Sites for the unemployed ...

Ok, so you're unemployed and it's an easy time to get negative and to stay at home on the couch watching lousy day time TV.

There are not a lot of jobs out there especially if you are in the US and even here in Sydney, hundreds of people are applying for the same jobs I am so I am only hearing back from one or two.

I apply for at least 6-8 jobs a day, sent my resume to as many agencies as I can and all my friends know I am unemployed. I have written blog posts about it, found support from friends and family and am sharing my umeployment on Twitter.

I feel that if I can be positive and open about the fact that I am looking for work is much better than sitting at home being depressed. I am looking for options and part time/ contract work as well.

Some people in the US are taking it even further , Beverly Shepard is offering someone money who can find her a full time job.

Other people have posted video resumes on You Tube, have set up marketing and email campaigns and have contacted hundreds of people. Some people have been incredibly inventive with video marketing and a range of other incentives to get work.

I think do what you feel comfortable with. If you want to make a video profile of yourself and your resume, go ahead. Print flyers, make an email campaign, contact people who are your friends and let them know.

For some, this may be the worst of times. For every low, there will be a high.

Tools and Guides

Need some social marketing tools and some step by step guides to social marketing focusing on the health factor?

This link puts together blogs, templates guides and all kinds of other social marketing resources which will help with health, the environment and social development.

I love the National Social Marketing Centre based in London. They show case studies each month and look at how health professionals find ways to promote change and promote aspects of health. The whole point is to promote change, social change and they work with the Department of Health.

Look at one of the sites that caused changed with teen's eating habits. Food Dudes is a funky social site for teens to promote eating fruit and veggies. It works.

You don't have to be in the health sector to use these guides, templates and sites. It just shows how far social marketing is coming.

Love Marketing?

Why?

For me it's creative, innovative (and other ive words)

I love finding out information, researching what is happening in the world of books, networking, Sydney and coming up with ideas.

I love meeting people who have started their own business, seen a gap in the market, come up with something extremely innovative and are doing a job that they love so much ... they can't call it work.

There is a lot of work involved with marketing, with selling a product/an idea/ an object/ ... but there are so many ways of talking about it. Holding events or launches, placing an ad (an unusual ad somewhere) talking it up at events, meeting other thinkers and entrepreneurs.

Marketing is being involved, finding knowledge and being innovative. It's a dream life especially when you find something you love, believe in and want to work with.

Why do you love marketing?