FACT: One of the hardest things to do in business is deploying your marketing assets.
Here’s a challenge. Do your prospects really know what you’ve done or even most of your clients? You can’t just tell them as that’s just bragging. You must show them. Especially, if you’re doing featured speaking, meeting celebrities, or an expert guest on TV. Otherwise, you’re unknown or forgotten – even amongst your own staff.
If you haven’t done it already, create a folder with “Yourname Media” in OneDrive or your favorite. Drag your photos and videos there organized by subfolders as desired. Don’t forget that this is a good place to save your documents for books and presentations too. Now you have a single place to backup your important marketing assets, as well as a consistent place to go for regular content sharing.
Canvas Photos Background
While you can do great things with a virtual background, you really can’t beat some great canvas photos as your backdrop. In my example, I decided to do two rows of iconic venues and celebrities:
- 4 to 5 aspect ratio (portrait)
- 300 DPI photos
- Photos app in Windows 11
- Convert Image to 300 DPI Free
- 16″ x 20″ standard canvases with stretched edge
- Canvasdiscount.com
- Limit yourself to just 2 hours to complete
Photos App Editing
You could spend hours picking the right photo and then cropping with various other editing options. However, it’s best to simply put your ego and various concerns in your head aside and quickly pick the best that you can. You can always do others later, but do remember the outside edge of each side will be stretched over the edge of the canvas:
- Open jpg, jpeg, or other graphics file in Photos.
- Click Edit Image which is the first icon on the toolbar.
- Click the Aspect Icon at the bottom middle which by default displays Free for freeform.
- Click 4:5 which is portrait, drag selection left or right as desired, and select Done.
- Click blue Save options button in upper-right and Save as copy
- In File Explorer, right-click the file and select Properties and Details tab to horizontal and vertical resolution are 300 dpi.
- If not use Convert Image to 300 DPI Free to download a higher resolution file.
- Don’t forget to upload your edited images to OneDrive or your favorite for reuse and ordering more canvases.
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- Edit image as desired such as filtering.
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Just Do It
For anything I’m going to be doing again, I like to write articles like this for my own reference. You likely have some great memories or impressive photos of your own to share. Remember there’s always going to be someone who has done more, but there is no shame in doing something new to improve yourself. Hopefully this has been motivation for you to deploy some canvas photo assets for your background and around your office.