Why pay for something when you can get it for FREE? lol

Constant Contact and Aweber are excellent email marketing solutions. But these companies charge a monthly fee for their services. They have their strong points and you may still want to use them, but feedburner offers a great Free email marketing solution. Within Feedburner their is an option to set up an email subscription to your blog for free. Feedburner is owned by google and is set up to retransmit your blog by email and rss feed. The only requirement...is to have a gmail account.

I recently dumped my aweber account because I was not using it to its full potential. I was essentially wasting money every month with out a return on it. As a small business owner it is important to assess and re-assess what is working and what is not working. And as a small business owner I assessed that Creative Graphic Arts marketing ventures were to maximize the free offerings before paying for services.

If you run a blog this is an excellent solution with no cost involved. We'll, the only cost is time. The time to set it up should only be a few minutes once your gmail is set up. This tutorial will walk you through setting up your account. Did I mention this service is for free? lol

In this tutorial I will show you how to pop an image out of the picture. It is a common trick done by many photoshopers. Now you will! If you missed the tutorial on cropping out a hair, then check out the previous week's tutorial. Have a great day!

This is a quick video tutorial on extracting hair  from a background. Please view and comment.

With the rise of social networking and increase use of email, one of the most cost effective ways to promote an event is with an E-Flyer.

E-Flyers can draw attention to your event with the click of a button. It is very easy to share by email, facebook, and twitter.
 
If you email your flyer to your friends ask them to forward the email. If you are on facebook there are multiple ways of spreading the word but the easiest is to place the flyer in your photo album.

Once the flyer is in your photo album tag your family and friends. When you tag them it pops up in thier photo album so they won't miss the invite.

Like any promotion the more people that know about your event the more likely people will show up to your event.

It virtually cost nothing to share the E-Flyer on your social network and email vs. paying for printing and asking people to hand out flyers.

Additionally, I would like to save you money by offering a 50% discount on my custom flyer designs. To begin the process please fill out the creative brief and a Creative Graphic Artist Rep will be in touch.

Leaving a comment  with your thoughts of this post qualifies you for a 50% discount. Thanks for reading. Offer good until Feb 9, 2011.