A New Way to Use Old Snapshots – Weddings
A New Way to Use Old Snapshots
LeAnn R. Ralph
If youre like me, you have hundreds of photographs sitting in envelopes. Pictures from birthday parties, weddings, family gatherings, anniversaries, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas. You have already put the best snapshots into albums and these are leftovers. You dont want to throw them away, but you also dont know what to do with them.
Instead of letting your snapshots take up space and contribute to the clutter in your home, use them to make collages at a cost of less than $10 each that you can give as Christmas gifts to family and friends. Heres how:
Assess your collection of pictures. Do you have several dozen of your spouse or significant other Your parents Your children Grandparents A friend A beloved pet Decide which person would like to receive these pictures and divide them into groups accordingly.
Buy a picture frame with glass either 5x7 or 8x10 for each collage you are going to make. Department stores sometimes have sales on picture frames, and you can often purchase a suitable frame for $5 or less.
Cut a sheet of paper use cardstock, 24# paper or light cardboard to match the size of the opening on the picture frame.
Cut out the background of the pictures, leaving just the people or pets. Cut out enough pictures to cover the sheet of paper.
Arrange the cut-out pictures on the paper. Mix and match and experiment. Try placing the pictures at different angles.
After you have an idea of how you would like to arrange the pictures, glue them to the paper. Check the label to make sure that you can use the glue with photographs. Cover the entire sheet of paper with pictures.
When the glue is dry, insert the paper into the frame.
Collages are not only a good way to use your old snapshots, but the recipients also will cherish them for years to come as a special and thoughtful gift.
© 2003 LeAnn R. Ralph
About The Author
LeAnn R. Ralph is a freelance writer in Wisconsin, is the editor of the Wisconsin Regional Writer the quarterly publication of the Wisconsin Regional Writers Assoc. and is the author of the book: Christmas In Dairyland True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm August 2003; trade paperback http://ruralroute2.com
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How To Use Pop-Ups Effectively To Generate More Profits! – Site
How To Use Pop-Ups Effectively To Generate More Profits!
Cory Threlfall
What Im about to explain to you will change to way you do your online marketing Today, Tomorrow and Years to come with little effort on your part.
This simple But effective technique involves the use of a Pop-Up on your website, but, the difference between this technique and just a standard Pop-Up or Exit Pop-Up as we all see them is that when your potential prospects see them they are more then willing to give you there Name and Email address.
Why you ask
Because your offering them something of Value for FREE.
As you well know the word Free is one of the most Powerful words on the internet when used correctly and when combined with an Pop-Up... it could make you alot of extra money with little effort.
As a marketer myself, a simple Name and Email Address is worth hundreds, if not thousands of extra dollars a year if I collect and follow-up my leads properly, but, the questions that always seem to arise are...
...How do I do it ...What steps do I need to take
So... now that I have your attention, let me explain to you how this can be achieved in a simple Step-By-Step fashion.
Step 1:
What do you have that you can give away to your visitors as they leave your website that is of value to your visitor and more importantly, will benefit fromHeres a hint... Free Reports, eBooks, eCourses, etc.
Note: Give away brandable ebooks, reports, etc. with your affiliate links embedded within them. Make sure theyre related to the subject of the content.
Step 2:
Once youve figured out what your going to give away, put together some ad copy for your Pop-Up that your going to build that will grab your visitors attention and get them to sign-up for your Free Offer or Give Away as they leave your website.
Note: You dont have write alot, just a few attention grabbing sentences pointing out the Benefits of your offer.
Step 3:
Write a short Solo. You need this because after they sign-up through your web-form from your pop-up, this is what they will receive in there Inbox with either download info or other instructions that you specify in order for them to receive there Report, eBook, eCourse, etc.
Note: Also, make sure you attach a Signature File at the end of your Solo. Many marketers forget this part and are losing out on alot of extra profits. Dont Forget!
Step 4:
You need to go to your Auto-responder management console and set-up an seperate auto-responder with the solo you wrote for your Free Offer and/or Give Away.
Once youve set your auto-responder its now time for you to copy the HTML code for your auto-responders Web-Form and paste it into the Pop-Up you just put together.
Note: Auto-responder services may very. Simply follow there directions.
Step 5:
This is the easy part, once you have completed all of the other steps, simply paste your Pop-Up code into your desired webpages.
If you use pop-up software that creates and automatically inserts the code for you simply select the webpage you want the code to be placed on and the software will do the rest.
Now simply upload your newly formatted webpage and pop-up to your host and start sending it Traffic!
As a general rule, test out your pop-up for your first week a see how it pulling. You may need to tweek it if its not performing to your stardards. All it takes is just a few words to be changed to make your pop-up a success.
Thats it... your Done!
These are the 5 basic steps needed to turn your website into an fully Automated Sales Machine that will automatically follow-up your leads 24/7/365 without you lifting a finger.
It may take a little time to set-up initially, but itll be worth it in the long run.
Now, I just have one last tip for you.
If you really want to get the most out of your Pop-Up and the leads it brings in simply load-up your already set-up Auto-Responder with 6 or 7or however many you want follow-up emails and set them to go out every 3 to 4 weeks.
For maximum results make sure that you target the particular Product or Service you are offering or promoting because it makes no sense to offer a Product or Service that doesnt relate to what your initial offer was that they signed up for.
cCopyright 2004 by Cory Threlfall
About The Author
Cory Threlfall is the Editor and Publisher of a internet marketing newsletter called the Internet Wonders eZine. Its main focus is towards webmasters by providing Expert Articles, Product Reviews, Tips, & More on how to Promote there web business.
internetwondersezine.com
cory@internetwondersezine.com
11 Creative Ways You Can Use Autoresponders – Affiliate Programs
11 Creative Ways You Can Use Autoresponders
Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ
1. Pick 4 or more articles youve written that have a common theme and put them in an autoresponder series. Announce it on your site as an e-mail course on the go.
2. If you have a page for related links, create a related links file and put it on autoresponder. This can be a one-page e-mail containing 15-50 links that are of interest to your visitors. Put your own promotional texts or blurbs at the top, middle and bottom of the e-mail.
3. Create a fun or trivia quiz, put it up on your site and put the answers in an autoresponder that your visitors can request. This way, youll know the people who took your quiz.
4. Write reviews of books, music, e-books, sites, software or anything you can think of and put each review or related reviews in an autoresponder. If what you are reviewing have affiliate programs, use your affiliate links in the autoresponder.
5. Run a contest on your site or e-zine, then have your visitors or subscribers send their responses to your autoresponder. This way, you wont have to worry about manually sending them a confirmation receipt.
6. Create a frequently updated autoresponder and let your visitors and/or subscribers know about it. You can put in weekly tips or links to useful resources in the autoresponder and a reminder to the people who request it that you update it every week or on a regular basis e.g. tell them to request for the same autoresponder again a week from now. You can use this method instead of using autoresponders with limited follow up messages.
7. If youve written 20 or more articles and you have them on separate autoresponder accounts, create a master list for your articles. In this master list, list the titles of your articles, their autoresponder addresses and their short descriptions. You can then just promote this master list.
8. Put excerpts or free chapters of your e-book, book or paid e-mail courses in an autoresponder series, then include your follow up sales letters at the end.
9. If youre selling your own products, put your testimonials on autoresponder, along with the description of your products, an excerpt or a free chapter. This will increase your credibility.
10. Keep track of people who download your free e-book, e-report, or free software by putting their download links in an autoresponder. When you promote your free product, you can just promote the autoresponder address.
11. Put links to your hidden pages on autoresponder. A hidden page could be the affiliate page where you have all the graphics, text links, promotional articles that interested affiliates can use. Let people know they can have free access to your affiliate page by requesting the autoresponder. This way, you can have a list of people who are interested in becoming your affiliates.
About The Author
Copyright c Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ
Shery is the developer of creative, motivating and fun e-mail courses for writers. Sign up and take an e-mail course today -- free! -- at http://WritingBliss.com. She also authored the e-book that lets you create your own original and profitable E-mail Workshops, eCourses and Tutorials in only 3 days! Visit http://EmailWorkshopsHowTo.com for more info.