Elevate Your Pitch

The following is a link to a blog written by someone who I have been following on Twitter for quite sometime.  Mike Schaffer is a social media strategist in the DC area who writes a daily blog titled, "The Buzz by Mike Schaffer".  He attended a panel at SXSW Interactive on improving your "elevator pitch".  I am sharing this (with prior permission from Mr. Schaffer) on my blog because I have heard many business and marketing professors try to explain this concept, yet in my opinion Mike explains it the best.

So please click on the link below and make sure to follow Mike Schaffer (@mikeschaffer) on Twitter for more blog postings related to social media and more.

From #SXSW: Elevate Your Pitch

-Michael

New Year brings forth a new post

Greetings followers! (that is if I have any at the moment)

I have been absent from blogging since December and I really wish I had not fallen off course for so long.  Yet, I am going to try and blog more and try to let everyone know a little about who I am and what I want to do after graduation in May. 

In these next few months, I will be working on constructing a website for myself which will list my credentials and even offer some examples of my marketing work over the past 4 years.  The website will be a constant work in progress, but I hope to eventually have something that will be pleasing to all that read it.

Now let me take a few minutes of your time and let you know what all has been going on since my last post.  Before I begin I want you to know that my life hasn't been quite as exciting as Charlie Sheen's, yet like him I try to be a winner everyday.  So here we go. . .

• Fraternity:  My office as scholastic chairman is complete and I can say that I'm really glad to have passed on the torch.  Our fraternity (Lambda Chi Alpha) finished the fall semester with the highest GPA among all Greek organizations at Southeast Missouri State University.  I feel like this trend will continue into the future and the new officer is doing a superb job already.  I am now taking on an appointed office as a standards chairman and a correspondent to the General Fraternity newsletter.  It's been less time consuming which is great for me, but I am growing to enjoy it just as much as I did with the scholastic chair office.
• College Studies:  I'm done in May. . .I'm done in May. . .I'm done in May.  This is what I keep telling myself as this semester has already been a lot to handle.  My classes are enjoyable don't get me wrong, yet the constant group meetings, paper writing, and other assignment submissions really put weight on my shoulders that I wish I could hold up 100% of the time.  My goal for the semester was to get a 4.0, however I feel like I may fall short of that goal.  Oh well, we will see what happens.
• Job Hunting:  Beginning in the middle of December, I began sending out my resume to literally anyone who provided a mailing address on their website.  The lucky teams of the MLB and the NHL received one from me along with some marketing firms across the Southeast Missouri and St. Louis area.  I am currently waiting to hear back from one place in St. Louis that is offering a summer, paid internship which would be ideal.  I will be attending a job fair in Cape Girardeau this Wednesday and another date in April and I'm hoping I can talk to the right person who can direct me to the right people and/or the right job.  My goal is to have something lined up for when I graduate in May.  Please wish me luck!
• Cardinals and Blues:  I won't bother wasting your time reading this. . .I'll sum it up real briefly.  The Blues cleaned house, Waino blew out his arm, Carp is hurt, Pujols has no contract, Berkman has a sore elbow -- Lord help St. Louis (or have Sam Bradford be a 3-sport athlete).

I hope to blog a lot more this semester.  Please send me feedback either through here or via Twitter @JMICHAELWILLIS.  Take care!!

-Michael Willis