What’s in your resume is not all that matters in today’s highly competitive world. How it looks, how easy it is to find and to share add up to its effectiveness and its cool factor. Our web design partner, QBLK  (also responsible for this site’s design, that of Mirror Communications, Argophilia Travel News and many other wonderful works), have released an online CV/Resume template that will sweep you off your feet!

The Bold CV/Resume Template is easy to customize and has many different color templates to choose from, it has a mobile version to show it off on your smart phone, it can be printed to PDF and downloaded, to then be emailed in a second, and it also features a contact form, allowing all those interested in your work to get in touch.  And these are not all the features you will find use for! It also comes with thorough and comprehensive documentation, to help you adjust the template to fit all your needs. Continue reading

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Your company has an innovative product, a flashy and attractive website, a bevy of investors on board, and a technical support staff consisting of one intern that you spent five minutes training via email. What’s wrong with this picture?

How Tech Support Affects Your Company’s Image

In many cases, your tech support representatives are your only employees that regularly interact with your customers. When your support reps also happen to be your lowest paid, worst informed and (understandably) most short-tempered employees, can you expect your company to build a positive reputation among your target audience?

Tech support is under-utilized. Far too many companies treat their tech support teams as a last line of defense between angry customers and imminent organizational failure, and consider the idea of sending their tech team leaders to management schools as completely ridiculous . You should have two primary goals for your technical support services, both of which will improve your company’s image when accomplished: Continue reading

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Those of us following the entertainment scene even remotely, know about the entire scandal rocking the Hollywood scene between Charlie Sheen and “Two and a Half Men” producers and broadcasters, CBS, Warner Bros., and Chuck Lorre. It’s all been a crazy mess of wild accusations, crazy ramblings and failed attempts to funny statements. The entire scandal led to the popular comedy show being canceled, Sheen’s publicist resigning and hordes of angry fans.

The angry fans were the most interesting part in this equation. From what I can tell now, they weren’t angry about Charlie Sheen acting crazy. They expected that much! Think a bit and you will realize we are talking about people loving a character that much resembles the real Sheen and having a great laugh about it. What they were angry about was the show  being canceled. Continue reading

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Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding scheduled for late April just got an official website. If you were not convinced this major event is a great PR boost for the British royal family and quite the cash cow for the UK, now you should know it for sure. Need more proof? Well one site was not enough, so a secondary location to find the latest news on the wedding: and official governmental page that according to Reuters will publish “practical information to help tourists planning on coming to London or Britons organizing events in their local communities.”

The main site however remains the major attraction, fresh off the web development computers of its makers:

Royal officials say the website, www.officialroyalwedding2011.org, will be regularly updated with new details about the ceremony on April 29, as well as featuring photos, features, and video content.
It will also be the first place where details of Middleton’s dress will be revealed on the day of the wedding. Continue reading

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Contest and giveaways are a great way to reward your community. They show you care, they show you want to encourage them and support them. They show you want to engage them and listen to their needs. But they can also backfire. How? Well, spend 5 minutes thinking of your contest and send out an announcement that actually shows you consider the crowd you’re trying to get to work for you a bunch of money hungry drones that cannot think for themselves. Enough to makes something sparkly twinkle their way and they’ll immediately jump to join your troops!

99designs is already the punching bag of many established designers. Now they have just managed to make it a bit worse. The crowdsourced design site has just launched a contest in which they will give away 9,999 dollars to a lucky winner. To enter the competition, a designer needs to win at least one design contest throughout the month of March. The more contests you win, the more chances of winning you have. Continue reading

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