Chris Hooley’s -ThinkBait-

best. prank. ever. 

Jeff Dempsey, my technical specialist at NextStudent,  decided to create a website dedicated to yours truly and then get a bunch links pointed to it.  He even recruited a bunch of my blog buddies to switch their links from my site to his. 

He beat me in the SERPs in literally like 4 days. 

Not only did he kick my ass, he also dropped mysite to #4 and 5 on Google for the phrase Chris Hooley.  Not bad, not bad at all.  Seriously kick ass prank… But he forgot one thing, I own him.

Since I am his boss, and I do in fact own the rights to his soul, I decided his newfound SEO skills should be put to better use. (obviously he’s bored at work if he has that kind of time anyways) So here’s his new task.

I created a blog dedicated to how Chris Hooley owns Jeff Dempsey.  He is required to write at least one blog post per day about the subject and acquire links as fast as he can until he owns both terms, Chris Hooley and Jeff Dempsey.  This is not a challenge, but a job requirement. 

I will maintain all editorial control.  Jeff is not allowed to NOT post, and cannot brag about himself.  Only me.  He will then outline his adventures in link building and content production and present his newfound knowledge of SEO to the team one he owns the SERPs.

Man, I can’t WAIT to read his daily posts about how I own his soul!

Ya know, sometimes I sit back and think… it sure is good to be a passive aggressive asshole boss!

Happy blogging Jeffyboy!

Fubing, or “farting in cubicles” is something to look out for in 2007. Put a few ridiculous dudes together in an office setting and fires will blaze.

Snoop Blawg posts a recap of today’s most recent victim, NextStudent’s own affinity marketing guy. That was Jeff from I Am Better Than U on the gas attack. Video included- complete with terrible staging and cheesy faux excitement.

And yes, he really did fart. On purpose. Gross, and awesome. Thank GOD I wasn’t at my desk for this one.

Working at NextStudent is a blast, especially since we brought a few newbies on a few months ago.  They immediately formed a team to beat the old schoolers in anything and everything… You should see them near the water fountain, it looks like they are battling for the Stanley Cup or something.

Anyhoo, this is their first prank in the NextStudent Office Wars series. Jess and Jon blogged about it a few weeks ago, but Andrea edited her first YouTube video of the event.

*tear,*

“my babies, watch them grow!”

This should be interesting.  As a part of our social web experiment, I am not allowed to take sides.  I can only link to things that I cannot resist linking to.  Fair is fair.  It’s old schoolers verse newbies, and the boss gotta stay out of it.

(I love calling myself that BTW).

And in case you are wondering, yes Jeff ALWAYS wears that Google shirt at work.