19
Jun

Bringing the Wine Home

Posted on June 19th, 2009 :: Posted in Alcoholic Beverage, AReallyGoodeJob, Murphy Goode

As you know, we’re roughly three years into the Trans-Americas Journey–our five year 200,000 mile working road trip through North, Central and South America. And it’s cool as hell. But last month we were tempted with an opportunity worth putting our little Journey on hold for.

The Murphy-Goode Winery in Sonoma County, California is looking for a Wine Lifestyle Correspondent for six months (learn more about what the heck we’re talking about here). Essentially, they need someone (in our case, two someones since we’re applying together) to learn more about wine and meet other wine lovers and potential wine lovers then blog, vlog, write, photograph, film and social media the heck out of the experience in order to promote wine in general and the Murphy-Goode and Sonoma County brands in specific.

The biggest part of the application process, so far, is a 60 second video that we produced and submitted. Check it out and vote for us if you can. It’s funny, even according to non-relatives, and it’s just a minute long, so there’s not much risk on your end.

WATCH AND VOTE FOR OUR REALLY GOODE VIDEO

Learn more about us and the making of our video

So for the past six weeks or so we’ve been doing what we normally do–blogging, making videos, twittering, reaching out to our fan base and friends and family online, maintaining a blog and building out our web site and drinking wine–but with the focus shifted to this new and exciting goal.

One of the happy new connections we’ve made during the Murphy-Goode Wine Lifestyle Correspondent application process is Andrea over Andy’s Goode Life who’s been gracious enough to publish a few guest posts from us about how to achieve Brand Believablity and Consumer Credibility, why V is for Vaynerchuk, Not Vino and Bringing the Wine Home: Passion in the Passing Lane. She also recently threw down a bit of a wine challenge, asking for solutions to one of three specific wine-consumption conundrums. It’s the least we can do, so here’s our answer to her #1 question…

Q: When I drink red wine, I often get the dreaded “red wine teeth,” which is an embarrassing condition to have at a party when I intend on talking, smiling, or otherwise showing my newly wine-stained chompers. And is there any way to reduce this affliction without hampering my enjoyment of reds?

A: Rinse with white.

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9
Jun

100,000 Miles (and counting)

Posted on June 9th, 2009 :: Posted in Announcement, news

It’s official. We’ve reached 100,000 miles on our Trans-Americas Journey! It happened just outside Arandas here in Mexico (more on that cool town in a post we’re working on right now). It’s a milestone we feel pretty good about,especially given the fact that our intial mileage projection for the Journey, back in early 2006 when we were preapreing to leave NYC, was 70,000 miles total for the whole thing and now we’ve clocked 100,000 miles and we haven’t even touched Central or South America yet.

That’s what happens when you open your National Geographic Atlas to The Americas page, squiggle a piece of string around from top to bottom and side to side, then measure it out to calculate miles…

We now figure we’ve got at least another 100,000 miles to go, but we wouldn’t write that down in ink if we were you.

Help keep us on the road by voting for our video application for a Really Goode six month job as Lifestyle Correspondents at Murphy-Goode Winery, a gig that would re-fill our coffers and our gas tank.

Please watch our video (it will make you laugh and it’s only a minute long) and vote for it.

Just be sure to click on the vote confirmation link you’ll get in a follow up email or you vote won’t count. And check out a special web page we created for more random information about us and answers to FAQs about the making of the video including “Who’s that guy dancing behind you?”

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28
May

Our Latest Work: How to Save Money at the Pump

Posted on May 28th, 2009 :: Posted in Announcement, AReallyGoodeJob, Murphy Goode, news, Published Work, Tips

Last Sunday the travel section of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune newspaper ran a story we did that’s full of tips about how to save money at the pump.

And speaking of money, don’t forget that we need your help to land a Really Goode Job as Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondents for Murphy-Goode Winery! We’d not only rock at this six month gig (get the details here), but we’d have a lot of fun and (most importantly) it would replenish our Trans-Americas Journey budget and keep us on the road.

Our application video has been posted so go take a look and vote, please. We think its pretty funny, and we bet you will too. It’s already been predicted that our video is so strong that “A mother would even secretly vote against her own child in favor of Eric and Karen.”

Nice!

You can also learn more about us and why we should be Murphy-Goode’s pick on our special A Really Goode Hire page.

Most importantly–GO VOTE! And don’t worry–the site requires that you submit your email address in order to vote and then you must confirm your vote by clicking a link in a follow up email, but we promise there’s no spamming involved.