Are you a sharpshooting, smooth-talking salesperson, good at talking people out of their money? Well, this isn’t the job for you.

We’re looking for someone who doesn’t have a lot of sales experience, but has a willingness to learn our products well and help our customers succeed online. Like Ben Affleck said in Boiler Room, “We don’t hire [salespeople] here, we train new ones.”

We need someone who has a passion for small business. Someone who enjoys technology and the Internet. Someone who’ll care about our customers as much as we do. Our approach is not to hard sell. We consider ourselves consultants. We consult. We don’t “sell.”

We talk to small business owners and try to understand their business, customers, and marketing objectives. We offer a lot of free, upfront information. You could say our approach is to give away a lot of free advice. If our prospective client would rather us implement some of the strategies we’re suggesting they do, then they hire us. If not, then that’s cool, too. We never set unrealistic expectations and we only work with people who we think we can help. That’s how we’ve always done it, and it’s worked well for us.

You’ll learn a lot about websites, servers, social media, search engines, and internet marketing. Our customers trust us with their business because we’re the experts. Soon, you’ll be an expert too.

Please send resumes to jobs@slamdot.com. No seasoned salespeople, please.

There is good news and there is bad news – the good news is that our 1st Annual Haunted Open House, a Halloween-themed Business Networking and Costume Party here in Knoxville, was a huge success! The bad news is that it’s over until next haunting season… but you can bet we’ll be back with the 2nd Annual Haunted Open House next year with even more decorations, more scares and so much spooky fun that you’ll be gasping for air!

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us, we hope you all had a great time, especially the kids who came out. To the parents of those children, they were adorable and extremely well-behaved!

And another big thanks to Tom & Barry’s Restaurant for catering our party. The food was delicious and the service was great. Everyone loved it! We’d also like to thank Rita’s Ice for providing blueberry (with REAL blueberries) water ice, as well as Elegant Essentials Home Decor & Gifts, Haze and Co. Salad Dressings, Fox Fitness and HoundDogs for donating great door prizes, thank you for your contribution and support!

A lot of our local customers were asking about the show from last Saturday, so we’ve posted it here for your listening pleasure.

Listen to the show…

Stay tuned for more!

Daniel was on The Hallerin Hilton Hill Morning Show last Wednesday, September the 2nd. Slamdot was featured in the Local Business Spotlight segment of the show, and Daniel was talking with Hallerin about our website design and search engine optimization services.

Listen to the interview with Daniel

We really appreciate being in the Local Business Spotlight with Hallerin Hilton Hill and look forward to coming back for more shows in the future!

Join the Slamdot team at our spine-tingling downtown office for a howling good time at the 1st Annual Haunted Open House Business Networking and Halloween Party on Friday, October 23 from 5:30pm – 8:30pm. All you should bring is a costume and your business cards, although neither are required! Of corpse, oops, I mean of course, it wouldn’t be a party without some light refreshments and wine. We’ll also have some door prizes to give out.

So come hang out with the Slamdot gang and your other colleagues for the only Halloween Business Networking in Knoxville!

Please RSVP on Facebook.

Sean was on WNOX FM 100.3 this weekend with Tom and Judy Irmen talking about website design and effective Search Engine Optimization techniques.

Listen to the show…

Feel free to leave any questions or comments below!

Sean was recently interviewed by Nikka Harvey of Knoxville Overground for their Lunch 2.0 series at Cafe 4 on Market Square in Knoxville, TN. You can watch the video on demand from Livestream.

We had the pleasure of talking with Jason Fried from 37signals on Saturday, June 27, 2009 on WNOX FM 100.3. This is the follow-up interview.

Jason talked with us about Getting Real, their web-based products, working remotely and some of the things they’ve done to successfully market their company.

Listen to the interview

We really appreciate Jason’s time and hope that he’ll come back for more shows in the future!

You can watch our office party live on ustream.tv! Anyone in the Knoxville area is welcome to come down and hang out with us!

Many of our Knoxville-based customers know that I’ve been routinely co-hosting a radio show on Saturdays at noon called Your Opportunity Knox with Tom and Judy Irmen. Tom and Judy also own Everything Knoxville, a local publication highlighting all things Knoxville. The radio show’s format is tech and business talk, with a goal of helping small businesses leverage technology to reach their full potential. We’ve had several shows on sales, marketing, social networking, website design and everything in between.

One topic we’ve discussed several times on air has been the book Getting Real by 37signals. Everyone at Slamdot has read it. We pretty much live by it. I have two copies of the book myself: one I keep, and one I loan out. So, I loaned Tom Getting Real a few months ago and he wouldn’t give it back, or stop talking about it. He liked it so much that he brought it up during several shows.

This weekend we decided to dedicate an entire show to Getting Real. We were going to take several statements from the book and compare them to general business uses for our listener audience. Just before the show, I twittered (tweeted?) that we’d be talking about Getting Real on the radio. Within 5 minutes, Jason Fried had messaged me and offered to be available for an on-air interview. I was totally mondo stoked.

All within about thirty minutes we managed to get the word out, coordinate with the producer, and get Jason on the line for the interview. Talk about agile. I must say that I was a little star-struck for the first few minutes, and you can hear it in my voice! The show was fantastic and we really appreciate the opportunity to talk with Jason.

Listen to the interview with Jason Fried

Hopefully we can get Jason to come back again soon!