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When I say “IRS” what’s the first word that comes to mind? Maybe: Taxes. Audit. Scary. Perhaps: I’d rather not say….

Did anyone think of: Sarcastic. Fun. Linkbaiters? Probably not. Well it looks like that all is about to change with this article they put out: 10 Reasons to Put Off Saving for Retirement. The article is a top 10 list (we know they work) and is completely sarcastic. Here’s the list (without their witty explanations for each):

1. There are so many important things I need that money for NOW.

2. There’ll always be time to save later.

3. Maybe I won’t live long enough to retire.

4. I love a challenge.

5. Social Security payments alone will take care of my needs.

6. I don’t know how to begin.

7. I don’t know how much I need for retirement.

Today there was a story on CNN about the government offering a $200,000 reward for tips on the 3 missing soldiers in Iraq. In the story they had a picture of the flier that they are hanging up with the details:

If you notice the email address is baghdadtipshotline@yahoo.com. Would you feel confident emailing in a tip that could potentially put your life at stake to a free email address that anyone could set up? This question has been raised before with businesses as to whether or not it’s professional to have a free email address as your main business account. In most cases – my answer is no, it’s not. In this case, I definitely don’t think it’s a good idea.  Get a .gov email address or military one and it will give people an extra sense of security that this is official.

..and I shall shed my light over dark evil.
For the dark things cannot stand the light,
The light of the Green Lantern!

Yep – I took the Super Hero quiz and it turns out I am the Green Lantern:

You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern 90% Iron Man 80% Catwoman 80% Hulk 80% Spider-Man 70% The Flash 70% Wonder Woman 62% Supergirl 62% Robin 35% Batman 30% Superman 30%

Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.

Thanks to Bill Slawski’s excellent reasons for convincing me to do this.

This quiz is an excellent example of a good idea spreading based solely on the fact that it’s a cool/fun idea. The page itself is as plain as you can get and is slathered with AdSense:

What a pleasant surprise to find out that I have been named as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. I mean – I knew I was having a good year but an honor like this was completely unexpected.

So there has been a game of blog tag going around and I got “tagged” by Aaron Pratt and Kim Krause-Berg (check out SoloSeo’s Blog Tag Tree to see the complete breakdown).

The game is essentially the blog equivalent of a chain letter but the difference is that everything is out in the open – you don’t have to be on the receiving end of that email to see everyone’s answers. It’s also a good way to give and get links… So without further adieu – here are 5 things you might not know about me:

1) I lived across the street from the famous wax museum Madame Tussauds in London for a year of my life (also right down the street from Sherlock Holmes).

Chris Winfield is the President and Co-Founder of 10e20. Chris is fascinated with search engines and especially how to gain the most out of them. Chris is responsible for the overseeing of all 10e20 campaigns and the strategic direction of the company. He has been featured in multiple articles by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, The Boston Globe and over 100 other media outlets. Chris is also an editor at Threadwatch and a moderator at Cre8asite’s Social Media forum. Chris lives in New York with his wife (and 10e20 co-founder) and their blue Shar-Pei Charlie.

Danielle is the co-founder of 10e20. In addition to being Charlie the Puppy’s mom, she leads the project management team here. Her job requires her to do a “little bit of everything”, but mainly she is responsible for taking someone’s vision and translating into specs that programmers and designers can use to make it a real tangible website, that accomplishes a company’s goals on the web.

Who is 10e20?

We are an Internet marketing and web development company based in New York & Florida. We work with clients ranging from well-defined start-ups to enterprises such as Virgin Vacations, Coldwell Banker, NYU and Learn.com. We have developed many of our own platforms (e-commerce, tracking, real estate) and use them to complement our marketing and development services for our clients. Our primary focus on the marketing side is search engine optimization, public relations and social media marketing.

How did you get started?

Entrepreneur Magazine did a great article on us that tells the story really well – check it out here

Why a blog?

We write so much internally to each other everyday and we felt that this blog would be a good way to share our views, experiences and ideas with the rest of the world.

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