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The following are the compilation of information about effective marketing design resources, which includes fonts, colors, stock photos, graphics templates and web templates.

Some resources listed are free and some are paid, use them wisely in your design works!

Hope you enjoy them! (All Links open in New Window)

Fonts :

Dafont – Great website, huge amount of fonts. Excellent details on each font. Ordering by name or category. Also check the top 100.

1001 Free Fonts – Name of the website is self-explaining. Ordering by name or category.

Ace Free Fonts – Huge collection of fonts. Ordering on name or category.

Fonts 500 – The web’s top 500 fonts.

Urban Fonts – Great website, huge amount of fonts. Excellent details on each font. Ordering by name or category. Also check the top 100 and favorites.

DDfont – Listing fonts that have been collected from around the web.

Colors :

Color Combos – Find a perfect color combination for your design project, also comes with color combination ideas

Color Psychology – A very insight article about the psychological effects of colors, use this as a guidelines to choose your color theme for your design project

Color Meanings – Symbolism of Color and Colors That Go Together

Graphics templates :

Design Freebies – Tons of free design graphics!

All Silhouettes – The largest, online collection of free vector silhouettes, comes with Photoshop shapes as well

Stock Photos :

Freerange – Free stock photos, register a free account, search for photos, download them and can use for free.

Free Digital Photos – Another free stock photos site, it has wide range of free photos and images for personal and commercial use.

Every Stock Photo – Stock photos search engine, most of the images are free to download

Website templates :

Mytemplatesbox – Free and paid website templates

Deonix Design – More than 2,000 web templates available for download, very professional design, and fresh added every month

Template Gang – More than 35,000 High Quality templates, handcrafted, super-customizable templates made for businesses, designers, agencies and webmasters

Others :

Microsoft Office Clipart – A very huge collection of both clipart and stock images

Adobe Photoshop Exchange – Adobe community site, where the members share their design works, some are free and some are paid

Dezignus – Designer Freebies Heaven

Book Cover Archive – The Book Cover Archive, for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design

For the past few months, I received many phone calls from overseas, like India and United States, and sometimes I got a few calls from local as well, and I was wondering how does these people found me.

For example, 2 months back, I received a call from India, a lady called my mobile phones, and said she is from a website design and development consulting company from New Delhi, and I search around in Google, the company quite big (company name is not disclosed for privacy purpose). She offered me some joint venture proposal for my web design business as well.

I start to ask her, how do you find me? And she said …  Google Maps!!!

Wow.. I don’t even remember when I have list my business info in Google Maps, and eventually many people that interested in my business found me! So, I think this is a really awesome tool that not many people know about it. Therefore I decided to do a simple step by step guide how to add business to google maps.

Read the following step by step guide How To Add Business To Google Maps from Scribd document :

Add Business To Google Maps

Note: During your submission, you are required to verify your mobile phone number, to make sure you are a real person and valid business information. (That’s how many targeted people call my mobile!)

So, don’t delay anymore, go and list your business now in Google Maps! Please leave your comment if you have great experiences for Listing Your Local Business In Google Maps.

Webmaster How To Level For this tutorial : Basic Job

If you need me to list your business info in Google Maps, you can use Hire Me NOW Services – Basic Job Service

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If you have a Facebook account, you should consider to have atleast one Facebook Fan Page, either to promote your business or just for passion. Facebook fan page, or simply called as Facebook Page, can be easily created through your Facebook profile account.

When you have your own facebook page, the next important thing to do is to create a unique landing page or welcome page. So, today I will show you step-by-step how to setup the Facebook Fan Page using FBML application.

I have created a step by step pictorial guide and you can read them here :

How To Setup Facebook Fan Page With FBML

Webmaster How To Level For this tutorial : Basic Job

If you need me to integrate into your Facebook Page, you can use Hire Me NOW Services – Basic Job Service

Facebook has recently developed a developer tool called Facebook Social Plugins, where you can now use this Wizard like tool to create various social plugins to be used in your websites.

To access this Wizard like tool, go to Facebook Social Plugins

I am quite fancy about this tool, it looks cool after all, so I give it a try!

As you can see on my right hand sidebar, I have inserted a Like Button, see the below screenshot :

The use of this social plugin is to let your visitor to “Like” or “Recommend” your website, which I think it is something like a Voting features, whereby this Facebook Social Plugin use “Like” or “Recommend” terminology. Go ahead and click the Recommend button now, and you can see your profile will be appear in the same box, so it is very viral to your profile as well. Cool right?

Imagine thousand of people visited this site and saw your facebook profile in the box and you have recommend this site, or can you imagine if someone who is influenced in your industry has recommended or like your site?

So let me show you a quick how to insert this Facebook Social Plugin in your website.

Step 1 : Choose any plugin you likes, in this case, I choose Like Button

Step 2 : The most important detail to fill in the wizard form is URL To Like, which is your website URL where you want to put this widget into, in my case will be my website URL http://www.masterkeith.com/

Step 3 : The rests of the details is based on your preferences. Click Get Code when all done filling the details.

Step 4 : Copy and paste the iframe code into your website, if you are using wordpress blog, you can paste the iframe codes into sidebar widget, just like what I did here.

Webmaster How To Level For this tutorial : Basic Job

If you need me to integrate into your website, you can use Hire Me NOW Services – Basic Job Service

The good news is here, ONE-TIME Access Club (OTAC) as I mentioned earlier is almost completed now. I have estimated to be ready by next week. While waiting for the membership club ready, I have some useful tips for you about YouTube.

How YouTube Affiliate Videos Became A Marketing Weapon

YouTube has become a forum for the new YouTube marketers launching a product or service. This is working very well for many companies – for some extremely well. Across YouTube can be seen videos attracting thousands of views. It’s a no-brainer to know what this can do for the launch of a new product like a book, or a computer game for example.

It’s not just the small to medium business sector that are taking hold of this medium. Large corporations like those in the music industry are capitalizing from video marketing. YouTube has recently launched a ‘click-to-buy’ link attached to music videos linking to Amazon. This has boosted sales considerably with an easy point n’click to the Amazon site.

When a customer sees a video of a product that interests them, their sheer enthusiasm becomes ignited as they view the product in action. This kind of exposure is allowing a huge growth in internet sales just linking to YouTube.  Video captures moments in a way that words can struggle against due to the varied skill level of the writer. Using video to sell allows people to feel more of an urge as they get to actually see what they are seeking.

Examples are a new web site where the viewer gets to see the reasons why it is useful. Another example is a software application where video can show the product in action, and if it’s a simple piece of software to use, that can be demonstrated.

Yet, web marketing is actually in its humble beginnings; merchants are being born who thought they had no sales skills and could never launch a marketing campaign. The internet and the advent of online video has changed that and allowed YouTube to grow into the viral empire we view today. For the YouTube affiliate marketer, this is a gold mine.

Offer something of value, know your buyers, and they will buy from you using YouTube affiliate links. Yes, it is – with some work – that simple!

Is been a while that I lost my way in this blog, is really been so busy for so many months in year 2009, I know there is no excuse, so I shall take the responsibility on my own.

So, in this brand new year 2010, I decided to make a MUST to write at least 1 post per day (sounds familiar, huh), then when I looked back to these phrase, I should make a commitment to myself again, not to others, so here is my year 2010 commitment in this blog :

1. 1 post per day (at least I have started this post for this 2010 year)
2. Focus only one topic of Online Business in this blog, which I have decided to write on my own expertise topic -  ALL About Videos (AAV), just anything related to videos, Videos Creation/Production, Video Marketing, Video Tips/Tricks, Video News, Video Tools/Softwares, Video Info Products … etc
3. Offer valuable info products to all my readers, which mostly related to Videos (That’s what I talked about here), with a ONE-TIME Access Club (OTAC) at $9.90, where I will personally watch through, read through, used through the Video Products, and write the review on them, and if the products are good, I will offer it in the OTAC, if you need the products, just pay one time fee and you will get access to all the products that I have reviewed them – Sounds Good huh ..
4. Change to new theme for brand new year!

Regardless what is your commitment, Always Focus On Success …

In my next post, I will write a review about How To Use Glyde.com videos.

That’s part of my achievements to me made this year, how about yours?

When Internet usage burgeoned in the 1990s, pioneers have changed the way products and services are marketed to target audiences. This created a venue for budding entrepreneurs to cash in on the phenomenon of business internet.

Needless to say, income opportunity home based business became the norm rather than the exception. Those who have been making quick money off the Internet did not just magically built their fortunes, they followed an action plan that allows them to take advantage of the mlm residual income and other residual income opportunities available. Clearly, those who are late in the game are finding it a little difficult to break in to businesses internet model because they have been accustomed to the traditional high risk capital-intensive businesses.

The beauty of a money making business that is based on the internet is that you don’t have to spend large capital to keep things going. All you need is the basic internet set-up and the knowledge of article marketing in order to promote your products or services. The know-how can easily be acquired by getting access to internet marketing experts who have been creating and improving the blueprint to making easy money online.

The key is putting all the information into good use by creating an action plan that will guide you through the internet business. It is important to do things slowly at the onset because it will help you understand how the nature of the internet business works. When you are able to grasp the concept, it then becomes second nature to advertise and market your products without much fanfare but with guaranteed results.

If you are a designer, or even you are not a professional designer, or just started to learn how to design, you can start earn some cash money through your skills and creativity.

Here I have listed down some cool places that you can sell your design or artworks. Sometime you do need to be a great designer to produce great artwork, learn some Photoshop skills, use some creativity, create something cool and unique, someone will love your works and buy it!

1. imagekind – Sell artwork in a variety of formats—framed, canvas, posters, greeting cards and more.
2. Spreadshirt – Create custom t-shirts to sell.
3. pikistore – Set up your own online t-shirt store.
4. Zazzle – Put your designs on unique products to sell.
5. redbubble – Another artwork marketplace where you can sell wall art, t-shirts, calendars and greeting cards.
6. Threadless – Design a t-shirt, submit it for voting, and if it’s one of the best, see it made and sold.
7. Artist Rising – An artwork marketplace that includes photography and digital art.
8. Cerizmo – Sell any kind of digital product in your own customizable store and get paid instantly.

Difference between RGB and CMYK

“We always get questions from clients in reference to web colors they view on screen and what they see in brochures and other print media.”

RGB and CMYK are the two most prominent and typical color spaces / formats / models used in the world of design.  In print, web, or digital media, a basic understanding of what the differences are, means a fledgling designer can vastly improve the quality of a project.

RGB (Red, Green, Blue) is the typical color space used by electronic displays, monitors, pda screens, etc. In RGB, images are created by combining red, green, and blue light. Process of addition can create millions of different colors by using varying concentrations of the primaries. So when designing a website, web banner, buttons, e-newsletter, etc., your images and files should be set to this profile. Chances are any image you receive will be RGB by default, but it’s always a good practice to check.

CMYK is the primary color model used by color printers. So for flyers, brochures, advertising, newsletters, direct mail pieces, etc., a CMYK profile may provide better quality results or a better expectation of what your results will be. CMYK creates different colors in a subtractive process using four colors or inks: cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow, and black. Chances are your inkjet, bubblejet, or laser printer at home has a CMYK or CMYK variant setup.   There are many RGB colors that CMYK printers cannot reproduce. Something that looks good on the monitor may not retain that quality in the printed piece.

Why Colours Look Different

RGB System – Screen Viewing Only!

RGB colour system is only suitable for screen reproduction such as LCD and CRT computer monitors and TV screens. This is not suitable color matching for printing or to colour match from, as each screen may represent colours differently. What may look fine on one screen, may be look completely different on another. This can be due to a number of reasons, whether it be due to individual screen settings such as brightness and contrast or even may be due to different monitor manufactures; i.e. Sony or LG.

The red, green, and blue components are the amounts of red, green, and blue light that an RGB color contains and are measured in values ranging from 0 to 255. To see these values, open a drawing program on your computer and delve deep into the color settings. Also you can view some values on new models of CRT and Digital Monitors.
The RGB color model is an additive color model. Additive color models use transmitted light to display color. Monitors use the RGB color model. When you add red light, blue light, and green light together, so that the value of each component is 255, the color white displays. When the value of each component is 0, the result is pure black.

CMYK/Process – Digital printing

The CMYK, also known as Process colours are generally used in digital printing for signage. CMYK refers to the four colours used; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black to generate a colour. It is these four colours which are mixed together to make up other colours, much the same principal to how paint is colour matched.

One thing to note is that CMYK colours may not look identical to physical colours due to the restriction to the number of colours CMYK can reproduce and that Inks perform differently. For example, orange is very hard to reproduce, and can look very muddy in when printed digitally. We take care to register all images with our four color bars applied to all printing we do. In this manner, the production crew can quickly and visually check the print at different stages. If a final color is not accurately made, there is little we can do. It is a technology thing.

The CMYK colour model defines colour using the following components:
C Cyan Ink (this is a blue ink colour)
M Magenta Ink (this is a pink ink colour)
Y Yellow (yellow ink)
K Black (Black ink, the character ‘k’ is used so as not to get confused with the ‘b’ in RGB. RGB was invented first we believe.)

The cyan, magenta, yellow, and black components are the amounts of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink that a CMYK colour contains and are measured in percent from 0 to 100.
The CMYK colour model is a subtractive colour model. Subtractive colour models use reflected light to display colour. Printed materials are produced using the CMYK colour model. When you combine cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, so that the value of each component is 100, the result is black. When the value of each component is 0, the result is pure white.

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