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I'm a Copywriter and SEO Specialist at a digital marketing agency in the heart of downtown Dallas.I can only speak for Dallas, but the best way to get your foot in the door is to start networking as soon as possible. AAF Dallas (http://aafdallas.org) has events almost every week and if you're under the age of 32, their young professionals program AD2 (http://aafdallas.org/ad2dallas/) has far more professionals in digital marketing than traditional marketing or advertising.If you want to know which agencies are in the area, just google "digital marketing dallas". The agencies who can do for themselves what they claim to do for clients will appear at the top of the results.If you want to work for a small agency that only does digital marketing, there are dozens and dozens of options around DFW. You could also aim for a bigger marketing agency or a more traditional agency (like The Richards Group) who has a digital department.Dallas Pros:Public transportation actually isn't too bad. I originally lived over an hour outside the city (without traffic) and the DART trains worked great. Now I live in Fort Worth and the TRE train is even better.There's a surprisingly young population downtown. Most of the older professionals spend their time in their cars or office buildings, so everyone you see walking around, going out to eat or having a social life outside the office is in the 20's and 30's age group.The city is beautiful. I love our skyline and the city really does try to stay nice.The city is bigger than it looks. If you're looking to get into digital marketing in Dallas, you don't have to look only in the downtown area. There are a ton of agencies spread across DFW. You could work on the outskirts of Dallas, in Fort Worth, in Las Colinas or pretty much anywhere around the metroplex.Dallas Cons:The city is brutal during the summer. The humidity is a nightmare (though if you choose Houston, the humidity is 10X worse) and parking is sparse and expensive. Chances are, you'll be walking everywhere. Bring sunscreen.There's a pretty sizable homeless population downtown.The traffic. Oh dear God, the traffic. The entire city is currently under construction (as are most of the surrounding suburbs). I suggest moving somewhere close to a train station, or within walking distance of your office building.

History is unkind to start-up professional sports ventures of any kind. While they’re the gold standards of their respective sports today, neither what we now recognize as Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association nor Major League Soccer were the first significant pro league in their sport; and in each case it took decades for their products to be recognized at the superior level they enjoy today.Where professional football is concerned, the NFL toiled in comparative obscurity well into the 1950’s, and really didn’t “hit it’s stride” until its 1966 merger agreement with the rival American Football League, resulting in what we now consider the modern version of the league.Since then, our society has changed in two respects when it comes to new pro sports leagues: we immediately judge something right out of the gate, and we also use MLB, NFL, NBA and/or NHL as the standard to compare them to from day one. That’s a hard, hard mindset to break.The World Football League couldn’t do it in 1974 (though, admittedly, it was an undercapitalized, bad business model from the outset). The United States Football League could have done it had they stayed their original course, but before the conclusion of their inaugural 1983 season they were on a path to self-destruction. The original XFL made the mistake of playing into that expectation rather than trying to downplay it, and the result was immediate, epic failure. The United Football League meanwhile downplayed expectations so far that when they began playing, no one bothered to pay them any attention at all.The AAF’s launch has been, in my estimation, a poor one. While they have a bevy of “football people” within their leadership and management, it was evident from the outset they didn’t have true business or promotional people. The decision - allegedly a very consciously made one - to announce AAF markets one at a time with a week or two spaced between them? That was a cringe-worthy move; one that was made worse by there being no infrastructure set up to immediately generate interest and/or revenue within those markets… the best the AAF could do was to take $50 deposits on season tickets from prospective fans - but without announcing how much more of an investment than that initial $50 might be required.In studying leagues ranging from the National Association (1871) to the AAF and XFL, I’ve developed the theory that the best way to launch a league is to announce everything at once: “Hi… we’re the Interstate Football League. We’re going to begin play in March 2023 with teams in Boston, New York, Miami, New Orleans, Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Oakland. The contracts for the stadia in these cities have been signed, and here is exactly how you can buy season tickets. We will conduct ‘name the team’ contests for each of the clubs, which you can participate in right now by visiting us online at interstatefootball.com. Our first game will see our Los Angeles team take on New York at MetLife Stadium at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 5, 2023, and will be aired on the ESFSN1 Network, with whom we’ve reached agreement to broadcast one game each week. Our initial merchandise line is now available at iflstore.com, but once our team names are finalized you’ll find more great merchandise bearing our team’s names and logos.”In short? You line up all your ducks in a row before you announce your plans… or at least, as many of them as you possibly can. This gives you the ability to spend your time - from the day of that announcement to the day you start play - to publicity, selling, publicity, selling, publicity, selling, and then for good measure, more selling.The AAF didn’t do this, and last night (at the league’s debut games) the mistake in failing to do that was exposed: in the form of paid attendance figures in Orlando and San Antonio that were less than spectacular (approximately 21,000 in Orlando, and 18,000 in San Antonio if you deduct from the attendance figures the “comp’ed” tickets given to military service personnel in the area). It may not be a fatal flaw, but it was a noticeable one.Will the AAF be successful? I guess that will depend on what you define as a success. If your definition is that it becomes a permanent part of the sports landscape in North America? I’d say “no.” If it’s that it survives five years? I’d say “maybe, but not based on what I’ve seen thus far.” If your definition of success is that it’s going to lose a lot of money while it operates? Then yes… in that, I think they’ll succeed.

The November 27, 1941 “War Warning” specifically noted that rear areas in the Pacific, including Guam and Samoa (Hawaii was not notified), ensure that anti-sabotage measures be implemented. This was Alert Status 1. Sabotage was a long-time concern in the Hawaiian Department. Accordingly, Short implemented Alert Status 1, and reported to his superiors in DC that he had implemented it. That’s why his aircraft weren’t dispersed, and were parked “wingtip to wingtip” on the morning of the attack-so that they could be guarded. One part of his defense was that he performed in accordance with his instructions.Other parts of his defense couldn’t be mentioned -due to being classified-and therefore neither he nor Kimmel were able to publicly raise a key defense: they weren’t receiving all available intelligence, including information available from the broken JN-19 “Purple” diplomatic codes. He, like Kimmel, was not receiving Magic decrypts of Japanese diplomatic traffic, including a full picture of the virtual severance off relations after November 29. He was deprived of vital intelligence concerning specific interest of the Japanese toward Pearl, and specific information available (but lost in the DC rivalries) as to the importance of December 7, and 8:00 am local time.Short also had legitimate issues concerning the diversion of assets. The AAF on Hawaii had limited resources, the bulk of modern aircraft (B-17’s and P-40’s primarily) being sent on to the Philippines. As a practical matter, the combined AAF and Navy aircraft were insufficient to carry out 360 degree long-range recon.Gen. Short was driving an intensive training program for his forces. Unfortunately, that we not necessarily consistent with the mission of defending the islands, and the fleet while in Harbor. There was a lack of clarity and division of tasks in that respect, and in my mind, Gen. Short’s biggest shortcoming was his failure to properly establish defined liaison and task division with the Navy, particularly with respect to reconnaissance.Under the circumstances, particularly the absence of intelligence information, Gen. Short was made a bit of a scapegoat.