Today, April 24, 2012, Google introdes Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond. Get started with Drive today at drive.google.com/start
Tactical Tuesdays with Phil Peretz
Beginning May 1st, 2012 Media Media Inc. will begin hosting our free webinar-based clinic, ‘Tactical Tuesdays with Phil Peretz’. These will last exactly one hour and will start at 10am (Pacific) and will be held the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays every month.
Tactical Tuesdays is all about you…and it’s free. We ask that you register, bring your questions and we will discuss anything that is on your mind ranging from sales and marketing, website tips and tricks, social networking, SEO, employee or management development, advertising…anything that is on your mind.
This is our opportunity to give back to our customers and clients and, although we do hope that you will buy some of the e-books and services we provide, it’s not necessary.
To be a part of this, please register one time and we’ll add you to our mailing list to notify you of Tactical Tuesdays. We promise that we won’t spam you and we will never sell, trade or lease any of your information.
See you on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month.
Make More Profit Selling Digital Downloads
The old business model for Independent Musicians and other audio content providers is simple…Give away your money to everybody. Set-up fees, commissions and transaction fees are high and everybody gets rich except you.
We propose the ‘New Business Model’.
Informed Business Decisions allow you to look at a variety of options that result in capturing additional revenue and profit. Don’t send a customer to another website top buy what they could have purchased directly from you.
Monitoring your Marketing Strategy
Marketing Strategy Questions and Information Sheet
Here are some items to give consideration when developing your Social Media and Internet business strategies. This list is what we use as a talk-track with our clients and is a great starting point for you. Honest answers (or the lack of answers) can help move your business to the next level.
10 Free Graphics Programs
Here is our list of what we consider to be some of the best free graphics and graphic design programs and editors on the internet. Some of these are photo/web editors and some are design programs. When reviewing these you should take into consideration what you want to accomplish. Some of the screen editors only work with RGB and don’t allow you to save in a print color format (CMYK)
GIMP Version 2.6
GIMP is a very versatile graphics manipulation program with a customizable interface allowing for robust photo enhancement and digital retouching. GIMP allows you to work in layers and channels and has all of the features that you would expect from a program costing hundreds of dollars.
http://www.gimp.org
Picassa
A simple tool to organize, edit and share photos. Editing includes cropping, straightening, remove redeye, remove blemishes or add text. Simple sliders make it easy to manage fill light, highlights, shadows and color temperatures.
Easy to upload and share your photos on Google+
http://picasa.google.com/
Webcam Publisher
Webcam, camera, scanner or other real-time video capture device FTP publishing. Webcam Publisher supports png, gif, jpg, and avi via FTP or the built in webserver. Overlay text, images, watetermarks, time stamps, and more. Multiple webcams are supported.
http://www.wheresjames.com/index.php?page=wjwp2
Ultimate Paint
It has a flexible brush handling method which encourages creative drawing. It’s similar to what good old Deluxe Paint had, so if you’re familiar with DP, you will love Ultimate Paint. You can also retouch and enhance photos using a comprehensive set of built-in tools and plug-ins. Features include resizing, rotating, flood filling, text operations and a lot more. Comes with dozens (more than a hundred!) of cool plug-in filters, and Adobe plug-ins are also supported. All pictures are handled 24 bit.
The user interface is adjustable to the user’s experience level, thus both novice users and experts can use it conveniently.
http://www.ultimatepaint.com/
Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
http://inkscape.org/
Terragen
Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use, with only a few limitations.
Terragen Classic is capable of near-photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation. Terragen Classic has been used in a variety of commercial applications including film, television and music videos, games and multimedia, books, magazines and print advertisements.
http://www.planetside.co.uk
VariIcons Icon Editor
VariIconsRevolve is an Icon and Small graphics editor suite which allows you to create and modify icons with frames up to 256×256 size using 22 pixel and vector tools, effects and a variable gradient filling.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/variicons/?source=directory
Creative Docs
Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more.
The interface is tailored for high productivity: it does never get in your way. Creative Docs .NET tools are simple, yet powerful. All styles and attributes can be modified interactively with a minimum number of mouse clicks. A color gradient, for instance, can be modified directly by dragging its handles in the document window.
http://www.creativedocs.net/
Paint.net
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
http://www.getpaint.net/
PixelToolbox
PixelToolbox is a complete solution for designing desktop graphics for Windows. Create, edit, and apply 1-bit patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors – all from a single integrated environment. PixelToolbox offers the standard set of painting tools along with a few filters and features not found in other software. The unique interface, tools, and workflow were engineered to maximize your creative potential.
http://www.axiomx.com/PixelToolbox/index.htm
10 Best Free Productivity Applications.
We love free software. We especially love free software that helps us get things done faster and better. Here is our current list of what we feel to be the absolute best free applications.
- Google Docs - Google Docs is a suite of products that lets you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store your documents and your other files — all online, and all for free. With an Internet connection, you can access your documents and files from any computer, anywhere in the world. https://docs.google.com/#home Continue reading
Google rolls out AdSense Publisher Toolbar for Chrome
If you are a website publisher that uses Google Adsense as a revenue stream, this will be exciting news.
This cool new extension allows you to view your AdSense account without leaving your website.
Jing – Easy to use screen capture utility
This is a must-have for anyone who needs to do quick and easy screen captures or wants to create short (5 minutes or less) screencasts with audio. The best part is that the basic package is free. Upgrades are very inexpensive as well. Continue reading
Looking for a Job? Reinvent yourself.
The economy sucks. People are struggling with making ends meet, interest rates are high, banks are starting to charge additional fees on ATM cards, groceries are more expensive than other. Even things like peanut butter, a staple in every household, will be going up 20-25% in the next few months.
Things will get better, they always do. Unfortunately that doesn’t help you pay the bills now. We really don’t know if it will take a year or a decade for the economy to improve. Continue reading
Creating a QR Code Strategy
What is a QR code?
A QR code is a 2 dimensional barcode. Unlike a UPC or an EAN barcode that contains numerical data only, is read in a single direction and requires some sort of database to pull information, a QR barcode contains alpha-numeric data and is read both horizontally and vertically.
Data is embedded in a QR Code. Typically, the data in a QR code is a URL pointing people to a website or a Facebook page. It can also be used for virtual business cards and to send other information, however the most common use is directing your customers to a website landing page. Continue reading
