My Business Card Journey Most people know they need a business card to help their contacts remember who they are and what they do.  Many times, they get the help from an online business card service like  www.vistaprint.com because it’s FREE or virtually free for their basic designs.  Usually, you end up paying more for some extras like double-sided printing, glossy finish, card stock, etc. My first batch of business cards I ever did was 250 personal business cards.  I started out with their standard template, then I customized it.  Some people might say I went a little overboard...

Many cameras today take Super High Quality or High Definition pictures. This is great for making posters, but not so good when you want to take a picture for a social profile. Most of us have received a great picture taken by a friend that is either too high definition or the picture orientation is rotated by 90 degrees. This post is a tutorial using Microsoft Office Picture Manager to resolve some common photo issues so you can use your photos with Social Networks like Facebook, LinkedIn. Fixing a rotated picture For obvious reasons, people don’t like rotating their heads to view a...

Over the last couple of weeks, I noticed that many people try to complete jobs by doing everything at once instead of breaking the job into smaller manageable tasks. Many times they get stuck trying to figure out where to start. Some people get so overwhelmed with trying to start that they end up procrastinating.  This is especially true if the job isn’t time-critical in their eyes. If they don’t procrastinate and start working on whatever part of the job they see, they might eventually complete the job. It hinges on the dependencies of the job. Seeing the big picture is good....

This weekend I was given the task of removing adhesive bathtub decals or stickers.  These stickers had been attached to the tub for at least 7 or 8 years since we moved into our current residence.  Who knows how long they were attached before we moved in.   The stickers weren’t peeling, they were just ugly and had to go.  So how do you remove stickers from a bathtub?  I have a tendency to google things like this, just because I can find many accounts of what other people have tried, what was suggested and what actually worked.  For me, it took only two tries to...

What’s on your USB drive?  Many people have their entire life on their USB drives – contracts, proposals, resume.  What would happen if your USB drive was destroyed or got into the wrong hands?  Many times each day we take our technology for granted.  That used to be the case with me until recently when I lost mine without knowing it.  Many USB drives have a little ring that attaches to your keyring.  It gives everybody a false sense of security.  It will stay on your keyring right?  Unfortunately, the stock ring they include with the Cruzer is not made to stand up to...

You’ve created a LinkedIn profile.  It’s looking pretty good you think, so you decide to pass on the profile to a friend for review.  They tell you, they didn’t find it.  Or it’s not displaying any information.  What do you do? Later in this post, I present two common problems that most people might encounter while sharing their LinkedIn profile address with someone else or even worse put it on a business card before confirming it works correctly. Scenario 1 The LinkedIn profile address looks something like this http://linkedin.com/in/mrwes.  They enter the...