Bluff City Cartoon Factory

This presentation was developed to show the enormous amount of data the postal service uses to ensure proper mail delivery. The presentation was built using PowerPoint for the slides. Many of the moving images were built in PowerPoint and converted to GIF images. Some images were gathered from GIPHY.COM. The music is courtesy of bensound.com.

In her TED Talk from 2017 Lulu Miller showed the world some of the tricks used by people in radio, and by pod-casters to help make the audio you hear clean and crisp . Personally speaking, I have a wonderful home office. It is on the second floor of my home and I have great views with lots of natural light.  But, I live moments away from a fire station and right next to a pretty busy street. There are also plenty of beautifully manicured lawns nearby with a whole variety of pieces of power equipment going at any given time . Each of these sounds from the outside world can make recording a crisp dialogue pretty near impossible if it were not for my invisibility cloak . When I need a quiet place to record a voice-over I use a portable pop-up tent that I cover with a heavy blanket (my invisibility cloak) . It only takes seconds to setup or tear down, and it does a great job of deadening the sound from the room and keeps the outside noise out. I don’t do a ton of voice-ove

Here is a cool scenario based training deck I used recently for a local client's HR training. Of course as always I removed all the original language so you can create your own.   Click here and download your own copy to use and edit.

Here is a free St. Patrick's day template that you can use to get your green on. Get your copy here and make it yours.

This is an example of a training deck that users can build to help students or employees through various topics. It is very simple to create and uses the built-in hyperlink capabilities of PowerPoint to navigate. Click here to download your own copy to use and edit  

When we offer some kind of service to people (as many of us do), you will realize that some of your precious customers tend to be less difficult to do business with than others. Most are wonderful, some forgettable, and some you declare as completely impossible. Although your perspective of your client is determined by many factors (including your relative levels of expertise, your specialties, along with the nature of the project), I'm going to go out on a limb to say there in fact is such a thing as an “ impossibl e” customer — an individual who displays a number of “bad behaviors" which make the relationship more complicated than it needs to be and frustrates your ability to carry out the project you've been hired to produce. There are times, whenever customers behave in such a manner, our primal impulses kick in and we're inclined to react with even worse behaviors of our own. However, there's a better way. Difficult clientele can be controlled; but provi