About Jack and Jim

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About Jack Humphrey

My Products: Make Money Blogging | Curation Software |  Internet Marketing Consultant

I’ve been doing this internet thing for a long, long time.  I wouldn’t give up the freedom, nor the feeling I get when I see clients and students succeed, for anything.

I started messing around online in 1991, and started getting serious in 2000. In 2002 wrote the most widely-downloaded and respected book on link building called “Power Linking.”

I’m a co-founder of BlogSuccess.com, the most complete professional blogger training center on the web.

Over the last decade I’ve been responsible for billions (with a B) of visitors for myself and my clients and students who have learned what I have to share about marketing online.

Today, the Friday Traffic Report, BlogSuccess.com, and a few social sites are the most likely places you’ll find me as an active participant.  Though you can find me with over 8000+ keyword phrases on Google and links to this and my other sites in practically every corner of the web you surf.

This is my “after” pic…

I hate to brag, but once you have a Simpson’s character, you’re kind of a big deal.

Watch for this beautiful mug all over the social scape, especially Twitter, and you’ll know you’ve found THE Jack Humphrey.

Often Misunderstood

Lots of people fail to “get” my humor and my methods.  Maybe some personal background will help.

Drums, Rock, Wilderness Survival, Family

I’m a big time hair band fanatic.  Since high school I’ve been listening to the likes of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Dio, Ozzy, and Led Zeppelin, to name a few.

I’m a drummer.  Yes, I was in marching band.  Yes, I was 1st chair on the snare line.  Yes, the drumline always got the girls.

I’ve played in bands, been recorded, and even picked up some African percussion with a few Djembes and other drums.  I believe I am the only Djembe player in the world to have played Johnny Cash covers in a redneck bar, or two.

I am a wilderness and wildlife freak, having spent 11 years as an activist and director of a couple environmental groups. Don’t ask me to choose between people and everything else.  And please don’t ask what I would do if I saw an endangered animal eating an endangered plant.  If you have to ask that question, you wouldn’t understand the answer.

If you are lucky enough to be in a plane crash with me somewhere over the Amazon, you’ll eat well and live to tell about it* as I am a wilderness survival nut and wildlife tracker.

*unless you are the one voted to be eaten by the rest of us during the lean times.

My humor always leans toward shock and awe, sarcasm to the point of being serious, and has been used all my life to weed out a few friends from among 6 billion other human inhabitants of planet Earth.

Favorite movies are the ones where revenge and vigilante justice is doled out by unlikely heroes.  I’m against water boarding unless Jack Bauer is the one pouring the water.

I have a beautiful wife, Constance, and a 3 year old boy who is so smart and handsome that I will not fully claim him as mine until the DNA tests come back.

I love not traveling much and prefer the warm glow of HDTV over loud nights in bars.   When I do get out of town, Vegas is my favorite place to sin against man and nature.

Nature is where I go to sin against technology and crowds.

Other Places You Can Find Me…

LinkedIn – YouTube – Twitter – Facebook -  StumbleUpon

Jim Stroud

Jim is a man about the internet!  He produces The Searchologist website where he teaches Recruiters resume sourcing and lead generation strategies via articles, a video series and a print publication. He is also co-host of the technology podcast - Friday Traffic Report and co-founder of  The Hidden Job Report.

In January 2011, Jim launched – The Jim Stroud Show, a weekly video series for jobseekers.

(Check out Jim’s resume, various projects, career highlights and other bits of shameless self-promotion.)