#redesigned my persona a couple months ago !

[angsty-teacup]

the jevil plush talks btw

I LOVE THEM

[slauterhause]

Ugh this is gonna be a lot to explain

Video is a drawing of me and my boyfriend's idols, with some music from one of the side shops you can't enter in Splatoon; we think the track fits them :)

Second is a ref of Ebony that is more toony, made it for someone who is attempting to make a 3D model from it

Third and fourth image is of a new OC I made, he's a villainous engineer in the memverse and all that, Idk I'll probably never explain him if nobody ever asks

Silly lineless drawing of @toothpaste-for-the-skin 's silly inkling!! Go follow them, they're pretty rad

This drawing of Shockwave is not the best imo? It's good but it could be tweaked a little bit; it was a test reference for his more realistic features

Redesign of one of my personas from a couple months ago, I indeed favor this one the most out of the rest

Last two images are some Sonic OCS I've cooked up, but that first one is more of an inside joke between friends, nonetheless still a very serious character :)

[real-godzekiel]

Here are some questions you may have:

"Who the FUCK are these people!?"

OCs from an ARG I did a long long time ago. That ARG had only one player by the way. And it was never finished. But I spent months upon months upon months of coding, posting, and drawing for it. I would say a lot of writing as well, but the writing was so shit thinking about it makes me hate myself. I still like the characters, though, which is why I redesigned them here. They are Naviaquese people now. Like Xay and his daughter Julia, who were the main antagonists of my original ARG.

"Woah mama! That Byter person looks quite like you! Well, you a year ago, at least."

I'm glad you noticed! That is because it WAS my persona. This ARG that I shat back when I was 12 had MYSELF as the protagonist. Not anymore.

"Are you going to do anything with these characters?"

I'll have to take some weeks to think about that.

"Where can I see this derelict ARG of yours?"

The main ARG plot happened at a now-defunct Chinese platform. Every post was almost entirely in Mandarin. However, I also had interactive websites in a still-existing Western platform. You'll have to find them yourself. I don't suggesting doing that, because you'll be very confused by its contents if you didn't know anything about the actual plot written in Mandarin.

“What will this party of six be doing now?"

Here's the deal. It's been a while since an enormous area near the Arrland-Baoleia border has been nuked due to Strangelove-esque complications. So, Naviaqua already exists. These six people are some of the underlings that made it possible. Hooray for them! But don't celebrate too much. There is a problem: Dr. Xavier Buviet, the old straight white guy that led the entire thing. He got a little messed up in the noggin' after his wife got poisoned by the most average-looking Baoleian mercenary. Now he decided that trying to cheat death is good, actually, and everyone should start doing it RIGHT NOW. But if he were to say that out loud, everyone would think he's out of his mind and this would fuck the newly-established country over a couple thousand times. So, he unravels his plans subtlely. Get a small but vulnerable team of young geniuses and get them to work on small projects at a time. Small projects at a time. Eventually use their corpses to test reanimation using Aqua or something. I don't know.

"Huh! This Dr. X guy sounds like a horrible person. I hope he dies."

Good news! He does die. He gets shot once in the head and four times in the chest.

"How is this related to Roblox?!"

I really don't want to draw noses and ears.

[cerenemuxse]

but before those, i still need to do my pfp. i redesigned my persona a couple months ago so the current one is a bit outdated haha-! kept switching back to this one because its one of my favorites <33

[nintendodad1978]

A Father, a Son, and a Video Game

As a lifelong player and lover of video games, I was overcome with joy to see that love be passed down to my son who is now 13 years old.   Like most kids of his generation, it started with things like Minecraft, Roblox and eventually Five Nights at Freddy’s and Cuphead.  But the day came not too long ago, when he discovered the Danganronpa franchise of RPGs, anime, and manga. And it was love at first sight.  Being a huge fan of JRPGs myself, it tickled me to see him discover his own flavor of game like I did with Final Fantasy and Persona.  But something happened with Dylan. He decided to take things a little further than his father.

Dylan has always been a very good artist, even at a very young age. I dabble, but his level of talent far exceeds anything I will ever hope to accomplish. So he took his love of Danganronpa and his love of drawing and decided to combine them. First with fan art, but then he decided to redesign various characters and their costumes. This was impressive enough, but Dyl didn’t stop there. He then began making his own original Danganronpa characters. Giving them backstories, alternate costumes, etc.  He was doing some very high level world-building, even though he wasn’t aware of it at the time. And I just sat back watching everything unfold with the biggest smile on my face. He would periodically show me what he was working on, and I would always be very careful to show him lots of support, but never to push him. Encouragement is always needed, but pushing him to do it would be the death knell of this little project that was taking shape. This past Christmas I finally caved in and purchased an iPad Pro for him to use for art. He had been asking for one for years at this point, and I felt like he had finally reached a point that this was going to be something that he would actually use instead of playing around with it for a few weeks and discard like so many other toys.  And this is where things took a surprising, yet looking back, logical turn.

Dylan would also receive a brand new laptop from his grandparents along with the Danganronpa collection for the Nintendo Switch. And the combination of those three gifts set off the gears in Dylan’s brain. He began to work on a “secret” project that evening. It started with some researching on the internet, then watching a ton of Youtube videos along with immersing himself in his new game collection. He then started drawing sketch after sketch. Finally after a few days, he showed me what it was that he was working on so diligently. He had decided to make his own Danganronpa fan game. Yes. That’s right. My 13 year old self-taught artist of a son was now teaching himself how to use the Unreal Engine, along with other programs and was in the process of developing an actual videogame. I was gobsmacked, to say the least.

It’s now been a few months since that fateful week and progress has been slow, but steady. Dylan would experience a couple of false starts, just like any other new developer, but he hit upon exactly how he wants his game to go, and hasn’t looked back since He has also refined the look of his characters and the storyline is like nothing I have ever experienced. I sit on the couch watching him work on various aspects of this fan game and I’m in complete awe of him. He’ll sit there drawing away on his iPad, or working on his laptop with such an earnest expression of concentration I begin to worry that he is no longer having fun, and then he looks up, catching me watching him, and smiles and excitedly tells me about a new aspect of his game that he just came up with. And I realize that my worrying was for nothing.

What impresses me the most is the fact that it has never struck Dylan that this is something he shouldn’t or couldn’t accomplish.  So many times I have dreamed of doing this thing or that. But it never went further than just a dream, because there was always a little voice in the back of my head stopping me. Me, “It’s a waste of time. The odds are too great. You’ll never be able to do it.”

I know it’s my job to teach Dylan, being his father and all. But that gifted 13 year old boy has taught this 42 year old nerd a VERY valuable life lesson that I have taken to heart. If you want to do something. Just do it. Don’t worry about whether or not something is possible. Because no matter what, it is. Nothing is impossible. Nothing is too hard. And nothing is out of your reach.

[loafbud]

Every other year in the past, I'd always redesign any 'sona(s) I had or just flat-out make new 'sonas entirely. But I feel like this time around, since updating Sync's design a couple months ago to how it is now, I feel confident with her as my persona!

In the past I'd also mainly stick with fursonas – and while having one was awesome, I really wanted a human persona this time around that I could see myself as, or like one that was basically the 2D, stylized version of myself, y'know?

I'm gon say with with a grain of salt coz I always be changing my mind and stuff, but like...... I'm really vibing with Sync and can definitely see a future with her still as my persona/self-insert in the long-run!

[brobi-wanwrites]

Out-Dated Review: Iron Man

A decade ago life was a bit more simple. I was turning 15 and besides finding time to play GTA IV and high school I didn't have a care in the world. My birthday was never a big deal but earlier that year I got my first PS3 and was desperate to start a Blu Ray collection. I told my mother the one thing I wanted for a gift that year was Iron Man. She delivered. That night after reading the case over a dozen times me and my best friend would sit down and watch the movie that jump started the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

At the time I knew as little as you could about Ironman. I spent most of my time reading Spider-Man, X-men and Batman comics so the only things I really knew about Tony Stark was that he was a rich alcoholic and was really prevalent in 2006s Civil War which was in my backlog of comics. Going into this movie I really had nothing to go on besides the great reviews it was getting and that I was always excited to see a comic book character get their chance on the big screen. After credits rolled like many people my expectations were blown away. I watched it again and again enjoying every minute of it. I then dove into my comic backlog and read Civil War and any other Ironman story I could find. It’s safe to say that the first Ironman reinvigorated my and many others love for comics, all while starting a universe that would have as deep of lore as the comics they adapted from. 

So ten years later, does Ironman hold up?

(SPOILERS)

Lets start things off with the story. 

We’re introduced to Playboy Billionaire Weapons Designer/Manufacturer Tony Stark and he’s just as much as cocky jerk as you would think he’d be. Skipping out on an award presented to him so he could gamble, sleeping with a reporter who’s writing a hit piece on his company and giving little care to the crew of his private plane as he arrives late for its departure. Couple this with how he almost gloats at the amount of death and destruction his weapons bring you would be safe to assume that Tony is unremarkable cliche villain, except he’s not. 

I don’t know if it’s his charm alone, his acting chops or how relatable he is to the character but Robert Downy Jr. makes Tony Stark probably one of the most believable and entertaining personality in the MCU. He brings so much life and fun to Tony even before his good guy turn in this movie. Easily stealing every scene he’s in, RDJ was undoubtedly destined to play Tony Stark.

Speaking of good guy turns.

Things go astray for Tony after a weapon presentation in Afghanistan as he’s fatally injured and kidnapped by a terrorist group known as The Ten Rings (more on them later). He awakes in a cave with a car battery attached to his chest, powering an electromagnet that’s keeping the shrapnel away from his heart and other vital organs. Parties amirite? He’s made aware that The Ten Rings are his “loyal customers” and have been using all his weaponry and is then forced to build them his latest weapon. Tony reluctantly agrees and uses the supplies and resources to build something a bit more powerful, a miniaturized Arch Reactor. An invention of his fathers that’s used to power a factory, Tony designed his to be a little more compact. It has enough power to keep the magnet [in his chest] charged for a thousand lifetimes or something big for ten minutes. 

Thus Ironman is born.

Even for ten years old at this point, the CGI still holds up. The suits in this movie, whether it’s the Mk I, II or III all look fantastic and just completely seamless. I never once even questioned if they built an actual prop suit or not, it looked so good i assumed they did. Coincidentally the first Ironman is the only movie they actually built the full suit, every subsequent movie they used mo-cap primarily. 

After 3 months using only weapon parts and presumably some scrap metal Tony builds the Mk I and kicks some serious ass in his escape. He’s quickly reunited with his friends and coworkers back in the States and damn does he want a burger. Also he announces very publicly he’s done with making and selling weapons. This is Tony’s big turn, he realizes the real cost of him profitting off war with his weapons and decides he is alone responsible for making things right. His business partner and his deceased fathers long time friend Obadiah Stane advises him to lay low for awhile after crashing his companies stock with his big announcement.

The Stark Employee Roster.

RDJ may steal the whole show but Ironman boasts a pretty big and talented cast. Gwenneth Paltrow as the remarkable and composed assistant to Stark Pepper Potts, she’s a joy to have on screen and perfectly bounces dialogue off RDJ. Terrence Howard plays Stark's best friend and military liaison Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes, Howard plays this character really cool and I have a hard time seeing Rhodey as much as I see Terrence Howard. His chemistry with RDJ is phenomenal off the bat though, something that takes Cheadle & RDJ about another movie or so to get right. Paul Bettany lends his soothing voice to articulate Siri knock-off known as JARVIS. While his role obviously becomes more expanded upon in later films, Bettany brings a simple yet appealing approached to the A.I. here that pairs well with Tony’s persona. Rounding it out you have the rugged Jeff Bridges playing Tony’s mentor and eventual madman Obadiah Stane. Bridges brings something to this role that I can’t quite put my finger on, he just fully leans into this character and I can feel his presence on screen. He does however have a very sudden change of character entering the third act, he goes from conniving business man to super villain so abruptly I may have whiplash (wink) now. 

Bored and nothing to do.

Stark finds himself in isolation and does the only thing his obsessive brain lets him do, work. He begins designing and testing an updated version of the suit he escaped imprisonment with. The Mk II is a thinner, shinier and more airborne suit than its predecessor. It just isn't up to snuff for Tony though, so after a quick flight test with some icing issues, he completely redesigns the suit. After seeing on TV that someone is throwing a party without him, Tony decides laying low just isn’t for him and crashes the party. Thankfully the party is hosted by Stark Industries so Tony can just walk in with no real problem. It’s here that Tony learns that his mentor and friend Obadiah Stane filed an injunction against him and is trying to force him out of the company and may be dealing weapons under the table. 

Tony decides take the moral high ground and hops in his new suit the MkIII which must be the coolest getting dressed montage I’ve ever seen, then flies for 6 hours back to Afghanistan. He proceeds to just ruin the Ten Rings day by destroying their weapon caches, which include plenty of Tony's own weapons. After surely making the locals think he’s some sort of alien or metal angel he flies back home, only to be intercepted by two fighter jets. What ensues is an entertaining little game of cat and mouse for a minute until Rhodey, whose job is seemingly just to be convenient to Tony shows up and Tony informs him he is in the suit that the fighters are chasing. Rhodes clears everything up as a trainig exorcise and Tony makes it home.

It’s here our big reveal happens, Obadiah is a bad guy and he hired the Ten Rings to kill Tony but they didn’t like the deal, so they altered it like Vader. Now they want to alter it even further and have Obadiah build them Metal Soldiers like the one Tony escaped with.  Obidiah smiles and politely kills this faction of the Ten Rings and figures he might as well build his own suit with his own arch reactor.

Back at the factory while speaking to his team of scientists about their inability to replicate Tony’s miniaturized Arch Reactor, Jeff Bridges delivers the best line in the movie. 

“TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAAAVE, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS”

After this everything starts to happen real fast. Pepper finds a video that directly incriminates Obadiah, he panics and politely tries to kill tony, Rhodes shows up to try and save a dying Tony but he already saved him self. Once he catches his breath Tony hops in his suit to go find Obadiah. Terrence Howard takes a look at the MkII and decides it’s better that Don Cheadle gets to use it. Pepper while accompanied by some agents finds Obadiah's lab only then to be ambushed by Obadiah in a what can only be described as the offspring on the hulk-buster armour and war machine, Iron Monger. 

Tony flies in with no time to spare and saves Pepper. A street fight ensues between Iron Man and Iron Monger with them chucking cars at one another. This fight seems oddly small scale now, having been spoiled by the massive fights we’ve seen in recent MCU movies. The smaller scale and one on one fight does feel more personal though and given that this is Iron Mans first outing it makes sense.

The fight goes airborne after Tony realizes he’s no match for the strength of the Iron Monger suit. Much to Tony’s surprise Obadiah has upgraded his suit as well and its now able sustain flight but as a call back to earlier in the film, the Iron Monger suit has an icing problem in higher atmosphere. Tony's suit begins to lose power as they fall back to the roof of the Stark factory. Tony sabotages Obadiah's suit so he cant shoot straight and Obadiah squishes Tony's helmet. Rude. The two men begin to fight with there wits and the bare minimum of their suits. Tony tells pepper to overload the Arch Reactor beneath him and Obadiah and after Tony begs she pushes the bug red button. Boom. Obadiah's suit short circuits and he falls to his death into the Arch Reactor causing it to explode.

I am Iron Man

I gotta give credit to this movies ending. Setting itself up like Tony is going to become your average secret identity super hero but in perfect Tony Stark fashion it subverts that by Tony declaring to the world he is Iron Man. It’s easily one the most memorable moments in all of the MCU. We also get our first name drop of SHIELD here, which at the time blew my mind because up until then super hero movies were so self contained. Credits roll and a Marvel tradition is born as the credits finish and we’re given another scene as Tony walks into his house to see a someone standing in his living room. NICK MF FURY.

“Think you’re the only super hero in the world? Mr.Stark you’ve become part of a bigger universe, you just don’t know it yet.” 

One of the single most important lines in all of the MCU. When I saw this my 15 year old brain melted and while at the time I was ignorant to who owned what in regards to film rights my mouth foamed over the idea of all marvel characters existing together in a shared movie universe. It only took ten years and a couple billion dollars but all the marvel are finally gonna share a universe together.

Does it work?   

With full retrospective Iron Man is your cut and paste Phase 1 MCU origin movie where the bad guy is basically just a different color pallet than the good guy, which is totally fine. There’s a reason they use that formula, it establishes characters perspective and personality along with their skill set to the audience. It could be because it was the first or just the combination of Favreau and RDJ and all the other cogs in the machine but no movie uses that formula better than Iron Man. I’m in awe of how much fun I had with this movie, I highly recommend going back and watching it again if you haven't recently. It holds up as it’s own movie but with the added benefit that you can clearly see how the whole MCU evolved from the style of Iron Man.

VERDICT  

You should already own this, go make some pop corn and watch this./10

[geeksperhour]

Trade show: An exhibitor’s guidebook to maximizing ROI

In this era of digital natives, trade shows aren’t the sole source of leads or the potential repository of traffic. Yet, 41% of a B2B exhibitor’s marketing budget is dedicated to these monumental events of massive networking, making them one of the highest marketing spends of SaaS companies, not limited to just software vendors, but also extending to their channel partners.

Why should I exhibit at a trade show?  

The show day is going to bring in the founders and key decision makers from businesses in every stage of growth. Such a targeted group means a lot of warm leads and business. Although the associated cost per lead is high, unlike other marketing channels, you are guaranteed “hot” leads, the majority of which are sales qualified, making it an indispensable strategy of customer acquisition.

Also, despite the criticism to be overpriced, some partners in the channel have understood the value of the ROI that comes along and have begun exhibiting in these large and niche shows!

Broadly Speaking | Zoho Authorized Partner at the B2B Marketing Expo

Trade show marketing: Goals  

Trade shows are the only medium with a large scope for face-to-face connection, becoming a significant generator of warm leads. However, unlike the other media outlets, trade show marketing demands a strategic approach, with a concrete game plan that’s periodically scrutinized for a minimum of six months before the actual event.

But, before investing in the medium, define your SMART goals, to help you track the accompanying ROI. Your goals may be represented by measurements like:

1. The number of new visitors to your landing page

2. Increase in your subscriber’s list

3. Growth of your social media follower base

4. The rise in your organic traffic

5. Number of new leads

6. Percentage of sales qualified leads

7. Number of deals closed

8. Value of the deals brought in

9. Increase in traffic contributed by the geography in which you are planning to exhibit

Remember to aim for such specific, achievable numbers in the metrics you choose. As you define these goals, ensure that you’ve got a steady system to track the appropriate channels and provide evidence on their management and performance. After the big day and a few months of following up, compare your investment and the returns brought in by those leads.

Once you’ve charted out specific goals for the event, here’s how to prep your team before investing in this channel of enormous ROI.

In order to maximize your ROI from the trade show, there are 5 key questions that will be addressed.

1. How to pick the perfect trade show that targets your niche?

2. What are the things to be done a couple of months before the show day?

3. What are the collaterals that can be included in the display inventory and the giveaways?

4. How do I make optimum use of my time at the event?

5. What are the things that I’ll have to within two weeks after the show day?

Audience segmentation

There are a massive number of trade shows happening, catering to people from all over the world, belonging to every imaginable business niche. There are also some industry-focused trade shows that give you the opportunity to approach highly targeted prospects. But before making a choice, look out for where your competition has put up their shop and narrow down on the large and niche events from there. Ask yourself one key question before the final call:

Does your target persona match with the audience at the trade show you’ve decided to exhibit?

When you have this figured out, pick a booth space that’s opposite or in the least diagonal to those of the renowned brands. This will have their audience look at your brand right after they step out. You could also set your space around or on the way to the speaking arena to have every enthusiastic buyer cross your path to the main stage.

Pre-event promotion

Once you’ve picked an event to exhibit, you are all set to kick-start your campaign to win the battle of attention on the show day. Maybe that lead whom you hadn’t closed on a month ago is planning to drop by the event looking for a similar service. After all, 92% of the audience are looking for products and services. So, to make the most out of your marketing investment, how about letting them know where you are before you set up?

Here are some common techniques that could use your innovation!

Email campaigns are the fastest and the most economical way of creating a buzz amongst your target demographic. Most trade show exhibitors are provided with an attendee list. Send out an email or a newsletter to every expected attendee in your mailing list. Craft an innovate theme for the campaign that entices the recipient to come see you there. It might be a free consultation, a trial service, or an appeal to small business.

Going out at a trade show as an exhibitor adds tremendous value to your brand, presenting you as a serious player in the market. Get your social media handles buzzing about your upcoming event using targeted hashtags that includes mentions to the organizer of the show. This will help catch the attention of everyone in the network.

When you kick-start a promotional campaign, it is important to understand your audience. Landing pages are the best way to track this metric. Redesign your website to have a custom landing page, targeting leads from your trade show marketing efforts and other new visitors to your website. Also, include shout-outs and relevant CTAs that will draw organic visitors to this dedicated page. This emphasizes the importance of your consulting practice and might even have them considering you for implementation. So, center your trade show marketing efforts around this landing page. It will also help you understand your booth attendees before the show, giving you a perspective on what they expect of the event.

Time your outreach efforts well ahead of the day of the event to attract attention and create awareness, consequently increasing the number of sales qualified visitors looking out for your booth!

Collaboration on the collaterals

Once you’ve let the world know that you’ll be taking up a spot at the show, begin your work on the design and content creation fronts. Many of your competitors are also going to be there for the day, and they’ll likely have display images on TV and handouts on the stand, so figure out the innovative qualities that distinguish your business from the competition. 

1. Pick a visual theme for your booth designs and have the team conform to that common colour code and company branding.

2. Structure the booth with reusable designs. For example, including the event’s name on the giveaways will not let you promote the same material elsewhere. So, create your business branding around the booth and the accompanying collaterals.

3. Look into the economical alternatives for the seating and electricals. The materials bought from the event organizers are generally twice or thrice the cost of what you could outsource from the local suppliers.

4. Organize the content for signage, trade show displays, elevator pitches, targeted brochures, and other materials that can offer value to your audience.

5. Put up a QR code display that’ll take them to your virtual domain or an engaging landing page

6. Think of creative giveaways that’ll have enormous brand recall value.

7. Customize a mobile application or discussion forum that attendees can download

Have your audience stop by for the attractive offerings, and get them to stay for the value!

You could also engage with the Zoho team to help you come up with creative design ideas, sales kits, and other materials that could add value to your exhibit.

Demo day

Now that you’ve already set up a plan on the displays and signage, it’s time to use this opportunity to unleash the power of face-to-face marketing, because, not everyone at the event will show up at your booth, and you definitely can’t put your booth in front of every face in the audience. This is when you need to keep a check on these two drivers of the show.

Booth(wo)manship  

The success of your booth hinges on the staff for the day and the way they interact with the audience. This makes it crucial to onboard people who emit confidence in their posture and pleasantness in their personality. Visitors of the booth might either be a CEO or their technical team, trying to understand your scope of implementation. So, populate your booth with not just tech experts but sales and business development executives as well. These non-techs are skilled in initiating the initial conversation. So, while the business and salespeople handle the networking and explain how business processes can be optimized with your services, the developers can work with the technical crowd and position you as an implementation expert!

Selling techniques  

Keep yourself engaged in prospecting.

Despite the enormous number of people looking to buy products, there’s also a silent minority who drop by for the giveaways and every other element of fun in the booth. This calls for a set up that doesn’t take the focus away from the purpose of the day. A classic example of this would be exhibitors who set up play stations at events, eventually bringing in the crowd for wrong reasons. Get the best people analysers to fish out the freeloaders in less than 2 minutes into the initial conversation. When you instinctively feel that you are engaging with a high-value prospect, invite them over to the lounge and introduce them to the higher-ups, creating a sense of importance.

Post-event persuasion

According to the Trade Show Bureau:

The majority of trade show sales take place within 11 months after the show.

This stresses the importance of following up with the people you’ve met at the show. But these people aren’t just the leads in your CRM or inbox, but also in the business cards you’d collected at the event!

Unfortunately, most exhibitors are oblivious to the sales opportunities in them. Create a plan to make the most of all your new leads and keep the rapport going. For example, you could complete or initiate a conversation over an email or a call by talking about the convention and how you will be able to add value to their business. Such exercises will also help you build a prospect list for upcoming events in your industry.

Follow up on every handshake and conversation, but adhere to the DNC list.

Trade show: ROI calculation  

Two weeks after the show, review what you accomplished to see if the performance of the show met your initial goals. Bring in information from all the teams engaged at the event and collaborate on the report. Find answers to some of these key questions that can serve as a yardstick for future shows:

Download the ROI calculator here: zoho.to/ROICalc

Even in a SaaS ecosystem, where the idea is to move businesses to the cloud and keep the conversations virtual, business is centred around people, who have an innate desire to build a bond with whomever they are talking to. Just like how as a consultant, we’d want to know about our prospects, customers are also interested in understanding and building that rapport with you, making trade show, a crucial business opportunity for SaaS consultants!

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[sincerelyensouled]

...goddamn.. I’m just remembering an OC I designed a couple of months ago that I really wanted to turn into my persona/muse or whatever. Her name was Jana and they were a science nerd who’s physical appearance was essentially a hooded robe tucked into a pair of pants and glowing eyes. ...That was lich Barry... I redesigned lich Barry to be “me” before I even knew Barry was the red robe