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This Pittsburgh Freelance worker is fairly imaginative in Conceptual Illustration, Editorial Design along with Lifestyle Illustration

As the blogosphere gets more grown up and finely tuned, so should your blog. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a blog for fun or for professional purposes. The fact is that it’s a public practice and I believe you wouldn’t be blogging if you didn’t want readers. So, how are you attracting and retaining them? Here are some ways to make your blog relevant and interesting.

Rich Murray can be located in Canada, where he will be using his multi-talented skills in Flash Animation and Children’s and Cartoon Illustrations.

SEO, otherwise known as Search Engine Optimization is a Internet marketing technique. The overall goal of SEO is to increase the ranking of your web-page or other web based content in the search engine databases of the major search providers. This is most effectively done by an Internet marketing company, one such company is Raxa Design, a Houston web design company. There are two methods that can be utilized with search engine optimization, on-page and off-page. Each of these methods offers a different advantage to the publisher in terms of increasing your page rank with the search providers. First, we need to understand a little about how Internet search works.

He would a mean crayon in my early days growing up in the Bronx, but made the change from paper to the Mac at his first art studio job in 1990. Since then, he has been working as a Mac artist.

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Ohio Freelancer, Lindsey Meredith is a Web Designer, Graphic Designer and a Traditional Illustrator. Her on-line portfolio displays her design range.

One of the most common products in every office is the A4 or letter sized notepaper and if it is customized its called Letterhead. Since personal computers and domestic printers became so popular – modern housekeeping include A4 sheets too.

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Many corporations often neglect the importance of having a good business card and letterhead design. If you’re unaware of the effectiveness of having a professionally designed business card and letterhead, do note that you can literally turn these two materials into an excellent, low-cost form of marketing and advertising tool. In the highly competitive business world today, it is crucial that you show people how you value your business by handling the slightest thing professionally.

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I am in my early 20s. I am young compared to my contemporaries at work. But I would like to be modest this time and share how I made a good impression in my application cover letter. The secret? Simple. A personal letterhead.

Of course it’s not usual that applicants have a personal letterhead. But that’s precisely the point. It’s unusual. And it stands out.

I first got the idea from a friend who works in the Human Resources Department of a prominent multi-national company. She says it’s tiring to go over the cover letters of applicants almost every day, with each letter almost containing the same phrases and the same plea for employment. I don’t think it’s an arrogant comment. It’s just merely being human. When you are flooded with letters every working day, you’d surely want to see something that would give your eyes some kind of a feast.

And so I thought, what would make my cover letter stand out? I have no choice but to place more or less the same content as the other applicants. But what would allow me some space to show off some of my character? Personality is the key, my friend would always say. Your letter would show some degree of your character. And what better way to do that than to place some color and style in my cover letter. Hence, I worked on a personal letterhead.

My template does not contain much really. Just the usual names, contact details, address, a personal URL to my website slash blog. But I did some minor design work on the letter. A semi-transparent box with the details inside it, and some color (that actually matches the company’s colors, of course). I made it a point not to make it appear too excessive, so the Human Resources Department won’t think of me that way. I made it formal and stylish. And then I wrote my cover letter as followed by my resume.

When I finished writing the letter, I printed out a sample so I could have a gauge of my magnum opus. Of course it’s not much. I just wanted to be someone different. I suppose, everybody wants to meet someone who dares to be different, who has enough courage to stand out without being intimidating. I understood that companies invest a lot on employees who show potential, who exemplifies a certain dynamism that would bring the company forward as times go by. I want to be that person for the company where I was applying for. I did not want a job. I wanted a career.

As so it happened. I submitted my application (in the letterhead, of course) to the company. I waited for a response for a week, then two weeks, then three. I was nearly out of desperation, and I was planning of moving on to the next phase of my job hunting, but at that point, the good news arrived. I got a call from the company asking me to report to their office for an interview. The rest, so they say, is history.

I am now very contented of that small out-of-the-box effort I did in order to stand out in the application process. Looking back, the letterhead did some sort of magic for me, and it upped my confidence a bit as I faced the people in the interview. And true enough, it’s a worthy story to tell. Stand out. Be creative. Be the person they want.

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A marketing officer would surely appreciate receiving a letter from you in your letterhead. A business partner would definitely feel the same way. Someone you would ask professional favors from would surely appreciate the formality of your request. But it is doubtful if your lover would really take a type-written letter in your template as a sign of your deep affection. And it is also doubtful if your mother would want a note written in such medium also. Sometimes, letters from the hand would be the sweeter option.

So your company has a letterhead that you could use on your own choosing. So you have your personal template for a letter as an officer of your organization. But sometimes, people get intimidated by having too many details affirming your credibility in your letters. Sometimes, you might make them feel too unequal to deal with you, which defeats the purpose of communication. Sometimes, you have to write your letter as you, not as an officer, not as a member of your organization, but as you. So when do you draw the line? How do you draw the line?

The letterhead is a representation of your social position. It connotes some degree of power and credibility. It gives the impression of dignity and respect. These are good things in themselves, that is of no doubt. So the first thing to consider in deciphering whether or not to use your template is what hat you are wearing as a writer of the letter. Are you writing as a professional or a family member? Are you writing from the mind or from the heart? As much as it sounds mushy, letters have the power of conveying your most intimate thoughts, and you must find the proper means of saying them.

But there are some instances that you might be able to use the letterhead as a twist to your personal note. Let’s say, to your husband. You write a note using your template saying something like, I am in the middle of work, but all of a sudden, I was bedazzled by a fascinating thought of you.? That would surely bring him to his knees in love of you. Now would not that be something. That’s called strategic use of a simple letter template.

The key to understanding the use of your letterhead is to determine the private and the public space. The private space is supposed to make the people in it comfortable and unconditionally driven to dealing with each other. The public space is where social expectations and conventions operate. Imagine yourself as stepping and jumping in interlocking spheres of interaction. When you have a clearer view of yourself wearing different hats, you will be a more effective communicator.

The letterhead is only a tool. You are not always your job, as well as often you must project yourself formally as it is needed. Strategy and consciousness must take precedence in knowing when to use your formal template, or when not to use it.

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