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Customize a New Year’s Day Template to Share the Love

Andy Shore Andy Shore found his way to Benchmark when he replied to a job listing promising a job of half blogging, half social media. His parents still don’t believe that people get paid to do that. Since then, he’s spun his addiction to pop culture and passion for music into business and marketing posts that are the spoonful of sugar that helps the lessons go down. As the result of his boss not knowing whether or not to take him seriously, he also created the web series Ask Andy, which stars a cartoon version of himself. Despite being a cartoon, he somehow manages to be taken seriously by many of his readers ... and few of his coworkers.

December 29, 2010 2 min read

New Year’s Day is great. It’s a fresh start to a new year. Except for the morning after. That’s leftovers from last year. Hopefully it won’t last too long into the new year. This past New Year’s Day, the first day of 2010, was quite interesting for me. I had decided to move halfway across the country to California and pursue a new job only 3 months earlier. I was still rehabbing from a major injury and the surgeries that followed it. I still wasn’t sure if I had made the right decision. I was sure loving the weather, but most of my friends and family were back in Chicago.

I crawled, slowly, out of bed around 2:00 PM. It may sound like I slept in but that’s actually early compared to the New Year’s Days of years past. I made my way from my bed to the couch in the living room. My roommate was already out there watching TV. He mentioned that a program on HD Net had played several of the music videos the two of us had worked on (he directed, I produced).

We sat there together, watching five of our music videos play in a rotation that also featured Modest Mouse, Chickenfoot (Joe Satriani, members of Van Halen and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) and an all-star tribute song for Haiti. Granted, it’s not MTV or any Billboard Chart topping band, but it was something. It was a sign that things may just work out after all. We felt like we’d officially accomplished something. It was a great New Year’s Day. Yes, even despite the headache.

Welcome your subscribers to a fresh start and the New Year with a customized HTML email design for New Year’s Day. Share a favorite activity you participate in on the day, even if it’s just watching Bowl games, or a favorite snack recipe. Oh, and a Happy New Year!

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by Andy Shore

Andy Shore found his way to Benchmark when he replied to a job listing promising a job of half blogging, half social media. His parents still don’t believe that people get paid to do that. Since then, he’s spun his addiction to pop culture and passion for music into business and marketing posts that are the spoonful of sugar that helps the lessons go down. As the result of his boss not knowing whether or not to take him seriously, he also created the web series Ask Andy, which stars a cartoon version of himself. Despite being a cartoon, he somehow manages to be taken seriously by many of his readers ... and few of his coworkers.