The Seminar I have been developing a Personal Marketing Strategies Seminar and Workshop with my friend Jeff Martinez.  We met through a Social Network group called Professional Resource Network.  The seminar covers important steps everyone should consider before and during the development of their Personal Brand and then covers the aspects of Personal Marketing your Brand. Why we did it I never thought I would be teaching a class on Personal Marketing or Personal Branding.  In our group we saw a need to get our members up to speed on the subject of Personal Marketing and Personal...

The details are better at 600 dpi Yesterday in my post, Trouble with Fonts, I shared about all the problems I was experienced with the embroidery setup.  Today I brought in the desired logo image as a GIF image.  Unfortunately, the software didn’t like GIF images.  So, what kind did it like?  JPG format was the preferred format.  So,I brought in the right file format.  When the image was imported into the program it appeared to shrink from a very large size in the image file to 1/4 inch high.  The program had a difficult time trying to identify some of the characters. ...

My Personal Brand Over the past couple of days, I’ve been working on my Personal Brand.  Today, I was ready to commit my logo, domain name & twitter reference, to a local embroidery company.  I was hoping to get some shirts embroidered with the font you see here.  As I had mentioned yesterday, I had already spent a bit of time going through 117 variations.  We finally settled on this arrangement. A few days before, I had talked with one of the owners about the cost of embroidering.  The charge is usually by the number of stitches.  There was no mention of any issues with...

Making the background image was easy It wasn’t too hard to create my Twitter background.  I used Paint.Net with layers to create this one.  I loaded the main picture to the bottom layer.  In case you didn’t notice, this was an image from my recent hiking trip to Lake Chabot in Castro Valley.  I created a second layer for the text.  It took a little while to get the text to look the way I wanted it.  Then I saved it.  It took a few tries, because the first time, the picture wasn’t scaled properly.  I ended up with the focus being zoomed into the upper left part of...

First impressions say a lot about who you are. When people visit your site for the first time.  It needs to represent the look and feel of who you are. A while back I setup a Twitter account @mrwes.  At the time, I didn’t think that much about decorating it.  I had the default blue clouds theme.  That wasn’t too bad when I started, but lately I’ve noticed that everybody seems to have a customized background. Some of them are really cool. Suddenly, it seems like, the default theme looks like the sign of a newbie. I didn’t want to look like a newbie, so I used the...