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The best hiring ads ever

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/mar/246912411.html

THe content is below, the title is pathetic but they obviously know exactly what they are doing.

Title "Desperately Seeking Internet & Guerilla Marketing Genius (potrero hill)"

We are looking for a ruthless Internet marketing savant. One who understands the power of persuasion and finds fascination in the ways Jehovah’s Witness and Christian Scientists acolytes find their crazy fanatic converts. I want someone who is dumbfounded yet curious enough to study how a nasty tasting German herbal drink that’s meant to be drank warm turns into the hottest alcoholic drink. You have to be able to explain what made digg, flickr, YouTube and other upcoming Internet icons successful. Further you have to know how to create your own category.

The person needs to be very web savvy and loves design, music and technology. He/she has to be a disciple of Kay ~ “ …best way to predict the future is to invent it!” The person has to be ruthlessly creative with connections that are the best in what ever they do. You must have no fear of calling or emailing anyone they need and getting their attention. Perhaps hampered by ADD but smart enough to overcome it by putting everything on Treo/Blackberry.

You definitely must love the the Internet, the Consumer and have a record of massive social engineering. Your notion of the alphabet begins with the letters SEO and ends with PR. You are going to join a company that is on a mission to hack the future to become the way we want it to be. No wannabes this time, please! We need experience and a string of successes. We are also interested in your failures and how you have recovered and flourished from the lessons you've learned. You see a goal and you go all out, take no hostages and finish off the success with a nice cold one.

You see yourself doing another YouTube-like phenomenon, defining the lingua franca of a new internet market and pushing the everything to the edge of insane success. You must know the tipping point and know how to get there with a bit of shrewdness and wit. The Internet and the media is your tool and it does what you want it to do! You have to be the type of person that people want to be with. You don’t need a large linked-in group made up folks you've never really met or a collection of small brained myspace friends but must have a powerful directory/list of connected persons that will take your call, return your emails and do things for you, willingly and wholeheartedly!

Finally you have to have heart and the compassion to see yourself leading others to do great things for society.

A serial entrepreneur and a gang of equally successful partners lead the company you’re joining. We are not some knucklehead company trying to build another blog crap, video sharing site or community. We are the long tail of our business.

We don’t care for titles but we value achievement and experience. We’re not looking for someone who will tell us that we need new colors on the web site or we need to buys lists to spam folks with our products. We need results and we expect you to deliver.

Tell us what you did and what you want to do. Show us the mother of all marketing campaigns that you have executed.

If you’re the right person, we will make it difficult for you to say no to us and we'll do it immediately. We’re just that good.

posted by Road less travelled @ 11:01 PM