Have you heard that saying about the shoemaker’s children going shoeless? I often struggle to do the things I advise my clients to do, like blogging, refining internal systems, and personal branding.
Twitter backgrounds are the same. 
While I’ve been creating backgrounds for others, I neglected to create my own… but I’ve done it now!
Because this is a background for my personal Twitter account (for me, Sarah Lewis, rather than any of my businesses), I opted to have fun with it by using a friendly photo and some bright colors (contrasted with more “steady” colors that I also love).
Since it’s easy enough for people to click my website link, I opted to leave my contact info off the background and instead tried to communicate something about who I am. (In other words, I took my own advice!)
The photo shows a few interesting visual facts—that I have partially pink hair and that I’m pregnant. Even though these are obviously surface-level facts, I think that seeing them helps people get some sense of my personality (a little quirky!) and priorities (family).
Along the same lines, I used the very cool Wordle service to generate a word cloud from my Delicious tags. Applied artistically, the cloud isn’t intended to be completely “read,” but just to give viewers quick hints about the kinds of things I care about. It’s also a pretty good clue about the kinds of things I tweet about.
Because I used the pregnant-Sarah photo, I’ll obviously want to update this background in a few months, but I figure by then I’ll have some baby pictures I can’t wait to use! And because of the way I built this background, it’s pretty simple to swap out the photo.
If you’d like a personal custom Twitter background, I encourage you to get an instant quote. It’s a blast having a background that fits you perfectly!
