For the last month or so, I’ve been shopping a couple versions of my resume around Austin. My wish is is to get a contract position or even a full-time position with a company that I feel strong about, and will help continue my growth, both personally and professionally. I haven’t had a whole lot of luck, but have had a few interviews, and as of last Monday, a job offer.

The job offer was with a young dotcom for full time, in a position that really didn’t utilize my talents. However, because I feel the need to get back out there and also the need to supplement my NON-income. I told the sales manger that I would sleep on it, and let him know with in 24 hours. I thought long and hard about it and decided to accept the position. Well, I called the sales manager to let him know my decision and also let him know of a couple of dates that I had prior commitments for. I got his voice mail and left him a message stating my decision. I didn’t receive a response on the first message, so I waited until close of business, that day, and called again, and left another voice mail. On Wednesday I was hoping to hear back from them, but nothing. So I called again, voice mail again. I even sent a email to the HR person to find out if the SM was out of the office. No response, no response. Finally yesterday I called and got straight through to the SM, but he told me he was in a meeting and would call me right back. No response again. Today, I called and left a message again with the SM and also the President/CEO. No call, no email, nothing.

Do you suppose they don’t want to hire me now?

If I don’t hear anything by COB today, I might just pull a page from Seinfeld’s character, Kramer and show up to work on Monday, and act as if I belong there. That might be kind of fun. It would seem to me that if you offer someone a position with your company, you would have the professionalism to respond to said person in a timely manner. I understand, people change their minds or whatever. Shit happens. I understand this. But, there is a definite need here for communication. What does this say about their company? Do you suppose they treat their customers like this, as well? They won’t be in business much longer, if they do. I’ve always had the philosophy that if you treat your employees well, they in turn, will treat your customers well. Also,one never know who your customer might be.

If you or someone you know is looking for a great addition to your Marketing or Product Management team, let me know. I have almost six years experience as a CEO of a niche E-Commerce/ Community startup. I was the originator of the idea, put the founding team together, was instrumental in raising the capital and ran day-to-day operations. I am great at Marketing as well as Product Management. I would relish the opportunity to help a start-up or a bootstrapping entrepreneur with their web product. Drop me note (ping me) if you know of anything. And click here to take a look at my resume . Additionally, I welcome any constructive feedback.

Disclosure: I won’t be able to accept any position that requires a Non Compete in the Social Community space, because, I am currently working on a business plan for a project in this category.

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I/we took a short Holiday break. You know how it is with Christmas…kids, in laws in town and all the extra church services. It’s a enough to drive a person mad. The Holidays suck. Well, the do suck, but actually none of the aforementioned apply to me. I was just lazy for the last week or so. But, I’m back now and hope to get on schedule with the daily updates. Stay tuned.

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I’ve never been a person to make goals and if I do make them, I rarely stick to them. I’m the kind of person who makes most decisions on the fly…for good or bad. But, this coming year is going to be a big one so I figured it’s time for me to set some goals that I can achieve and stick to it. Also, I figure if I post my goals publicly then I’ll have more of an incentive to follow through.

So, here they are:

Get Healthy- I need to exercise, eat healthy and stick to my no smoking program. This should be a pretty easy thing except that I don’t like exercising. I normally eat well and I don’t smoke for weeks at a time. But, that damn exercise thing gets me every time. If you have any suggestions then please let me know.

Get my new company off the ground- This year is going to be a big year for me professionally, because I’m starting a new business and for the first time I’ll be funding a company myself. So, I guess the goal would be to buckle down and get it right. Stay tuned for yourville.com to drop in late March.

Stick to my goals- See intro

Network- Ever since leaving San Diego and Skateboard.com for Austin and my unknown adventures here, I haven’t spent much time trying to meet new friends or business contacts. I need to get out and meet new people for friendship and business contacts. Their is a lot going on here in Austin, so I should have no excuses.

Get organized- Enough said.

Travel more- Travel to at least one destination outside of the USA. This should be easy since my development team is in the Philippines. I guess I should say, travel to at least one destination outside of the USA for pleasure.

Write a Book- Get started on that book that I always wanted to write. My life has the makings of a good book. I just need to start writing.

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I’m not sure, but I think Technorati doesn’t work the way its suppose to. I claimed my blog on Technorati a few months back and started tracking my ranking at that time. My ranking then was 375,467 with 8 links from 4 sites, not bad considering I had just started my blog in July. Granted, allthatscool is not the best name nor has it been the most focused, content wise, but it is what it is. My unique visits have doubled every month since I started and I’ve had a few days with over 2k unique visits. The point is, allthatscool is getting more readers everyday. But, for some reason, my Technorati ranking goes up everyday and my links stay the same, even though Technorati shows that I have had 18 links in the past 18 days. Additionally, when I ping Technorati with my updates, it takes them either a very long time to show updates or it doesn’t happen at all. I guess it doesn’t really matter though. The majority of my traffic comes from links from other blogs or the occasional del.icio.us bookmark. I haven’t given up on Technorati just yet but it want be long before I do.

By the way, my current Technorati ranking is 533,808

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