A Portuguese Love

Sardines made in Portugal Bandana by aportugueselove Dear Zazzler friends!  How are you? Lots of sales going your way? I wish so! Christmas is coming and usually, the Season is our best chance to get plenty of sales!! Our sales on Zazzle are made in two places, inside Zazzle's marketplace and outside. Just imagine you have the best product available, the perfect product for your customer. Still, it will not sell if your customer can't find it. Each seller needs also to work to get a good conversion rate, there is, a ratio of visitors to a site who end up buying. One important aspect of it is keyword optimization - we have to determine what keywords are relevant to our business. Obvious suggestions include the names of our products, the store categories of products we sell and the brand names we pic to our store. How we use titles, descriptions, and tags on Zazzle will affect our sales. It's worth thinking about it. There is a limit of 500 characters for all our ...

I've been trying to make this blog more useful to my readers. So when I find a good tool that you can use to create graphics or promote your online business or blog I'll write a small post about it. I use an old version of Photoshop when I need to paint with my tablet or edit photographs. Photoshop is very good but very expensive. Many of us don't need to use all the tools, effects, and possibilities of this Adobe Software. One of the most talked about and used alternatives is the free and popular GIMP . But I found an excellent review about PIXELMATOR and PIXELMATOR tutorials also!! I can't try it because it's MAC software only. But I am not selfish so here it is! Check this link to the PIXELMATOR fully functional 30 day trial . PIXELMATOR isn't free, it costs 30 USD. That's a bargain if it delivers what it promises. Try it and let me know what you think! A suggestion that was left in the comments section - thank you so much! - is a link to a site tha...

Hello readers and friends! Today's Sunday and it's pretty cold for my liking. Mariana Ewa would laugh about it because yesterday she was facing -21º celsius outside her house. For me, anything below 10º is very cold! No kidding, nights here are terrible, terrible meaning -1º to -3º. I live by the sea where everything is warmer and my body really doesn't react well to low temperatures. My body and mind. I get restless, I can't think straight, and I feel sick. I long for 20º up so I can go to the beach and be happy! Brrrr! Mariana Ewa was born in Sweden. She has a daughter called Emmy and lives on a farm with her boyfriend. She's fortunate to have horses and cats around, I would like that for me too. She suffered an accident and as a result of it, she's disabled. I'm sorry to read about that. She gave me some advice on the MAC computer. I am more convinced than ever that's what I need. But for now, I just have half the money for it. Zazzle keeps launchi...

Can you imagine your Valentine's Day Zazzle designs glued on streets and building walls? Photofunia helps us to picture it! Yes, I've been playing a bit more with this online tool. No, I am not earning anything from this promotion, I'm not in any affiliate program or anything like that! I am just wasting time PLAYING! Sometimes we need to unwind! Several times I had advertising posters I made on the street but it has been a while since I had those moments of glory! Now I do mostly small formats. It was lots of fun to wake up and get on the streets and discover it glued, some in very big format.

Hello! Today I bring you a site where you can have some fun with your photos! It's PHOTOFUNIA . With this online tool, you just upload your file and easily play with it. You add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages. You can put your face on a billboard, a stamp, or in a Warhol-like work of pop art. Become the Mona Lisa or a bodybuilder. You get over 150 scenes to play with. You're not cutting and pasting; instead, the app "finds" the face in your photo and integrates it with the scene of your choice. Photofunia is lots of fun! I just tried to change one of my photos into a pencil drawing. Not bad and without any Photoshop, even kids can do it! Plus, you can save with resolution enough to print! Then I uploaded one of my Zazzle drawings onto a mug full of steaming coffee! You can use it to advertise your Zazzle mugs. Unfortunately, there's only one background available...This is a .gif but it isn't working unless you doub...

Hi people! I have closed my Zazzle Store comments wall some months ago. Some people do it because they don't like other Zazzle folks to promote their work over there. That wasn't the reason why I shut it down. I shut it because I did not have the time - and still don't have - to answer back.  But with the holiday season upon us, I thought it would be nice to make the effort of paying a little attention to you all. I even miss being in touch with some of you. So you're welcome to leave your Christmas and New Year Greeting on my Store wall and prints and links to your Zazzle work. But I will not tolerate other kinds of promotions or spam. Looking forward to your words! I'll return your visit! More, you know you can always comment on my blog. But if this post gets a significant amount of links I'll tweet it more often! Happy Zazzle spirit to YOU!

The last Zazzle Newsletter included a link to Keywords & tag information and that gave me the idea to write a post. Google likes a webpage for several reasons and one is the number of popular keywords that a page contains. I first started to pay attention to this when I started using Google Adsense in some of my blogs. You’ll need it too if you want to get potential traffic to your site or blog. Good keyword choice, good content and an updated regular blog are just what you need to get good search engine traffic. Research good keywords and use them in your content and you´ll get better results. Gather keywords related to your business or blog topic in a list and use it when posting. You can even use these ideas to create blog posts when you run out of imagination. Keywords you want are the words and phrases people search for when they visit a search engine. So think about those people you want to get attention from and use their words not yours when you do this exercise. How to ...

http://www.slideshare.net/papelustro/magic-zazzle 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 an 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 or 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 wan...

The last Zazzle newsletter was about the Five P’s of profit.  1. Be positive! Everyone likes to get a positive incentive about products and stores. That’s the key to building relationships on Zazzle. On the other hand, you must be positive about yourself and your work too.   2. Be persistent! Improve your products, and create more! All it takes to succeed is hard work.  3. Be patient! Don’t give up on your store. Promote it and take care of it. Imagine your store as your new pet! ( I said this, not Zazzle!)  4. Be prepared! This means you must be ahead of the calendar all the time. Do you know how fashion works? That’s a good example: collections are made one year before they are delivered to the public.  5. Be political! Well, what does this mean? Is Zazzle telling me to vote in the next election? No! In Portugal, we just had Presidential elections in January. USA Presidential election’s coming up in 2012 and it is a big opportunity to earn good money...

Just found a Top 100 Creative Shops and joined.  People can vote for my shop there. Promotion!