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College is Coming to an End: Reflections on my Journey from the Hood to San Diego State

Posted on April 30, 2013 by mrbrant in Personal 3 Comments
College is Coming to an End: Reflections on my Journey from the Hood to San Diego State

As someone who has been taking college classes since 2004, it feels unreal to be graduating and leaving college. It’s a bittersweet feeling somewhere between accomplishment and sadness. The reality is that I am now an official grown up. The spaceship that I have been living on that has been orbiting earth for the last 9 years is finally landing in the real world.

View Post california, college, coming of age, personal, san diego, san diego state, school, SDSU, southwestern college, SWC, university

Branding Is A Big Deal: 6 Tips For A Consistent Brand Image

Posted on February 13, 2013 by mrbrant in Business, Marketing No Comments
Branding Is A Big Deal: 6 Tips For A Consistent Brand Image

Having a cohesive brand image is essential in this day and time. Everyone and their brother has a small business, clothing line or record label. If you want to survive, you need to stand out. The best way to do that is to create a strong brand identity that expands to every aspect of your business.

View Post brand equity, brand identity, branding, image, logo, marketing

Work Smarter Not Harder: Automate Your Photoshop Workflow

Posted on January 4, 2013 by mrbrant in Graphic Design, Photoshop Tutorials No Comments
Work Smarter Not Harder: Automate Your Photoshop Workflow

I have a client with 437 product images on their website, all with rasterized text. What this means is that the text is part of an image rather than HTML text, meaning the search engines cannot read the text. Because of this, their website is not as indexable as it should be by the search engines.

View Post actions, adobe, adobe bridge, adobe photoshop, automation, graphic design, photoshop

Which Android Tablet? The Amazon Kindle Fire HD or the Google Nexus 7?

Posted on December 29, 2012 by mrbrant in Technology No Comments
Which Android Tablet? The Amazon Kindle Fire HD or the Google Nexus 7?

Despite being a marketer, I am actually pretty anti-consumption. However, this Christmas I decided to finally jump on the tablet craze. Since I am not happy with the things Apple is doing these days and I am an Android phone user, I opted for an Android tablet rather than an iPad.

View Post amazon, android, customizability, flexibility, freedom, google, google chrome, jelly bean, kindle, kindle fire hd, nexus 7, technology

Home Cold Remedy: Ginger & Honey Tea

Posted on December 18, 2012 by mrbrant in Personal No Comments
Home Cold Remedy: Ginger & Honey Tea

Being sick really sucks. I’ve had a cold for a few days now and it’s really getting in the way of my productivity with work. Unfortunately since a cold is a virus, there isn’t much you can do about it except for wait it out.

View Post cold, flu, ginger, honey, lemon, remedy, tea

Get Linkedin: Take Advantage of Linkedin

Posted on December 12, 2012 by mrbrant in Marketing, Social Media No Comments
Get Linkedin: Take Advantage of Linkedin

The next time you are going to meet up with someone for a One to One, research him or her on Linkedin first. You might find out that you have similar interests, used to work together in the past or an interesting icebreaker.

View Post business, linkedin, marketing, networking, social media

The Girl Effect: Empower Girls, Empower The World

Posted on December 10, 2012 by mrbrant in Business, Social Responsibility No Comments
The Girl Effect: Empower Girls, Empower The World

Women are half the world’s population, working two-thirds of the world’s working groups, receiving just 10% of the world’s incoming and owning less than 1% of the world’s property.

View Post economics, education, effect, girl, healthcare, kiva, microloan, philantrophy, women

Innovative Mobile Phone Companies

Posted on November 12, 2012 by mrbrant in Business No Comments
Innovative Mobile Phone Companies

As anyone who has lived or traveled abroad knows, mobile phone service in the United States and Canada is very different than it is just about anywhere else. The market has been stagnant for years. But T-Mobile has finally shaken things up a bit with their recent changes.

View Post at&t, business, cell phone, iphone, marketing, mobile phone, pre-paid, sim card, sprint, t-mobile, verizon

Venti Sized Relationship Marketing

Posted on November 11, 2012 by mrbrant in Business, Marketing No Comments
Venti Sized Relationship Marketing

As small business owners we don’t have the multi-billion dollar marketing budget that Starbucks has, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t employ some of these same strategies to better connect with our consumers.

View Post coffee, customer service, marketing, relationship marketing, rewards program, starbucks

Is The Customer Really Always Right?

Posted on October 11, 2012 by mrbrant in Business No Comments
Is The Customer Really Always Right?

Conventional knowledge says that the customer is always right. Period. But is the customer really always right?

View Post business, communication, customer service, ethics, KPI, marketing, objectives
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