Fitting your pictures in your book
Now that we have the pictures drawn, and are putting them into the book, you might have a couple questions. First, you did download the template correct? Then pasted your text into the template, right? If so, then you are ready to insert pictures. Since this is just a plain word document, inserting pictures is [...]
Creating Merchandise for your Product – Illustration cont
OK, you have your list, you have your software, you have a Zazzle basic shop, and you have downloaded the 10×10 shirt template. RIGHT? Let’s start with the first character. There are several ways to begin, depending on what software you have. MS Word, Powerpoint, Paint If you are going to use the MS Word, [...]
Merchandising Your Product – Illustration
Hopefully you have an idea on what your characters are going to look like, what types of scenery you want, etc. It will also be nice to have established an approximate length you want your book to be so we can make sure there is enough room for the pictures and words on each page. [...]
Merchandising Your Product Goal Milestones
With the End Goal established, we can now focus on the stops along the way that will accomplish that goal. Lets break down the End Goal: To write a book Illustrate it publish it on the internet make available for sale create promotional materials Mitchendise it Well, hopefully we already have #1 done. We probably [...]
Your First Product
Ok, lets discuss the larger scope of a project. Is your goal to only promote 1 book and leave it at that? If so, great you can do that, just skip a lot of the steps we are about to discuss. On the other hand, if your goal is to get several products published / [...]
Mitchendise
It’s MITCHENDISE TIME!!! YEAH This is a category is created to teach readers how to bring their product to market, publish it on the internet, and create merchandise for it. These are all tools that are free or virtually free on the internet. You can create a book, video, short film, etc. and promote it, [...]
READ and comment on other blogs
Notice that the title has the word READ in capital letters? If you are going to comment on other people’s blogs, you should read the article first. I also like to read the other comments, as it will give you more information about the tone of the conversation, if someone else already posted a comment [...]
How to start on Twitter
One of the items on the list from the April 7, 2009 post was to start on Twitter. Since you may or may not have already started a blog, this one will be a good one to sign up for anyway. Twitter has many other uses that just promoting your site(s). A lot of people use [...]
Marketing your blog
If you are building your blog for personal use – IE so Grandma can keep up with the family, or so you can share your hobby with your other hobby enthusiast friends, then you already have a built in audience. If you are building a blog / site to become a well read authority on [...]
