Use digital photo frame to market your product
March 30, 2009
What a brilliant idea!
Some hotels had loaded digital frames full of photos of their rooms, restaurants, grounds, pool, facilities, you name it. Visitors and guests checking in go to see the whole location without leaving the check-in desk!
Why not use one for your product too!
Picture it...
Load your digital frame with your top selling products. If you're a photographer, your best work, latest wedding, or event. If you bake wedding cakes, add photos of your top sellers. Design something, you're top designs. Graphic designer? Load up your portfolio and you're ready to go!
Whatever your product, likely you can get some great photos and add them into your digital frame, then display it at your storefront. On the check-in desk. At the checkout.
Going to a conference or trade-show?
Perfect! Load it up and take it along. Show the other attendees what it is you have to offer! A new and fun way to demonstrate your portfolio, you can take a digital frame almost anywhere! And with the right photos, you'll have potential clients lining up to see what you've got to show!
Make sure the photo quality is topnotch. And show off your best products. No need to skimp on the "it's okay" stuff!
A quick check of the Best Buy site, offers a range of digital frames. Brands such as HP, Insignia, Kodak, and Sony offer a variety of frames with several options. Choose frame size, memory size, and price. You can likely find something to fit your style and budget here, or at many different stores, such as B&H Photo/Video.
This quick and easy way to demonstrate your product is a new twist on the "old fashion" brochure, portfolio or having to carry everything in your inventory with you.
And the slideshow is fun! Bet you'll be surprised at how long people will stand and watch!
Sources from: http://www.examiner.com/x-3934-Strategies-for-Small-
Business-Examiner~y2009m3d30-Use-digital-photo-frame-to-market-your-productArtist uses bikes as inspiration for photo frames
April 3, 2009
Much of Jack Wilhoit's life has been lived on two wheels.
He rode bicycles with a group called "Sharks on Bikes: Non-Ocean Commotion" and has worked with the Quad-Cities Criterium, the annual Memorial Day weekend event, for years.
That love of bikes has even translated to his art.
"Whenever I'd travel and saw a bike, I tried to capture it in some essence. I never put anything in it or set anything up," the Davenport photographer said.
But three years ago, the mechanics of bikes were added to his photos. He began using bicycle frames as the frames for his photos, either those that have a connection to the picture or those that are aesthetically pleasing.
Many are on display at Worldly Views, his gallery and studio at Bucktown Center for the Arts in Davenport. And, for the next two months, he's taking them to New York City for display and sale at a gallery that, conveniently, is three doors down from a bike shop.
His work has already drawn interest from patrons, including RAGBRAI riders and cross-country cyclists. A woman who biked from Seattle to Boston in 2000 had her bike used as a frame, with pictures of her dipping its tires into Boston Harbor and riding over the mountains in Montana.
Wilhoit originally asked a friend, who is a master framer, to cut the frames for him, but the friend told him he'd be better off doing it himself.
That creates a challenge, he added.
"All the angles on every frame are different," he said. "They can be challenging, but they can be fun."
A charity in Indiana that rebuilds bikes has given him many old frames that couldn't be repaired, he said. He also scouts garage sales.
"If it has a feel to me and has character, I'll try to grab a piece of it," he added.
He cleans the bikes thoroughly before turning them into frames, removing any grease that could smear a wall.
Wilhoit has a line on a bicycle manufacturing company whose dealers have pictures of themselves taken with biking superstar Lance Armstrong. The company may donate the bike frames as picture frames, he said.
The ultimate compliment would be to get a call from Armstrong himself, Wilhoit said.
"That'd be big," he added.
Wilhoit, 56, is retired from the Rock Island Arsenal. Although he will be gone from his studio for a while, Bucktown neighbor Donna Lee Nelson will keep an eye on the shop, as will surveillance cameras.
Nelson calls Wilhoit "an asset to Bucktown."
"He takes ownership, he steps in and helps me out a lot," she said.
Nelson also admires his work, knowing what goes into each piece.
"His mind is going all the time, along with his body," she said. "He sees something and goes, ‘I could...' That's what makes his place so unique."
A Jacksonville, Ill., native who has lived in the Quad-Cities since 1968, Wilhoit gained much of his local artistic notoriety from pictures of doors and doorways taken from around the world. Indeed, in a close race, the doorways represented in the shop outnumber the bikes.
"I'll always be the Door Guy," he said.
Sources from: http://www.qctimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/
visual/article_e8dbdcae-2096-11de-8efc-001cc4c002e0.html