What's New Albuquerque?

Good Afternoon Albuquerque, Stepheny Hinkle here reporting for her first day of blogging. Everything is calm on this Sunday afternoon, no pitching, writing, proofing, cold-calling, or editing to attend to...that will be left for tomorrow. Since I am new to blogger, I suppose it would be appropriate to tell whomever is listening a bit about myself and what I do...

I am a recent college grad - LOBO PRIDE - trying to figure out where my abilities and skills fit in today's market. Since the job market is not so fresh these days (I've applied to well over 500 jobs and no bites), I've decided the best thing to do would be to contract my services out to businesses in the area for a very reasonable price. I offer public relations, social media, and some basic business development work on contract for various businesses that might be interested.

Though those three terms are quite vague, what I do is quite simple and covers a broad area. In the public relations arena, I do press releases, pitch letters, media lists, cold-calling, radio grabs, media blurbs, etc. for events, product launches, consumer pr, and lifestyle pr. In the social media arena, I create, manage, maintain, and regularly update social media sites for my clients, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, etc. Last but not least, the very basic business development I do would be logo design, web content editing, general editing, SEO - Search Engine Optimization, reviews on Google, Yellowpages, Superpages, etc. There are many other things I can do for a company or business, but it gets boring listening to someone ramble on about their talents. If you were interested in these specialties I cover, send me an email to stephenyhinkle@live.com

The job market has been so tough lately that I feel the only way to stay afloat is to contract my services out until someone bites on to my extreme talent. ;D I am a recent college grad not only competing with other college grads, but also with PR specialists who just so happen to have accumulated over 10 years experience. This leaves me in a crowded pool trying to fight my way to the top. The thing of it is, I am 100% willing to relocate anywhere, my bags are packed in a pile next to the front door of my parents house, but companies only want someone who already lives in their state.

Well, I suppose for now I can keep hoping someone sees me shining through, but until then I have really enjoyed the contract work I've been doing. So much so in fact that as of late I've been contemplating whether or not to invest full fledge into Palabra PR...guess we'll just have to wait a few months and see where my road leads.

Cheers readers, and enjoy this lovely Sunday afternoon.