Sean Ward, one of my newest business co-horts, caught me on video the other night at Casie’s house after our SMWTO event and asked me some questions about the launch of my New Media Division.  Check out the video and interview here

Meet Carly-Anne Fairlie of The Fairlie Agency. Carly-Anne noticed that most of the work was going to the people on her roster who are active on Youtube and social media so the natual thing to do was to go full-force. The founded the Toronto Blog Stars and now she represents Raymi, Casie, and me. Stay tuned for the announcement of our first big event together.

Thank you Sean for posting about me & the agency!

Yesterday  I went to the Social Media Trends in 2010 presentation to hear Scott Stratton speak.  He runs a company called UnMarketing and I was really looking forward to hearing what he had to say.  I went with Currybomb and we just made it in time, luckily Casie had saved us seats.

I was really impressed with Scott’s presentation.  He was very engaging and I actually took notes and learned a lot.  If you follow me on Twitter you likely saw my favourite quotes of the evening:

“Twitter is my trusted Google”

“Twitter is like a water cooler for Entrepreneurs”

“If you don’t know who the creepy dude is in your office, you are the creepy dude”

He really gets social media and his philosophy “stop marketing, start engaging” makes sense.  Scott/UnMarketing started on Twitter in Jan 2009 and logged 7,000 tweets in his first month to be relevant.  This hard work earned him a book deal and I am definitely going to read it when it comes out.  Thanks to UnMarketing & Refresh Events for putting on a great event.

Afterwards I went with Sean, new friend Sheldon & Casie to her house for a food and a hang before Kathryn picked my up to go to our next event.  It was a blast hanging with you guys and we’ll have to do it again soon!

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Fairlie Agency launches New Media division

Click the link to read the announcement!

Hope you are all having a great day.

Two days into the first work week back and I have to admit that I forgot how busy I am.  My assistant Emilie was here for a few hours today and we got a lot done, but I could work all night and still not be finished.  I’m not complaining though.  It’s much better to be busy then waiting for something to do.  I spent most of my day picking new headshots, viewing demo reels and updating resumes and profiles, and I’m only 1/4 through everything.  My inbox is sitting at 10 unread, which is a big accomplishment, and they aren’t things that I need to deal with until tomorrow, so I’m leaving them there.

Tomorrow I am making an announcement at my agency.  It’s the first new challenge I am undertaking in 2010 and I am excited about it.  I was thinking a lot today about where I was this time last year and I realized that I had made my most important goal of 2009 come true.  To work for myself and not need another job to pay the bills.  Now I am certainly not living a life of luxury.  Being a commission-based business definitely has me pinching my pennies and cutting out a lot of the luxuries I enjoyed from a salaried position.  But I am no longer miserable for 8 hours a day.  I am the happiest that I have ever been in my adult life and I have a positive outlook (and plans) to help me grow my business and bring in more income.  I love what I do and where I am headed and I’m lucky to have the support of my family and friends.

If so, then please nominate my blog for the Best New Blog in the 2010 Bloggies.

It’s super easy to do and you don’t have to register for anything, just enter in your email address.

Click HERE and look for this nomination form:

Type in my info:

NOMINEE: kaponetwo
URL: http://www.kaponetwo.com/

You have to make 3 nominations, so add me and any two other blogs you like.  There are a bunch of different categories to choose from.  Feel free to nominate a blog from my Favourite Blogs on the sidebar.

Thank you!