New Staffers Wanted For A Growing ANN -- Marketing,
Aero-Casting, Weekend Editor
As journalists and
pilots, we have to tell you there is no better marriage of
vocation and avocation than working as a member of the aviation
media. Seriously. The late musician Harry Chapin once told
ANN's Pete Combs that his biggest fear was that someday,
someone would walk up to him and say, "Harry, the jig is up. It's
time to get a real job."
Now that we do what we love, we can understand. The truth is, if
you love your work, it's like hardly working at all (that's Jim's
pitch and he's sticking to it...).
That's what working at ANN is all about. And we need to add (yet
another) soul to the family.
We have a major staff position to
fill -- one that has eluded us for quite a while. And, now's the
time to get serious about it.
Since ANN started, we have enjoyed the amazing support of a
group of sponsors who have, by and large, been generous and
visionary. As a matter of fact, most of the sponsors you see on ANN
called us first -- leaving us little to do but to finish some
paperwork, and get them started. You have no idea how wonderful
that has been for us... leaving us (mostly) to work on the
editorial end of ANN and build it into what is generally recognized
as the Aviation World's Most Widely Read Daily News
Service.
Thanks to them, we have
served the aviation world aggressively and comprehensively for six
years... and an amazing seventh year is just around the corner.
It's nice to be able to count on this kind of support... but
we're about to REALLY step up the action (and expense) here at ANN
(not that the pace hasn't always been fast and furious -- believe
you me, it IS). Aero-Casting is NOW a reality... three times a day.
The next edition of the SportPlane Resource Guide is underway,
Real-Time News delivery programs and products have
been deployed very successfully. ANN news syndication
programs are also being distributed, and the international
scope of ANN is about to take a serious step up. Above all else,
though, the world-renowned daily aviation news coverage you depend
on continues to show promised increases in both quality as well as
quantity (nope... despite what your mamma told you, you CAN'T get
too much of a good thing!).
What this all means is that it's time to take our marketing
goals as seriously as we took our editorial. And that means that
someone has to take on the job of guiding and managing the
marketing and promotional growth of ANN. We're looking for a
Marketing Manager... an aggressive, ethical, honest, well-spoken,
smart, web-savvy, marketing and promotions oriented person who can
help ANN introduce a whole new generation of aviation businesses
as our partners in growing the Aviation World's Daily
News Service, as well as to brainstorm and manage a number of
promotional and industry programs that are under way, or will be,
shortly.
This is going to be a busy job. It's going to require excellent
sales skills, solid marketing smarts, a solid work ethic,
tremendous ingenuity, a keen insight into the aviation world, a
great imagination and a TRUE communicator... someone who also GETS
just how important ANN is becoming to the aviation world, and can
be counted on to help us grow our services and abilities so that we
can do EVEN MORE than we do already.
But most of all, we need a TEAM player... ANN
has never been about one person... it's been about an
amazing team of people with great goals and (truly) amazing skills
doing extraordinary things for the aviation world. If you think you
have what it takes, get in touch with us...
Got Audio Skills?
Our Aero-Casting operations have gone over VERY well. So well,
in fact, that we're looking for some additional staffers for new
projects. If you have skills in the podcasting/radio genre, have
the appropriate announcing/scripting skills, the ability to edit
and produce audio files and work without a whole lot of
supervision, we need to talk. Part-time opportunities are
available now and full-time slots may become
available very quickly.
Searching For ANN's Next Associate Editor
We've added some new
folks to the roster lately, but we STILL need an
Associate Editor. It's a weekend gig...
needing several hours each day, on Saturday and Sunday, on a
flexible schedule. You can work from anywhere so long as you have a
good high-speed net connection and the appropriate tools to pursue
the day's stories.
The qualified respondent needs the following… SOLID
aviation/aerospace writing and journalism credentials/abilities,
SOLID photographic/graphic web smarts, Good basic web skills (light
HTML know-how and some grasp of photo-editing) and E-Mail skills, a
strong work/journalism ethic, and an ability to meet and adhere to
tight deadlines;as well as RELIABLE full-time access to a
fairly speedy Internet connection (DSL, ADSL, T1, T3, Pipeline to
the Almighty, etc...), a computer with the ability to keep up
with a number of graphic chores and editorial efforts, and the
ability to work with a very strange crew of ANN weirdoes. Since
this job is computer based, it does not matter where you live and
we are, of course, unconcerned about your workspace so long as the
job gets done (and the less info we have about someone working in
pink shorts and fuzzy bunny slippers, the better).
Interested?
Please send your resume, an intro letter, and contact
information to ANN right away... as this position is ready and
waiting for the right person, right now.
And that's all you have to do! We'll be in touch!