Search & Social Spring Summit Video Contest!

If you’re an avid reader of search engine journal, you probably have already seen this contest get posted up- because the girls at seotini post on there as well. This contest is to win a free ticket to our Search & Social Spring Summit (May 3rd and 4th) and we need all the video submissions we can get! It’s a very simple contest-

• Go to our youtube channel located here: Contest Channel
• Watch my video for information on the contest
• Send in your own “video response” with your funny/weird/awkward/awesome social media story.
• The winner will be decided by how many votes/ratings yours gets and runs until April 1st.

Try your luck out! And please make a video better than mine. Mine is super lame and I come off looking really ditzy on a webcam. I guess that’s why I stay off them 😉

Peace out cubscout!

The Dream Machine

We drink a lot of coffee in these parts. About 3 pots a day. And red bull. And low-carb energy drinks. And tea. So, just wanted to throw an idea out there.

This is the illy “dream machine”, or formerly the Francis Francis X1 Ground Expresso Machine. Yes, it’s $900, but I am convinced that if a vehicle like this were parked on our snack table, not only would our productivity increase, but we would also be singing and dancing with joy. Plus, red is Andrea’s favorite color.

Announcing the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit

The organizers of the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit welcome the participation of SEO specialists, enterprise level professionals, and all those who are passionate about search marketing and what it has to offer. This second annual conference is a premier forum that will bring together a community who are eager to learn and open to networking with other like-minded individuals. We have recruited some of the top industry experts to give you the best in strategies and possibilities.

We have two main goals with our events. First, to be the best value in Internet Marketing conferences and events. Second, to provide the best education and networking mix available in an Internet Marketing conference. Together, you will confidently walk away with valuable information and resources.

For more info and tickets: http://searchsocialsummit.com.

Hosted By: Search and Social Media, LLC

Search & Social is an SEO firm on the forefront of Search & Social media marketing.

We are a fruit of collaboration between experienced Internet marketers Loren Baker, David Snyder, and Jordan Kasteler. As three of the brightest minds in the industry, plus a great team, we pride ourselves on being keenly aware of the latest innovations in Internet marketing and always incorporate them into our consulting, training, and Internet marketing services.

At Search & Social we feel that we are more fit than most to teach Internet marketing because we rely on the very skills we teach to make our living. Our experience in managing countless Internet marketing campaigns has lifted us to a rare position of knowledge, and we offer this knowledge to you. Learning from the three great minds at the helm of Search and Social is guaranteed to help you improve your own Internet marketing potency.

We know… that you know… that you want to know who we are ;)

So we’ve come to realize that in our passionate month of posting, we haven’t REALLY formally introduced ourselves. You might have seen silly pictures of us stuffing pancakes in our mouths or getting massaged- but we don’t have any official bios up on the website.

In our never-ending quest to find out WHO exactly left the pork in the fridge, WHAT exactly that rank smell is downstairs and WHY the effin bathroom keeps having episodic break downs (though my awesome deduction skills tell me they were most likely connected in some way) I think we forgot the most important part of this blog.

Us.

Ladies and gentlemen… that’s about to change. I have this wild idea of maybe taking short 1 minute videos of everyone (with an HD camera of course… so I can get right up in your face) where we can say whatever we want to. Preferably something that makes sense. But hey- you never know with us girls. If I can’t get everyone to succumb to my AWESOME (read:blair witch project-esque) video camera skills, then maybe I’ll just snap a few photos here and there.

In any event, please stay tuned. We’ll most likely have our Twitter information as well as personal websites on there if you would like to find us else where. Check back to read about our lovely selves and get some personal gossip on us. Just don’t let us find you in a dark alley way with those secrets or you’re in trouble 😉 We do have claws after all.

Til next time!

I will tell you why Americans are fat

Recently, myself, Zdenka and Andrea went to the Florida Strawberry Festival. I know it has a fruitful ring to it. Before arriving, I was imagining strawberry shortcake costumes, pie eating contests and barrels of fresh strawberries. Boy was I wrong. The Florida Strawberry Festival was basically a knock off of the Florida State Fair with fewer rides (the best ones were mysteriously MIA), and more fatty foods.  In fact, everywhere I turned there were endless rows of food strands. Like most of America, I love my greasy food so I ate a foot long corn dog, a whole bag of cinnamon coated pecans, one strawberry short cake and chased it all down with some good ol’ root beer! My issue with the Strawberry Festival was that there weren’t very many strawberries floating around. I’m pretty sure the strawberry short cake was the main attraction. Anyhow, what the festival was lacking in true authentic form, it made up in foods that contribute to future heart attacks. Thank You!!

If you think the pictures below are shocking, check out these deathly snacks

Some of my favorites:

Fried Butter

Chocolate Covered Bacon (this is not the office pet)

Krispy Kreme Burgers

Here we are engaging in the fun!

It is Monday and as I write this hoping for a momentary distraction, Zdenka and Andrea are to my right giggling as usual. They are reminding me that I need to put my ear buds back in to block out the little office noise and zone back in on my work. (Thanks you two!) Link Building here I come!

The bathroom situation.

We have a bathroom situation in the building. There seems to be an imminent smell eroding from the Women’s restroom on the second floor. Andrea does some investigative reporting…

Only to find nothing…

Looks like Mr. Maintenance took care of the problem, today.

Spring Awareness

Kim, our lovely chief of payroll who sits at up at the front desk, is on a Medifast detox. Because of this, she seems to have a heightened awareness of her surroundings. Recently, an office supply order was delivered and Kim brought it to our attention that the office supply company we order from (to remain anonymous) delivered a roll of paper towls in a box large enough to hold two deskstop computers. Upon Kim’s discovery, the SEOtini girls gasped, “OMG!” This brings up an interesting topic: Spring Awareness. I took a swift look around our office and noticed one thing missing. A recycling bin! I think it’s time to import a blue bin in. The only question left is, who’s going to bring it?

Israeli Peanut Puffs

One of the bosses (Dave) was out last week. Business trip to Tel Aviv. He brought back some interesting specimen, including peanut butter puffs and chocolates that resemble the American Kit-Kat bar. I broke the Spring detox today noshing on these delicious treats.

Surprise is out!

Friday was pure bliss in the land of Search & Social. The surprise came out of the box when a Body Well masseuse walked through our office doors, ready to give us treatments. Here we are, enjoying every minute. Apparently we are a knotted bunch, but a happy one at that.

Selena in the chair.

Me in the chair.

Andrea in the chair.

Joanna in the chair.

Kim in the chair.

The long awaited surprise!

Enter: Friday. We all walk into the office with the surprise on our minds. Poor little Thao (aka scandalous) comes in sick… but she stuck around because she didn’t want to be left out of witnessing a midget stripper with moraccas coming in and possibly hanging pinatas from our ceiling so we could get showered with candy goodness.

As you may have read earlier, we were told that the surprise didn’t have to do with food. After we heard that bit of information we were pretty baffled. I mean, if you take a quick glance around our office you’ll see strawberries, noodles (in kleenex boxes), empty cheetoh bags, peanuts and rice crispy treats. Our office life typically revolves around munching and snacking. Needless to say, we couldn’t possibly think of what other type of surprise existed in the world.

Noon rolls around, and this lady comes through the door with a massage chair. At first I assumed Loren was having an on-call masseuse come in for him… so I didn’t really look twice at her. Loren strolls out of his office and has her put the massage chair in the middle of our office. Then I start thinking… “Ok weird. He’s having a massage right in the middle of our office. He clearly wants to make sure we’re working and not eating/singing/dancing/causing ruckus”.

Then we find out the massages are for us! 20 minute massages each because of our stressful 2 weeks from hell. We’ve had a lot going on in the SEO world that’s kind of taken a toll on all of us. The lovely Zdenka took pictures of all of us in the chair so she will be posting those up shortly. Don’t worry… you won’t be missing out on us sitting in the massage chair as if we’re sitting on a little pony with our face in a big round donut. We wouldn’t spare you that fun! I went first and it was complete heaven. She told me I had so many knots in my back and neck that it was ridiculous. She told everyone (when I went to lunch) that I was the worse out of all of them 😦 MAJOR FROWNY FACE!

To top off our wonderful massage session, Loren had disappeared for an hour to go get peanuts from walgreens. We have peanuts in the vending machine downstairs, but since someone (Zdenka will not be named) threw out the year old smelly pork from the fridge into the trash can, it was very likely that he would get down there and pass out from the raunchy stench. We strongly advised him to leave the building to partake in his peanut-ness.

He comes back an hour later (after we surely thought the building had gotten him on the way out) with mooooooooore surprises! He brought back thin mints and chocolate covered almonds! I would like to thank the Girl Scout who stopped him outside of the store and bestowed delicious thin mints upon him because that certainly made our evening.

All in all, Friday was a great day. It reminds me that I work for a caring company that thinks about us when we’re stressed out. I’m still a little disappointed that we didn’t get our midget stripper, and I know Andrea is too. I guess we’ll have to cross our fingers for the next surprise.

PS: Sunday we are having a fun little professional photo-shoot before the Oscars. Stay tuned 🙂

-Selly (aka malicious cheetoh girl)