Holidays are fast approaching us. It is time to get thinking about how to gift someone that you love for the holidays in an affordable way.
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At Collagist we plan on giving many ideas and tips for gifting during these holidays. Not all the ideas have to cost you a lot of money. If you are planning on doing something special with pictures and your budget is low then think about getting a special gift with pictures using some digital effects. There are many free tools available on the web to do magic with the pictures. Some of the tools and tips are listed here:
If you do not have time or want to some thing extra special with your pictures then contact us and we can apply special effects to your pictures and prepare extra large photo and canvas posters for your pictures.
Collagist Team
We all take digital pictures; a lot of them. Ever since we got introduced to the digital cameras it has become so easy to take a lot of pictures and easily get lost with what we took at what time. Adding to this digital deluge, we now have the cell phone cameras that are taking far superior pictures than before. It is so easy to get lost in these pictures unless everyone has a clear strategy to store and manage their pictures. There are so many tools out their to make this job easy; Picasa from Google, various web storage services from Shutterfly, photoworks, etc. Our neighborhood stores such as Walgreens, CVS, Target etc. now have the photo sharing and printing services that are so easy to use and very convenient to arrange in albums.
We, at Collagist, want to provide a way to get large photo prints, canvas prints and, of course, create photo collages with multiple pictures at least once every year. If you have young or school going kids it is quite possible that you have a lot of pictures and a photo collage, once a year, is a great way to get all those great pictures as home decorating piece.
Our large photo posters and canvas prints are of highest quality and our service, quality and price are unmatched to get a photo collage print on photo or canvas poster. Give it a try and you will not be disappointed.
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We have been offering Collages on Canvas for quite some time. I have just realized that there are no special instructions on the Gallery wrapped Canvas on the site and hence updated the “How It Works” section. Added information about our process on Proofs & Revisions along with Canvas prints. A document is added to explain how to review the proofs and request changes. Here is the write-up:
PROOFS & REVISIONS
After we prepare the proofs we want you to be satisfied with the designs. Remember, we take pride in custom designing your collages and would love to work with you to incorporate any changes that you may have with your collage designs.
You may request…
placement of specific pictures within the design
changes to the background color
pictures’ border width, shadow or color
change to the poster orientation
change to caption font style or color
placement of the caption on the collage
Proofs will be clearly marked with the proof number and the pictures in the collage are individually marked with numbers. You may refer to the proof numbers and the picture numbers when requesting any changes. Once we get your response, we prepare the final design within one business day and get it printed after your order is paid in full.
See the Collagist Proof Instructions document for more information.
PHOTO COLLAGE GALLERY PRINTS
The canvas print will be gallery wrapped and can be displayed without a frame. Your canvas will be sealed with our 100+ year protective top coat, then skillfully mounted on thick, heavy-duty 1-1/2″ solid wood stretcher bars. We can use the collage background color on the sides of the gallery wrap to make the canvas look great from any angle. With Standard shipping, the canvas print takes 5-10 business days to reach you in a protective packaging.
Collagist Giveaway? Yes. That is right. We have our first Collagist giveaway through a “mommy blog” mommy23monkeys.com run and managed by a great mom Rhea.
Giveaway entry is here. This is what Mommy23Monkeys.com has to say about getting your entry into this Collagist Giveaway. Head over there and get your entry and good luck!
First Mandatory Entry
Visit Collagist.com and come leave me a comment with what collage you liked best (they have sample numbers).
Bonus Entry for this Contest only
Become a twitter follower of Collagist. Leave me a comment with your twitter ID.
Some great services that I found that would help us with our business and also to find customers and share interests with others. Here is a listing of businesses that I come across and like:
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Advertised with FeaturedUsers.com and Collagist ad is showing up on the TweetStats.com this morning. See the screen shot:
We will be adding a couple of promotions for the Fathers Day. Also, it is the graduation time and we would like to offer something special for the new grads.
More details will be coming in a day or two.
Now, I have started tweeting and you can see my tweets at http://www.twitter.com/collagist
Any ideas or suggestions to get the word out about these promotions are welcome.
Standard designs make great gifts for fewer than 10 pictures and can an inexpensive way to surprise someone with a nice collage poster. You can get them designed in digital form or get them printed in large poster size from us.
Canditto is founded by Babson MBA student and here is the short description about their business from Canditto.com website:
Canditto is a patent-pending kiosk that collects the photos your guests have taken at your wedding, party, or reception. It produces a USB flash drive of all the guests pictures by the end of the night. Canditto units are rented to clients. The $450 rental fee* includes everything: round trip shipping, your keepsake memory cards, and all the support you might ever want.
Short 2 minute video on the service:
This is a good business model where user generated content (in this case friends and family that came to the event) is put in the hands of (literally in their hands via a thumb drive) the host. The business has a feel of customer interacting and touching the hardware and enjoying the pictures digitally. Few important points about the business:
instant gratification
novel and still old style
creative use of user generated content
good word of mouth or referral marketing potential
This is a niche that we thought about before but did not quite work out how the delivery and interaction of the device (Kiosk). Rush from Canditto definitely has great plans and he has already talking about non-wedding events and we wish him well.
