This is a sweet contest I launched today on nuwomb.com. I really hope that it generates some interest and helps out someone in need of awesome new business cards. I’m still waiting on my Moo order but I’ve ordered normal business cards and moo mini-cards in the past. They are such a cool company. The contest doesn’t last forever so head over to Nuwomb and find out how simple it is to enter.
Enter the Photography Business Cards Contest!
This is part of a quote or line within the book called “Today We Are Rich” by Tim Sanders. This is an amazingly brilliant look at the fact that we are rich if we stop and think about it. Call it an abundance mindset if you want, but you must have the belief.
The Key to being rich is the belief that there will always be more: the twenty-dollar bill, the soda pop, friends, family – anything.
I ordered some new Business Cards today…FINALLY! I didn’t order the color of cards you see in this image but I went with one of the Luxe Designs. I’m not just using Dan’s design on it’s own. I saw the opportunity to mix my initial ideas with Dan’s design.
I’ve talked about my struggle to get new business cards in the past and thus I’m super excited to have something on the way. Not only will I have sexy photography business cards, but I will be able to review the Lux Business Cards by Moo!
Can’t wait to show them and the mods I’m going to do in person!
Web support forums are pretty amazing to think about. A forum is a wealth of information and many companies don’t even offer a way to browse the multitude of questions their customers ask.
I get frustrated because of my own nature. I have a resourceful and self-reliant to my nature. I firmly believe that I am resourceful enough to figure anything out. I will find the right person if it comes down to it, but I will do everything in my own power to try and resolve an issue before requesting unique and specific support. This can be to my own detriment because I’ll spend too long on an issue for myself when I could pass it off to another person. This is something I’m working on for overall efficiency and learning from the other person. This still relates resourcefulness but creates a sort of resourceful efficiency. But where is this all going?
There are important notifications from a company that are written up and outlined for customers to help reduce the risk of their need for support. However, there is the old age issue that not everyone decides to read the documentation. I’ve been guilty of it myself. Reading this documentation is especially difficult when you get yourself into a frustrated state of mind. This state of mind doesn’t have to cause problems though. You can use it to ensure you’re not causing yourself the frustration by missing something noted in FAQ’s or Theme Documentation, or Forum Guidelines. The brilliance of the Internet is that an answer is potentially at your finger tips.
Even as a WooThemes support Ninja, I don’t like to pass off a topic to a developer. I’ve learned countless information related to WordPress and WooThemes because of the desire to learn, create, and fix.
The toughest issues in a support forum are often created when a user doesn’t read the documentation or follow the initial requests of guidelines. There have been many of times where an issue seems so odd, but after exploring possible problems we find that the issue is already fixed with the most recent version of a Theme. There are many issues that are fixed by disabling plugins to find a conflict with a specific plugin is causing the problem. These are things to check and ensure are done before posting to the WooThemes forum and thus it becomes the last thing to check or think about. However, because of the amount of times this happens, we spend even more time per post to check the theme versions and ask if plugins have been disabled. This slows the entire process down. Or if you don’t ask at the beginning, it looks sheepish to find an outdated theme after exploring everything else.
I ask you to trust me when I say that I’ve learned this lesson over my own trials and tribulations. I’m not immune to overlooking documentation. But, I am one that stops to ask if there is a way I can try my best to ensure my support request is absolutely necessary now.
I hope that you can join me.
[pinterest count="horizontal" float="left"] Last week a post of mine was published on the WooThemes Blog. By discussing the building of a photoblog with WooThemes, I wanted to explain that you can build your own dream WordPress theme via multiple different WooThemes themes. I titled the post “Fork Your Own Dream WooTheme” as forking means to steal (use) existing code. Oddly enough it seems to have fallen in great timing with the Steal like an Artist book and the Remix videos. Essentially I was stealing code from other themes built by WooThemes. Not really “stealing” though because I always had a developer subscription (meaning I had access to all themes). I could learn how to add a feature from one WordPress theme to the theme I wanted to use overall. Even though the theme I wanted to use didn’t have a portfolio or photoblog feature, I could still add it in easily by inserting the code and styling from other themes.
Building my photoblog on Nuwomb.com is still a work in progress but it’s pretty close to done now.
You can learn more about this process by reading the blog post and seeing the screen captures.
As well, check out the Nuwomb Photoblog of mine to see it in action.
