SteveHarbula
08-19-2008, 11:07 AM
My name is Steve Harbula and I oversee sports content for Examiner.com. We're currently looking for a Houston Texans Examiner to join our team, and Nick with the Texans said it would be all right to see if anyone in this community would be interested in the role.
Our vision is to change the way people look for news and information online by providing a space for everyone from traditional journalists to everyday citizens to join together to form the world’s largest community of experts. Even though the business just launched in April and has had no media promotion, we already have more than 300 Examiners and were up to 2.2 million unique visitors and about 7 million page views in July. So things are off to a solid start.
We look for people with a combination of passion and expertise on a particular topic and a desire to share their insights with others. In return, we provide the platform, the promotion, any necessary training and financial compensation. We've got quite a mix in the Sports Channel already -- former newspaper writers, sports talk radio hosts, TV sideline reporters, bloggers, etc.
The money is based on traffic, and frankly won’t be significant to start. But one of our Examiners has already gotten a monthly check of more than $1,000, again in the absence of any national promotion for the site. We expect that to only go up going forward; but of all the reasons to be an Examiner the financial incentive is probably still last on the list today.
You can find more details on being an Examiner at http://extra.examiner.com/about/. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please fill out the online form or feel free to contact me directly.
Thanks for your time, and good luck to the Texans this season!
Steve Harbula | Sports Channel Manager | Examiner.com
555 17th Street, Suite 700 | Denver, CO 80202
303-299-1467 | sharbula@examiner.com
Our vision is to change the way people look for news and information online by providing a space for everyone from traditional journalists to everyday citizens to join together to form the world’s largest community of experts. Even though the business just launched in April and has had no media promotion, we already have more than 300 Examiners and were up to 2.2 million unique visitors and about 7 million page views in July. So things are off to a solid start.
We look for people with a combination of passion and expertise on a particular topic and a desire to share their insights with others. In return, we provide the platform, the promotion, any necessary training and financial compensation. We've got quite a mix in the Sports Channel already -- former newspaper writers, sports talk radio hosts, TV sideline reporters, bloggers, etc.
The money is based on traffic, and frankly won’t be significant to start. But one of our Examiners has already gotten a monthly check of more than $1,000, again in the absence of any national promotion for the site. We expect that to only go up going forward; but of all the reasons to be an Examiner the financial incentive is probably still last on the list today.
You can find more details on being an Examiner at http://extra.examiner.com/about/. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please fill out the online form or feel free to contact me directly.
Thanks for your time, and good luck to the Texans this season!
Steve Harbula | Sports Channel Manager | Examiner.com
555 17th Street, Suite 700 | Denver, CO 80202
303-299-1467 | sharbula@examiner.com