One of the best things about a new year is the prospect of a fresh start. Traditionally, the most popular resolutions are health-related ones, such as “start exercising” and “stop smoking.” And “lose weight,” of course.
Just as sticking to a diet can be tough, so can sticking to business goals. If you’re an entrepreneur (or want to become one), you may be looking at January as an opportunity to make changes or take other action.
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you might remember Chris Schutte, the Hotdog EZ Bun Steamer inventor whose story appeared here in March. Chris is among the many entrepreneurs who are turning to "crowdfunding," an online fundraising method that allows businesses to obtain financial backing from small investors.
Businesses and other entities use crowdfunding for all kinds of purposes.
Resume is a document used by individuals to present their background and skillsets [Wikipedia]. Traditionally Resumes have always been 2-3 page document explaining you to the best. But with the changing times, format of resumes also changed, initially resumes were limited to 2-3 pages printed with typewriter and now resumes are created in digital formats like .doc , .pdf etc. Your resume speaks a lot about you, not just your qualification and experience, but also about you as a person.
So if you wish to stand out of crowd, your resume must also be unique. Now a days visual resumes are gaining popularity. You can even upload your visual resume to slidshare.com and share it with everyone. So what kind of visual resume you should make? Have dilemma? Then first check out these awesome and creative visual resume samples. If youve got hint of what kind of cool resume you can create, then look further for step-by-step guide to creating them.In this article I will share with you, how to create your own Visual Resume and put it up on Slideshare.com.
Creating a Visual Resume
Creating a Visual Resume involves creating a slide show of your resume, so to create a visual resume, you will need Microsoft Powerpoint. And now follow these simple steps.
- Open Microsoft Powerpoint.
- It will look something like this.
- You can add title in Click to add title, Just click there and start typing your title.
- You can also give subtitles similarly.
Inserting Objects In Slides
To insert images in your slides, click on Insert tab and select Picture from the options.
Similarly you can insert many other objects like :-
- Tables
- Clip Art
- Photo Album
- Arbitary shapes
- Chart
- Media object like, Movie clip, Sound etc.
Inserting New Slide
To create a new slide, select New Slide option from the Home tab.
Re-Positioning Your Slides
It is required quite often to Re-Position the slides that you have created. To re-position a slide simply select the slide (from the slide panel in the left sidebar) and drag it to the desired position then drop it there.
Designing Your Slides
To design a slide select Design tab.
Under Design tab you can do things like :-
- Customizing Page Setup
- Customizing Slide orientation
- You can also select themes for your slide, from many themes available
- Customize styling features of the slide like Fonts, Color, Effects etc.
- Select Background styles for your slides.
Animating Your Slides
After creating all slides its time to animate them. You can customize the way each slide transits, either by selecting from many pre-defined animating transition schemes or by manually customizing transition schemes of each and every object on your slides. This is how it is to be done.
- First of all select Animation tab.
- Select the slide (from the slides panel) that you wish to animate and then select from many transitions schemes available. You can also add sound in transition schemes and customize transition speed.
- You can also select animation scheme for the slides from the Animate option. And select from different animation schemes available.
- To customize animation for your slides, select Custom Animation option.
To customize animation, simply select the object from the slide and select from many and click Add Effect tab from the right sidebar. Then select animation schemes from the options available under Add Effect tab. You can also remove any animation by clicking on Remove tab just near Add Effect tab.
Similarly you can select animation and transition effects for all slides. If you want to apply same transitions effects to all slides then select Apply to all option.
Now your Visual Resume is now ready, to preview it simply click Slide Show button 
at the bottom.
Uploading Slides to Slideshare.Com
After creating a Visual Resume you can upload it to Slideshare.com, which is basically a huge online collection of slideshows (both public and private). The benefit of uploading visual resume to Slideshare.com is that you can now share you visual resume anywhere you want it to. Also you can embed your visual resume in website or blogs.
So to upload your visual resume to Slideshare.com, login to slideshare.com you can also login via facebook-login (in case you have not signed up at slideshare). Then click on upload tab.
Then select Upload Publicly option. Then fill in the details of your visual resume like Title, Tags, Category, Description etc.
After your visual resume is uploaded, you can share it on Twitter, Facebook, Email etc. also you can get embedding code, to embed it on your blog your website.
You can also edit details of your uploaded Visual Resume, by clicking edit option.
So are you still having a traditional resume? Build a visual resume now and share it on Slideshare.com. I hope it will be a bit easy to do it now.
Also let others know if youve created good visual resume, in comments!
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Here are the 100 ways to get traffic to your blog:
1. Join MyBlogLog, add friends, and join communities.
2. Sign up for Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes.
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.
4. Submit your blog to all of the directories on Robin Good’s list of RSS directories.
5. Use trackbacks.
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches.
7. Tell your friends about your blog and specific posts.
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.
9. Create link bait.
10. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog.
11. Write press releases for your blog.
12. Link liberally to other blogs in your posts (many bloggers check who links to them).
13. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in.
14. Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire.
15. Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.
16. Answer questions on Yahoo answers with the answers on your blog.
17. Answer questions on forums related to your niche with a link to one of your blog posts that answers the question.
18. Set up a feed on MyYahoo so that Yahoo keeps better track of your blog.
19. Make lists (My Top 5…, Ten Things…, etc.). Many of the most popular blog posts are lists like this one.
20. Use pictures. Most of the top trafficed blogs use pictures in their posts.
21. Use video on your blog.
22. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it.
23. Be the first to break a news story.
24. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts.
25. Write controversial posts.
26. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post.
27. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed.
28. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts.
29. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.).
30. Interview well known people in your industry (it’s working well for me).
31. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts.
32. Don’t be boring.
33. Write for beginners.
34. Participate in group writing projects.
35. Participate in blog memes.
36. Create a blog meme and tag your friends.
37. Participate in blog carnivals.
38. Post at different times of the day.
39. Submit your best posts to article directories.
40. Write Killer Content .
41. Start a group blog. These tend to get more traffic, because more people are creating conent and more people are promoting it.
42. Have guest posters.
43. Create a blog meme and tag an A-list blogger who you like.
44. Submit your blog to regular web directories (like DMOZ, etc.).
45. Join SpicyPage and promote your blog on it.
46. Join a blog webring.
47. Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog on it.
48. Join LinkAndBlog and do link and blog challenges.
49. Submit your best posts to Netscape.
50. Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.
51. Trade blog roll links with related blogs.
52. Sign up for Rojo. Subscribe to your feed and click “add mojo” on your better articles.
53. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments (I REALLY need to do this).
54. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg).
55. Add a tell-a-friend script or plug-in to your posts.
56. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser.
57. Make it easy for people to link to your blog.
58. Use easy to read fonts.
59. Use a professional looking blog design.
60. Make your blog easy to navigate.
61. Highlight your most popular posts.
62. Write posts that ask provocative questions.
63. Use questions for the title of your blog posts (you knew that was coming).
64. Use good keywords in your post titles.
65. Reply to every question you get through email.
66. Reply to every question you get on your blog.
67. E-mail other bloggers about your really good post(s) (breaking news posts).
68. Offer free stuff related to your niche (tools, ebooks, etc).
69. Run a contest.
70. Publish videos on YouTube with the URL for your site at the beginning and end of the video.
71. Install a translation plug-in or use a translation service to translate your blog into foreign languages.
72. Put Your URL on everything that goes out of your house (business cards, stationary, mailing labels, etc.).
73. Go through listible.com’s list of web 2.0 sites and promote your blog on all web 2.0 sites that apply.
74. Search for Wikis related to your niche to submit your blog to. For example, for this blog the search phrase would be “make money online wiki” or “internet marketing wiki”.
75. Give regular polls (use a poll plug-in like democracy for this).
76. Add trivia quiz pages.
77. Add ecard pages.
78. Add a forum for your visitors to discuss more on your niche.
79. Add a wiki to your blog .
80. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog from articles you write.
81. Join Blink List and make a list of blogs with your blog in it.
82. Join 43 Things and write a list of 43 things you want to achieve (include your blog url in the list).
83. Join Blogger Party (and/or other free blog systems). Then write posts that link back to your blog.
84. Make a Squidoo lens (or more than one) with a link to your blog.
85. Provide Wikipedia articles with links to your blog where it makes sense.
86. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog (like John Chow).
87. Join Blog Catalog (kind of like MyBlogLog).
88. Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.
89. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
90. Use good grammar. People will be happy with your writing.
91. Submit your blog to directories in your niche.
92. Email or Instant message your friends to Digg, stumbelupon, etc. your post.
93. Link to your blog from other websites and blogs you own.
94. Write a post about the top x bloggers in your niche or state or country, etc. Then tell them about, so they will want to link back to you.
95. Promote your posts on related newsgroups.
96. Post frequently.
97. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.
98. Search for .edu sites with link pages, forums, directories, and wikis to submit your link to.
99. Give out blogging awards and tell the bloggers you are giving the awards to about it.
100. Pray. (That’s just always good advice)…and don’t forget me in your prayers.
