Your Possible Mission: Social Media Tech Specialist

MISSION # 003007052012    www.TheMidasCenter.com                        

              

AGENT REQUIREMENTS:

Technical skills that include basic HTML code to format widget-type elements like blog posts, banners, ads, badges, etc. Ability and willingness to learn solutions through online groups for developers. Basic understanding of Google, SEO, Wordpress, Facebook and the importance of linking, tagging, commenting and posting. Mac and Apple haters need not apply.

OBECTIVE:

Improve media platforms and help develop client web sites.

REWARD:

Upon completion of this mission, agent will receive referral status and possible future employment.

This mission, if you so choose to accept it can be yours by applying to The Midas Center / iHEART Green Media agency. Use your talents, creativity and technological social media savviness today to show us you are agent-material.

Email us, tag us, link us, send us a special delivery that shows us what you enjoy doing and what you would like to do in our creative mission field. Be mindful, we are very busy so walk-ins are not acceptable.

About The Midas Center LLC:

The Midas Center LLC is a full service communications agency that thrives on creativity, new technologies and impact. The Midas Center started up in Chicago in 1999 and has helped clients meet their goals in the marketplace through integrated marketing, branding, public relations and advertising. Currently located in a restored historical building in downtown Plymouth, Indiana, The Midas Center is a rapidly growing agency seeking talent to help with its growing demands in today’s digital age.

The Midas Center is open for the sake of creating opportunities and transforming them into gold. In other words, The Midas Center builds brands, generates buzz, develops media and makes success.

The Midas Center LLC                            brand builders  I  buzz generators  I  media developers  I  success makers

200 N Michigan Street, PO Box 1264, Plymouth, IN 46563

phone: 574-936-7058

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From 200 South Michigan Avenue Chicago to 200 North Michigan Street Plymouth

My first job out of college was in the city. Location: 200 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

I put up with a lot of abusive situations, worked way too many hours each week and in the end, they "let me go" laying off the entire in house graphic design group, just before Christmas with no warning and no time to print portfolio pieces.

From that moment, I decided that working for a company had little to nothing to do with loyalty and decided to freelance. I landed freelance gigs at many of the award winning agencies, some not-so award winning. In those earlier career years, the best freelance opportunities were the ones where I was "subbing" in while someone was on maternity leave. Those were the jobs that had some staying power to last the remainder of my lease to my apartment on the north side of the city.

The morning walks to the el train of four city blocks combined with the crammed train ride would then follow by a possible transfer to another train, several more city blocks of briskly walking to the building I was for hire for the day. After meeting and/or working in more than 30 agencies through the course of my Chicago career, I slowly realized the value of a quick elevator. Some elevators, for example the ones at the Prudential Building would add another 10 minutes to the morning commute. Yes, 10 minutes to go 40 stories. This is terribly slow when you consider the Sears Tower, where I worked on the 74th floor for a few years had an elevator shaft that lifted us in a jiffy, without putting a dint into the commuting time.

From the trot before the el, the waiting on the train, then the ride on the train, to the walk in the loop, plus the elevator trip totaled to an hour, plus or minus some change. In fact, anywhere you lived and worked in the city, it was about an hour commute. For those who lived in the burbs, add 15 minutes to the commute with every $50K saved in home mortgages. The longer the commute, the more affordable the homes were. Best case scenario is an hour morning commute, with another hour on the commute home.

That is two hours of a rat race. Nothing like my commute today. Since relocating my company to rural Indiana, I now can boast of handfuls of improvements in my quality of life for my family and me. For starters, I have my own stunning office space that I couldn't have dreamed working out of, let alone owning in Chicago or nearby. It is hard to believe that my first job was at 200 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago and now, I am the owner of a creative agency and online media publishing business at 200 North Michigan Street in Plymouth, Indiana.

I have more to share on this topic in blog posts to follow.

In the mean time, I must share a post from Small Business Trends that inspired me to finally get this blog topic down and out...
It is about rural-sourcing and it is a topic that has been on my mind a lot. To read it come from someone else other than just my own vision and rants is very inspiring to me. I would love to hear more from others on your thoughts on this topic!

Photo credits: Amanda Nicolé Doty

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Intangible Pioneers Pave the Way to Success

Do you want to improve your social media activities? Is it overwhelming? Too many tools, not enough time? Are you tempted to just discount the social media arena because you think it is a fad, or a trend that won't impact your career path?

How are you defining success in your career? We all know that success is not a destination, but is fulfilled along the journey. Are you ready for a journey and an intangible adventure? Are you embracing technology as part of your future planning of your career path?

A true pioneer knows that success is not about a destination. A one time achievement that can be acquired just because you've received a diploma or a retirement package. Pioneers, the successful ones are always learning, hypothesizing, experimenting, improving, changing themselves and the world around them for the better despite their circumstances. Overcoming fear and adversity along the way, successful stories of pioneers include a foundation of character and integrity and fueled by passion and hunger. This combination is key in making true progress, innovation and success in pioneers of the past and present. These are first and foremost the necessary tools in developing a social media program for your business or career development. Before you can proceed into the next era, you must be willing to have the character and passion to keep up with the rapid pace of technology.

Align your career path with this component, then the unknown landscape of new technologies, difficult people and ever changing stressors may detour your path but will not destroy you and your mission.

Go onward fellow pioneers. Continue to strive, move forward, toward more, better, faster, smarter solutions. We're in this together.

Pioneers who "first" found the western world continued to move onward, building the railroad tracks and digging those wooden telephone polls along the way. What are you finding, developing, creating in today's world? And, are you a true pioneer or a settler?

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