Dear Google,

I found your ad on Craig's List (and again on your website) seeking an Account Strategist. I would like to apply for the job. I have been operating employers' and consulting clients' websites since 1997. I was an early adopter of the weblog as marketing tool, have run affiliate networking programs and bought keyword campaigns from you. I am certain that these experiences will allow me to offer excellent service to Google customers.

I spent a fair period of my career as a technical sales support representative for technology companies. In that role, I became expert at extracting requirements and goals from customers and a whiz at writing analytical reports that got deals and made the sales rep proud. I got fast (overnight speed) at creating spreadsheets that modeled their production systems and calculated the ROI for the equipment we wanted to sell. I could do it so fast because I integrated a desktop relational database with the product line into QuarkXpress linked with Excel. It rocked.

My business experience is also very deep. I have started and run two small businesses and been the marketing lead for one of my employers. I understand small business economics (having written more than my share of business plans) and am able to talk about it effectively. That refers to what may be my most important qualification for this job: I am a cheerful and effective communicator. I am comfortable with customer contact at the small business level, at the departmental level of a large corporation and have made several board-level presentations to Fortune 500 companies.

I joined the internet in 1994, as soon as the commercial world in my neighborhood would let me. I have always had an active website and kept close to the state of the art. The internet marketing efforts I executed have always been early adopter stuff (I used Commission Junction when their website was still completely buggy). Equally importantly I love the internet and believe deeply in its ability to transform the way we communicate and help each other.

I love the idea of working for Google and am perfectly confident that my combination of 1) internet marketing experience, 2) technical sales support, and 3) communication skills will make me a really good employee.

I am holding my breath until you call to talk about it further.

Best Regards,

TQ White II