Episode 875 – Charging Your Content – Seeing The Light

I have a problem. Well, it’s more of an annoyance. We have RING cameras on the front and back of our house. In order to see the widest possible views, they had to be placed up high. The more the cameras are accessed when a delivery comes or when the dog and I are in…

Episode 873 – Elevating Your Content – Topic, Title… Then Tool!

Do you own a lathe? If you do, chances are woodworking is your hobby or business. Do you own a 3D printer? If you do, chances are you are in the manufacturing or design fields. I don’t own either, but owning a 3D printer would be cool and give me status. But, I don’t know…

Episode 735 – How To Treat Your Content Like You Are An Artist? What’s Your Canvas?

Recently, we watched this documentary film where acclaimed French artist JR confronts prejudice and uplifts communities through larger-than-life art. He uses photography, and prints large murals and pastes them on buildings and landscapes. His art is stunning and visionary We are painting our home after 20 years. Our contractor John Monaghan is an artist. He…

Episode 530 – Foresight is 2020 – Use Technology To Create Memories and Pay It Forward

During the holidays, chances are you are spending time with family and friends. You have an opportunity… to create memory assets. There are many opportunities to capture moments, textures, images, video, and audio that can be used throughout the year and into the future. Phones today often have better technology than video and photo equipment…

Episode 492 – When It Comes To Social Graphics… It’s Hip To Be Square!

In 1986, “Back To The Future II” predicted what life would be like in 2015. They got a lot of things right, and some of them wrong, but it also missed a few KEY things while predicting the future… The Internet Mobile Phones People Would Still Be Reading Newspapers! The theme song was written by…

Episode 476 – How Great Graphics Will Help Your Content Get Noticed?

Images are integral to your content. When my wife broke the screen on her iPhone, I took it in to have the screen repairs. At the front of the store, there was a display case, with old broken screens lined up. I took a picture of it and posted it on Facebook and labeled it “The Boulevard of Broken Screens!”. Have you ever seen the image called, “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams”? What emotion does that conjure up in you?

Creating graphics is a skill. So is photography, design, layout and using software to enhance and optimize them. You can choose to do it yourself or hire an expert, but either way, you brand is depending on the quality, the emotion, and the use of those graphics.