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Brand, Brand, Brand!

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Brand, Brand, Brand!
Photo-A-Day #1419

I’m going brand crazy lately because I am so excited about my upcoming new Blog design. Yes, my blog is being redesigned by someone really cool. I don’t have the design to share with you, yet. But, I do have the new logo. I’ve been reading about branding and getting your brand out in front of everyone. So I stopped calling this blog The BenSpark and shortened it to BenSpark.com.

People seem to know me as Ben. When I go to conventions people call me Ben. So I am known as Ben Spark. That works for me, it works for this blog. For the past 5 years I have commented on blogs all over the place under the name BenSpark. So my brand is out there. But I’m still not making it personal enough. I started the branding overhaul by personalizing my Twitter Account. If you are on twitter it is crucial that you create your own background and you brand it. Make it personal and let people know who you are.

I began to think about blog conferences and blogger events. Bloggers like Shoemoney and John Chow have T-shirts that they give away. Other bloggers have their brands out and about as well. So I decided to step it up and put my brand out there too. I already have my “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” T-Shirt and I also decided to buy some baseball hats and have the new logo embroidered onto the hats. I haven’t done that step yet but hopefully they will look as sweet as the mockup I created from these photos that I took with my Xshot today.

I have some other branding related ideas for swag and as they happen I’ll talk about them but I don’t like revealing much about this until I actually have items in hand. But if you are heading to IZEAFest or Affiliate Summit East you may get a chance to pick up some BenSpark.com swag. I’m going to have some good stuff too!

Okay, so what do you think of the hats? I personally like the flames but Allison says they are a bit redneck. However, I don’t care, I like flames, I love em on motorcycles, my Harley shirts and even on Optimus Prime (I’m sure my Transformers lifelong fan status might be revoked just for thinking that). But I’d like to hear that you folks have to say. Let me know what you think of the logo, the hats the colors. Which color is your favorite?

Photo-A-Day

Saying Hello

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Saying Hello
Photo-A-Day #1405

The cows are from the farm up the road. I took photos of them today for my Dad. He raised cows when he was younger, he even built a barn when he was 15 years old. It still stands today. He builds things to last. Anyway he had quite the day so this photo is for him.

There are also horses up there but they are on another farm. Each day when I come home and see the sun setting and looking awesome I want to go up to the farms to see if there are any horses or cows out because I love taking shots of them. Here is one of a horse from up on the farms.

Painted Sunset

When I got home Eva and my mom and Allison were out in the driveway. Eva was wearing the cutest new jacket that she got from Mimi. So we played “chase” around the driveway. Eva likes “chase” especially when we play it around the house, she’s not that fast yet so we have to “run” slower. I run around one side of the bed and duck down and hide, then she comes around the side of the bed and finds me. I jump up and roll across the bed and hide on the other side. She giggles like crazy and runs around the other side of the bed and I do it again. I do this till I am to tired to do it anymore. It is so cute when she says “chase”.

I love my new coat

Another thing that makes Eva giggle are dolphins. She went to Sea World with our friend Mo when we were at IZEAFest last year. I’m hoping that Eva gets a chance to get to go to SeaWorld again soon. And to help ensure that I am entering the contest at http://www.ted.me/manta. I know that tons of people will enter but I have been on this winning streak like you wouldn’t beleive so I figure what the heck, worth a try right?