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Online Marketing Jobs at PennySaverUSA in Brea, CA

I've officially been at my new job about 6 months and it's that time again. Time to hire! (For more about who I am, visit my profile on LinkedIn.)

I'm building an online marketing team at PennySaverUSA.com's Brea, CA office and need smart, driven, hard-working, online-savvy people who know how to think out of the box and execute Web and multichannel BtB and BtC strategies. Work with me to expand and reinvent the PennySaverUSA.com Internet brands and business--reposition existing and create new, industry-leading products, increase reach, awareness, and engagement, launch new sites and distribution channels, and grow revenue.

PennySaverUSA.com is focused on connecting buyers and sellers and bringing customers the best value for their money. The print publication has been around for almost fifty years, but the Web unit is fairly new. We have a large online network--two main consumer brand sites, three niche subject verticals, 30+ private label sites, and thousands of small business sites. PennySaverUSA.com is a division of Harte-Hanks Shoppers. (For more about Harte-Hanks (NYSE:HHS), visit the corporate HH site.)

We've got six open positions in the Web division:

1. Product Marketing Manager, PowerSites: Download Product mktg mgr powersites 10.27.09 Position filled!
2. Product Marketing Manager, Consumer Markets: Download Product mktg mgr consumer mkts 10.27.09
   
3. User Interface Designer: Download UI Designer 10.27.09 Position filled!
4. Online Content & Community Specialist: Download Online content community specialist 10.27.09
5. Online Marketing Coordinator: Download Online mktg coordinator 10.27.09 Position filled!
6. Web Project Manager: Download Web project mgr 10.27.09 Position filled!

All of these positions report directly to me, except for the Web Project Manager which reports to our VP of IT for Web.

If you (or anyone you know) is interested in applying, please send cover letters and resumes to us at psusawebjob @ gmail dot com ASAP! Thx.   

To get a sense of our corporate culture, check out PennySaverUSA.com's music video, SAVERTIME!, below. (Don't bother looking for me--I'm thankfully not in it--LOL.)

Best Songs of 2009: Week of 10/18: I Read a Lot by Nick Lowe mp3-m4a

"I Read a Lot" by Nick Lowe

I am totally in love with this beautiful, wistfully sad new song by Nick Lowe.

The song isn't released yet, so I used my iPhone Voice Memo app to record an m4a audio version (which you can convert to an mp3 if you need to) from a video of Lowe performing the tune live earlier this month. Now I can listen to it via iTunes until it's released, when, of course, I will  buy the official version.

Download I Read a Lot.m4a and promise to buy the song if it's officially released!

If you're looking for an m4a to mp3 converter, check out this one. It's free to try and has good reviews.

Nick Lowe is an English singer/songwriter icon, but if you haven't heard of him, you most likely know his songs, such as "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" which was a hit for Elvis Costello. He also produced Elvis Costello's first several albums. He's having a bit of a moment--a couple years ago he released his first new album in a long time called At My Age and is on tour promoting his new Best of album out this year, Quiet Please...The New Best of Nick Lowe. During his live shows, he's been performing this unreleased tune and I can't get enough of it. 

Here are the lyrics. (Thanks to Ukelele Underground.) The song will make you want to cry. Guaranteed.

I Read a Lot
I read a lot, nowadays
Much more than before you left me high and dry
in a loveless land
with nothing but time on my hands

I read a lot, not just magazines
But other more serious things, to get me through the day
Nighttime too
Whilst wondering how in the world to go on without you

“Lonely” isn’t the word for me now
“Blue” doesn’t describe it somehow

I read a lot, I can’t put it down
While others are painting the town, you’ll find me in a world
Of fantasy.
Population: one. That’s me

So if you ask me how I stop
Contemplating what I now have not
I’ll reply
I read a lot

Ukraine's Got Talent's Kseniya Simonova sand paints German invasion in WWII

Thanks to my mum for emailing it to me. Note: The video is 8 minutes long.