Just a few short years ago, I couldn't see myself with a smartphone. I was an analog snob. I was more than satisfied with my flip phone...the one with real buttons. Buttons you could push. I sent texts the old-school way...where you went with the number 1 and chose "a, b, or c", and so on.
Then The Preacher got a free upgrade on his smartphone. He gave me his old one.
Then I started a creative business. The kind of business that requires you to quickly master digital photography and open an Etsy shop and think outside the box.
Now I love my smartphone. As in, "if-I-weren't-already-married-I-might-date-it" kind of love.
And I do think technology can be beautiful. So long as it doesn't interfere with our making eye contact with our children, or making love with our spouse, or making time for a friend, I think technology is amazing. In what other era could I run an entire business from the beach, with a few swipes of my finger, in less than a half-hour a day, while on vacation?
{Been there. Did that. Last year. Made money while sitting on the beach for a week.}
So here's to the smartphone. And yes....selfies and apps and all that smartphones entail. Were I to coach you in your business, I would tell you in a heartbeat to get over yourself and dive into social media. Do it yesterday. Start instagraming and tweeting and Facebooking and blogging and heck yes, take a few tasteful selfies (don't try to be sexy - be professional, be fun), because people don't want automation, they don't want faceless, they want to at least have an idea of who it is they are doing business with.
It isn't ego, when you run a creative business. It's good business.
I took a few of my favorite mixed media pieces, and made them into smartphone cases/covers for Samsung Galaxy, and iPhones 4 and 5 (not 5C).
Find them here
