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Throughout my travels in ghost writing, webpage building, and social media managing, I often find a need to use stock images, or creative commons images to use beside text copy. Generally, the world of stock photography is infinite; you can pretty much find anything you’re looking for when you go on iStock or otherwise. But… Sometimes you find a lot of weird stuff too. Things that you don’t imagine you could ever really quite use, things that are strange, things that are “out there” enough. That’s what this post is dedicated to. Be forewarned, one or two of these images…

If you were around social media yesterday, no doubt you saw many jokes flying off during April Fool’s day. We joined in on the fun by releasing a retro, 1990s-early 2000s homepage full of loads of nostalgia for those old Geocities and Angelfire pages. There was a surprising amount of love and care put into this endeavor that actually made this page trickier than you would think.

If you missed it, hasOptimization hosted a cutest pet competition where each employee put forward one of their pets to compete for the coveted spot as the cutest pet. The competition was fierce — a full blown campaign was launched for Cole the duck on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and more, including a British voiced campaign against the other competitors. The other competitors shot back in various ways throughout the week. Overall it was a lot of fun! If you missed the hubbub on social, don’t worry, we’ll have a recap for you after we announce the winner.

Each hasOptimization team member has put up one of their pets to see if they have what it takes to become to hasOptimization cutest pet. The competition is FIERCE! It’s been a whole week of intense competition over on social media, and now we’re opening up voting so you can decided who is the cutest pet. If you haven’t seen it, take a look at our Facebook page as each pet has their case stated for why they are simply the cutest pet! Ready to vote? Simply cast your vote below but remember… Everyone gets one vote! We’ll tally the…

Updated 4/14/20. New items are marked with new We know that it’s going to be a rough bit of time, but don’t worry — we’re all in this together and we all feel the pain you do! We want to help. We’ve compiled a list of a ton of free or low cost things you can do while staying inside. Most of these things require the internet, so make sure you have a nice fast internet connection. Many more are kid-friendly (we’ll mark if they’re not), so if you have children that have to stay at home too, here are…

I “rebranded” myself in August of this year, announcing my name change (it’s Logan now!) to my family, staff and clients. And the world, of course! It went better/smoother than I’d expected, and the brand stakeholder (that’s me!) is delighted with the results, all of which is pretty much the best you can say of any rebranding effort. Now, two months out from the announcement, I’m reflecting on that rebranding as I watch my friend and colleague Amanda rebrand her business. Rebranding a business is, as I said in my original post, very much like rebranding yourself. You must identify…

We’re really excited for the new year, and we know you are too! That’s why we’ve compiled this quick video with some stats of what we’ve done for 2018 and what kind of absurdity we’ve been up to!

AKA: Self Induced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Sorry, is my psych degree showing? I noticed today that I haven’t updated my blog in well over a week, which I try to avoid doing. I like the exercise of writing, if nothing else. Anyways, I haven’t updated recently because, as usual, I’ve been insanely busy. However, I have been doing something unusual: I’ve been making a distinct effort not to complain about my level of busyness. I will fully admit to being the person who uses Facebook as a personal venting space (and there’s a good reason why my personal Facebook is…

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be appearing on Courage Cocktail today, on WCOM FM 103.5 today at noon (in about….15 minutes!) and later on their podcast (I’ll try to link that up when it’s available). I’ll be following up the lovely Jackie Houston, a style and image consultant, talking about how her wardrobe consulting can help young professionals. I’m super excited about this opportunity! Update: here’s the podcast! I come in at about 39 minutes, but if you’re interested in image consulting, I highly recommend listening to Jackie too. I’m just there to support her.

This is the view out my window last week. ENORMOUS icicles.