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How to Make a Picture Say More Than 1,000 Words
Stop reading this right now! Now…count off 30 seconds. According to Neilson statistics, you just counted off the amount of time you have to capture the attention of the newest visitor to your website, pique their interest and then motivate them to take the next step you desire. This is a very difficult thing to accomplish with written content, but if you use animation as an informative hook, the job gets a lot easier.
If a picture says 1,000 words, then animation is simply the most effective means of connecting to your website visitors quickly and efficiently. But it must be used intelligently and with purpose and should not be confused with a great flash introduction that conveys a cool style. In this context, we are talking about animating your message. To do this, simply go back to the beginning of your business and re-examine the fundamental questions and answers that created your target customer:
- Who is your target customer and what makes them such?
- What problem are you solving with your service or product that is unique to this target?
- Why your website (business) is uniquely qualified to provide this solution?
- Without naming competitors, specifically state what you can do that they cannot and remind your target why this is so important to them.
- How is your site secured and how are you going to protect the privacy of your customer?
- What is that you want them to do when the animated message ends?
Once you have answered these fundamental questions, you are prepared to make a crude storyboard. Keep in mind, your animator will make his or her own storyboard. But you will want your own for clarity between you and your animator, as well as to save time and money.
A story board is just like a comic strip you see in the newspaper. Each square has in it an illustration and some dialogue (copy) that explains the interactions between the characters in the strip. It is nothing more than an abbreviated storyboard. For your own crude storyboard, you can you post it notes, simple drawing paper or if you want, PowerPoint.
PowerPoint is great because each slide acts like its own storyboard square and you can use clipart to get your ideas across to the animator you choose. All you need to do at this point is build your message on the storyboard using images as simple as stick figures and hand it off to your animator, who will no doubt consult with you for clarification. This is all part of pre-production and he or she will know what is best to get your point across visually. Once the clarification has taken place, the real production begins.
Your animator will select characters and / or icons that suit the "feel" of your business and appeal to your target audience. Based on your exchanges during consultation, he or she will then blend sound, movement and voiceover to your animation so that the attention of your target audience is captured within that critical 30 seconds and then motivated to take specific action within 60 seconds. And it can be accomplished on a reasonable budget, too. One of the best animation company USA, where you can find an accomplished animators.On their site, you can select amongst different animators who have posted examples of their work right on the site. You can also browse by style of content and then narrow things down by requesting a quote directly from an artists (animator) page. It is that simple, really. Now…stop reading this article. It takes less than 30 seconds to go from here to www.animators.tv, are you paying attention?
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Adding Professionalism to Your Proposal
< p >Whether you are pitching your product or service to a multi-national firm or to the start-up down the street, a professional image can make all the difference. In this article, we look at how you can use the formatting features within Microsoft Office to create professional proposals and quotes that put your best foot forward. Using Microsoft Word, we& rsquo; ll walk through some of the formatting tips and tricks used by designers to give documents a professional layout and appearance (and you can do it all yourself for a fraction of the price a designer would charge.) </ p > < b >Begin with the content </ b > < p >To start, we need to look at what makes a proposal stand out. The content of your proposal should clearly state who you are, give a brief summary of your company& rsquo; s experience and detail the products or services you plan to provide, as well as the cost of these products or services. </ p > < p >Once you have decided on your proposal& rsquo; s content, you will want to create a new Word document and start creating your proposal. One of the easiest ways to make your proposal stand out is to make the formatting and style consistent throughout the entire document. Microsoft Word has built-in styles that can be applied to text in your document.</ p > < p >< b >Hint: </ b >If you are unsure of what content you should put into your proposal, you may want to check out the templates that are available on the Office Template Gallery for examples of proposals for different types of product offerings and services.</ p > < b >Create a consistent document style </ b > < p >When working with fonts and sizes within Word, you may have noticed another drop-down list to the left of the font menu. This menu shows all of the available styles within your document. To apply a style to a section of text, highlight the text and use the drop-down list to select a style. The font and font size, character formatting, etc. of the style will be applied to the text you have selected.</ p > < p >By default, Word has a & ldquo; Normal& rdquo; style which is the default for the text in your document, but there are also styles for headings (I.e. Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) that are especially helpful when creating a document with multiple sections.</ p > < p >You can use these styles to apply formatting to the different sections of your proposal (ie. & ldquo; About Us& rdquo; , & ldquo; Products& rdquo; , & ldquo; Pricing& rdquo; ) etc. to maintain a consistent look-and-feel to your document.</ p > < p >An added bonus is that by applying these styles to the different sections of your proposal, you can also quickly create a table of contents for your proposal by going to the first page of your document and selecting < b >Insert & gt; Reference & gt; Index</ b > and < b >Tables</ b > and then clicking on the < b >Table of Contents</ b > tab. You can then click < b >OK</ b > to add a table of contents to your proposal& mdash; it& rsquo; s that easy!</ p > < p >You can also add or modify the styles in use by selecting < b >Format & gt; Styles and Formatting</ b > to open the < b >Styles and Formatting</ b > side menu, that will appear to the right of your document. </ p > < p >You can use the drop-down list on each of the styles to modify the style, changing the font face, size, format, etc. Any changes you make to a style will be made to all of the text that has that style applied.</ p > < b >Add colour and images </ b > < p >In addition to a consistent look and feel, another easy way to make your presentation stand out is to follow some of the basic design principles. To start, you should limit your use of colour. It may be fun to change the text to be orange with purple headings, but in the end you are trying to create a professional image and convince the reader to buy your products or services. </ p > < p >As a general rule of thumb, the main body of your proposal should always be printed in black text, but you can use colour selectively to highlight text or make headings stand out.</ p > < p >Another way to tighten up your proposals is to limit the use of clipart and images. If you do choose to use graphics in your proposal, they should be relevant to the section of the proposal where they appear. For example, if you have a picture of the product you are selling, it is perfectly acceptable to include that image in the section where you are describing the product.</ p > < p >On the other hand, if you have found some interesting clipart and scatter it through your proposal, you will leave your clients wondering what the clipart has to do with the proposal you have presented. When working with clipart or images, less is definitely more.</ p > < b >Include headers and footers </ b > < p >The final touch to creating a professional image is to add some headers and footers to your document. The header and footer of a document are the place where you can put the title of your proposal, the date as well as your company name and page numbers. </ p > < p >To create a new header or footer, select < b >View & gt; Header and Footer</ b >, which will allow you to edit the header and footer directly on your page and type text in the space allowed. To insert a page number, click the < b >Page Number</ b > icon on the < b >Header and Footer</ b > toolbar. </ p > < p >If your proposal has a title page, you may not want the header and footer to appear. On the same toolbar there is a < b >Page Setup</ b > icon which will open up a < b >Layout</ b > property page. </ p > < p >Click the < b >Different First Page</ b > option so that you can create a header/footer for the rest of your document, without it appearing on the first page. When you are done editing your header/footer, click the < b >Close</ b > button to return to your document.</ p > < b >Check spelling and print</ b > < p >And finally, it goes without saying that you should proofread and spell check your proposal before you send it out (< b >Tools & gt; Spelling and Grammar</ b >). If you are sending a printed copy to the customer, you may want to have the proposal bound or put into a presentation folder.</ p >
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Hate Postage? You'll Love This
When you print address labels on a sheet this usually takes time to change the contents in the paper tray and also some of the address labels get wasted but this won't happen with the Brother Ql-560 label printer because it is a dedicated label printer. It introduces the possibilities of printing on clear or colored film, of printing barcodes, of printing a banner on continuous label, of stamping the date and time, of importing Outlook into your address book.
Thanks to the "direct thermal, technology, there is no ribbon or toner needed and the printer will print 56 labels per minute. It will print 36 address labels per minutes which is a speedy label printer.
Oblong die-cuts, CD labels, and other round labels can be printed because this printer will take label stock up to 62mm wide. The monochrome clip-art pictures and the half-tone images are reproduced at such creditable results. You can not only choose landscape, portrait, brightness and contrast but if you want to go deeper into the software, you can control the dither and "error diffusion" that improves the quality of the images even more.
This software had a large variety of ready-made clip-art and other images but you can also add fancy fonts that can be titled at angles, mirror printing, ready-made calendar with capabilities of earmarking dates, tables, bar codes even for ISBN numbers, and you can even capture what is on your screen. Every one of these items can be inserted into your ready-made label templates quickly and easily.
Be sure to include the necessary add-ins and you can have the Brother P-touch icon appear on the toolbars of the Word and Excel. By using this feature, you can find what you want to copy on your Word or Excel and click on the P-touch icon and it will automatically insert that selected into your label.
The P-touch software can be as user friendly as you are advance in computers. You can easily use the default settings and the toolbars and buttons are similar and self-explanatory just like those in the Windows applications. These features will help you print an average and easy label but if you want to print more sophisticated labels then you can choose to go beyond the default settings.
The QL-560 printer is very simple. All you have to do is lift the cover and drop the label roll in. Then pass the label under the print head with the help of a small leer and it is ready to print. This printer contains an on/off switch, an electric Guillotine button that cuts the label on demand and an Advance button to help position the label. The electric cutter can be set to automatically cut the labels when printing continuous labels.
There is P-touch Editor software, a CD with the user manual on it, a label catch tray, a roller cleaning tray, a mains power lead, a USB lead, and a storage box or carry case with DK labels enclosed are all included in the box with the printer.
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