Is that YOU?

I just read a blog by Maureen Franci & Dmitry Koublitsky asking everyone - How old is your picture on Active Rain?

It's not just Active Rain that boggles the mind on occassion, but I think we all have seen pictures of Agents that we knew to be not just a couple of years, but a couple of decades old.

I know - everyone gets busy, and taking yet another picture is not on the top of the list. Time gets away from us and before we know it, we are re-using the same old picture, because after all - NEXT time we'll have a new picture.

But what does this say to our clients? Either that we are so busy that they have to wonder if we will have the time to take care of them the right way? Or that we don't care at all (hence the old, old picture) - and who's to say we'll care about them throughout our working relationship?

This was also brought up during a fairly recent class, and one gentlemen's answer was: "Well, I don't like the way I look now, I look Old!" Upon which the Instructor remarked: "What are you going to tell your clients, the first time they see you, after they've seen your card? Surprise?"

So, lets go out and take that new picture. Fearless and with much confidence! After all - studies have shown that business cards with a picture will be kept longer than a card without a picture.