Archive for July, 2008

New Financial Journey Blog

The Go Woody Wire started in 2005, as a project aimed to help improve my writing. Contrary to my own advice, I have written on variety of subjects.

Today I am officially shifting the focus of this blog to cover my journey as a young investor and entrepreneur. In part, this shift is a result of starting a professional marketing blog. As well, it is inspired by goals of mine to create greater wealth and have some fun starting some small ventures.

Ironically, the name of this blog works well with the new theme. I named this blog after debating on whether it was good to be called “Woody” at work. Following the debate, I decided, “why not have everyone call me that.” The name is also a play on the names used by numerous collegiate sports web sites. (GoViks.com, GoBison.com)

This Friday I am meeting with a financial advisor. I hope you’ll come back and read about my thoughts and experiences.

Queen Bees Helps Mean Girls

Queen Bees from "The N"

Queen Bees from "The N"

A new television show on The N called Queen Bees is aimed at helping some of the most self-indulged, self-entitled divas change back into good girls.

The show premiered today – check out the first ten minutes. Their claims to fame are quite hilarious. I think we all know plenty of girls like this and its true we all hate these queen bees. Hopefully by placing the girls in the same place they’ll realize how much they dislike people who act just like themselves.

I think the favorite part of the introduction was the fact that most of these girls didn’t even know why they were on a show. They all just volunteered to be on a reality show because they wanted the attention.

The only thing I thought could have been improved was if the girls didn’t know right away that the goal was to be nice. We could have really seen their true colors and it could have had a great moments like the reality show Average Joe, where the guy had no idea that everyone on the show with him was actually an actor.

On a nerdy note - The video masher tool on their website is awesome. Users can mash together clips from the show, add music and graphics and enter it into a contest. It is a pretty sweet tool.

Excess iPod Inventory

uBid Promotion

uBid Promotion

A friend of mine works at Ubid.com and he alerted me that they just purchased over 1,000 of apple ipods from a partner who had excess inventory. The online auction website’s starting for price for the iPods is just $1. With this many iPods, uBid customers have a good chance to get a winning bid and more importantly a good chance to save some serious money.

I should mention that I was compensated to make this post. If any other bloggers are interested in making a little money to help support their blogging addition, they can check out this deal and others at social spark.

New Marketing Blog

I have decided to start a new marketing blog called Marketing Breakdown. The move comes at a time when I am trying to heighten my visibility and professionalism.

Helping me author articles on this new blog is Josh Neiman, a longtime friend and great internet marketing mind. Josh was a colleague of mine at a previous job with an start-up social network. Josh is currently working for a major online auction website based in Chicago, Ill.

I am not sure what I am going to do with this blog, but we’ll see.

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About Allan Woodstrom

Minneapolis, MN, USA
Marketing and Communications Specialist
[AllanWoodstrom.com]

Marketing Breakdown

Read all of my marketing insights at MarketingBreakdown.com.
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