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Monday, June 15, 2009
Winery’s ‘dream job’ sends blogger over the rainbow
My Cincinnati-area friend and blogging colleague Michelle Lentz, who writes the My Wine Education blog, has entered the Murphy-Goode Winery “Really Goode Job” contest.
The winner of the contest will be paid a nifty $10,000 per month for six months to blog, Twitter, Facebook and use whatever other means that the technology and social-media gods can come up with to tell the world about Murphy-Goode and Sonoma Wine Country.
The contest was an utterly brilliant marketing move: the winery has reaped a ton of free publicity as reporters, columnists and wine bloggers weighed in about its significance. The application deadline is later this week. The top 50 candidates will be announced on June 26, and 10 finalists will begin interviews in mid-July.
Several wine bloggers have entered the contest (not me — I already have the perfect job, and why would anyone leave the paradise that is Dayton, Ohio for crummy ol’ California, anyway?), and they’re exhorting their readers for votes. MIchelle, however, was first and closest, so …
To view and to vote for Michelle’s Wizard of Oz-themed contest entry in which she goes “over the rainbow” for the really Goode job, click on this link.
I hope Michelle wins. Then, at the end of the stint, she can click together her ruby red slippers and repeat, “There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.”
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