Dead End Job

Dead End Job

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Dead End Job episodes

  • Oil spills, Social Tags and Sophia Myles

    Yep, sorry about the start of that… I had a little John Mayer moment… And also, before we get started, the word was ‘articulate’

    The song I was humming was ‘I don’t trust myself’ …you can listen to it if you want ..after!

    The last podcast did come to you on Feb 14th…

    Moving swiftly on - Here’s the question and answers on Twitter

    • Appreciation

    • Support (Twice)

    • Cross Promotion

    • Collaborations

    • Complaints

    • Support

    • Reposts

    • Giving thanks

    • Complaints

    • Free Stuff

    Here’s that link to Hootsuite (Try the free trial and see if it helps you manage your socials)

    Here’s that chap, Ben, whose photograph I mentioned. Clicky

    Q. Why do you tag brands on social media? Comment in the comments if you like.

    Here’s the podcasting gear I use from Rodemic. Podcaster Pro / Microphone / Stand

    Twitterer of the week - Sophia Myles - https://twitter.com/SophiaMyles

    Emotive Podcast (Thanks, Sophia!) ‘Blank’ to subscribe to - clickety click

    The Sony WF-XB700 - On Amazon (Not an affiliate link)

    TimeLapseCameras.com ATL-200S for all your long term time-lapse thingies!


    Annnnd, for no other reason than I like this photo, here’s a photograph from the Ironman here in Melbourne - I’ve no idea what was going on, but people seem interested in that chap in the middle. Bonus points if you can tell me who he is.

    A chap sizing up his bicycle, or the group of cyclists on the ground at the Melbourne Ironman from years ago!

    20 min
  • Street photos, New Clients, Influencers behaving badly...

    That was a little dramatic, sorry about that! Influencers aren’t really behaving badly, more like they just don’t really consider the business side of what they’re doing before they do it. Anyway, we gloss over that, talk new clients and there’s an invitation to a photography challenge on dPS.

    My workspace

    You can find out all about my latest social media client over here on their website, Tethertools and you can enter the latest dPS Challenge here.

    Follow me on Quora

    12 min
  • Ad Manager vs Boosting a Post and Metallica?

    Ey Up! Welcome back, folks… Podcast this week coming to you via the RodeMic Podcaster, and some hot water.


    Here’s those links I mentioned: Ad Manager Basics They’re both in the same sort of place on Facebook, the how-to and the starting-out bits about ‘Ad Manager’ so we’ll stick with one link.

    Here’s that little light I mentioned, the LitraPro

    • 1200 Lumen / 675 Lux @ 1M / 75 Lux @ 3M

    • 95 CRI / Full Spectrum LEDs. No green spike. Enhanced Red Spectrum

    • Adjustable color temperature 3000K - 6000K

    • Waterproof up to 90 feet

    • Bluetooth control

    Here’s what I’m up to in my #manshed













    0 min
  • How many hashtags would a hashtag hash if a ha... Yeah, podcast 11!

    The answer is 30, but really? You have 30 relevant hashtags for that little piece of content? Well, ok then. 

    Here's that mug I was talking about... Thanks, Sony!

    Homework! Tag me in a post on social me-dia, show me you know your salt from your pepper #hashtags 

    Question? -> Comments!

    Shall we have coffee? (And by that I mean, should I have coffee and think of you during the next podcast?) 

    Buy me a coffee?
    9 min
  • The Social Media Podcast without all the jargon... podcast 10

    Kinda funny to me, so many agencies and people managing basic social media requirements come up with so many shiny names for stuff! Anyways, that's a digression...

    Here's podcast ten, it's half as long (Sorry, Lee.. geez) as the last one in celebration of reaching ten podcasts on my own. 

    Oh, yeah, I may sing a little social media ditty at the end, sorry about that...

    Here's a random photograph of me out creating content...

    7 min
  • Dead End Job - The Podcast Episode 9

    Today we answer Etty's question "Do brands pay for social media content" and we touch on GDPR (link below, as per my utterance in the podcast) then we considered talking about Influencers some more, but stopped ourselves... 

    16 min

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Social Media in the real world. No bollocks, just the hard work of keeping clients supported and your mortgage paid.