Creating Your Own Product: Finishing Touches

The trend during the last century seems to be unequivocal: less work, more play.

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Copyright 2005 Ronald Gibson

Now that you have written and compiled your new product, it is time for some finishing touches.

Here, we're going to talk about how generating a specific set of graphics and using them in combination on your 'mini' website will help you earn more money and generate a better response than just a plain old text based website. Each portion of the creative process has been broken down into different sections so you can read what you need.

"COVERING" IT UP

A well known fact when selling anything to anyone is that using a picture along with a powerful description will boost your sales. So, you will need to have an image of your product. Whether it is an ebook cover, a report jacket, cd cover, or software box, you need to have an original image for your product.

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Here are a few products you can use, AT NO COST to begin generating some good looking cover images.

Scott's Box Shot Maker - It's A Freebie, But It's Really Good!
http://boxshotmaker.com

Ebook Creation Toolkit v4.0
http://www.webadvertisingsecrets.com/EbookCoverToolkit4.zip

Public Relations
If you pay attention to only one traffic generating idea, this
is it!

Articles are by far my number one traffic generator for my
sites at this .....

MAKING THE PAGE

Now it's time for the next group of graphics you'll need to create that will help improve the look and selling power of your 'mini' website. However, before you start making sensational website graphics, you need the images that will give you just the right look to showcase your product properly.

Most graphics will be comprised of images and text, but some will also contain special effects generated with the use of more expensive photo editing tools such as PhotoShop -- http://www.adobe.com -- , or Paint Shop Pro -- http://www.jasc.com -- (even though Paint Shop Pro costs just $99, it's a bargain compared to PhotoShop at a more costly $699).

"Be An Affiliate Site AND A Sales Site"
Are you just a sales site reselling affiliate products and services'

You have probably seen sites .....

First, let me give you a couple of wonderful places to look for FREE images that you can download and use, most of them anyway, royalty-free:

-- STOCK X CHANGE --
http://www.sxc.hu - It's the BEST online. Check it out, seriously.

Positioning Marketing

Google might not dominate the search engine world like it did last year, but it's still a big player and can account .....

-- WEBSOUP.ORG --
http://www.websoup.org - You can find lots of things here besides free image repositories.

-- iSTOCKPHOTO --
http://www.istockphoto.com - Even though you have to pay for the use of these images, it's pretty inexpensive at just $0.50 per image.

What good will these images do you if you don't have a tool to help you utilize them properly' So, here is another free gift for you that ......