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The Creatorpreneurs Newsletter #10 – Get Visible!

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The Creatorpreneurs Newsletter #10 – Get Visible!

Now that we’re coming to the end of a season, Marc and I are making plans and setting goals for the next one. And, it’s the “big” one… after all, the holidays are just around the corner.

So, we’re here to help you get prepared. No, September is not too early to start. Holiday decor is already being put on the shelves. In order to compete, you should be starting now!

Your first goal should be to make sure you’re visible. The tools we’re talking about today will help!

Take a look!

CREATORPRENEUR TOOL OF THE WEEK!

Don’t think that just because you’re a digital or online company that you don’t need printed materials. Besides just passing out printed business cards at events, you can get noticed in so many different ways.

Consider how you can stand out BEFORE the holidays and increase your prospects so that you can make more sales during the holidays!

PsPrint.com

Have you ever thought about printing these items???

  • Stickers (pass these out at events or in your local business community)
  • Coloring books (with your logo and contact info of course)
  • Coasters (another great idea for events or for customers to use at home)
  • Custom Labels (for your own products)
  • Car Magnets (one of our favorites… find out more under the creatorpreneur tip of the week below)
  • Folded Business Cards (not only are they unique, but they’re also easier to hold onto)

Those are just some of the creative ways your biz can stand out as we approach the holidays! Get on it and start printing and sharing now so that you have plenty of time to build up your customer list.

BONUS! Save 25% off your first order on regularly priced items with code: NEWPSP25

GRAPHICS CREATOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Discover how to make your own logos and business card designs (and print them) with The Graphics Creator! Follow along as Marc makes it easy 🙂

PRODUCT OF THE WEEK

The Ad Creator

We’re choosing The Ad Creator templates and elements for the product of the week because of its bold and clean templates… they’re perfect for standing out!

Because of the bold yet simple designs, you can create an advertisement within just a couple of minutes. Maybe a Facebook Ad, Instagram sales image, a pin on Pinterest, or just a tweet on Twitter.

Plus, you add your holiday images to any template!

CREATORPRENEUR TIP OF THE WEEK

Print just one unique item to increase your visibility!

For example, we mentioned the car magnets above. We’ve actually given these as gifts because they’re so much fun (you can really get creative here)! But even if you don’t have a local business, you can spread the word about your online store or service.

Plus, you get bonus points for traveling with your car magnet… especially if you’re attending a business event!!!

See you next week!

Marc & Lisa

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The Creatorpreneurs Newsletter – Issue #9 – SHOPIFY

Marc Sylvester
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Hi Creatorpreneurs!

Hope your week is going great. ????

There are some new changes in store for Laughingbird!

Lisa and I have been running the website on WordPress for almost 17 years (!). Everybody knows WordPress, because it’s free and it’s probably what you use to run your own website.

But over the years, it’s caused a ton of headaches for us. Crashed sites due to conflicting plugins, incompatible themes that don’t look consistent page to page, lots and lots of plugins that slowed down the site.

It was too much and honestly, I got tired of being an IT guy instead of creating graphics for Laughingbird.

So, after meditating on what to do (…okay, maybe I shouldn’t call it meditating, I’ll call it ‘staring in front of the computer and looking at 12,000 other websites to see what was working), I came across a YouTube video that changed everything! I’ve included it below.

It helped us jump from WordPress and onto a different platform called:

SHOPIFY!

Have you heard of it? It’s amazing.

Laughingbird Software can now sell software AND “Print On Demand” items like customized Wall Art (you can personalize the text and have it packaged and shipped right to your door in a matter of days)!

We can also create customizable t-shirts and hoodies and coffee mugs that YOU as a customer can personalize!

You can create a shop too – and you don’t need to store any of the items in a warehouse! They’re only printed after your customer orders them.

In my humble opinion, Shopify is SO (so!) much better, easier, and just more fun to use than WordPress… and it opens up a new world of possibilities.

You can decide to start a “print on demand” business on Monday, get your website up and running by Tuesday… and start making sales by the end of the week.

New! “Personalize Your Own Wall Art”

It’s a new service we’re offering. YOU can create something like this too!

We’re starting a new service! We’ve been designing customizable wall art! Hop in and take a look! Pick out a template, edit the text in the poster – and have it shipped to your door in a matter of days!

CREATORPRENEUR TOOL OF THE WEEK!

Shopify is the new platform that Laughingbird Software will be using!

Did you know you could set up your own Shopify store and start selling tshirts? Or mousepads that your customers can upload their own images onto?

GRAPHICS CREATOR VIDEO OF THE WEEK

This is the video that got us started on Shopify. It was super exciting and super informative. If you have 8 minutes, and you’re looking to start selling something or enhance the products you’re selling now – give it a look:

CREATORPRENEUR TIP OF THE WEEK

Here’s a tip. Try Shopify out for a week (the link in this newsletter is not an affiliate link)… we just love the platform!

Watch some YouTube videos on what it is and what you can sell.

If you have any questions or comments on it all, hit Reply or just leave a comment!

See you next week!

-Marc & Lisa

How to Get Your Online Business Noticed with Design

Marc Sylvester
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Imagine if you could show off your business and services with a stunning graphic that would get you noticed in half a second.

And, instead of spending all of your time just waiting for your audience to find you, you could thankfully focus on giving them what they desperately want and need… and they’d be ready to buy!

Now imagine that you can design attention-getting graphics that would get your products and services noticed, whenever you wanted.

Forget huge design expenses, waiting for a designer to get back to you days later, or paying endlessly for revisions. You can create the right graphics and get your online business noticed all by yourself!

Follow along and watch the videos in this article to easily create amazing graphics that’ll get your online business the attention it needs, even if you have zero design experience.

How to Make Your Own Graphics for Free

So, you might not be convinced that you can create graphics all by yourself. And, if you’ve paid for a designer or thought about hiring one before, you probably won’t believe that you can make graphics for free.

But you can!

Take a look below to find out how to get free design software and templates. Then, check out how to create the perfect graphics to get your online business noticed.

The Graphics Creator Software and Templates

It’s super simple to start designing… just ask the Graphics Creator designers in our community.

Hint: If you’re already a regular software user, you might like to skip to “How to Make Your Own eCover Designs” below ????

First… Download The Graphics Creator software. Then follow the instructions to add the free bonus templates. These will remove the watermarks from your images and let you create with 100% freedom.

Prefer to log-in online to create? Check out the options here.

Once you’ve accessed your graphic design software, choose a template and easily drag and drop text, graphics, and images in any way you wish. You can also revise, recolor, rewrite and reuse each design… over and over and over.

Now just watch the short videos below that’ll show you exactly how to become your own designer by creating the different images you need for business projects, social media, and marketing.

So, let’s start!

Create the Images You need to Make Your Online Business Get Noticed

First, if you’re new to designing with The Graphics Creator, watch this 3-minute video to see how easy it is for you to design your own graphics:

How to Make eCover Designs for Your Online Business

If you want your business to stand out and get noticed in the busy online world, you need to have a virtual box or product “cover” that represents your product or service.

Here’s how to create your own virtual cover for each product, service, or free offer:

How to Create Ad Graphics That’ll Get You Noticed

Online businesses need to advertise in unique ways. One ad posted in one social media account one time only is just not going to cut it.

Instead, create a variety of ad graphics that’ll get noticed by different groups of people on social media, in blog articles, or for paid marketing. Try out different colors, fonts, and word copy to see what works best for each online advertisement.

Watch the video to see how to create advertising design that’ll get your online business noticed.

How to Make YouTube Graphics That Get Attention

If you’re interested in making YouTube videos, then you need to create banners, thumbnails, and other graphics to use in your videos. It’s often just not realistic to have someone else create these graphics for you because you need new ones often.

Truly though, a bold thumbnail graphic is what will get your business to stand out and actually make visitors click on and watch your video.

Now check out our video to find out exactly how to make YouTube graphics that get you noticed!

How to Make Logo Designs for Brand Recognition

How many businesses do you recognize just from seeing their logo? Probably too many to count, right? Online businesses are no different… you need your own branded logo design to capture your desired audiences’ attention.

This video will show you how to use the Logo and Business Card templates to design just what you need to get your online business noticed online.

Get Your Online Business Noticed with Design:

Now that you know how to get your online business noticed by creating your own personalized designs, it’s time to get started. No more second-guessing what to do, re-checking your budget or wondering if you should hire a designer. Become your own designer and create the graphics you need to stand out in the crowd and achieve success.

You’ve got the free Graphics Creator software and a set of free templates to make it happen.

Want Your Online Business to Get Even More Attention?

Create book covers, social media graphics, logos and business cards, blog graphics, animated gifs, and more.

Grab more templates HERE

… and get more people to notice your online business in minutes!

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Whats New

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• New feature: Text Circle.

• FabricJS 4.3.1 update. (this is the “engine” that helps us to code the features of the software)

• Fix scale/stretch controls on multi-selections.

• Modified and renamed the ‘Edit’ and ‘Options’ menus. They are now “Edit” and “Insert” to allow for insertion of circular text and other elements to insert onto the canvas

Additional changes over the past year are below

February 4, 2021, Version 1.3.37

• Updated login to support launch from LaughingbirdSoftware.com

January 29, 2021, Version 1.3.36

• Fix Version 7 (legacy templates) image/text loading problems caused by FabricJS 4.3.0 update.

January 26, 2021, Version 1.3.35

• Fix intermittent problem saving designs.

• Increase maximum objects from 25 to 50.• Fix text gradient problem where scaling caused solid color.

• Improve linear gradient smoothness on Text, Textbox, and Shape objects.• Setting Text Color now correctly removes all styles, including background color.

• Increase width of Sets dropdown menu.

• Sort Sets menu alphabetically.

• Update Mac/Win Desktop versions to Electron to 11.2.0–Chromium to 87.0.4280.141.

• Update FabricJS from 3.6.3 to 4.3.0. Address breaking changes.

January 4, 2021, Version 1.3.34

• Elements panel now auto-closes when background is clicked.

• Ecover Placeholder handles now auto-disable when background is clicked.

• Shadow and Outline visibility now controlled only by Opacity setting. Redundant On/Off switches now removed from these panels.

The Graphics Creator © 2021 Laughingbird Software, LLC, All Rights Reserved

Full Change History

Known Limitations
• Video Record does not work if an iMac is connected via a Thunderbolt cable to your MacBook Pro and used as a second monitor. To fix, disconnect the cable and restart your Mac Book Pro.

• Video Record works in Chrome.

March 22, 2021, Version 1.4.0
• New feature! Text Circle.
• Fix scale/stretch controls on multi-selections.
• Modify/rename Edit and Options menus.
• Update FabricJS to 4.3.1.

February 4, 2021, Version 1.3.37
• Updated login to support launch from LaughingbirdSoftware.com.

January 29, 2021, Version 1.3.36
• Fix Version 7 (legacy templates) image/text loading problems caused by FabricJS 4.3.0 update.

January 26, 2021, Version 1.3.35
• Fix intermittent problem saving designs.
• Increase maximum objects from 25 to 50.
• Fix text gradient problem where scaling caused solid color.
• Improve linear gradient smoothness on Text, Textbox, and Shape objects.
• Setting Text Color now correctly removes all styles, including background color.
• Increase width of Sets dropdown menu.
• Sort Sets menu alphabetically.
• Update Mac/Win Desktop versions to Electron to 11.2.0–Chromium to 87.0.4280.141.
• Update FabricJS from 3.6.3 to 4.3.0. Address breaking changes.

January 4, 2021, Version 1.3.34
• Elements panel now auto-closes when background is clicked.
• Ecover Placeholder handles now auto-disable when background is clicked.
• Shadow and Outline visibility now controlled only by Opacity setting. Redundant On/Off switches now removed from these panels.

December 11, 2020, Version 1.3.33
• Add group and set name to metadata display. Re-style to fit in center top.
• Implement Duplicate for groups (selection of multiple objects).
• Correct several errors related to Duplicate.
• Display most recent set when returning to thumbnails.
• Limit number of objects in design to 25.
• Improve storage performance (downgrade JSZip to 3.1.5 from 3.5.1.)

November 11, 2020, Version 1.3.32
• Integrated 2021 Windows Code Signing Certificate.
• Added highlights on the Elements tree. Increased font size of categories.
• In Save As dialog, newly added sets will now appear on the dropdown menu.
• Fixed condition where Save As may save design to wrong set, if set with same name is present in more than one category.
• Fixed edge condition that caused non-fatal warning when no sets exist in Admin mode.

November 2, 2020, Version 1.3.31
• Corrected error where typing over (deleting) selected text caused loss of outlines and shadows.
• Size of duplicate offset now adjusts to scale of canvas.
• Temporary alert informs user that duplication of groups will be supported in upcoming update.

October 31, 2020, Version 1.3.30
• Implemented virtual scrolling to support large number of system fonts in Text Format panel.

October 28, 2020, Version 1.3.29
• Fixed font loading error in Text Format panel.

October 16, 2020, Version 1.3.28
• Added button for System Fonts in Text Format.
• Fixed post-Download Image design scaling error.
• Fixed crash on Download Image with very large designs.
• Modified Elements scrollbars.

October 14, 2020, Version 1.3.27
• Limited size of Text paste to 100, and Textbox paste to 5000.
• Reduced height of Sets menu so as to fit on laptop size screen.
• Scroll bar will now always be visible in Elements thumbnails.

October 5, 2020, Version 1.3.26
• Fixed problems with copy/paste into text.
• Added resizing of copied text to fit in design.
• Fixed problems when selecting, then typing over text.

October 1, 2020, Version 1.3.25
• Added alpha channel to Download Image for transparency.

The Creatorpreneurs Newsletter – Issue #5

Marc Sylvester
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Hello Creatorpreneur Family!

Welcome to another super informative edition of The Creatorpreneurs Newsletter! (If you’ve missed any back issues – Check them out here. ???? )

Today my friendly neighborhood entrepreneurs, I’d like to talk about a website called “AppSumo.com“.

AppSumo was created by well-known entrepreneur Noah Kagan in 2010. The platform has expanded since then and today is well recognized in the marketplace as the “#1 software deal site for entrepreneurs”.

If you’re like Lisa and I … automating busywork, social media management, SEO craziness, video creation… etc. AppSumo helps us quickly discover really cool products that help grow our business and save us time.

Hop over to AppSumo and check them out.

(if you click my affiliate link, we’ll both get $10 for your first new tool!):

http://fbuy.me/v/laughingbirdpromotions_3

Let me know what you get?

Among the different types of tools available on Appsumo you’ll find:

  • marketing automation — email automation tools.
  • customer relationship managers (CRMs)
  • courses.
  • SEO tools.
  • video-making, graphic design tools.
  • copywriting tools.
  • …and hundreds more!

You will DEFINITELY get a good deal on the apps you purchase!

CREATORPRENEUR SITE OF THE WEEK

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AppSumo

It’s the best (the only?) collection of software products for Entrepreneurs!

PRODUCT OF THE WEEK

The Graphics Creator – Online! Now on AppSumo at a special lifetime price

The Graphics Creator Online – Lifetime Price

Yes! We’re there too! Now’s your chance to grab The Graphics Creator at a SUPER discount – and for one “Lifetime” price. ????

https://appsumo.com/products/marketplace-the-graphics-creator-online/

CREATORPRENEUR TIP OF THE WEEK

AppSumo is addictive. If you’re a shiny object person like me (“oooh! that looks awesome!” *Click*. *Buy* ???? ) be careful on the site… but it really is like being a kid in a candy store.

Looking forward to hearing what you think!

See you next week!

— Marc and Lisa

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