Will do social media campaigns for food (and reasonable fees)

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Around a year-and-a-half ago, I started doing social media project work for a number of agencies and it's been a pretty wild ride. Because of my background in the kitchen and bath industry, many of the things I've worked on have involved that industry. Though I did branch out a bit into real estate and retail, I consider the K&B industry to be my home.

Recently, an opportunity that I thought I had in the bag has started to look like it's not going to materialize and it's time for me to get aggressive in my quest to scare up work and, oh yeah, to keep a roof over my head. I've been making the usual rounds of making phone calls and sending e-mails to colleagues and I was thinking of other ways to get my name out there yesterday when it hit me, my name's already over the place on and through this blog. This blog and my marketing it are how I learned what it takes to be an effective social marketer. Every talk I give on this topic (here, here, and here are three videos on the subject), begins and ends with Kitchen and Residential Design.

This blog has been my personal Giving Tree and now it's time to ask it for one more thing. And what I'm asking for are opportunities.

I am a capable, responsible social media professional with a proven record and a sterling reputation in the industry. And I'm looking for project work on either the brand side, with individual clients or with an agency. I can either consult and teach you how to master social media or I can conceive, write and execute campaigns for you. Whether it's providing web content or running a Twitter account, I can help you achieve your goals.

I can be reached at p.anater@gmail.com and please pass this article around to anyone who might be interested.

Thanks,

Paul

A cool, interactive, appliance repair graphic

Dealing with a malfunctioning major appliance is always fraught with anxiety and headaches. Trying to troubleshoot the malfunction to see whether or not try to deal with it by yourself is beyond the skill set of most homeowner's, though the repairs themselves are not.

Part Select put together repair information about washing machines, refrigerators and ranges and put them in a very clever graphic that will tell you the general costs of parts and the relative ease of making the repair yourself. Something like this may save you some money but it will definitely save you some headaches. Just click on the graphic to launch it.


Source: PartSelect Appliance Parts

Carpets by Naja Utzon Popov

When I was in London for the first-ever Blog Tour, I had the pleasure to meet the incredibly talented Naja Utzon Popov. Naja weaves carpets and I saw this one in person at Tent London.

The shapes in this carpet remind me of a centipede but only slightly. Her work's not the least but unsettling but still, there's something insect-like about these designs. Few forms of life are as beautifully designed as a centipede so my likening her carpets to one is meant as a compliment.

When she's not invoking centipedes she playing with snow crystals and when's not doing that she's sculpting or designing other household objects. Whatever else goes on in the design wold, Naja Utzon Popov is clearly a woman to watch.

How to deal with a washing machine

In Europe, where to put the washing machine takes on an importance that's not the case in the US or Canada. Since homes tend to be smaller there and space tends to come at a premium how to deal with laundry is not something to be taken lightly. When I was in Italy for Cersiae last month, I saw what has to be the best integration of a washing machine with a bathroom ever.

The manufacturer is Geromina and since nobody in Italy seems to have any use for a dryer I'm going to assume that the machine shown is a washer only. What do you think? Would you integrate a washing machine into a bath?

Kids' rooms from Resource Furniture

Between my nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, I have been up to my elbows in kids recently. I guess it's yet another symptom of getting older, but I can't get enough of the people in my gene pool.

When I was in Pennsylvania last week, one of my brothers gave me a tour of the addition he put on his house recently. Though it's not quite finished, I did see that there were bedrooms for two of his daughters in the addition.

At a time when his children are starting to go out in the world on their own, he's still adding bedrooms and he tells me that they'll need the room when his kids start coming back with families of their own.

The idea of adding room for kids reminded me of some new offerings from Resource Furniture. Resource takes the idea of a Murphy bed and advances it by an order of magnitude or two.

How cool would it be to add a bedroom that can be tucked away so that the room being added can do double duty as an office or study?

Resource's Poppi Ponte adds more than two meters of closet space and requires a third of the room of a regular twin bed.

In what looks like a home office or study desk, Resource's Lollisoft SD turns into two twin beds.

Slick! Resource Furniture has showroom in New York, Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Hong Kong but their furniture is available just about anywhere. Spend some time on Resource Furniture's website before you buy new furniture.