ok - no offense to Jon - but if an internet marketing expert is being called upon to help get a candidate elected to the most powerful position on the planet - then either a) Jon - you shouldn't be running a forum on Internet Marketing - you should be teaching it and charging buttloads of money for this forum or b) this country is totally fucked and we are being marketed presidents and leaders of the free world who are backed by corporate dollars and motivated to power by what it can do for them and their families.
Sorry - maybe I'm still naive about "the system" but if that's what it has come down to, then guess what - we fucking deserve to have this country tore out from underneath us. Fucking sheep.
Thanks for the amazing advice. Next time I need some I'll give you a call so I can learn what some douchebag kid who thinks losing $100 is a BIG DEAL has to say to me. You're an idiot. You don't know what you're talking about. If you think that taking a cheap shot at me or what I've done will make you feel better, that's fine, but don't for even a moment think that I won't stand up for myself and call you out on the TONS of flaws you and the rest of the cronies who bash me have in common.
The consulting fee I got to charge for what they asked for was pretty substantial. Definitely the most money I've made in my entire life in a week for not actually doing work online to earn it. Probably the first and last time for it as well. I doubt anyone will ever be able to match it, and I don't expect them to either. The amount of free flowing cash for a candidate that has a pretty unlimited budget and more backers showing up to give them their cash at anytime is intimidating to say the least.
I'm not an expert. I've never made a claim to be. I think I just see things differently and have a strong understanding for how people work and think.
Your'e making it sound like the President of the United States called me up on my cell phone and said "Quick, Jon! We need you here. You're our only hope!" Haha. Just like Toolohen you have NO IDEA how politics work. Nor how business off of the internet works, especially IN Washington DC that's gearing up for an election year in which BOTH parties have tons of cash to spend and both parties have no clear winners for the party bids, let alone the presidency.
When my friend told me I should pitch some of my ideas to one of the senior staffers for the campaign I told him it was a waste of time because no one in their right mind would hire someone as a consultant, especially someone like me. With the potty mouth, the "out there" blunt approach and opinions, and best of all, being a drop out from Ivy. But I gave it some thought, and just like public speaking, I figured fuck it. What's the worst that will happen? They'll turn me down? Say no? Wooooo! Big woop. So I tried it out, and they shocked the shit out of me actually when I won the consulting contract to be one of their
MANY (see this, MANY) consultants and strategists for just the online marketing campaigns. This was just for their internet stuff, not TV or Radio or anything else. Just to gather up lots of ideas and theories so they could decide what to use in their bigger picture strategy. My job was to show up and talk about what I knew, and to help them understand certain aspects of the internet and how people think and react in certain ways with creative approaches, and that's what I did.
Now that I got that out of the way.. Why don't you tell me about yourself? Maybe I can find something about you to knit pick and poke fun at.. If I'm so underqualified, why the fuck are you here? Ohhh yeah.. to try and get free shit from people without giving back. Typical freeloader who is all talk and no action.
I spent the last year doing a ton of FREE work on WickedFire and not taking a dime for any of it. I never in a million years wanted WF to take me away from what I was doing before, but it happened, and I'm thankful for it now. I gave most people free consulting almost every time they would IM me or email me! I never asked anyone for anything in return. I never asked the networks or affiliates or anyone for compensation or favors, until recently, and that's when I started to learn the hard way who was real and who was fake. I helped all of my new friends out whenever they needed it. I still do sometimes. But there comes a point in someone's life when enough is really just enough.
People are always bitching at me, or about me, or pretending they know me or anything about me other than what they see or read about here and on my blog. I don't care anymore. People are also wondering why I'm so paranoid or in such a shitty mood with them over the last 2-3 months. Well, it's because I've had enough of this bullshit. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of always being dubbed an "expert" or a "guru". I never fucking said I was, EVER! You don't know me, almost no one on here really knows me. Why is it that whenever someone else is in a fight or gets questioned, I jump in and take their back, but when something is done towards me, no one ever does shit. It's always backchannel bullshit. I'm just tired of it.
So in the wise words of John F Kennedy.... YOU'RE A STUPID FUCK.
fftopic: back to your regularly scheduled program.