Get In Line.

In case you hadn’t noticed: “Get In Line” is the slogan for Millennial Genie. I started this site as a side project. I started this for a weird reason. I was on a marketing team and I was their unique snowflake of a social media manager. I wanted to be the best and my ears were on fire whenever anyone was walking around the office using the F-word (Facebook).

In order to get on my high horse and become the social media Jedi that I dreamed of – I presumed that I needed to be overly confident in anything remotely related to any social media tool, platform, you name it.
So one quiet Tuesday afternoon, I got the idea that if I had my own Facebook page and business manager to play around with, then surely enough, doing so, would grow my confidence, improve my knowledge and overall become really amazing at social media. Naive as I always am – I scratched up the name “Millennial Genie” out of thin air, and made a Facebook page called this. Next step, I set up business manager. Onward to getting Twitter and Instagram profiles set up.

Meanwhile, the deluded snowflake that I was, as it turns out, YEH – social media is a mission and a half when you have literally nothing to sell, nowhere to lead them to, nothing to share, and nowhere to nag them to go. ENTER CENTER STAGE – WWW.MILLENNIALGENIE.COM.

I googled “how to make a website”, “how to buy a domain”. Kindly enough the SEO guy on our marketing team helped me set the whole thing up. The most simplistic version of course. I tried to navigate the skeletal outline, played with the designs a bunch of times, and generally pasted the links for all the main pages, plastering it all over the according social media.

Then I kinda hit a huge hurdle. What the hell is the point of a website, social media pages, without each other? Now that I look at Facebook – there’s a mere handful, I can literally count them on my hands, of what pages and groups that I follow, that aren’t selling or advertising something.

I didn’t intend to sell anything from my blog or my Facebook page. I pondered about Shopify. A few times, I thought about making my bio/about pages/sections with a more sellers vibe  – coming across more as a freelance blogger/content writer – essentially to showcase my work as some kind of accomplishment. I’d go for interviews and needed something to show them, that I am productive and successful in what I do. I have very little to show them. This blog – if you can even call it that – sells itself on just a handful of things. The quirky cheesy headlines (Thanks Kanye). The overdose of Canva pictures. The stifling usage of the word millennial and hipster crammed in as many times as possible.

Let’s get back on track. Why did I choose “Get In Line” as the slogan? I thought it would suggest that non-existent clients would wanna place orders for my non existent product. I liked the idea that they’d want something I was willing to create. I also liked the idea of being in high demand regardless of what it was I was supposed to be creating.

I’ll  finish with some pop culture references.

“War Dogs” Jonah Hill comes across as though he is all hot and that whatever he is selling to the U.S government, they want to buy under the table. Bradley Cooper calls U.S  a dump and can’t wait to get out of there. Jonah Hill thinks he’s talking about Vegas. I’ve been where I’m at for 4 years. I cannot imagine where Bradley Cooper in War Dogs was thinking about, that wasn’t a dump. My goal is to find out so that I can live somewhere that the rest of the world should think they are missing out on. I’d like to think that this Millennial Genie will grant me a wish in doing so. Off to Google some War Dogs quotes!