When you think you have determined a growing trend, you need to make sure that your image coincides with the trend you are attempting to follow. This takes us to our next requirement.Marketable Image There are many factors that come into play when building a marketable image. In order to be truly marketable, your image has to coincide with the type of music you are attempting to create. What this means is that you should try
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However, you should have a general knowledge of the popular fashion trends in your genre and do your best to shape your image around those trends.Your clothes, shoes, hair, sunglasses, accessories... can all be used to build an image. After signing a record deal, most record companies will insist that you replicate a certain image to some extent. So, what better way to attract their attention and give yourself an advantage over the competition than to align your image with the popular artists creating the same style of music as you?If you want to be the biggest rock band in the world, you better look like a Rock star. Whether it is Rap, Rock, Country, R&B... popular artists in any genre stand out because they have a strong image. So, build your image to identify with the genre of music you are attempting to create.
Supposing you aren't the gregarious type, there's nothing wrong with hanging back and "lurking" for awhile until you feel comfortable enough to post.
Surf's up. Don't get clucked -- go catch some gnarlicious waves.
Dog boarding on the web. Wanna talk about dogs? Got a question about what yours is doing? Get some advice on how to teach a new dog an old trick? Learn about BARF? NILIF? Brag? Want help finding an ethical breeder? Choosing a breed for your next dog? Locating a legitimate rescue? Some coaching on how to fill out rescue applications or what to expect a good rescue to require? Surrounded by people who think you're nuts because you keep a larger photo of your dogs or more photos of them on your desk than you have pictures of your kids? Need some sympathetic mourners for our favorite pair of shoes . . . or condolence and reassurance that your best buddy really is going to be waiting for you across the Rainbow Bridge? Or even just read about other people's dog experiences?
If you're adventurous, extroverted, or merely feeling social, one way to test the waters is to jump right in. Register and cruise around the joint for half an hour or so, then post a thread introducing yourself to the rest of the board and then begin posting. Photos are generally most welcome and a great way to break the ice, especially in an introduction. A picture of your dog -- or dogs and a brief description of them as well as a short comment about yourself is a start on the right foot. People like to know who they are talking to.
First you surf (the Net), then you find your board. Or boards.
At the other end of the spectrum are the boards where just about anything goes. No subject is off limits, "dog fights" among the members may break out at the slightest provocation -- or even without any that's apparent to the observer. Moderation is minimal or at least kept in the background and there is an expectation of responsibility
Only the order's a little reversed.
Well, COWABUNGA, surf's up!
Quite a few boards were founded for specific reasons; to help people with dogs that have certain conditions like blindness, deafness, seizures, amputations
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clearance new era hats, behavioral disorders, if your dog has an issue, chances are there's a dog board dedicated to it!
There is a forum/board to suit anyone. Large boards with - literally - tens of thousands of members where all you have to do is register. Small, private boards with membership applications that must be approved or where you must have a referral from an established member.
Obviously, neither of the ends of the spectrum are right for everyone, but there are so many that fall in between. There is no one place on the internet that is right or "home" to everyone, but there is also no rule that says you must find one forum you like, one hundred percent of the time and only go there. Many forum junkies -- as well as people who just like variety -- move from one forum to another or allocate their computer time to several different ones, depending on their own mood as well as the atmosphere of the forum at a given moment.
Some forums embrace all breeds, or certain types, like hunting dogs, mastiffs, toy breeds, pit bull types, livestock guardians (LGDs) large dogs or small dogs. If you have an interest or own a particular breed you can choose from many different breed specific boards, some of them as large or larger than most general, all breed forums.
Equally important as the quality of information on the board is the personality of it. You need to find one where you're comfortable interacting. There are forums that are tightly ################## and dialogue is expected to be maintained in strict order, the original subjects of the thread required to be addressed in each post without deviation, quite genteel and highly structured.
It's great to be able to talk with other folks, sometimes from all over the world, who share, each in their own fashion, a fascination and deep and abiding love for dogs.
on the part of each individual to conduct themselves within reasonable bounds.
Posting for help with a problem is the way some people find their way to a forum home. Be prepared for a great deal of information, some of it contradictory, but when information is offered, if you don't like it, be gracious and remember that you don't get to dictate the answers or comments others make. Rarely will established members be gratuitously nasty, and don't forget that you're new, and the other members know less about you than you do them at this point, so be on your best behavior!