Can’t See a Reason to Have a Portrait? Consider The Alternative...
 
So you think you’re doing
 just fine without a portrait for your business. You’ve gotten this far okay without one, so why should you start now? Plenty of good reasons, and here’s the photographic proof. These actual nonunretouched photographs show two possible disastrous outcomes of not having a good portrait for promoting yourself.
 
The poor fellow in the first shot has literally lost his head! He doesn’t know which way to go or what to do. He can’t even think straight any more. No longer able to tell whether he should come or go, sit or stand, smile or frown, he’s stuck going nowhere in his business. Would a customer hire this guy? Of course not!–to get ahead in today’s competitive business world, you need a good head on your shoulders. He doesn’t have it.
 
The second shot shows another consequence of not having a business portrait. When this gentleman goes to business meetings, networking groups, Chamber events, trade shows, corporate retreats, and so forth, nobody knows who he is. By his own admission, he started wearing the wood pulp appliance to stave off the humiliation of being so anonymous. Once he began doing so, everybody instantly recognizing his distinctive smooth brown features. Now he’s in limbo. In a quandary over what to do. Should he continue wearing the device over his head until he reaches retirement age, or should he boldly rip it off and make an appointment with the area’s best portrait photographer?
 
In summation, the perils of not having a good business portrait are too great. Once you go down this path, you become nondescript, bland, anonymous, undistinguished, alienated, invisible, sequestered and obscure. Plus you look weird not showing your face.
 
To get ahead, you must have a head. It’s one of the few parts of your body you can show off naked. Don’t hide it.
 
February 14, 2007