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nbaoffseason: While Kobe’s taking a helicopter to games, LeBron’s riding his bike. via @Suga_Shane dude looks like he’s on a toddler size bike.  I think Bron needs a bigger set of wheels!

nbaoffseason:

While Kobe’s taking a helicopter to games, LeBron’s riding his bike.

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@Suga_Shane

dude looks like he’s on a toddler size bike.  I think Bron needs a bigger set of wheels!


Ok people, here are the steps to getting social media linking icons in your email signature!  I have gmail so, if you use something else it might be slightly varied.  Here we go! STEP 1:  Get your icons you want to use.  I think the best site for finding icons is iconarchive.com Go there and search out your icons. STEP 2: Once you find your icon and the size you want (they show you varying sizes) click the size you want.  It will take you to a page just with the icon and nothing else copy the URL that is at the top of your screen. STEP 3: Go into your email account and click on the icon in the top right area that looks like a gear. A drop down menu will appear and you will select settings.   STEP 4: Scroll down to almost the end of the page to where it says Signature and what looks like the body of a regular email. Once you’re there click on the icon that looks similar to picture of a mountain.  STEP 5: A window will open asking for the image URL.  Now is when you right click into they typing space of that window and paste in the URL that you copied from Step 2.  The icon should appear in the space below where you’ve just been typing. Click OK. Step 6: The icon is now in your email signature, all you have to do now is link it to whatever social media site it is representing.  To do that you take your cursor and highlight the little icon and click the picture that looks like a chain link (up by where you found the little mountain looking icon in Step 4). Step 7:  After clicking the chain link icon it will ask you “To what URL should this link go?” Now is when you put in the URL to your Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever site your signature icon is representing. Then click OK and then scroll down to the end of the page itself and click Save Changes. Step 8:  Your signature icon should now be linked to the correct site.  To check this go to your main page of your email and click compose, as if you were getting ready to write an email to someone, and your icon should appear in the body of your email, if you click it, it should say Go to Link ___________ or whatever you’ve selected it to be. DONE!!  I hope that was pretty clear and concise.  Doing this is a great way to let people know you’re present and available on social media.  If you are job hunting, putting a linkedin icon in your signature is very important because when you are emailing people about potential employment it takes them right to your online resume! Hope this was helpful and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!

Ok people, here are the steps to getting social media linking icons in your email signature!  I have gmail so, if you use something else it might be slightly varied.  Here we go!

STEP 1:  Get your icons you want to use.  I think the best site for finding icons is iconarchive.com Go there and search out your icons.

STEP 2: Once you find your icon and the size you want (they show you varying sizes) click the size you want.  It will take you to a page just with the icon and nothing else copy the URL that is at the top of your screen.

STEP 3: Go into your email account and click on the icon in the top right area that looks like a gear. A drop down menu will appear and you will select settings.  

STEP 4: Scroll down to almost the end of the page to where it says Signature and what looks like the body of a regular email. Once you’re there click on the icon that looks similar to picture of a mountain. 

STEP 5: A window will open asking for the image URL.  Now is when you right click into they typing space of that window and paste in the URL that you copied from Step 2.  The icon should appear in the space below where you’ve just been typing. Click OK.

Step 6: The icon is now in your email signature, all you have to do now is link it to whatever social media site it is representing.  To do that you take your cursor and highlight the little icon and click the picture that looks like a chain link (up by where you found the little mountain looking icon in Step 4).

Step 7:  After clicking the chain link icon it will ask you “To what URL should this link go?” Now is when you put in the URL to your Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever site your signature icon is representing. Then click OK and then scroll down to the end of the page itself and click Save Changes.

Step 8:  Your signature icon should now be linked to the correct site.  To check this go to your main page of your email and click compose, as if you were getting ready to write an email to someone, and your icon should appear in the body of your email, if you click it, it should say Go to Link ___________ or whatever you’ve selected it to be.

DONE!!  I hope that was pretty clear and concise.  Doing this is a great way to let people know you’re present and available on social media.  If you are job hunting, putting a linkedin icon in your signature is very important because when you are emailing people about potential employment it takes them right to your online resume!

Hope this was helpful and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!


Time for another Hype-a-Friend posting!   Hello world, this here is my good friend Zach.  He’s a Chicago transplant from the great city of Nashville, TN.  Zach is the go to guy if you are looking for a home in Chicago (or surrounding areas) or listing a property.  He’s very personable, comes from a creative background, and knows how to market anything, it also doesn’t hurt that he’s an incredibly hard worker.  He works with a great team at @properties and if you know anything about the endless search of apartment hunting then you know @properties is a great place to work with.  I could make endless recommendations for Zach but just take my word that he’ll get the job done and get you into the home, apartment, condo, etc, that suites you best!   Click the photo at the bottom to go to Zach’s listings page for @properties

Time for another Hype-a-Friend posting!  

Hello world, this here is my good friend Zach.  He’s a Chicago transplant from the great city of Nashville, TN.  Zach is the go to guy if you are looking for a home in Chicago (or surrounding areas) or listing a property.  He’s very personable, comes from a creative background, and knows how to market anything, it also doesn’t hurt that he’s an incredibly hard worker.  He works with a great team at @properties and if you know anything about the endless search of apartment hunting then you know @properties is a great place to work with.  I could make endless recommendations for Zach but just take my word that he’ll get the job done and get you into the home, apartment, condo, etc, that suites you best!  

Click the photo at the bottom to go to Zach’s listings page for @properties

What’s not to love! Be your own marketing company!

Alrighty, hello all you out there!  I’ve always thought that I woudn’t be the best Blogger because it takes a lot for me to sit down and write, good or bad, about something.  But it’s happened once more!  There is something I really like and want you to know about!

In this day and age of rampant social media use and with sites like Pinterest, we all have the ability to post content and spread the word about products and services that we love or don’t love.  Essentially we, being the active public who uses social media, become a nationwide free marketing team for these companies.  We see things and then we talk about them and spread the word, creating conversation, and making suggestions.  You and your friends are a research and development team for the biggest companies in the world!

Now, this brings me to why I’m writing about this.  Unbeknownst to most people, there are marketing companies that specialize in word of mouth marketing campaigns, my favorite being BzzAgent (their link is at the bottom of this page). Now what this means is that companies such as Nerf (you know, those squidgy footballs you used to play with when you were little, but are now much cooler than they used to be) pay BzzAgent to do a word of mouth campaign for their newest product.  Nerf supplies the company with products and then the Bzz team sends them out to their army of members to try out.  You get the product in the mail, you try it out, then do what you normally do when you get something you like or don’t like, you talk about it on your Facebook, you tweet about it, you talk to your friends about it.  And all that posting you’ve done and all that chatting you’ve done is exactly what the people at BzzAgent and Nerf are looking for.  You’ve spread the word on a new product you may have not tried before and the buzz you’ve created by talking about it is what the marketers want.  

Sounds pretty great right?!  Signing up with BzzAgent is free and you get to try out lots of different products….for the low, low, price of FREE.99!  

(Source: bzzagent.com)


Being someone who likes to promote and market things, I’ve decided why not promote my amazingly talented friends?  I have been incredibly blessed in the friend department.  My friends are the best group of people I could surround myself with and why not hype them up?  They’re all super talented in their own right.  So, to kick off this series of posts, which I’ll call “Hype a Friend,” we have my sister from another mister, Sarah Sarwar!   Sarah is a top notch graphic designer and works for one of the top ad agencies in the country.  If you need someone to create you an amazing website, or a rad print campaign, or to create a logo for anything, then Sarah is your girl.  If you want someone to dig deep into what it is you are looking for creatively in whatever project you are working on, then this is the person you want behind your company’s name, project, or whatever you may be working on. Image is everything, right? Click the logo photo at the top for more info!

Being someone who likes to promote and market things, I’ve decided why not promote my amazingly talented friends?  I have been incredibly blessed in the friend department.  My friends are the best group of people I could surround myself with and why not hype them up?  They’re all super talented in their own right.  So, to kick off this series of posts, which I’ll call “Hype a Friend,” we have my sister from another mister, Sarah Sarwar!  

Sarah is a top notch graphic designer and works for one of the top ad agencies in the country.  If you need someone to create you an amazing website, or a rad print campaign, or to create a logo for anything, then Sarah is your girl.  If you want someone to dig deep into what it is you are looking for creatively in whatever project you are working on, then this is the person you want behind your company’s name, project, or whatever you may be working on. Image is everything, right? Click the logo photo at the top for more info!


Now, as someone who works in marketing and who works with businesses on things like slogans, social media, business models, etc. it confuses me when a business would do something so ridiculous as this place.  Pizza Persona is a new company here on the north side of Chicago, and from the beginning ever since I saw their ads in their windows as I passed by, they didn’t make one bit of sense.   Now I ask you, isn’t ANY pizza place in the world offering made to order personal pizzas? I mean, that’s what a pizza is, you call or go there, you tell them what kind of crust, what kind of sauce, and what you want on it!  That’s just what pizza places do, yes, maybe some will offer more choices than other but it’s all the same idea. So, to have your marketing strategy being based on “personal made to order pizzas” is the silliest, most ineffective thing I’ve ever seen and that is probably why every time I walk past there all I see is an employee sitting by the window eating and nobody else there.  I would also lose the cheesy (no pun intended) slogan of, “Discover Your Pizzanality” eeeek, no bueno my friends!

Now, as someone who works in marketing and who works with businesses on things like slogans, social media, business models, etc. it confuses me when a business would do something so ridiculous as this place.  Pizza Persona is a new company here on the north side of Chicago, and from the beginning ever since I saw their ads in their windows as I passed by, they didn’t make one bit of sense.  

Now I ask you, isn’t ANY pizza place in the world offering made to order personal pizzas? I mean, that’s what a pizza is, you call or go there, you tell them what kind of crust, what kind of sauce, and what you want on it!  That’s just what pizza places do, yes, maybe some will offer more choices than other but it’s all the same idea. So, to have your marketing strategy being based on “personal made to order pizzas” is the silliest, most ineffective thing I’ve ever seen and that is probably why every time I walk past there all I see is an employee sitting by the window eating and nobody else there.  I would also lose the cheesy (no pun intended) slogan of, “Discover Your Pizzanality” eeeek, no bueno my friends!