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Dear Windy Citizens,
Over the last two months, your numbers, submissions, and influence on the Chicago conversation have all grown like a weed.
- You helped Chicago learn about important stories like the CPD officer who tussled with a bus rider. This video eventually showed up on the front page of ChicagoTribune.com, but you had it 24 hours before them.
- You helped spread the word about funny local stuff like music videos about going out on Clark Street and the ultimate prank phone call outside Trib tower.
- Last month The Windy Citizen sent more than 15,000 Chicagoans away from our front page to the sites that appeared on it. You helped some local sites double their audience overnight. For people looking to write about local stuff, this is a huge encouragement.
You are finding hilarious, challenging, fascinating local links, sharing them on the Citizen and having some great conversations about them. It's been a real blast to watch this community sprout up, up, up.
My time has been largely spent helping folks find good links, fighting spammers, and fixing little technical problems that crop up on the site. My job is to make it as easy as possible for you to share, rate and discuss your favorite local links on the Windy Citizen.
However I'm also responsible for keeping the lights on and spreading the word about what you're creating here. We have no venture capital, no foundation grants and no angel investors. This gives us freedom to grow at our own pace.
but it also means the Citizen lives and dies by online advertising and sponsorships, and with all this growth, it's been difficult to put much time and effort into expanding our efforts there. So I've decided to look for a part-time ad sales rep, someone who will work on a very healthy commission, to take over that side of the Citizen.
I've just posted an ad to Craigslist explaining what we're looking for and how interested parties can apply. You can read and respond to the listing here.
Here it is below:
WindyCitizen.com, Chicago's
fastest-growing community news site, is in search of a sales representative to join its team in Chicago. The Windy Citizen is a locally-owned startup that lets 20-30-something Chicagoans share, rate and discuss links to their favorite local news, events, blogs, videos, photos and more. We are democratizing the local web and giving Chicagoans looking for a new kind of local news a central place to hang out. The Windy Citizen also powers a network of Chicago-focused blogs covering topics like Mayor Daley, The Bulls, Chicago's religious groups, and local photography.The Windy Citizen's innovative coverage and approach to local news has been featured in The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago Sun-Times, Slate Magazine, Politico, CNN.com, NYTimes.com, Chicagoist, Gapers Block and many more publications both local and national. We are growing like a weed, week after week and are looking for someone to come in and head up sales.
This is a part-time, all-commission (40%) job. Working from home is fine. College degree and experience with online sales are desired. We're looking for applicants with a strong understanding of the web, a creative streak, hearty work ethic, desire to make sales, and competitive nature..
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to get in on a new venture at the ground floor.
To apply, create an account on WindyCitizen.com (takes 20 seconds) and then reply to this listing with your cover letter, resume and username on The Windy Citizen.
Thank you,
Brad Flora
http://www.windycitizen.com/user/brad-flora
How you can help:
If you're interested in this position, apply.
If you know someone who might fit the bill, pass this along to them.
If you have a blog. Blog about this opening and this blog post.
If you're on Twitter, tweet out the link to the Craigslist post and encourage your followers to do the same. If we can get a tidal wave of ReTweets to crash across the local Twitter-sphere.....well that would be really cool!
Somewhere out there in Chicago is a person who understands the unique way The Windy Citizen can help local businesses and organizations better market their services and events. We just need to find that person.
This is a total group effort. You are helping Chicago residents find the best local stuff to read, watch and look at on the web every day. You are making Chicago more interesting for the folks who drop by the front page each day. By looking for someone to help with online ad sales for the Citizen, I hope to be able to better support what you're doing, better market what's happening, and help you grow even larger so we can send more and more readers back to the stories that make our front page.
And once we find this person, we're going to need your ideas, suggestions and help figuring out the best local businesses and services we should approach about sponsoring and advertising on the Windy Citizen.
Thanks. Let's keep keeping Chicago interesting,
Brad Flora
(@bradflora on Twitter)
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Brad Flora is founder of WindyCitizen.com, a web service that lets people share their favorite Chicago news and events with their friends and neighbors. More
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