Archive for March, 2007
Middle Kid’s B-day »
I woke up extra early today to wrap presents for the middle kid's b-day today. I got everything out of the bag and realized I bought gift bags with pink butterflies on them. He's a he and doesn't find that nearly as cute as most would. I decide to make the bags cooler so I get the scissors out and go to town, clipping wings and gluing extra [...]
Marketing with Mandy: Book Videos Part III »
Marketing with Mandy has a special guest blogger this week–Michelle M. Pillow. She’ll be talking with us about how to make a book video! 7. Adding Title and Credit Text-- Under option ‘2. Edit Video’ select ‘Make Titles or Credits’. You can easily add a title page by selecting ‘Add title at the beginning of the movie’, or [...]
Marketing with Mandy: Book Videos Part II »
Marketing with Mandy has a special guest blogger this week–Michelle M. Pillow. She’ll be talking with us about how to make a book video! How to Make a very Basic Movie: 1.Gather the stock photography/graphic images you want to use to illustrate your story. Since you’re advertising a book, these need to be copyright free, stock [...]
Marketing with Mandy: Book Videos »
This week Marketing with Mandy has a special guest blogger--Michelle M. Pillow She'll be talking with us about how to make a book video! Book Videos, Part One – The Very Basics Book Videos (AKA Book Trailers) have been sweeping across the internet. For those of you just starting out with this new medium of marketing, it can be a [...]
Current Contests »
Contest 1: Michelle M. Pillow and I have teamed up for a contest. How to enter? Sign up on our forums. How do you win? We'll be picking a winner from those who join all 3 forums. What will you win? A signed print book from Michelle and a signed print book from me. ALSO--the FIRST person to reach 100posts in each forum will win a PDF [...]
New Forum »
Since not everyone is "in love" with yahoo groups, we set up a web Forum for The Raven. We're hoping it turns into a fun hang out! If you get a chance, stop on by. http://www.ravenhappyhour.com/ravenforum/
Suffed up…not in a ‘good’ way »
I think when Angie was in here helping out, she gave me her cold. Bad Angie. *snicker* Yes, I went to bed early last night. Anyone who knows me knows I run on about three or four hours of sleep per night. But last night I was out by ten and slept until five this morning. Dead to the world. So, what does everyone have planned for the day/week? I [...]
Marketing with Mandy: Photoshop Alternatives »
Hey lady… you told us to make our jpegs and gifs 72dpi (resolution for web) but did you tell us what to make them in? No. *big sigh* Yes, this information would have helped greatly. If you're like most everyday non-design folk, you don't have an array of graphics programs at your fingertips. My fav is Photoshop. I've been working with the [...]
Marketing with Mandy: Websites–Getting Started »
Since my education and background are in the art/marketing end of things I thought I'd start a little something extra on my blog. I'll call it Marketing with Mandy mostly because it lets me talk about myself in third person and feel really important. *grin*. These will pop up on my blog as I have time to get them out and will deal with [...]
Getting ready for a blog change »
I'm sick of the way Blogger limits me and the new blogger with google is driving me insane. Big thanks to Melani Blazer for her help getting me moved over to WordPress. She's amazing. She sat on the phone with me doing this for HOURS! I'll continue to put posts up on both blogs for a bit but then I will change over for good to this one (once [...]
