April 9, 2011
From Zazzle with love- Save the Date magnets!
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If you're looking for a special Save the date item, why not replace the traditional card for a fridge magnet? Here's a short collection of some of my Zazzle favorites Save the Date Magnets! Hope you enjoy it!
Black Dots Bride & Groom Save The Date Magnet by celebrateitinvites
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Save The Date: Date Blocks - Fuchsia Green by berryberrysweet
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fatfatin Red Floral Garden Save The Date Magnet by fat_fa_tin
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Gold & Black Floral Scroll Save The Date Magnet by theedgeweddings
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White Roses & Wedding Rings - Save The Date by ZazzleBusinessCards
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Black and White Polka Dot Save the Date Magnet by wasootch
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Tandem Bike (Yellow / Brown) Save the Date by poptasticbride
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Blue & White Abstract Floral Wedding Magnet by wasootch
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Retro Flowers · Green · Save the Date Magnet by CSWedding
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April 8, 2011
DRAWING DAY DESIGN CHALLENGE!
The challenge
Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event which encourages everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art and creativity. The aim is to get artists across the interweb to create and upload 1 million drawings within 24 hours. Drawing Day 2011 falls on Saturday the 4th of June. RedBubble artists have always been great supporters of Drawing Day and this year the organisers are offering you the chance to create a Drawing Day design which will appear on Drawing Day merchandise. For more information about the day and why it exists, visit the Drawing Day website.
Judging / Voting Criteria
The entries will be shortlisted by the community through the voting process. The final three winners will be selected from the top 20 by RedBubble and the Drawing Day organisers. RedBubble and Drawing Day will select final winners at their sole discretion. The official logo is available for inspiration but you are not required to reference this in your design. Designs must be uploaded using the RedBubble t-shirt template and the preview should be set to a white background. If it’s not on a white tee, it’s not getting in!
Rewards and Prizes
First, Second and Third Prize: Your design will appear on Drawing Day 2011 merchandise and you will each receive a $100 USD RedBubble gift voucher. Fourth and Fifth runners up will each receive A $50 USD RedBubble voucher.
Additional Information
By entering this challenge you grant permission for your design to be used on Drawing Day merchandise which will be sold via RedBubble, and for use in images used to promote this merchandise. Drawing Day will credit the winning artists in the description of the works with a link back to your RedBubble profile. Artist commission from the sale of Drawing Day merchandise will go towards promotional efforts to help spread the word about Drawing Day and to encourage more artists to get involved.
Artists retain full ownership and copyright of images entered into the challenge. Winning artists will be required to hide the designs and not offer them for sale on their own portfolio until after Drawing Day (June 4 2011). Designs will remain for sale via the Drawing Day profile until 1 September 2011.
All entrants into the challenge agree to be bound by the Official Rules. You may only submit one image. Entrants must have clear copyright ownership or permission to use any images utilised in their final submission. Any images that do not meet the above criteria will be removed.
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April 3, 2011
#4 Zazzle Stores to discover: AllyJCat
Visit Zazzle Allyson Johnson Photography and Designs Store: AllyJcat
Store Owner: Allyson Johnson
Operates from: Jackson, TN, United States
Products customization dominant type: Design/Photographs
Ally is a photographer and a designer. She loves taking pictures and being creative. I think she also loves cats and dogs: two of these cats, Tabby and Orange are her's, and the German Sheppard dog is her's too. She's seventeen years old and has been doing photography for about 4 years. Visit her Store and find a wide variety of cards and fun gifts featuring animals and pets, wildlife, flowers, food, still life, and many more of your favorite things! I especially loved her cats and dogs! Take a look!
April 1, 2011
Try SLIDESHARE to promote your Zazzle Store
Today I will show you how to use SlideShare to promote your Zazzle Store. I made a slide presentation, I’m afraid it’s a bit too long, but this was the first one I created, so next time I’ll do it shorter. But you can watch it and get idea. You can upload presentations for free at SlideShare.I love SlideShare because you can learn a lot from all kinds of presentations people upload to it. Once I did slide presentations for work meetings. This is a bit different because you must give all the relevant information at once, you will not be there when people watch it explaining topics. But you can add your voice to it or music, check Slidecast when you're inside Slideshare. It's quite easy to use.
How do you do it? These are just a few ideas or guidelines.
1. Think about the message you’re conveying and its target audience. Don't try to solve a lot of issues in one presentation. You can create as many as you want and then share it all over the internet through Slideshare.
2. Make a draft on paper so you can have an idea of how many slides you’ll make. Gather all the images you’ll want to use carefully. Use.JPEG files because they are lighter. Get also an MP3 for back sound.
3. Start creating slides. I used Microsoft Office Powerpoint to create the slides.
- First I defined a template that goes from first to the last slide of the presentation. I included: banner and store’s name, hyperlink to it and Zazzle logo. If you are going to make a lot of presentations about your Zazzle Store you should get a Slide master and use it to define properties such as fonts, bullets, text position, text formatting, background, text color, logo, etc. Then you can save it as a template and use it the following times.
- Font/background color: probably you have seen a lot of white and yellow text on blue backgrounds slides. I prefer white for the background and to play a bit with color. Powerpoint provides templates you can check.
- Bullets and short phrases are more effective than sentences. The rules I was taught: use 5-7 bullets per slide and one concept per slide. Use just one or two fonts throughout your presentation. Use large, bold type for titles and headings, plain text for the body of your slides, and italics for highlighting.
- More rules I have learned: in 15 seconds the audience should be able to read what’s on the slide and move to another. I didn’t keep this in mind when I made my presentation! After you have created all slides you can adjust the presentation length.
4. The design should look clean but also create an impact on your viewer.
5. When the Powerpoint file is ready and saved you must then upload it Slideshare. Don’t forget to use tags and descriptions on Slideshare! Use tags - and links also - on the presentation as SlideShare will be a good source of referral traffic to your store. And that's it!
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