About: Jason Shoup

I'm 30 years old and have lived in LA for the past 8 years. In that time, I've worked for the entertainment industry, become a hypnotherapist, taken up amateur guitar playing, become a sailor, an avid scuba diver, and now an illustrator. I'm also trying my hand in the e-commerce with an Amazon bookstore and now working part time with Pluggio! Very excited to try out some new tools and sharing them with everybody! Hello to all my fellow small business enterpreneurs!

Recent Posts by Jason Shoup

Dr. Hills Teaches Us How To Craft A Great Tweet, And So Much More

Interviewer’s Note: Dr. Laura Hills was a wonderful person to speak with! When I read her profile and noticed her work on coaching professionals, I new she’d be a wealth of information. However, when I requested an interview, she originally wasn’t sure she’d be well-suited for it, describing herself as a “babe in the woods”Continue Reading

Written on February 20, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Categories: Entrepreneurship, How Businesses Use Twitter

Ricky Talks About Being a Professional Artist and Using Social Media

Interviewer’s Note: I recently saw a short cartoon about a fan meeting a cartoonist in an autograph line. As the artist signed the book, the fan (also an aspiring artist) gushed, “I sure wish I could draw all day for a living!” The artist replied “So do I.” When the fan asked him what heContinue Reading

Written on February 18, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Categories: Entrepreneurship, How Businesses Use Twitter

The Rule of the Mob? What the Susan G. Komen Flap Tells Us

The Pluggio Blog is not a political blog, but today I wanted to talk about recent controversy over the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood. It was quickly retracted after a social media uproar criticized the decision and assigned responsibility for the choice to Karen Handle. Within a week, HandelContinue Reading

Written on February 17, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Categories: How Businesses Use Twitter, Musings

How JMSO Recruits for Employers By Using Twitter

Interviewer’s Note: With the Great Recession impacting so many facets of our lives, I’ve been keeping an ear out how it has changed the job market, as well as the strategies of job seekers. Along those lines, I explored some of these topics with John Smith, CEO of employment recruitment company JMSO, Inc, in aContinue Reading

Written on February 13, 2012 at 5:30 am
Categories: Entrepreneurship, How Businesses Use Twitter

How Michelle Gathered 11,000 Twitter Followers and Promotes Her Book Series

Interviewer’s Note: I met Michelle Hughes on Twitter while searching out independent authors. She’s been working on a series of paranormal romance novels, so I thought I’d reach out and ask her about the project and what role social media is playing. Michelle was wonderful to interview- not only did she explain the importance ofContinue Reading

Written on February 10, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Categories: Entrepreneurship, How Businesses Use Twitter