Monday, May 31, 2010

Photo Prints

Product pictures on e-commerce sites should look professional, with well-designed placement, colors, and layouts. However these images often do not convey how the product is actually used. More casual action shots may not work as a primary product photo, but can be valuable buying information for your customers. Using 123Print to show these images alongside your professional photos will help your customers make purchase decisions without affecting your own portrayal of your products.

Action shots are also a great way to encourage your customers to participate by uploading their own photos of your products in use. Not only will you give a little recognition to your customers, you’ll also show potential customers how the product is used, and that other people have made a satisfying purchase. Flickr makes it easy to show any subset of your photos with their ready-to-go widgets.

Social Hour

By forming a group on Flickr, you give your customers a place to connect with you and each other. A Flickr group will encourage customers to upload their own photos of your products and comment on the photos already posted. Being able to interact with each other will give your customers a method for sharing experiences with your products and connecting to your company on a new level. Potential customers will be able to see what your customers are saying to each other and how they use your products.

Tagging is the act of adding keywords to a photo in order to describe it and make it more findable. Flickr allows you to add keywords to your product images in order to make them show up in these searches. By showing up in keyword searches, you can introduce your products to a much wider range of possible customers. Having images that are fun and exciting (such as action shots) will also be more enticing to potential customers.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Fencing

There are a lot of different types of wood fence that you may see in the Boston area. For example, you'll see a lot of cedar privacy fencing in suburban yards. However, in the city proper you'll see smaller yards, more distinctive architecture and different types of fencing to mesh with these conditions. In Boston, you'll see a little less san diego fence co than you will in many other cities. Why? Well, while Boston has the fifth highest population density among major U.S. cities, it also is small in terms of land mass and is the third smallest, in fact! However, the classic and timeless look which only a wood fence can achieve lends itself perfectly to this, a city with so much history that it's there to be found around every corner.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Google Maps

Google Maps is increasing its popularity on a day to day basis. It has now been integrated with several articles on the web and geographically tagged photos so you can see points of interest and images of any geotagged photo on a Google Map. The data, accessible through a new More dropdown button next to Traffic, can be toggled on or off by simply ticking the check box. Once turned on, Wikipedia points of interest show up on the map as a "W" and images show up as small thumbnails. Clicking on either of the links will give you a closer look at the object. Recently, I was into Google maps in search of Property Manager in Columbus. It made me feel elated. Both the tools promise to bring an excellent layer of information to the already impressive Google Maps, and who knows more sooner the Street Views may be overshadowed by a wealth of geo tagged pics.

I was surprised to know Google offers a free Application Programming Interface (API) that makes doing so pretty trivial. It made me learn how to exactly do this. Specifically, you'll learn how to integrate maps into web pages, extend the mapping feature to mark locations of interest to your site users, and even display location-specific descriptors simply by clicking on the corresponding icon. So friends, It is going to be Gppgle world soon. Be ready to face it!