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How to Find Copyright-Free Images For Your Blog Posts
Featured images for blog posts look great. Blog posts with featured images enhance visual appeal, increase clickthroughs, and augment the user experience on your blog. (With clever use of titles and ALT tags on each image, you can even boost your SEO.) It is really easy to find images online, and downloading them is a snap. But many bloggers don’t know what images they are allowed to use, and penalties for copyright infringement keep some bloggers from using any images [...]
An Open Letter to Alec Baldwin: Farewell.
Dear Mr. Baldwin: We are strangers, and in a more just world, we would remain so. Your recent farewell to public life has, I hope, cauterized the exposure of your personal life to the public eye, and I thank you for making this change. Since this is farewell, allow me the monumental hubris to speak for the public. Let me open with this disclaimer: I am a fan of your work. You are eloquent, audacious, and strong. I know that [...]
High Five! Custom Image Design With Your Emails
Recently a friend of mine moved to Ojai, and I wanted to reach out and make an impression. So I decided to send him an Ace of Sales Email Greeting and give him an ‘Ojai Five.’ Making this customized image only took a few minutes. I’ll walk you through how to customize your own photos in 10 simple steps. 1. Take A Photo With Your Webcam Or with your smartphone. Or use a picture on Facebook. Just make sure to… 2. [...]
An Eternal Moment Onstage
For that one moment, I stretched far into the future. We stood in a circle, about fifteen people at the east corner of the room, holding opposition against a group twice the size of ours, standing far on the other side. We had been asked by the leaders of the Oregon chapter of the National Speakers Association to divide ourselves - if we thought face-to-face communication was more powerful, we were to go one side of the room, and if [...]
Sharpen your Prospecting Power with Ideal Client Profiles
Does your business run better with a shotgun? Or a laser? Lemme 'splain. When you want to hit something with a shotgun, you point it in a vague direction, and hope to hit something when you pull the trigger. With a laser, you have to be precise. Aiming at one specific point. Most small business owners have a scattershot method of promotion. They go 'blam, blam, blam' all over the place hoping to hit some customers, and sometimes, they do. Eventually, these shotgun entrepreneurs [...]
4 Free Mindmapping Tools
A new phase of your business, a new project, and a brainstorm walk into a bar. Things Get Messy. Organizing lots of ideas can be overwhelming, unless you get all the ideas onto one canvas, where you can review them all together. Once you can see everything in one place, it becomes much more manageable. Chalkboards have been used to splash ideas for centuries. Scribble on the wall, do your thinking, erase and repeat. Whiteboards are the modern equivalent for [...]