MGHurston Creative Services

I wake up at 7:30 am and I’m grouchy. I hate mornings. But I’m up because I have a conference call at 8:30am with the east coast. I head into work and place in my call. We chat for an hour about case studies, what info I need, who I need it from, when I need it by and when it will go live. A marketing department email goes out from ...

This week while reviewing my GA’s information I noticed that an old site of mine, www.lasvegascrenews.com had suddenly began receiving more traffic of late from Bing, so much so that is surpassed traffic sent to it from Google and is now the number one source of traffic for this site. The odd thing is this site hasn’t been updated since it finished its purpose in June of 2009. I had originally ...

So what skill sets do you need to be a Content Producer? I view it as a jack-of-all-trades type of job and in no particular order here is my list… Key Item One: Writing On one hand you need to be able to write when asked about any subject, but this doesn’t mean you need to be Hemingway. As long as you can write the bulk of the content, other people in ...

While this may come across as being vain, a lot of people have asked me what, exactly, it is I do as an Online Content Producer and what they should focus on at their jobs to move into this type of position and so I find myself writing about a day in the life of me. It’s a bit hefty so I’ve broken this into two parts. The first is ...

note: I moved the blurb on Google and Mt. View from Historical to Business & Tech as I thought it was more appropriate there - but it can go either way. Business & Tech First Radio Station: KCBS All News 740AM and 106.9FM nominated by Connie Kim As the world's first broadcasting station, KCBS is celebrating 100 years of news, information and innovation. The Bay Area's only all news radio station, KCBS started out ...

I love money. It allows me to buy anything I want, from clothes, to shinies, and in general all the things that make me feel better. So why don’t I want to make money? Sure, I toss up a few AdSense here and there on my blog, and I’ll gladly take someone’s money for an ad, but making money from my blog and twitter account has never been a goal of ...

While strolling through various blogs online I came across this post from Jason Falls, a very successful and popular Marketing/Creative person. (Note: his post is from a year ago, so maybe he has changed his mind, didin't find a follow up post to it though.) That said, I found his article interesting and while his readers obviously agree with him, I just can’t help but feel odd about my own situation. ...

Perhaps not literally, but we do need something to draw people here other than our business casual and leisure activities. A while back Japan started building giant robots and it seems to have been drawing a lot of locals as well as tourists to the city of Tokyo. So why can’t the tech capital of the world, Silicon Valley, build something to capture the hearts and minds of our imaginations ...