will be working with. He has experience with freelance translating and project management. It sounds like he is going to be a lot better to work with the crazy Joe, many of you have heard the stories. If you haven’t yet. Suffice it to say, I think I have the worst experience possible with working with freelance translators behind me. So, it hopefully can only get better.
Last night we had a coed indoor game which we won, wohoo! Only one of our girls showed up (5 and goalie on the field and you have to have at least 2 girls all times), so we played short for most of the first half. Then one of the guys called his wife and she came out too. We ended up finishing the first half 5-1. It was pretty great. Then we fell asleep in the beginning of the second half and ended up winning 7-6. Whew… We are in something like 3rd place now.
Right now I’m sitting in a cafe in Ardmore on the corner of Cricket Ave. That’s where I met the translator. I’m just hanging out and doing some work before I head to the Mainline Stammtisch with Netzwerk Phila. We’re having another meeting about what the Netzwerk. it looks like things are really starting to move forward on several fronts.
Localization project
Woohoo!
I’ve been working on the end of this localization project for a Software company in Germany. I got the job from this guy Joe, who incidentally has gone of the deep end.
Anyway, I am basically finished now I just have a few question that need the company to answered. Mostly just abbreviations that are specific to the software. So, in the morning I’ll plug them into the table and be done with it. 😉
I was rocking today with the translated too. I did something like 12 lines in the excel sheet where everything is. It’s in an excel sheet because it is from the database that runs the software. Anyway, I was flying….
Then tomorrow it’s on to the next project.