Happy Birthday PIZZA

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People around the world may have different opinions about all the food, But all of them agree on this:
“Pizza is awesome!“

Where did this love come from? We often associate pizza with Italian food. But do the Italians get the credit? Or did someone else make the very first pizza? There’s not an easy answer. Different historians have different ideas.
A lot depends on how you define “pizza.”

Do you think of pizza as a flatbread cooked in an oven? If so, its roots go back to ancient times in the Middle East. The ancient Babylonians and Egyptians ate flat bread baked in mud ovens.

Do you think a pizza has to have toppings? In that case, it dates back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. They both ate baked flatbreads topped with olive oil and spices.

Word pizza is Greek in origin, derived from the Greek word pēktos meaning solid or clotted. The ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese. The first major innovation that led to flat bread pizza was the use of tomato as a topping. It was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomatoes to their yeast-based flat bread, Today, we call this dish focaccia bread.

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Its believed that modern pizza was first made by baker Raffaele Esposito of Naples.
A popular urban legend holds that the Typical pizza “Pizza Margherita” was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita.

Of the three different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pie swathed in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella).
So,this kind of pizza was then named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita.

Today, pizza is one of the most popular foods in the United States and many parts of the world:

⦁ The first pizzeria, Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba, was opened in 1830 in Naples.
⦁ In North America, The first pizzeria was opened in 1905 by Gennaro Lombardi at 53 1/3 Spring Street in New York City.
⦁ The first Pizza Hut, the chain of pizza restaurants appeared in the United States during the 1930s.

There is no specific location where National Pizza Day is celebrated.
And the only one way to celebrate National Pizza Day, and that is by enjoying it in one of its many forms. Throw an office pizza party, go out to your local pizzeria and grab a slice, or simply take home a frozen pizza.

What are your favourite toppings?

Did you know the story of Gary Vaynerchuk?
He doesn’t perform miracles, but he did turn the family liquor store into an ecommerce empire. It’s the kind of success story that gives anyone with entrepreneurial aspirations hope.
Gary’s story has humble beginnings with hard work and dedication leading him to success.
He embodies authenticity and self-determinism. From creating content on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and LinkedIn, he positions himself as someone who’s grounded and wants you to achieve success on your own terms. He is also the co-founder of https://vaynermedia.com/ .

When it comes to branding, most of us are used to thinking about brands in terms of companies or products. Apple, Starbucks, McDonald’s, BMW and hundreds of other well-known brands instantly come to my mind.
Nowadays, anything (or anyone) can be a brand. This basically means that even as an individual, you can develop your own personal brand.

What is Personal Branding?

Pre-digital business era, building a personal brand meant owning a bunch of business cards that you could share at several events and social gatherings. If you wanted to go the extra mile, you would hire someone to design a custom logo for you.
The evolution of digital technologies and social media has led personal branding to an entirely new level. With competition being stronger than ever, individuals have to get more creative with self-promotion and personal branding in order to secure high-quality clients or customers.

In the simplest of terms, The personal brand is an image you’ve created around your own professional self. It should represent a combination of skills and experiences that are unique to you ( not your company or product, but to the person itself ).

Brand vs. Company

Even though the term “brand” is often used mutually with the term “company”, the two are not quite the same.
While a company can be defined as an organization that produces, markets and/or sells products or services,
a brand represents a “personality” the company ascribes to its products.

Brand is an image you’ve created around your products and it represents the first association your customers have when thinking about your products or services.
Companies can own more than one brand. Just as individuals can brand themselves – which leads us to personal branding.

Benefits of Personal Branding

When it’s done properly, personal branding can lead to:

⦁ Better job offers
⦁ More interviews
⦁ Promotions
⦁ Partnerships
⦁ Influencer engagements

Personal Brand needs a portfolio website, Why?

The most obvious and most effective way of establishing your personal brand’s online presence is portfolio websites.
Clothes don’t make the man. Just as that online presence does make a successful individual in the modern business world.
What better way to establish an online presence than a great portfolio website?

A portfolio is definitely one of the best ways to showcase your work it’s not just a simple collection of your best work samples because it lets you show the world who you really are, what kind of work you do, how you do it,who you really want to work with and what your future career goals.

It’s the first impression you make in the world of online business opportunities.
so you need to make sure it counts. When a potential client lands on your website, they don’t just expect to see a collection of your skills and previous work experiences – they use it to form an opinion of you as a brand.

How to build personal brand online

By following these 11 tips you will ensure your Personal Branding success:

Know your audience.

The focus of your blog-and all your content-must be your readers. What are their needs? What are their pains? How can you help?

You could guess, but you’ll take the risk of being wrong. The ideal is to conduct a survey. Ask a few specific questions to uncover demographic and psychographic information.
As a result of your survey, you’ll be able to profile your audience and work toward improving more focused content with greater probability of resonating with your readers

Create a clear value.

What can you offer your audience? What will they get from investing their time in your content? Do you offer leadership insights? Do you offer resources to help people work smarter?
Create a briefed and simple answer and you have your value proposition. You may have to experiment with your value proposition and revise it from time to time.
A clear value proposition will serve as a frame for all your efforts.

Write a meaningful brand slogan.

The level of noise in media today and recognize how critical it is to make a strong impression quickly.
A great way to address this challenge is to but your value proposition into a slogan.

Show yourself.

People want to connect with people, not just brands.
Presenting a great photo of yourself helps establish credibility and build trust. It also helps you connect via social media.
Get a great headshot that captures the real, authentic you!
Pick one headshot to use on your website and across all your social media networks. Here are some ideas for capturing yourself in action:

⦁ Working at your computer
⦁ Shooting a video
⦁ Analyzing your client’s data
⦁ Recording a podcast
⦁ Coaching one-on-one
⦁ Speaking before a large crowd
⦁ Facilitating a small group meeting
⦁ Autographing your book at an event

⦁ And the photo that will serve you best is simply you looking into the lens smiling, looking friendly and with no distractions.

Establish a look.

Any outstanding personal brand should present itself consistently.
But be careful Using a variety of logos, colors, and fonts will confuse your audience.
Develop a look for your personal brand with:

⦁ A professionally designed logo
⦁ A limited menu of fonts
⦁ A pleasing color palette
Apply the standards you create to everything-your website, advertising, etc.

Find your own voice.

You have to be prepared for putting yourself out there.This will require establishing your voice.
A goal in the development of your personal brand should be building a growing community of dedicated fans. You have to discover how to express yourself as unique individual you are.
This isn’t just a one task like getting a nice looking head shot.
It’s a process. It’s also a topic that we could examine for pages Instead, we will simply offer some insights and words of caution:
Don’t copy another writer’s style.
A better take on the approach is to identify another writer’s style-or several-and learn from them. Subscribe to their blogs and read the content. Don’t write like them. Try to identify why their style appeals to you.
But, Unless you’ve had a good amount of experience writing professionally, don’t try to write like yourself either.
What?

Simply don’t try so hard to become the writer version of yourself. Just be yourself.
You try to sound smart. Or authoritative. Or journalistic. You wind up sounding like you’re leading a lecture. Eww
You’re better off writing like you’re speaking to one person. Like someone you speak too often and feel confident about expressing yourself to him.

Get comfortable developing your voice. Don’t overthink your writing. Just write! Go back and edit a little for clarity. Publish. The style will evolve. Your voice will rise.

Create an email list.

Personal branding is in general online marketing. The most valuable asset an online marketer could ever hope to have is an email list people who have raised their hands and declared, “market to me,” or possible, “keep me in.”
You may be thinking,
“Who’s going to give me their email address before I have content to offer?”
Good question.
So all you have to do is to development your email list and publishing your email program can indeed wait a while. But it should be a short while.

And after you have published 6 to 10 solid posts and got comfortable with one or two social media networks, it’s email time!
Develop an offer such as an eBook or webinar you’re willing to give away and create a landing page where you’re able to capture the email addresses of your readers.

Its shocking that companies either don’t focus on developing email lists while building their brand, or worse yet, never plan to. They feel email is old school. Will Email is the private and mostly trusted medium everyone uses.

There is so much power in putting email to work. Don’t ever underestimate it in building a personal brand.

Be in the dialogue.

The age of the marketer’s monologue is gone. The people behind great personal brands are great conversationalists. They listen and respond!
Only foolish old marketing believe advertisers talk and consumers listen.
The point is you have to allow your customers to blend in. Always make sure of that. You need to encourage it.

Consider the following ways to do this:
⦁ Put up blog comments and respond to them.
⦁ Offer onsite polls.
⦁ Conducted surveys.
⦁ Encourage reviews.
⦁ Host chat.
⦁ gathering forums.
⦁ Get social.

Once again, the real point is that it’s time to get onboard with the idea that the only brand you can build when you do all the talking is an arrogant one. On your path to becoming a revered personal brand, your goal should be to ignite meaningful, brand conversations in your community.

Build a circle of influencers.

Want to be influential? It’s in the job description of the personal brander.
Every club, class, team, or organization always seems to have “the popular people,”, it feels awkward to invite yourself into it and unlikely to work. However, with social media it’s not awkward or difficult and it does work.

There are a variety of ways you’ll build your influence and authority as you build your personal brand by gaining new relationships.
For example:

⦁ Shake hands and swap business cards at events.
⦁ Call on experts to contribute to your content.
⦁ Create “gathering” content that recognizes authoritative leaders and their work.
⦁ Ask people you know to introduce you to people they know and look for partnership opportunities.
⦁ Create communities of your own on LinkedIn, Google+ and other social media.
⦁ Ask for guest post opportunities.
⦁ Publish lists, for example, books or blogs you’ve read.
⦁ Share the content of influencers you admire.

Create content.

Your personal brand is reflected in the content you create and share. Creating content to showcase your expertise must be at the core of your personal branding efforts.
And remember to take these considerations to heart:
⦁ What’s your main message you want to spread?
⦁ What’s most valuable for the reader?
⦁ How can you present material and a point of view that’s not familiar?
⦁ Are you focused on educating the reader, not promoting yourself?
⦁ Where can you publish it to help support the growth of your personal brand?
⦁ Will your content inspire some sort of action?

Focus on sharing your knowledge. At the same time, don’t fear having a strong point of view. Say what you think. No one values a bland brand.
If you’re not a skilled writer or editor, be sure to ask for help.

Remember, we’re talking about a personal brand. You. If you want to challenge convention, do it. By taking a stand, you might not be liked to everyone, but that’s not the goal. You want to ignite the passion in the right people.

You’ll find your status as an expert will grow faster with bold content and opportunities for interviews, speaking gigs, consulting contracts, and more will come faster and more frequently.

Use a variety of media types to suit the different preferences of your target market:

⦁ Blog
⦁ Videos
⦁ Podcasts
⦁ Webinars
⦁ Presentations
⦁ eBooks

Stay connected.

The development of your personal brand in the end is, your ability to benefit on it is derived from the connections you make.

Power of your network:
⦁ Building a great network takes time. Make it part of your daily routine and expand it continuously.
⦁ Follow up with new connections you make immediately, and alwyas stay in touch
⦁ The wider your network, the more resources you reign to solve problems.
⦁ Connect the people in your network to each other.
Think big:

⦁ Study the network of successful leaders in your specialize and follow their lead.
⦁ Surround yourself with top-notch people.
⦁ Don’t let fear stops you. Have the confidence to reach out to the best.
⦁ Find mentors. Listen to them.
⦁ Ask for advice from everyone you stand to learn from.

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Be a giver:
⦁ Give as much as you can.
⦁ Ask your connections if you can do anything for them.
⦁ Ask a lot of questions and listen as much.
⦁ Tell people you’re excited to hear their stories. They’ll be delighted to share them.
⦁ Make yourself available to your colleagues and organizations.
⦁ Give thanks to everyone for acts of any kind.

And finally, always use the power of storytelling to give your connections things to remember you by.

In your opinion, who is the most successful personal branding nowadays?

Michelangelo, in full Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni,

An Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Today’s influential character is known for the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508 –12) in the Vatican.

It include the iconic depiction of the creation of Adam interpreted from Genesis,

This was probably the best known of Michelangelo’s works today, but the artist thought of himself primarily as a sculptor. His famed sculptures include the David (1501), now in the Accademia in Florence,

and the Pietà (1499), now in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Michelangelo is considered one of the most brilliant artists of the Italian Renaissance. Michelangelo was an apprentice to a painter before studying in the sculpture gardens of the Medici family (House of Medici)

ِAfter that he had a remarkable career as an artist, famed in his own time for his artistic virtuosity. Although he always considered himself a Florentine, Michelangelo lived most of his life in Rome, where he died at age 88.
Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. The artist thought of himself primarily as a sculptor. His practice of several arts, however, was not unusual in his time, when all of them were thought of as based on design, or drawing. Michelangelo worked in marble sculpture all his life and in the other arts only during certain periods. The high regard for the Sistine ceiling is partly a reflection of the greater attention paid to painting in the 20th century and partly, too, because many of the artist’s works in other media remain unfinished.
It is claimed that the artist deliberately left them incomplete to represent this eternal struggle of human beings to free themselves from their material trappings. As you admire the Prisoners from different angles, one can notice Michelangelo’s love and understanding of the human anatomy.
A side effect of Michelangelo’s fame in his lifetime was that his career was more fully documented than that of any artist of the time or earlier.

Early Life

Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy, the second of five sons.
When Michelangelo was born, his father, Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni, was briefly serving as a magistrate in the small village of Caprese. The family returned to Florence when Michelangelo was still an infant.
His mother, Francesca Neri, was ill, so Michelangelo was placed with a family of stonecutters, where he later joked about saying: “With my wet-nurse’s milk, I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statutes.”

Education

Michelangelo was not interested in schooling than watching the painters at nearby churches and drawing what he saw, according to his earliest biographers (Vasari, Condivi and Varchi). It may have been his grammar school friend, Francesco Granacci, six years his senior, who introduced Michelangelo to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio.

Michelangelo’s father realized that his son had no interest in the family business, so he agreed to train him, at the age of 13, to Ghirlandaio and the Florentine painter’s fashionable workshop. There, Michelangelo was exposed to the technique of fresco, the mural painting technique where pigment is placed directly on fresh, or wet, lime plaster.

Eedici Family

As we briefed before that Michelangelo had studied at the Medici family , From 1489 to 1492, he studied classical sculpture in the palace gardens of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de’ Medici of the powerful Medici family. This extraordinary opportunity opened to him after spending only a year at Ghirlandaio’s workshop, at his mentor’s recommendation.
This was a great time for Michelangelo; the years with the family permitted him access to the social elite of Florence allowing him to study under the respected sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni and exposing him to prominent poets, scholars and learned humanists.

He also obtained special permission from the Catholic Church to study cadavers for insight into anatomy, though exposure to corpses had an adverse effect on his health.

These combined influences laid the groundwork for what would become Michelangelo’s distinctive style: a muscular precision and reality combined with an almost lyrical beauty. Two relief sculptures that survive, “Battle of the Centaurs” and “Madonna Seated on a Step,” are testaments to his phenomenal talent at the tender age of 16.

Living in Rome

Political conflict in the aftermath of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s death led Michelangelo to flee to Bologna, where he continued his study. He returned to Florence in 1495 to begin work as a sculptor, modeling his style after masterpieces of classical antiquity.

There are several versions of an intriguing story about Michelangelo’s famed “Cupid” sculpture, which was artificially “aged” to resemble a rare antique.

One version claims that Michelangelo aged the statue to achieve a certain patina, and another version claims that his art dealer buried the sculpture an “aging” method before attempting to pass it off as an antique.

Personality

Although Michelangelo’s intelligent mind and torrential talents earned him the regard and sponsorship of the wealthy and powerful men of Italy, he had his share of detractors.

He had a contentious personality and quick temper, which led to fractious relationships, often with his superiors. This not only got Michelangelo into trouble, it created an unwelcome influence for the painter, who constantly pursued for perfection but was unable to compromise. He sometimes fell into spells of melancholy, which were recorded in many of his literary works, as he once wrote: “I am here in great distress and with great physical strain, and have no friends of any kind, nor do I want them; and I do not have enough time to eat as much as I need; my joy and my sorrow, my repose are these discomforts”

In his youth, Michelangelo had mocked one of his fellow students, and received a blow on the nose that scarred him for life.
And over the years, he suffered increasing inabilities from the accuracy of his work. In one of his poems, he documented the massive physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

But his most memorable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years older than him.

Poetry

Michelangelo’s poetic impulse, which had been expressed in his sculptures, paintings and architecture, began taking literary form in his later years.

Although he never married, Michelangelo was devoted to a pious and noble widow named Vittoria Colonna, the subject and recipient of many of his more than 300 poems and sonnets. Their friendship remained a great consolation to Michelangelo until Colonna’s death in 1547.

Not as many artists, Michelangelo accomplished fame and wealth during his lifetime. He also had the odd distinction of living to see the publication of two biographies about his life, written by Giorgio Vasari and Ascanio Condivi.

Michelangelo’s artistic had dominance for centuries, and his name has become synonymous with the finest humanist tradition of the Renaissance.