This guy has the right idea.

If you don’t want to click, here’s the skinny. Some dude is using the Internet to trade a red paper clip for a house. Through his blog, and other online tools, he has successfully traded this paper clip for one thing, then that for something else, then for something else, all the way to what he has now: a year of free rent at someone’s house. He wants to trade and trade until he owns a house outright. The Internet gives us great power. And this guy is using it to its fullest.

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Rachel Berry is the program director for a new PR agency, VOXUS, Inc. She was nice enough to agree to an interview where she offers great advice and experience. I think you’ll find her educational path to PR to be especially interesting. Please enjoy learning more about Rachel and her career as I did and don’t forget to check out the VOXUS blog!

What is your current position at VOXUS, Inc. and what all does it entail?

VOXUS is a new technology PR agency based in the Seattle area that is a spinoff of a well-established California-based agency. My job title is program director, but in reality you’re just as likely to find me building an editorial database as to directing strategic positioning plans. Because we are in the throes of building the agency from the ground up, all of the senior-level staff are multi-tasking by doing account work as well as administrative assignments such as identifying internatinal partners, writing for our blog, locating interns, new buiness development and internal agency promotion. On a day-to-day basis, however, I am currently managing one large account and two smaller ones, supplemented with project work.

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