Bean 150x150 One Magic BeanThis is a guest post by Bob DiPasquale from HumorQ.com and I thought I should publish it because we all need a break from the norm. - Brandon

Well here it goes.  This is my first ever ‘guest post” so strap yourself in.  I wrote a book as my legacy for my kids once titled “Don’t Hide When Your Pants are Full”, but guest posting I have to figure means stepping it up a bit.  The ironic thing is I’m writing blog content about a lack of expertise.  That’s like racing Yugo’s,  or sugar free cake… it’s just not right.
So let me tell you why I’m here.  I have a good job with a large computer company where I’ve been working since I was eighteen years old.  I’m a mostly self taught application developer / database guy that would really much rather be making a living writing for David Lettermen.  So at fifty years old, married, with one daughter just heading off to college and another two years away, it’s not really like I could walk away from my job.  But there’s this thing I know you’ve all heard of called the internet.  I put my creative mind to work and I think I’ve come up with a really good website idea.

I created a site where members participate in both judging and submitting to a daily cartoon caption contest.  While all that fun is going on, I measure the popularity of each member’s caption as well as give them bonus points for selecting the most popular of their choices when they are voting.  This allows me to give every member a number between 1 and 200 that I call their humorq.  So my slogan is “How funny are you?  …. We put a number on it.”  I have no trouble visioning the day when someone’s HumorQ is asked for on their marketing firm job application,  I know we live in a world that is sliding the importance bar away from logical and more towards creative thinking, and what better time for a tool to measure creativity. I’m really excited about the potential growth of this concept since it makes sense to me that it should grow exponentially at a certain exposure level.

Alas, I could be wrong about that.  I’m not the internet marketing guy, some of you are.  I can’t really risk too much of my savings until I see more promise, so now I’m looking at how do you get something like this started with very little investment.   I feel like I just invented a perfect solar powered car in Seattle.  It’s like I’m holding an armful of ice cream cones and the kids are out in a boat.  I’m starting my research, and I see blogging and guest blogging as one method.  I know a bit about SEO.  There’s a whole world of social networking that seems to have eluded me.  So where’s the bang for the buck?  Where does a husband, father, charity founder, and full time IBMer, find time to change the world with a caption contest?

I guess right now I’m like Jack, but I still have the cow and I’ve stumbled on to one magic bean.  I’m very confused.  I can hear the golden goose up there, but I can hear the Fi Fye thing too.  I’ve apparently turned down a yellow bricked road called “Guest Post”, and wondering if the host might correct that to be “Dumasa Post”.  How do you people keep it all together, and what do you do to little dreamers like me?

Since I have a minimum of thirty two words left, I’d like to take this time to thank Brandon who appears to have the cow, the stalk, the goose, and probably the Fi Fye guy to change light bulbs.  All the best!

One Magic Bean

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Brandon Connell wrote 404 articles on this blog.

I am an author, blogger, investor, musician, and internet marketer among other things. I believe that one person can do many things in life. Check out my local search marketing company at Leads2LocalSearch.com when you are done browsing here.

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