Why is it you feel so much sorrow for someone you never met? With the news of Tom Petty's rather untimely passing last night, I couldn't help but be reminded of how I felt when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died. Steve's death wasn't as much a shock as it was deflating. His health had been [...]
I'm not normally one to pump up numbers or milestones, especially after just turning 39 (hold the applause), but yesterday I hit a milestone I am a bit proud of, professionally speaking. I hit 1,000 followers on LinkedIn. Yeah, I know: "Ian's going to talk about the digital resume website again." It goes beyond that. [...]
I've been experiencing a lot of gratitude over the last few days, and it is all directed towards one person. My fourth-grade teacher. I shared a shorter version of this on my LinkedIn profile, but once again I felt as though the 1,300-character limit just wasn't enough to express how thankful I am to have [...]
We've all said it once or twice in our lives: "How in the hell does LinkedIn work?" For the longest time, for me anyway, it was a digital resume with all the usual ingredients: 1 cup of awful profile photo 3 tbs. of cookie-cutter headline 2 tsp. of boring summary 4 tbs. of past employment [...]
It's never too soon to begin thinking about tax season, right? Yuck. But what about putting your polished new professional headshots to work for you on tax day? Disclaimer: I have to state that this blog post is not official accounting or tax advice yada yada yada because I'm not your accountant or your tax [...]
"Everybody needs professional headshots these days." - Me, 2016. When I first cranked up headshot photography, this was something I repeated often but didn't fully grasp. Of course, the headshot guy would say such a big, bold statement. Over time, I was able to realize just how true that statement might be. Sure, not *every [...]
It's bound to happen. Friday afternoon rolls around and just as you're beginning to daydream about your relaxing weekend, your boss drops some news on you that the office is having new professional business headshots done on Monday morning starting at 9 o'clock. In alphabetical order. Your last name is 'Aaron.' For some, you begin [...]
Wouldn't you love it if you stumbled across a blog post that offered solutions to a problem you haven't had yet? Follow along for a moment as I talk about why you might need multiple professional headshots in your image arsenal (while still making a point on a single headshot). Variety is the spice of [...]
I get asked this one a lot. Why are your headshots formatted horizontally? Well, I'll try to explain this in 800 words or less. "Space is the breath of art." - Frank Lloyd Wright Mr. Wright was a brilliant architect and interior designer. I had the luckiest of chances to take in one of his [...]
Every so often you read a story where a couple of former Major Leaguers work together to do something great. Alright, so it's a bit different in this case, but it sounded good. Diana Licalzi is a former colleague of mine at the Commissioner's Office for Major League Baseball in New York. With a career [...]