Unusual Tattoos

Unusual Tattoo

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The Reason Why Women Love Men Who Blog (I Almost Hate to Share This, But I Will)

Who else wants to know why women tend to love men who blog? The simple truth is that women find men who blog extremely sexy.

Interestingly enough, I couldn’t get a date for the first 29 years on this planet. But ever since starting taking my proverbial pen to pixel a whole bunch of years back, my weekends are a smorgasbord of social activity and ferocious fun.

As a matter of fact, I’ll often ask women I’ll go out with what they find MOST sexy about me:

1. Could it be my super white teeth?
2. My cool collection of unique and interesting tattoos?
3. Or simply my unusually high IQ for a good looking person?

Surprisingly, while all of those qualities are obviously high on the list, (along with my impeccable manners and killer collection of cool cardigan sweaters) the fact that I’m a passionate advocate of creating copious amounts of creative content on a daily basis is without question #1.

Now listen: The above is obviously a bit tongue in cheek and a bit silly.

But the truth is, you can “feel” a great blog from a mile away. People who pour care, attention and affection into their work.

And while this IS work…..it is a labor of love for me.

I don’t care if I’m writing an affiliate blog whose primary purpose is to simply sell more stuff…..I attack it with the same attitude of trying to entertain.

To educate, inform and engage through the wild and wonderful world of words.

So, if you’re social life is pretty stunted otherwise, I’m going to share the reason why starting a blog may be the BEST investment you’ve made in not only you’re financial future…..but it could be an easy to become far more social to boot!

While blogs are a GREAT way to make a living (and the primary way I make my own) they can be an adventure in artistic expression at the very same time. Parlaying your purpose, and your passion…into PROFIT is a very engaging exercise.

Loving what you do is contagious

And the very best blogs are emblematic of that effort, energy and emotional investment.

And if you love to write, to create, to express, emote, enrage, enlighten or entertain….I can’t think of a better time (or better way) to do it! Your bank account will thank you for sure.

But if you’re like me and have a GREATER appreciation for the finer things in life, the best benefits are those you can’t measure with paper.

Dre Demands Respect

Dre Demands Respect

WAYS TO START YOUR OWN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIC BUSINESS! (Part Seven)

Your own digital, photography based, home business could start here. . .

*  HOLIDAY PHOTOS.  Holiday photos can be sold to holiday companies, or agents who supply holiday companies. I am presuming here that you have some skill with a camera, but don’t think you have to be a pro. If the shot is unusual or humerous, some degree of imperfection can be corrected or overlooked. A lot more instant capture, on the run stills and videos are making it onto the front page, or tv screen now as advertisers try to get more ‘real’. Also remember there is quite an industry surrounding the holiday companies too, car hire, golf courses, hotels, to name a few. Always have your camera ready and don’t discard that shot out of the plane window too quickly. Someone may want it, the inflight magazine for example.

*  BROCHURES.  Brochures are everywhere for every type of business. With your computer you can not only provide the pictures, but the rest of the brochure. Brochures, flyers, business cards are all commonplace business promotional items, but what about specialising? Become the brochure king in your area, with not only competitive prices, but extra personal service, do a bit more than your competition and see the difference.

*  STOOLS.  I’m not talking animal droppings here! But stools you sit on, in your kitchen, at a fast food outlet. You can easily personalise them, or make them into a great promotional item for bars, restaurants and burger joints. You can either supply the graphic for them to apply, or source some stools of your own and offer the complete finished product. This would offer you more room for profit.

*  TRAYS.  You have probably seen stacks of trays in cafeteria style eating places which are just plain brown. Isn’t that a great place for a message? Special offers, or to reinforce the company message. Care homes, day centres, how many trays do you think are out there?

*  VIDEO COVERS.  I know we are all into dvd’s now, but videos still exist! Video outlets, second hand video outlets  wedding videos, personal collections, promotions, there are millions of kids videos out there who have lost their covers. Investigate the market, someone will.

*  VASES.  These are great for adding photographs to, both inside and out, just takes some imagination. How many plain vases do you see. Look in a flower shop, they need something extra, that excites and entices the people in, not to say promotes the shop as well.

*  PENS.  Pens are amongst the cheapest items to use as promotional items. They can be given away by the box full, for less than a short newspaper ad. And carry on working long after. Pens with pictures on invite further investigation than ones with just words. How many words does a picture paint?

*  DOOR KNOB HANGERS.  You know the ones you hang on hotel room doors, do not disturb and the like. There’s a big market right there, B&B’s, office blocks, millions of doors out there. Not to mention doors in the home, ‘keep out’ with a scary photo of little angel!

*  CEREAL BOXES.  You can get printed well known cereal boxes with your own photo on. Hotels and guest houses again spring to mind, but what about in the home, to help the kids eat up those healthy cereals?

*  FINGERNAIL DECALS.  This is a great one on its own, but would go even better with temporary tattoos. Can be sold with a general image on, or maybe on behalf of a manufacturer. Personalised ones could be offered by mail, or with a booth in a shopping centre. You decide.

This is just to get your creative juices going and your brain storming with ideas! The internet has opened up a never ending need for images, of anything and everything. Stock photography has changed, gone are the highly professional, large format shots of models and beaches, that had to be technically perfect, well they are not gone, but they are not the only opportunities for aspiring photographers who want to make a living with their hobby, their passion. Images that you would’nt believe started life as a photograph end up everywhere these days and the ability to transform these images is available to everyone, and in the comfort of their own home.

Don’t forget a lot of well known high street businesses started life on a kitchen table, why not yours?

Download It’s Complicated Full Movie

Download It’s Complicated Full Movie

Jane’s (Streep), a divorced woman well past forty, the mother of three exemplary children, gradually seizes age melancholia. Ex-husband (Baldwin) has got a young tanned brunette (Bell) with terrible tattoos, kids go home and colleges. And Jane is going to meet in his old age is too spacious for a single house. Which is also twice as increase efforts of gray-haired skromnyagi architect (Martin). But here – an unexpected encounter with former husband: reminisce the past, drank, danced, laughed, hooked up, then more sleep. And yet the architect insisted showing signs of attention. Jane from such a turbulent life a little lost at first, but after consulting with her analyst and her three friends (having lost the second half of the movie) to go into all serious.

Everyone and everything here is so at their usual places, which quite boring. And it is not in the four girlfriends who get together for the glass of red whisper about their sexual successes and challenges. And not reasonably psychoanalyst. Predictable and boring here in the first place, the title trio. Steve Martin on autopilot giving a charming spoon. Alec Baldwin, obviously unusual feel to the primary role, a good half of the movie plays gorilla – its outputs to the same are usually accompanied by a demonstration of hairy chest. Supervise them, of course, Meryl Streep, a great actress, recently too often at the mercy of people who believe that it is very funny – get a great actress airs in the interiors of a feminine novel. Meryl Streep flirting: “It turns out that I still slut.” Meryl Streep hugging the toilet. Meryl Streep whispers: “I love cum. Female audience closer to the 50 enthusiastic, though another such comedy benefit, and the actress Meryl Streep is really interested only in fifty years of women in crisis. Meryl seems to be very happy, she really enjoys, and shows that her companions did not really need – flirt feebly, joking like a fun, lazy jealous. Silly, perhaps, cursing movie, the moral message is limited to a pair of folk proverbs, especially that of just movies there is always the target audience.

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The Value of Strong Branding

Branding is the process of creating distinctive and durable perceptions in the minds of consumers. A brand is a persistent, unique business identity intertwined with associations of personality, quality, origin, liking and more. Here’s why the effort to brand your company or yourself pays off.

1. Memorability. A brand serves as a convenient container for a reputation and good will. It’s hard for customers to go back to “that whatsitsname store” or to refer business to “the plumber from the Yellow Pages.” In addition to an effective company name, it helps when people have material reminders reinforcing the identity of companies they will want to do repeat business with: refrigerator magnets, tote bags, datebooks, coasters, key rings, first aid kits, etc.

Memorability can come from using and sticking with an unusual color combination (FedEx’s purple and orange), distinctive behavior (the gas station whose attendants literally run to clean your windshield), or with an individual, even a style of clothing (Author Tom Wolfe’s white suits). Develop your own identifiers and nail them to your company name in the minds of your public.

2. Loyalty. When people have a positive experience with a memorable brand, they’re more likely to buy that product or service again than competing brands. People who closely bond with a brand identity are not only more likely to repurchase what they bought, but also to buy related items of the same brand, to recommend the brand to others and to resist the lure of a competitor’s price cut. The brand identity helps to create and to anchor such loyalty.

Consider the legions of car owners who travel up to 2,000 miles at their own expense to attend a Saturn celebration at the company’s plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. That’s loyalty. And supposedly, more people have the motorcycle brand “Harley-Davidson” tattooed on their body than any other brand name. That’s out-of-this-world loyalty.

3. Familiarity. Branding has a big effect on non-customers too. Psychologists have shown that familiarity induces liking. Consequently, people who have never done business with you but have encountered your company identity sufficient times may become willing to recommend you even when they have no personal knowledge of your products or services. Seeing your ads on local buses, having your pen on their desk, reading about you in the Hometown News, they spread the word for you when a friend or colleague asks if they know a ____ and that’s what you do.

4. Premium image, premium price. Branding can lift what you sell out of the realm of a commodity, so that instead of dealing with price-shoppers you have buyers eager to pay more for your goods than for those of competitors. Think of some people’s willingness to buy the currently “in” brand of bottled water, versus toting along an unlabeled bottle of the same stuff filled from the office water cooler.

The distinctive value inherent in a brand can even lead people to dismiss evidence they would normally use to make buying decisions. I once saw one middle-aged Cambridge, Massachusetts, intellectual argue to several colleagues that Dunkin’ Donuts’ coffee tastes better than Starbucks’. So contradictory was this claim to the two companies’ reputations for this demographic group that the colleagues refused to put the matter to a taste test.

5. Extensions. With a well-established brand, you can spread the respect you’ve earned to a related new product, service or location and more easily win acceptance of the newcomer. For instance, when a winery with a good reputation starts up regional winery tours, then adds foreign ones, each business introduction benefits from the positive perceptions already in place.

6. Greater company equity. Making your company into a brand usually means that you can get more money for the company when you decide to sell it. A Coca-Cola executive once said that if all the company’s facilities and inventory vanished all around the world, he could walk into any bank and take out a loan based only on the right to the Coca-Cola name and formula.

7. Lower marketing expenses. Although you must invest money to create a brand, once it’s created you can maintain it without having to tell the whole story about the brand every time you market it. For instance, a jingle people in your area have heard a zillion times continues to promote the company when it’s played without any words.

8. For consumers, less risk. When someone feels under pressure to make a wise decision, he or she tends to choose the brand-name supplier over the no-name one. As the saying goes, “You’ll never be fired for buying IBM.” By building a brand, you fatten your bottom line.

About Wearing Funny T Shirts

It is not unusual to pass a stranger wearing a shirt with some type of funny slogan, picture, or catchphrase. Funny t-shirts are everywhere. One would have to wonder if the individual just loved the shirt, or actually wants passers-by to stop and take a look. But wouldn’t it be wrong to stop and stare at someone’s chest for the amount of time required to process the humor?

People can express their individuality in a variety of ways: a political-themed bumper sticker on their car, an outrageous purple mohawk, tattoos, or body piercings, to name a few. A little less extreme, but still unique way to do this is with a funny t-shirt. Any type of message can be seen: “My parents went to the Bahamas and all I got was this lousy t-shirt;” “This is my drinking shirt;” “If you can read this, you’re too close.” Is it a ploy to garner extra attention, or simply a means of expressing a sense of humor that might not otherwise be perceived by a chance meeting with a cashier at the market? Or is it something else? Perhaps an underground movement, one that is simply defying conformity. “We aren’t going to wear a plain old boring pocket tee.”

In the meantime, we will all keep crossing paths with the wearers of these funny t-shirts, and wondering if they notice that our eyes linger just a little longer, trying to catch a glimpse of the message that is sure to leave us smiling as we walk away.