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9miles Media Updates
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Part time sales position
9miles Media is looking for a great sales representative to join our small team.
This is a part time position. We’re looking for someone who works well in a team, learns quickly, manages time well, and is available for 5-10 hours/week to work with us. If this sounds like your cup of tea (we like Earl Grey), examine the specifications below and drop us a line. We’re excited to hear from you!
Role & Responsibilities:- First, to understand how we operate: our process, what we do well, where we are lacking in our marketing / client acquisition efforts.
- Lead the charge in acquiring new clients via phone, direct mail, email, & any other cool ways you come up with!
- Scheme up new ways of marketing. We’re open to any idea and willhelp to implement campaigns.
- Work with Ben to effectively hand off leads who request a proposal.
Requirements:- Prior experience selling design, consultation, development or other services.
- Have an action plan for acquiring clients.
- Be a quick learner and work well in a team.
- You know and can admit when something is not great. You can recognize when something you’ve done needs improvement.
- A quick internet connection. Ability to meet via Skype audio.
Nice-to-Have’s:- Prior experience selling design, consultation, development or other services.
- Proficiency in a foreign language.
- Being within 6 hours of GMT is a big plus. We’re on the East Coast of the US, and in England.
- Familiarity with some of the tools that we mention in this post.
- Design and development know-how isn’t necessary, but it’s great if you know the terms we throw around!
About 9miles:
Our vision for 9miles Media is to allow young people to experience what the working world is like and gain first-hand knowledge of how the creative field functions while taking on real-world client projects that have an impact.We believe that our work is of great quality, our prices competitive, and that our services would be easy for an experienced person to sell.
We’re all under 18, working from home (and the occasional coffee shop), doing what we love, and having a blast. This position is open to anyone young at heart!
Does this sound like something you would enjoy and benefit from? Drop an email to jobs@9mil.es with the following:- A very short biography
- A brief summary of your skills and weaknesses (what you hope to improve upon over the course of the next year)
- Where and how you have been successful in this role in the past, a photograph, and a paragraph or so about why you want to work with us.
Ben, Joel, and Donald
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Teen developer position
9miles Media is looking for a new developer to join our small team.
This is a part time position. We’re looking for someone who works well in a team, learns quickly, manages time well, and is available for at least 10 hours/week to work with us. If this sounds like your cup of tea (we like Earl Grey), examine the specifications below and drop us a line. We’re excited to hear from you!
Role & Responsibilities:- Design, wireframe and create interfaces for websites and web applications on a deadline.
- Assist in programming web applications and sites, working alongside other programmers.
- Learn. We provide resources to make it easy to pick up a new language or design technique.
- Help seek out project opportunities & come up with ideas for internal projects. For example, instantinstall.org
Requirements:- Be familiar with HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
- Have a strong grasp of image editing software and techniques.
- Joel cares about one pixel. You should too.
- Be a quick learner and work well in a team.
- You know and can admit when something is not great. You can recognize that something you’ve done needs improvement.
Nice-to-Have’s:- Familiarity with at least one programming language, ideally Python, is a big plus.
- Prior experience building web applications.
- Experience with version control systems like Git.
- Proficiency in jQuery.
- Proficiency in Python or equivalent.
- Unix/Linux experience
- Being within 6 hours of GMT is a plus.
- Familiarity with some of the tools that we mention in this post.
About 9miles:
Our vision for 9miles Media is to allow young people to experience what the working world is like and gain first-hand knowledge of how the creative field functions while taking on real client projects that have an impact.
We’re all under 18, doing what we love, and having a blast.
Does this sound like something you would enjoy and benefit from? Drop an email to jobs@9mil.es with a very short biography, a summary of your skills and weaknesses (what you hope to improve upon over the course of the next year), any relevant links to your work, a photograph, and a paragraph or so about why you want to work with us. -
How We Get Things Done
Below, I’ve given an overview of the services and products that make a small distributed company tick.
Communication
- Google Voice: Low-cost telephony service [link]
- Google Wave: Collaborative document editing [link]
- Skype: Our favorite (free) telecommunications alternative, with video and more. [link]
- Google Apps: Hosted and shared apps, email, calendar, contacts [link]
- EtherPad: Collaborative Text Editing [link]
- Dropbox: Centralized file storage and backup [link]
Scheduling/Planning- EasyTZ.com: Helps find times that will work for everyone on a conference call [link]
- ScheduleOnce.com: Set times that work for you, and invite others. Connects with Google Calendar. [link]
- Google Calendar: The best sharing-oriented calendar as part of Google Apps. [link]
Getting Things Done
Everyone here likes something different for personal task management. Here are a few:
- Remember The Milk (Web/iPhone/Android): Used by Ben, this GTD app is drop-dead simple and web-based. [link]
- Things.app (Mac/iPhone): Used by Joel, this task management app allows a lot of customization. [link]
- Plain old text files: Used by Donald, this
task management appold way of doing things works just fine, thanks.
Administration
- Pelotonics: Outstanding project management service [link]
- Invoice Machine: Integrates with PayPal to send elegant, browser-based invoices. Allows clients to pay directly via credit card / PayPal [link]
- PayPal: Online Banking [link]
- Mint.com: Budgeting/Financial Planning [link]
- Toggl: Time tracking [link]
Marketing- Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
- Good SEO Practices!
- Tumblr: Our blogging platform that enables you to read this. [link]
Creativity- Adobe Suite [link]
- The GIMP: A popular, raster image editor loved by those team members using Linux [link]
- Inkscape: A vector image editor loved by those team members using Linux [link]
- 960.gs Grid System: An outstanding way to prototype designs, on paper and on the screen [link]
- Mockingbird: Fast, some-what collaborative site wireframes [link]
- Google Docs Drawing: Collaborative, free-flowing drawing editor that we sometimes use for wireframes [link]
- Droplr (Mac): Quick screenshots and sharing [link]
Coding- Firebug: An easy way to find coding errors, and track down specific elements [link]
- Komodo Edit: Preferred code editor for our Linux-users [link]
- Espresso: My favorite Mac editor [link]
- Textmate: Joel’s favorite Mac editor [link]
DNS/HostingI know that when we started, it was really difficult to find quality services available for free/cheap. The majority of these are either free or low-cost, and we just love them too much to go on to bigger/better things. I hope this has been helpful. Keep on creating!
This post was written by Ben Armstrong, project manager at 9miles Media.
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April Fools!
Dear friends,
We’re writing today with heavy hearts, due to the fact that we have tricked you.
Our CEO, Ben Armstrong, was reported to have been dismissed from 9miles yesterday. Because the main perpetrator is located in England, our April Fools’ Day Joke launched a few hours early (for those in the U.S.).
We surprised Ben with an email indicating that he had been ousted, removed him from the about page, and posted here. All in all, it took him approximately 3.141 seconds to realize it was a joke, but the resulting reactions on Facebook and Twitter were far more humorous. See the gallery of our favorite reactions.
In any case, we apologize for tricking you! Hopefully you can understand our humour.
All the best to you on this April Fools’ Day! Happy pranking.This prank was orchestrated, perpetrated and laughed at by Donald Harvey, with assistance from Joel Drapper and Jylan Wynne.
P.S. If you’re into science, http://bit.ly/cp0QNi has some great webcams of the LHC.
