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Fashion, especially in the apparel industry, can effectively promote mental health. Fashion designers can spread awareness.
Millions of people worldwide are affected by the general issue of mental health. However, the stigma makes it difficult for people to speak up and get assistance. Fashion can contribute to eliminating this stigma and raising awareness of the importance of mental health.
How often do we say this to ourselves??
New Post has been published on Getting Balance
New Post has been published on http://gettingbalance.com/the-top-3-graphic-design-apps-you-should-be-using/
The Top 3 Graphic Design Apps You Should Be Using
Hey Loves!
I’ve been doing a lot of writing and designing lately for myself and for my clients and wanted to share some goodies that I’ve encountered along the way.
The first message that I would like to share with you is that you should:
“Inspire your followers through the art of your words.”
What do I mean by that?
It’s a fancy way of saying, “Make sure you’re adding graphics to your posts!
Your clients are incredibly visual and having pictures and graphic elements on your social media pages is a simple, but important way to uplevel your digital presence.
Many of my clients come to me confused about how their posts should look on social media and how to get great looking posts without spending hours and lots of money. What’s cool about the next three apps that I’m going to suggest is that they are fairly inexpensive and produce incredible results! You can design a professional looking inspirational quote, banner ad, promotional post, or even a coupon for any of your pages with minimum effort. Fun stuff!
(If you would like to learn more about how to best brand your posts online and other great tips to use with these apps you can contact me directly!).
Here are the top 3 graphic design apps you should be using to spread your positive & inspirational message:
1. Wordswagg App (http://wordswag.co/)
2. Studio (http://madewithstudio.com/)
3. Font Candy (fontcandyapp)
Hope this was helpful!
Feel free to comment below with any other apps that have helped you in creating posts that best shine your light! Stay positive and always loving <3
With Love,
Amanda
Amanda is the CEO & Founder behind Inspire Me Communications, a digital marketing agency with a powerful focus on positive coaching and holistic marketing & design (www.inspiremecomm.co). You can get a beautiful website for your positive brand and enjoy the process!
Positive messages thought New York City. Be Good and Do Good. URMVV
Sesame Street: "Color of Me"
I like this messaging. Come thru Sesame Street...
How May I Help You?
My parents’ retail business was central to my family’s life. Before I was old enough to serve customers (that would have been the ripe old age of eight), my parents put my dexterity to work fashioning bows that sales personnel quickly tied onto packages during the busy Christmas season. You have to realize that I’m referring to the olden days before handy gift bags and wired satin turned the art of creating a pretty package into a simple task. In our store we meticulously wrapped boxes with fancy paper tied with ribbon that had to be looped, twisted and curled to achieve the final elegant effect.
Indeed, a beautifully gift-wrapped package was signature of our store and symbol of the “total package” of quality we extended, but even more important was the manner in which sales personnel approached customers. The ultimate offense was to ask, “Can I help you?” Of course, we could help the individual. Didn’t we have arms, hands and legs attached to body with a brain?
“May I help you?” was also unacceptable because the question elicited a yes or no answer. “No, thank you, I’m just looking.” Looking for what?
At Dorchester Jewelers we inquired, “How may I help you?” Stated in a warm, friendly manner, the inquiry conveyed a willingness to serve and facilitated a meaningful exchange. “You could show me some silver bracelets.” “I’d like some suggestions for a wedding gift.”
Raised in retail, I can tell you this for certain: There’s an art to asking the right questions and guiding a customer to a selection of merchandise that results in a mutually satisfying transaction.
I also learned that while giving a customer the space to browse is polite, staying away too long or disappearing is sales suicide. (Isn’t it frustrating to find that all the salesclerks have evaporated just when you need one?) In our store, whether or not the visitor intended to make a purchase, I knew to remain close without hovering to answer questions and retrieve requested items from the showcases, if desired.
“How may I help you?”
Although many of us today work with clients we never meet in person, often conducting transactions via emails and websites, we can express a how-may-I-help-you attitude in numerous ways and in virtually any exchange of goods and services:
We can communicate our interest in our customers and convey a desire to provide information that helps them make optimal decisions.
We can create satisfying encounters, including for those who are “just looking,” whether communicating face-to-face or online.
We can adhere to policies that ensure our customers receive the best possible services and products in return for the time and money they invest with us.
As in the past, a how-may-I-help-you attitude remains a foundation for good business.
My best to you,
Sallie W. Boyles, a.k.a. Write Lady
Living with integrity
Some years ago, after a bad day at work in the corporate office filled with Dilbert-style cubicles, of which I was at that time a prisoner, I accidentally happened upon a small, soft-cover book that was heavily discounted in order to clear the few remaining copies from the store... and thus, serious life-change began!
We all have our stories, a turning point, where we had to do more. Strangely enough, I'd been firstly disenfranchised by working class parents who believed that if you fell below a certain socio-economic line your best was to put up and shut up - and work harder; and secondly by sufficient international commercial success based on my ability to adapt, and project capability and IQ, beyond my station (she says mockingly) to understand that it wasn't that simple.
I'd never wanted anything more than to make the world a fairer, happier and healthier place yet I had begun to lose all of my naive, stupidly optimistic, ridiculous hope.
And then I opened the covers of this book.
It had the simplicity of the self-help books I'd come to love - simple one-sentence summaries of hope, one after the other, all making sense. But it also had amazing real life examples of spiritual warriors (my words not his) who were actually living examples of people with integrity. Simple stories that seemed like they could have been achieved by anyone... and maybe they really were that simple :)
Each chapter was punctuated by Martin's beautiful nature photographs but that was simply the icing on the cake. The real gift of this book was, and is, the oxygen than hope needs to fuel its flame.
Living with integrity
