Category Archives: WalletPop.com

How to get traffic

I’m no expert in how to attract traffic to a website, but a writer friend of mine, Amy Yannello, who recently started her own blog, asked me how I try to get traffic to this site.
My answer: I don’t. At least not much. The original and continued goal of this blog, which I started shortly [...]

Up in the Air and unemployed

I’m looking for the unemployed people from Detroit who were in this movie and interviewed as real-life examples of what happens when you lose your job.
“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do,” is the first thing many people say when they’re laid off. It’s those people I’m looking for.
“Up In The Air” is a [...]

Motor City

I’m starting reporting on a story for WalletPop about near 50% unemployment in Detroit and I’m looking for sources.
I’d like to interview a few long-term unemployed people in Detroit about their job search in such dire unemployment, and what it’s like living there. If you know anyone who would be like to be interviewed for [...]

Gorkana alert

Gorkana released an updated media list today, and I’m there. Here’s the brief announcement:
AOL
Aaron Crowe has been appointed a Section Editor at AOL’s WalletPop.com where he oversees the career, recession, sports and money, technology, and swine flu beats. Aaron was previously an Assistant Metro Editor at the Contra Costa Times. He can be reached [...]

Part-time tech reporter opening

As I noted two posts down, my job duties at WalletPop have expanded and I’m now looking to hire a San Francisco Bay Area technology reporter to cover that beat as it relates to personal finance.
Here’s the announcement I put on LinkedIn:
I’m a section editor at WalletPop, a personal finance blog owned by AOL: [...]