Webinar Recording: 5 Great Graphics Tools
by Beth on August 20, 2010
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The first Cheapskate Freelancer webinar just ended, and I have to say the webinar platform, Dimdim, did what it said it would do. I’ll post a review of Dimdim in the near future.
In the meantime, enjoy the webinar recording. I covered five great (and free!) graphics tools: Picnik, GIMP, FotoFlexer, Aviary and SignGenerator.org.
The goal of these webinars is to cover a handful of tools in 30 minutes or less. Next month’s topic coming soon!
New Webinar Series: Top Ten Tools
by Beth on August 13, 2010
in Ave Z Webinar
Starting this month, you can sign up for our monthly 30-minute webinars on our favorite free and low-cost tools. The first one is a week from today. Sessions are limited to 50 participants. Reserve your space now!
Paperless Post: Classy emails for thank yous and invitations
In the year 2000, people sent about 12 million daily emails. In 2010, the number of emails per day is 247 billion — an increase of about 20,000%! If you want your email to be noticed in all that mess, you have to do something different.
Give Paperless Post a try. Sign up for an account and you get 25 free “stamps” that allow you to send a cool, attention-getting email as an invitation, announcement or thank you. Your recipient receives an elegant email with an envelope they click to open. The invitations themselves are fun to open, and they have tons of templates and realistic-looking textured papers that look as handsome as something you get in the mail.
Paperless Post is not free, and there are several things about the system and the pricing that have made me hesitate to recommend it for business use. First, it’s a clumsy way to manage contacts and responses. Second, all their little extras (like envelope liners and your logo) can really add up. But I just had a great response when I sent a promotion about my speaking services to my professional association contacts, so I thought I’d share.
Watch this quick video to see how it works:
Online Invitations, Stationery, Announcements, and Save the Dates by Paperless Post
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