1 00:00:00,310 --> 00:00:01,890 Hi, and welcome to The Treehouse Show. 2 00:00:01,890 --> 00:00:04,957 The Treehouse Show is our weekly conversation with the Treehouse community. 3 00:00:10,292 --> 00:00:13,620 In this episode, we'll be talking with content marketer, 4 00:00:13,620 --> 00:00:17,940 dog lover, and invisible trumpet player, Eden Neuendorf. 5 00:00:17,940 --> 00:00:19,430 Thank you so much for being on the show, Eden. 6 00:00:19,430 --> 00:00:20,490 >> Thanks for having me. 7 00:00:20,490 --> 00:00:25,375 >> You are sort of the master of the behind the scenes of Treehouse, 8 00:00:25,375 --> 00:00:28,823 and I am so excited to ask you some questions. 9 00:00:28,823 --> 00:00:29,797 >> Okay, let's do it. 10 00:00:29,797 --> 00:00:33,402 >> What's going on right now behind the scenes? 11 00:00:33,402 --> 00:00:38,960 >> So I've started a project, it's called Quirky Holidays. 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:39,870 >> Quirky Holidays. 13 00:00:39,870 --> 00:00:43,700 >> And I've done some research over the last, for 14 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:47,270 the coming eight months of Quirky Holidays. 15 00:00:47,270 --> 00:00:48,320 >> Such as? 16 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,770 >> Like National Dance Day, for example, is one that we've already done. 17 00:00:51,770 --> 00:00:55,348 So holidays that are kind of fun and may be relevant to Treehouse, 18 00:00:55,348 --> 00:00:56,531 [LAUGH] and what we do. 19 00:00:56,531 --> 00:01:01,090 But sometimes not, just because I will choose things that I just wanna see. 20 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:02,617 Like National Tell a Joke Day, 21 00:01:02,617 --> 00:01:05,095 I just wanna see a bunch of people tell some jokes. 22 00:01:05,095 --> 00:01:06,635 >> Right. 23 00:01:06,635 --> 00:01:08,827 >> So yeah, I've been working on that. 24 00:01:08,827 --> 00:01:14,227 Some fun social content that shows what we do here at Treehouse, 25 00:01:14,227 --> 00:01:21,280 and it shows people who work at Treehouse, which a lot of our followers like to see. 26 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,230 >> How do you know what people want to see? 27 00:01:24,230 --> 00:01:28,570 >> Well, we just did a survey across all of our three platforms, 28 00:01:28,570 --> 00:01:31,334 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 29 00:01:31,334 --> 00:01:35,118 Just to get a sense of what our audience likes, why they follow us, 30 00:01:35,118 --> 00:01:38,735 what they wanna see more of, what they might wanna see less of. 31 00:01:38,735 --> 00:01:44,183 So for Instagram specifically, they really loved behind the scenes photos and 32 00:01:44,183 --> 00:01:46,469 company culture-type things. 33 00:01:46,469 --> 00:01:51,343 And so we've kind of been really embracing that as we move forward. 34 00:01:51,343 --> 00:01:52,320 >> Okay, cool. 35 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,999 If somebody didn't get that survey, 36 00:01:53,999 --> 00:01:57,413 how would they get a hold of you to let you know what they'd like to see more of? 37 00:01:57,413 --> 00:02:00,590 >> Yeah, anybody can definitely always tweet at us. 38 00:02:00,590 --> 00:02:03,225 Or send us a direct message on Twitter or Instagram. 39 00:02:03,225 --> 00:02:04,550 Or comment on our photos. 40 00:02:04,550 --> 00:02:05,410 >> Okay, and you get those? 41 00:02:05,410 --> 00:02:05,960 >> Yeah. 42 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:07,188 >> Okay, awesome, cool. 43 00:02:07,188 --> 00:02:10,642 >> We have a small team of people who [LAUGH] respond to those, but 44 00:02:10,642 --> 00:02:13,624 that's one of the fun parts about doing marketing, 45 00:02:13,624 --> 00:02:16,636 is that I get to interact with students all the time. 46 00:02:16,636 --> 00:02:20,455 >> Right, I would imagine that by now, students are thinking, 47 00:02:20,455 --> 00:02:23,107 I've heard that voice some place before. 48 00:02:23,107 --> 00:02:24,455 Can you show them why? 49 00:02:25,965 --> 00:02:29,670 >> Here's the news from Treehouse for the week of August 18th. 50 00:02:29,670 --> 00:02:30,392 >> That's you. 51 00:02:30,392 --> 00:02:31,288 >> That's me. 52 00:02:31,288 --> 00:02:32,546 >> So you do voice over? 53 00:02:32,546 --> 00:02:34,651 >> I do voice over, yeah. 54 00:02:34,651 --> 00:02:38,095 I have an acting degree actually, theater performance. 55 00:02:38,095 --> 00:02:39,066 >> Cool. 56 00:02:39,066 --> 00:02:41,850 >> But yeah, I do some voice over stuff as well. 57 00:02:41,850 --> 00:02:42,370 >> Awesome. 58 00:02:42,370 --> 00:02:43,440 >> Yeah. 59 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,320 >> Okay, so you do all that content marketing, so 60 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,984 you must have a technical background then. 61 00:02:48,984 --> 00:02:49,756 >> Nope. No? 62 00:02:49,756 --> 00:02:50,571 >> Not at all. 63 00:02:50,571 --> 00:02:51,179 >> Not at all. 64 00:02:51,179 --> 00:02:53,530 >> No. >> How do you do that then? 65 00:02:54,810 --> 00:02:57,240 >> Well, so, I actually, like I said before, 66 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,620 I have a degree in theater performance. 67 00:02:59,620 --> 00:03:00,590 >> Right. 68 00:03:00,590 --> 00:03:04,386 >> And prior to working at Treehouse, I worked for a children's theater company. 69 00:03:04,386 --> 00:03:08,915 I produced theater and cast adults in children's theater plays. 70 00:03:08,915 --> 00:03:12,795 So I guess I wouldn't say that's technical at all. 71 00:03:12,795 --> 00:03:15,145 I mean, in other ways, in theatrical ways. 72 00:03:15,145 --> 00:03:18,528 >> So how did you start here at Treehouse, what did you do? 73 00:03:18,528 --> 00:03:22,551 >> So I started off as the office assistant here actually. 74 00:03:22,551 --> 00:03:25,100 And I found myself wanting to do a lot more work. 75 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:27,102 I really loved being the office assistant. 76 00:03:27,102 --> 00:03:28,124 >> You were awesome, by the way. 77 00:03:28,124 --> 00:03:32,650 >> Thank you, I love making people happy, and I love organizing things. 78 00:03:32,650 --> 00:03:35,553 But I found myself wanting to do more and wanting to learn more about Treehouse. 79 00:03:35,553 --> 00:03:38,167 And because it was such a new field for me, 80 00:03:38,167 --> 00:03:40,944 I wanted to know as much as I possibly could. 81 00:03:40,944 --> 00:03:43,440 Cuz the more I know about a company, the more I can be helpful. 82 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:44,770 >> So how did you do that? 83 00:03:44,770 --> 00:03:49,311 >> I just started reaching out to all departments and constantly bugging people, 84 00:03:49,311 --> 00:03:52,171 [LAUGH] saying hey, can I help you with something? 85 00:03:52,171 --> 00:03:53,716 I could do this. 86 00:03:53,716 --> 00:03:57,498 And then as I started slowly building trust with a lot of people in the company, 87 00:03:57,498 --> 00:04:01,375 cuz of course, most of the company was remote, so they didn't really know me. 88 00:04:01,375 --> 00:04:04,699 And so, as I built trust, I got more projects and 89 00:04:04,699 --> 00:04:09,160 really found things that I could use my skills for, that I enjoy, 90 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,665 which is how I ended up in this marketing position. 91 00:04:12,665 --> 00:04:14,609 >> But how do you do the technical stuff? 92 00:04:14,609 --> 00:04:16,960 >> I watch a lot of Treehouse videos. 93 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,285 >> [LAUGH] That's awesome, talk about dog fitting. 94 00:04:20,285 --> 00:04:25,594 >> Yeah, I know, so part of my job on the marketing team is to do course marketing. 95 00:04:25,594 --> 00:04:26,852 And so in order to do that, 96 00:04:26,852 --> 00:04:31,340 I wanna understand what the course is about that I'm marketing, obviously. 97 00:04:31,340 --> 00:04:35,800 So I watch a lot of courses to get a sense, to pull screenshots from it, 98 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,460 and just so that I can better come up with 99 00:04:39,460 --> 00:04:42,610 ideas to push that course marketing even further. 100 00:04:42,610 --> 00:04:45,146 I've taken the digital literacy course. 101 00:04:45,146 --> 00:04:48,555 That's where I started, and so I learned a lot of the basics, 102 00:04:48,555 --> 00:04:50,991 which really is helpful to me to have a base. 103 00:04:50,991 --> 00:04:53,330 Because before that, I didn't have anything. 104 00:04:53,330 --> 00:04:55,130 So that way, when I'm talking with people, 105 00:04:55,130 --> 00:04:59,070 I'm slowly getting little pieces of information here and there and 106 00:04:59,070 --> 00:05:03,710 starting to build an idea of coding and the things we do. 107 00:05:03,710 --> 00:05:06,591 >> That's awesome, did you get ideas for coding when you were doing that? 108 00:05:06,591 --> 00:05:09,780 >> I did, actually, because I do a lot of improv. 109 00:05:11,050 --> 00:05:15,120 And so I came up with an idea for an improv app, and so 110 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,446 I took the how to build a website course and designed my improv app. 111 00:05:20,446 --> 00:05:21,175 And so- >> Nice. 112 00:05:21,175 --> 00:05:22,480 >> Now I am taking- >> What does it do? 113 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,702 >> It generates suggestions. 114 00:05:24,702 --> 00:05:25,521 >> Like from the audience. 115 00:05:25,521 --> 00:05:30,052 >> Yeah, so if you're rehearsing with your improv group at home, instead of having 116 00:05:30,052 --> 00:05:34,398 someone come up with suggestions, you don't necessarily have an audience. 117 00:05:34,398 --> 00:05:36,820 You can just press a button, and it will give you a suggestion. 118 00:05:36,820 --> 00:05:43,120 >> Awesome, one of our popular Instagram hashtags is officedog. 119 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:44,020 >> That is true. 120 00:05:44,020 --> 00:05:46,536 >> We happen to have a very cute office dog. 121 00:05:46,536 --> 00:05:47,145 >> We do. 122 00:05:47,145 --> 00:05:49,415 >> And you happen to have a very cute home dog. 123 00:05:49,415 --> 00:05:50,281 [LAUGH] >> That's true, 124 00:05:50,281 --> 00:05:51,277 he's actually one and the same. 125 00:05:51,277 --> 00:05:55,810 [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] Can we share? 126 00:05:55,810 --> 00:05:56,620 >> My #homedog? 127 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:57,797 >> Yeah, #homedog. 128 00:05:57,797 --> 00:05:59,015 [LAUGH] >> Sure. 129 00:05:59,015 --> 00:06:02,600 >> [LAUGH] Man, he is so cute. 130 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,680 And he really kinda takes over Instagram, doesn't he? 131 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,710 >> Yeah, yeah, he really does. 132 00:06:08,710 --> 00:06:10,890 >> What do students wanna see more of? 133 00:06:10,890 --> 00:06:12,380 Lubbock. >> Yeah, always. 134 00:06:12,380 --> 00:06:13,640 >> He's such a- >> Cute dogs, 135 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,390 our followers definitely like cute animals. 136 00:06:15,390 --> 00:06:18,322 >> Right, and he's so good to have around the office. 137 00:06:18,322 --> 00:06:20,270 He brings so much joy to the office. 138 00:06:20,270 --> 00:06:25,520 He's running around, he does an amazing little circus trick. 139 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:26,720 >> I think you taught him that. 140 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:27,408 >> Yeah? >> Yeah, yeah, 141 00:06:27,408 --> 00:06:28,672 I don't think he ever did that before. 142 00:06:28,672 --> 00:06:29,807 >> We'll do that after we're done here. 143 00:06:29,807 --> 00:06:31,995 >> Yeah, he loves coming to the office. 144 00:06:31,995 --> 00:06:33,897 It's his favorite thing in the world. 145 00:06:33,897 --> 00:06:36,534 >> [LAUGH] And you walk him home, and you're dragging him, and 146 00:06:36,534 --> 00:06:37,602 he's like this [LAUGH]. 147 00:06:37,602 --> 00:06:39,309 >> He's like, I don't wanna go. 148 00:06:39,309 --> 00:06:42,386 There's so many people here that will give me treats and attention. 149 00:06:42,386 --> 00:06:43,966 >> [LAUGH] >> Tell me how great I am. 150 00:06:43,966 --> 00:06:45,551 [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] 151 00:06:45,551 --> 00:06:46,688 >> I mean, who doesn't want that? 152 00:06:46,688 --> 00:06:50,250 I'd wanna stay at a place that did that. 153 00:06:50,250 --> 00:06:51,424 Are you gonna get on the table? 154 00:06:51,424 --> 00:06:52,721 >> He's gonna get up there. 155 00:06:52,721 --> 00:06:55,794 So you're not miced, so if you have anything to say, I don't know. 156 00:06:55,794 --> 00:06:56,403 Aw. 157 00:06:56,403 --> 00:06:59,117 >> [LAUGH] >> Aw, that's really nice, 158 00:06:59,117 --> 00:07:00,456 but I never get this close. 159 00:07:00,456 --> 00:07:02,848 >> [LAUGH] His breath is really gross right now. 160 00:07:02,848 --> 00:07:05,940 [LAUGH] >> What do you think? 161 00:07:05,940 --> 00:07:08,050 Sometimes, he comes up to you at your desk. 162 00:07:08,050 --> 00:07:09,531 He's got that relationship with you, now. 163 00:07:09,531 --> 00:07:11,815 >> Yeah, we're bros. 164 00:07:11,815 --> 00:07:12,708 >> He's like, it's time. 165 00:07:12,708 --> 00:07:16,719 >> So, one thing that I would like to point out is that he is very much like 166 00:07:16,719 --> 00:07:20,009 a Love Dragon for him and Rick's story. 167 00:07:20,009 --> 00:07:21,270 >> Yes, yeah. 168 00:07:21,270 --> 00:07:22,567 >> And an Ewok. 169 00:07:22,567 --> 00:07:27,305 >> And an Ewok, yeah, right now, in terms of his grooming, 170 00:07:27,305 --> 00:07:34,197 he's a little more on the Ewok side of the scale, further away from the Love Dragon. 171 00:07:34,197 --> 00:07:38,168 But I'm sure our followers have seen all versions of him. 172 00:07:38,168 --> 00:07:43,463 >> [LAUGH] Okay, I'll clean my face off a little bit cuz 173 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:48,524 I don't know if there's dog food on it, [LAUGH]. 174 00:07:48,524 --> 00:07:49,900 That's amazing. >> He loves you. 175 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:51,560 >> So sweet. 176 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,509 That was a very nice Lubbock kiss, that was nice. 177 00:07:53,509 --> 00:07:55,049 >> Good job, Lubbock, you are a star. 178 00:07:55,049 --> 00:08:02,327 >> [LAUGH] So people now know that the office dog is your home dog. 179 00:08:02,327 --> 00:08:07,129 But what's something that they wouldn't know about you just from following us on 180 00:08:07,129 --> 00:08:08,041 social media? 181 00:08:08,041 --> 00:08:14,720 >> Well, I'm an actress, so everybody knows that, but also, I play the trumpet. 182 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:15,510 >> The trumpet? 183 00:08:15,510 --> 00:08:17,142 >> I do, yes. 184 00:08:17,142 --> 00:08:19,331 >> Okay, in what form? 185 00:08:19,331 --> 00:08:22,675 >> Well, I've actually played it a couple times in shows that I've done. 186 00:08:22,675 --> 00:08:23,235 >> Really? 187 00:08:23,235 --> 00:08:24,655 >> So I was acting in the show, and 188 00:08:24,655 --> 00:08:28,275 I've also got to play my trumpet in it, which was pretty cool. 189 00:08:28,275 --> 00:08:30,295 >> Like dun dun dun, here comes the king? 190 00:08:30,295 --> 00:08:35,107 >> No, I was actually in the band on stage for a musical. 191 00:08:35,107 --> 00:08:37,328 But I was also a character in the play, and so 192 00:08:37,328 --> 00:08:40,885 I was actively living this character life while playing the trumpet. 193 00:08:40,885 --> 00:08:44,627 Which was kinda cool to figure out how that character would play it. 194 00:08:44,627 --> 00:08:49,290 >> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, [LAUGH] I really love jazz music. 195 00:08:49,290 --> 00:08:53,541 So I kind of had this really secret dream to just play trumpet in a jazz band. 196 00:08:53,541 --> 00:08:56,680 And I feel like I'd be pretty happy doing that. 197 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:57,490 >> Nice. >> Yeah. 198 00:08:57,490 --> 00:08:58,070 >> Awesome. 199 00:08:58,070 --> 00:09:00,360 >> Yeah. >> So, as an improv actress, 200 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,540 this should be okay to do, I was wondering if maybe you could close out the show 201 00:09:05,790 --> 00:09:09,140 doing a trumpet impersonation, maybe a little theme song, 202 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:11,700 what a trumpet might sound like. 203 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:12,436 Pretend you have a trumpet. 204 00:09:12,436 --> 00:09:16,791 >> [LAUGH] God, okay. 205 00:09:16,791 --> 00:09:22,056 [LAUGH] >> You're so brave. 206 00:09:22,056 --> 00:09:24,002 [LAUGH] >> I am brave. 207 00:09:24,002 --> 00:09:24,736 >> You are brave. 208 00:09:24,736 --> 00:09:25,305 >> I am brave. 209 00:09:25,305 --> 00:09:27,701 >> [LAUGH] >> I am brave, I am brave. 210 00:09:27,701 --> 00:09:37,701 [MUSIC] 211 00:09:39,589 --> 00:09:43,361 >> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] I felt so dumb. 212 00:09:43,361 --> 00:09:44,214 >> That's so good! 213 00:09:44,214 --> 00:09:46,445 >> [LAUGH] I felt so dumb. 214 00:09:46,445 --> 00:09:50,611 >> [LAUGH] You don't have to do that though. 215 00:09:50,611 --> 00:09:52,671 >> And now that's recorded forever. 216 00:09:52,671 --> 00:09:54,941 >> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] 217 00:10:01,911 --> 00:10:03,491 >> Thanks for watching the Treehouse Show. 218 00:10:03,491 --> 00:10:05,419 To reach out to the show, hit me up on Twitter or 219 00:10:05,419 --> 00:10:07,058 reach out in the Treehouse community. 220 00:10:07,058 --> 00:10:08,918 I'm gonna go give that dog a treat. 221 00:10:08,918 --> 00:10:10,257 Then make him dance.