Podcasts about stock images

One of my all-time favorite jokes is about babies... "How many babies does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "None - they neither have the cognitive or motor skills to perform such a task!" You could imagine a baby holding a lightbulb and trying to insert it into a lamp or socket. But if you wanted to see it, you could log into an AI image generator to create one. AI opens some interesting conundrums about the use of images. Who owns the copyright? What if you use a well-known person? Can you be sued? Images are assets. These assets can be bought and sold. What once was a free image that you picked up from free image sites like Pixabay or Pexels can be sold to a paid-for library. Those libraries can use tools like Google Lens or a metadata search to find that specific image. At this point, I feel safe creating images with Firefly because I have a paid account with Adobe for their creative suite and their Stock Images (two different accounts). I would not be as confident using anything I am not paying for. Even if you win the battle, you are spending your time trying to ward off what I consider an attack.

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In this episode, Mel and Sarah cover:  ✨ What stock images are and how you can use them in your business  ✨ Why you need to make stock images your own to reflect you and your brand  ✨ The importance of using the right images to connect with your ideal client    Where to find Sarah  Stock Membership: https://brandelizastock.com/  Financial Stock: https://financialstockimages.com.au/  Product Photography: https://brandeliza.com.au/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandelizastock/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandelizastock  Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com.au/brandelizastock/    Links mentioned in this podcast  20 Free Images - https://brandelizastock.com/free-resources/free-stock-images/   10 Free Canva templates - https://financialstockimages.com.au/canva-financial-templates/    If you enjoyed listening to this episode, then you'll also love:  Episode 65 – The one thing that's missing from your message  Episode 32 – Creating a message from the heart    Ready to work with me? 

What You'll Hear In This Episode:AI technology is revolutionizing online dating by enhancing user safety and security, detecting fraudulent profiles, and improving overall user experience.The rise of AI-generated fake profiles and content highlights the importance of AI technology in helping users identify and avoid scams online.Advancements in AI technology on dating sites, such as chatbots and voice assistants, will facilitate seamless communication and language translation, catering to diverse user needs.Data privacy concerns regarding the collection and ethical use of user data for AI algorithms need to be addressed by dating apps to ensure user trust and protection.AI features like personalized prompts and icebreakers simplify and enhance the conversation and connection process for users, reducing swipe burnout.Key quotes:"We really encourage all of our clients to do a background check on anyone they're dating, no matter how legitimate they think that person is, because you'd be surprised what you can uncover." — Lisa Shield"AI technology can also provide a more seamless and convenient user experience on dating sites, including chatbots, chat bots, voice assistance, and language translation services." — Lisa Shield"You can actually feed the AI past email responses to similar kinds of questions, and the AI will learn your tone, how you would respond, and then do in a matter of minutes what it would take you hours to do or take an assistant hours to do for you." — Lisa ShieldContinue On Your Journey:Lisa Shield | YouTube | Facebook | Instagram | Book a Call With LisaEmail the podcast at: podcast@lisashield.com 

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Stock photos – we all need them but where do you find good ones, how do you use legally and who has the rights to them anyway?  Join me as I talk to Sarah from Brand Eliza Stock all about stock photos. You can find the show notes and in listen here: www.socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/243 Take a listen to episode 243 and hear the GOLD! WANT IDEAS ON WHAT TO POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA? Free eBook – https://bit.ly/108Social   READY TO LIFT YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA GAME? Take the Challenge: https://bit.ly/5daysocialchallenge   WANT TO CREATE YOUR FIRST SUCCESSFUL FACEBOOK AD? Download the FREE eBook: https://bit.ly/beginnersguidetoads   SHOW NOTES (including a transcription of this episode and all links and resources): www.socialmediaandmarketing.com.au/243    DM JENN OVER ON INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/jenndonovan_/  

Did you know you can make money by selling stock images?This is a route of photography and income we've never talked about on the show, and we're so excited for you to listen! Aubrey Westlund, stock photographer and passive income expert,  joins us on the podcast to chat about her personal photography journey. She teaches us how to get started shooting stock images, how to find an agency that is a good fit for your style, and how to gain traction and succeed in this niche. The best news? It is one of the easiest forms of passive income a photographer could possibly imagine! In this episode, we're learning something brand new right alongside you! Grab your notebooks photographers, we're all students today!Follow us on Instagram: @takeitfromus_podcastCheck out this episode's show notes: takeitfromuspodcast.com/episodes/080Redwood Presets - As photographers, editing is half the battle. If you struggle to nail your style and tones within your imagery, look no further than Redwood Presets. Get ready to achieve a warm and cinematic look with this preset pack by Emily Magers and Dawn Charles for Lightroom & ACR. CLICK HERE and use code "TAKEITFROMUS" to get 15% off!Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Take It From Us! As always, you can use code "TAKEITFROMUS" on both dawncharles.com and emilymagers.com to get 20% off of all the photography resources you need to propel your business forward. We'll be here cheering you on every step of the way!

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Jordan and his pal Aaron discuss, explore, and celebrate the week in offbeat Canadian news. In this episode we discuss the RCMP's usage of stock images, we wrap up the Maugerville Potato story, we cringe at a creep in Ontario, and we shake our fists at an axe attack in Halifax. Links: Kathryn's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathryncleroux/?hl=en Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/keep-canada-weird Join the Keep Canada Weird Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepcanadaweird Send a weird news tip: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/contact Provide feedback and comments on the episode: nighttimepodcast.com/contact Subscribe to the show: premium feed: https://www.patreon.com/Nighttimepodcast apple podcasts: https://applepodcasts.com/nighttime Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Contact: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NightTimePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcast

Jordan and his pal Aaron discuss, explore, and celebrate the week in offbeat Canadian news. In this episode we discuss the RCMP's usage of stock images, we wrap up the Maugerville Potato story, we cringe at a creep in Ontario, and we shake our fists at an axe attack in Halifax. Links: Kathryn's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathryncleroux/?hl=en Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/keep-canada-weird Join the Keep Canada Weird Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepcanadaweird Send a weird news tip: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/contact Provide feedback and comments on the episode: nighttimepodcast.com/contact Subscribe to the show: premium feed: https://www.patreon.com/Nighttimepodcast apple podcasts: https://applepodcasts.com/nighttime Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Contact: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NightTimePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jordan and his pal Aaron discuss, explore, and celebrate the week in offbeat Canadian news. In this episode we discuss the RCMP's usage of stock images, we wrap up the Maugerville Potato story, we cringe at a creep in Ontario, and we shake our fists at an axe attack in Halifax. Links: Kathryn's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathryncleroux/?hl=en Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/keep-canada-weird Join the Keep Canada Weird Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepcanadaweird Send a weird news tip: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/contact Provide feedback and comments on the episode: nighttimepodcast.com/contact Subscribe to the show: premium feed: https://www.patreon.com/Nighttimepodcast apple podcasts: https://applepodcasts.com/nighttime Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Contact: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NightTimePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcastPremium Feed: https://www.patreon.com/NighttimepodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, David and Tim talk about Where to Get Good Stock Images for Web Design The post Where to Get Good Stock Images for Web Design | EP 773 appeared first on WP Gears.

Today we are talking with Tyler Williams, founder of Failure Inc. With beginnings in the art world, Tyler discovered a niche that could make him a good living on the side. His coworker at his day job thought he could take it a step further and create a whole business and platform around it. Starting with just $1400, the two would create and grow a company over 9 years that would then exit for $65million. From Artist To Entrepreneur Tyler went to art school for video and animation and hadn't really considered being an entrepreneur. He was working at a studio that did animations for CNN and other large networks when he noticed they were using a lot of stock images and video in their work. Then he saw how much they were paying for those, and he thought that was something he could do. Tyler started making his own stock images and video on the side and uploading them onto various platforms. With Tyler's work selling like crazy, he was making more off of it than he was at his day job. Talking to a coworker about his success, the idea was introduced that they could create their own platform to sell their work on. Thus, Motion Array was born. Bootstrapping The two started out with just $700 each and paid a company out of India to build their initial site for them. They set it up to run as a membership site and thought they were off to the races. They got their very first member, and then crickets. Refusing to be discouraged, the two kept at it. For 2 years, they made all the content on the site themselves. Things started to pick up, and they were tracking site visitors and memberships. Time To Sell Eight to nine years in, an investor from the company Artlist reached out to Motion Array on LinkedIn. They set up a casual meeting and Artlist offered to invest in their company. Tyler told them they weren't really looking for investments, and they went their separate ways. Over the next 6 months, Tyler, and his cofounder would have discussions about selling the company. They both wanted to be able to spend more time with their families. That's when another investor from Artlist reaches out. They took it as a sign that it was time to sell. Knowing What You Know Now, What Would You Tell Yourself Ten Years Ago? Tyler would warn himself that things are going to be a lot harder and take a lot longer than you think. He would tell himself to stick with it though because it will all be worth it. He also says he wishes he would've known to not get so caught up in the details of things like accounting and legal. So often he would stress himself out over it and not even want to continue with the business. He's since learned that a lot can be cleaned up after the fact. He believes that's where a lot of people get stuck. They think they have to know it all. Tyler says to take action now, learn as you go, and clean it up later. What Tyler Is Up To Now Despite selling the last business because he wanted more time with his family, Tyler has already jumped into a new business. As the founder of Failure Inc, Tyler says it's a parent company for all of his other projects. A main project currently is www.bestlist.com, a search engine/discovery platform. Pursuing many other ideas, Tyler says he's looking for cofounders interested in starting something together. If that's you, visit www.tylerwilliams.com, https://failure.inc/ where you'll find links to both LinkedIn and Failure Inc. -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You'll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

We share about brand strategy here on the podcast pretty often, but in today's special episode we're talking about the importance of brand imagery and the impact it can have on how your brand is perceived online. Shay Cochrane of Social Squares joins us to discuss the barriers that small businesses face with online presence […] The post Episode 219: Using Styled Stock Images to Sell More Easily with Shay Cochrane appeared first on b is for bonnie design | brand design, strategy & education for creative boss ladies.

Many graphic designers may unknowingly violate stock photo licensing terms when they buy a stock image or when they send one to a client. Here are some things to be aware of when choosing free and paid stock images for your graphic design projects.

Let's NORMALIZE body hair! All of it. In all of its glory. How many women do you know, yourself included, are out here stressing about their body hair. Too damn many. This week Monica and Aja are starting the conversation around body hair and why it is important. Not only are we starting the conversation but we are getting into our own issues and insecurities with it as well. We can't wait to keep this conversation going with you guys! Happy listening! *Art found on Stock Images. Please contact for credit. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/EverythingsFuckedPodcast)

About ChloeChloe is a Bay Area based Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. Previously, she worked at Sentry.io where she created the award winning Sentry Scouts program (a camp themed meet-up ft. patches, s'mores, giant squirrel costumes, and hot chocolate), and was featured in the Grace Hopper Conference 2018 gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org. Her projects and work with Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart 'astrology', and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. She prides herself on being a non-traditional background engineer, and is likely one of the only engineers who has played an ogre, crayon, and the back-end of a cow on a professional stage. She hopes to bring more artists into tech, and more engineers into the arts.Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gitforked/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChloeCondonVideos TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. Spelled V-U-L-T-R because they're all about helping save money, including on things like, you know, vowels. So, what they do is they are a cloud provider that provides surprisingly high performance cloud compute at a price that—while sure they claim its better than AWS pricing—and when they say that they mean it is less money. Sure, I don't dispute that but what I find interesting is that it's predictable. They tell you in advance on a monthly basis what it's going to going to cost. They have a bunch of advanced networking features. They have nineteen global locations and scale things elastically. Not to be confused with openly, because apparently elastic and open can mean the same thing sometimes. They have had over a million users. Deployments take less that sixty seconds across twelve pre-selected operating systems. Or, if you're one of those nutters like me, you can bring your own ISO and install basically any operating system you want. Starting with pricing as low as $2.50 a month for Vultr cloud compute they have plans for developers and businesses of all sizes, except maybe Amazon, who stubbornly insists on having something to scale all on their own. Try Vultr today for free by visiting: vultr.com/screaming, and you'll receive a $100 in credit. Thats v-u-l-t-r.com slash screaming.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Honeycomb. When production is running slow, it's hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? I've got five bucks on DNS, personally. Why scroll through endless dashboards, while dealing with alert floods, going from tool to tool to tool that you employ, guessing at which puzzle pieces matter? Context switching and tool sprawl are slowly killing both your team and your business. You should care more about one of those than the other, which one is up to you. Drop the separate pillars and enter a world of getting one unified understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. With Honeycomb, you guess less and know more. Try it for free at Honeycomb.io/screaminginthecloud. Observability, it's more than just hipster monitoring.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Somehow in the years this show has been running, I've only had Chloe Condon on once. In that time, she's over for dinner at my house way more frequently than that, but somehow the stars never align to get us together in front of microphones and have a conversation. First, welcome back to the show, Chloe. You're a senior cloud advocate at Microsoft on the Next Generation Experiences Team. It is great to have you here.Chloe: I'm back, baby. I'm so excited. This is one of my favorite shows to listen to, and it feels great to be a repeat guest, a friend of the pod. [laugh].Corey: Oh, yes indeed. So, something-something cloud, something-something Microsoft, something-something Azure, I don't particularly care, in light of what it is you have going on that you have just clued me in on, and we're going to talk about that to start. You're launching something new called Master Creep Theatre and I have a whole bunch of questions. First and foremost, is it theater or theatre? How is that spelled? Which—the E and the R, what direction does that go in?Chloe: Ohh, I feel like it's going to be the R-E because that makes it very fancy and almost British, you know?Corey: Oh, yes. And the Harlequin mask direction it goes in, that entire aesthetic, I love it. Please tell me what it is. I want to know the story of how it came to be, the sheer joy I get from playing games with language alone guarantee I'm going to listen to whatever this is, but please tell me more.Chloe: Oh, my goodness. Okay, so this is one of those creative projects that's been on my back burner forever where I'm like, someday when I have time, I'm going to put all my time [laugh] and energy into this. So, this originally stemmed from—if you don't follow me on Twitter, oftentimes when I'm not tweeting about '90s nostalgia, or Clippy puns, or Microsoft silly throwback things to Windows 95, I get a lot of weird DMs. On every app, not just Twitter. On Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, oh my gosh, what else is there?Corey: And I don't want to be clear here just to make this absolutely crystal clear, “Hey, Chloe, do you want to come back on Screaming in the Cloud again?” Is not one of those weird DMs to which you're referring?Chloe: No, that is a good DM. So, people always ask me, “Why don't you just close your DMs?” Because a lot of high profile people on the internet just won't even have their DMs open.Corey: Oh, I understand that, but I'm the same boat. I would have a lot less nonsense, but at the same time, I want—at least in my case—I want people to be able to reach out to me because the only reason I am what I am is that a bunch of people who had no reason to do it did favors for me—Chloe: Yes.Corey: —and I can't ever repay it, I can only ever pay it forward and that is the cost of doing favors. If I can help someone, I will, and that's hard to do with, “My DMs are closed so hunt down my email address and send me an email,” and I'm bad at email.Chloe: Right. I'm terrible at email as well, and I'm also terrible at DMs [laugh]. So, I think a lot of folks don't understand the volume at which I get messages, which if you're a good friend of mine, if you're someone like Corey or a dear friend like Emily, I will tell you, “Hey, if you actually need to get ahold of me, text me.” And text me a couple times because I probably see it and then I have ADHD, so I won't immediately respond. I think I respond in my head but I don't.But I get anywhere from, I would say, ohh, like, 30 on a low day to 100 on a day where I have a viral tweet about getting into tech with a non-traditional background or something like that. And these DMs that I get are really lovely messages like, “Thank you for the work you do,” or, “I decided to do a cute manicure because the [laugh] manicure you posted,” too, “How do I get into tech? How do I get a job at Microsoft?” All kinds of things. It runs the gamut between, “Where's your shirt from?” Where—[laugh]—“What's your mother's maiden name?”But a lot of the messages that I get—and if you're a woman on the internet with any sort of presence, you know how there's that, like—what's it called in Twitter—the Other Messages feature that's like, “Here's the people you know. Here's the people”—the message requests. For the longest time were just, “Hey,” “Hi,” “Hey dear,” “Hi pretty,” “Hi ma'am,” “Hello,” “Love you,” just really weird stuff. And of course, everyone gets these; these are bots or scammers or whatever they may be—or just creeps, like weird—and always the bio—not always but I [laugh] would say, like, these accounts range from either obviously a bot where it's a million different numbers, an account that says, “Father, husband, lover of Jesus Christ and God.” Which is so [laugh] ironic… I'm like, “Why are you in my DMs?”Corey: A man of God, which is why I'm in your DMs being creepy.Chloe: Exactly. Or—Corey: Just like Christ might have.Chloe: And you would be shocked, Corey, at how many. The thing that I love to say is Twitter is not a dating site. Neither is LinkedIn. Neither is Instagram. I post about my boyfriend all the time, who you've met, and we adore Ty Smith, but I've never received any unsolicited images, knock on wood, but I'm always getting these very bait-y messages like, “Hey, beautiful. I want to take you out.” And you would be shocked at how many of these people are doing it from their professional business account. [laugh]. Like, works at AWS, works at Google; it's like, oh my God. [laugh].Corey: You get this under your name, right? It ties back to it. Meanwhile—again, this is one of those invisible areas of privilege that folks who look like me don't have to deal with. My DM graveyard is usually things like random bot accounts, always starting with, “Hi,” or, “Hey.” If you want to guarantee I never respond to you, that is what you say. I just delete those out of hand because I don't notice or care. It is either a bot, or a scam, or someone who can't articulate what they're actually trying to get from me—Chloe: Exactly.Corey: —and I don't have the time for it. Make your request upfront. Don't ask to ask; just ask.Chloe: I think it's important to note, also, that I get a lot of… different kinds of these messages and they try to respond to everyone. I cannot. If I responded to everybody's messages that I got, I just wouldn't have any time to do my job. But the thing that I always say to people—you know, and managers have told me in the past, my boyfriend has encouraged me to do this, is when people say things like, “Close your DMs,” or, “Just ignore them,” I want to have the same experience that everybody else has on the internet. Now, it's going to be a little different, of course, because I look and act and sound like I do, and of course, podcasts are historically a visual medium, so I'm a five-foot-two, white, bright orange-haired girl; I'm a very quirky individual.Corey: Yes, if you look up ‘quirky,' you're right there under the dictionary definition. And every time—like, when we were first hanging out and you mentioned, “Oh yeah, I used to be in theater.” And it's like, “You know, you didn't even have to tell me that, on some level.” Which is not intended to be an insult. It's just theater folks are a bit of a type, and you are more or less the archetype of what a theatre person is, at least to my frame of reference.Chloe: And not only that, but I did musicals, so you can't see the jazz hands now, but–yeah, my degree is in drama. I come from that space and I just, you know, whenever people say, “Just ignore it,” or, “Close your DMs,” I'm like, I want people to be able to reach out to me; I want to be able to message one-on-one with Corey and whoever, when—as needed, and—Corey: Why should I close my DMs?Chloe: Yeah.Corey: They're the ones who suck. Yeah.Chloe: [laugh]. But over the years, to give people a little bit of context, I've been working in tech a long time—I've been working professionally in the DevRel space for about five or six years now—but I've worked in tech a long time, I worked as a recruiter, an office admin, executive assistant, like, I did all of the other areas of tech, but it wasn't until I got a presence on Twitter—which I've only been on Twitter for I think five years; I haven't been on there that long, actively. And to give some context on that, Twitter is not a social media platform used in the theater space. We just use Instagram and Facebook, really, back in the day, I'm not on Facebook at all these days. So, when I discovered Twitter was cool—and I should also mention my boyfriend, Ty, was working at Twitter at the time and I was like, “Twitter's stupid. Who would go on this—[laugh] who uses this app?”Fast-forward to now, I'm like—Ty's like, “Can you please get off Twitter?” But yeah, I think I've just been saving these screenshots over the last five or so years from everything from my LinkedIn, from all the crazy stuff that I dealt with when people thought I was a Bitcoin influencer to people being creepy. One of the highlights that I recently found when I was going back and trying to find these for this series that I'm doing is there was a guy from Australia, DMed me something like, “Hey, beautiful,” or, “Hey, sexy,” something like that. And I called him out. And I started doing this thing where I would post it on Twitter.I would usually hide their image with a clown emoji or something to make it anonymous, or not to call them out, but in this one I didn't, and this guy was defending himself in the comments, and to me in my DM's saying, “Oh, actually, this was a social experiment and I have all the screenshots of this,” right? So, imagine if you will—so I have conversations ranging from things like that where it's like, “Actually I messaged a bunch of people about that because I'm doing a social experiment on how people respond to, ‘Hey beautiful. I'd love to take you out some time in Silicon Valley.'” just the weirdest stuff right? So, me being the professional performer that I am, was like, these are hilarious.And I kept thinking to myself, anytime I would get these messages, I was like, “Does this work?” If you just go up to someone and say, “Hey”—do people meet this way? And of course, you get people on Twitter who when you tweet something like that, they're like, “Actually, I met my boyfriend in Twitter DMs,” or like, “I met my boyfriend because he slid into my DMs on Instagram,” or whatever. But that's not me. I have a boyfriend. I'm not interested. This is not the time or the place.So, it's been one of those things on the back burner for three or four years that I've just always been saving these images to a folder, thinking, “Okay, when I have the time when I have the space, the creative energy and the bandwidth to do this,” and thankfully for everyone I do now, I'm going to do dramatic readings of these DMs with other people in tech, and show—not even just to make fun of these people, but just to show, like, how would this work? What do you expect the [laugh] outcome to be? So Corey, for example, if you were to come on, like, here's a great example. A year ago—this is 2018; we're in 2021 right now—this guy messaged me in December of 2018, and was like, “Hey,” and then was like, “I would love to be your friend.” And I was like, “Nope,” and I responded, “Nope, nope, nope, nope.” There's a thread of this on Twitter. And then randomly, three weeks ago, just sent me this video to the tune of Enrique Iglesias' “Rhythm Divine” of just images of himself. [laugh]. So like, this comedy [crosstalk 00:10:45]—Corey: Was at least wearing pants?Chloe: He is wearing pants. It's very confusing. It's a picture—a lot of group photos, so I didn't know who he was. But in my mind because, you know, I'm an engineer, I'm trying to think through the end-user experience. I'm like, “What was your plan here?”With all these people I'm like, “So, your plan is just to slide into my DMs and woo me with ‘Hey'?” [laugh]. So, I think it'll be really fun to not only just show and call out this behavior but also take submissions from other people in the industry, even beyond tech, really, because I know anytime I tweet an example of this, I get 20 different women going, “Oh, my gosh, you get these weird messages, too?” And I really want to show, like, A, to men how often this happens because like you said, I think a lot of men say, “Just ignore it.” Or, “I don't get anything like that. You must be asking for it.”And I'm like, “No. This comes to me. These people find us and me and whoever else out there gets these messages,” and I'm just really ready to have a laugh at their expense because I've been laughing for years. [laugh].Corey: Back when I was a teenager, I was working in some fast food style job, and one of my co-workers saw customer, walked over to her, and said, “You're beautiful.” And she smiled and blushed. He leaned in and kissed her.Chloe: Ugh.Corey: And I'm sitting there going what on earth? And my other co-worker leaned over and is like, “You do know that's his girlfriend, right?” And I have to feel like, on some level, that is what happened to an awful lot of these broken men out on the internet, only they didn't have a co-worker to lean over and say, “Yeah, they actually know each other.” Which is why we see all this [unintelligible 00:12:16] behavior of yelling at people on the street as they walk past, or from a passing car. Because they saw someone do a stunt like that once and thought, “If it worked for them, it could work for me. It only has to work once.”And they're trying to turn this into a one day telling the grandkids how they met their grandmother. And, “Yeah, I yelled at her from a construction site, and it was love at first ‘Hey, baby.'” That is what I feel is what's going on. I have never understood it. I look back at my dating history in my early 20s, I look back now I'm like, “Ohh, I was not a great person,” but compared to these stories, I was a goddamn prince.Chloe: Yeah.Corey: It's awful.Chloe: It's really wild. And actually, I have a very vivid memory, this was right bef—uh, not right before the pandemic, but probably in 2019. I was speaking on a lot of conferences and events, and I was at this event in San Jose, and there were not a lot of women there. And somehow this other lovely woman—I can't remember her name right now—found me afterwards, and we were talking and she said, “Oh, my God. I had—this is such a weird event, right?”And I was like, “Yeah, it is kind of a weird vibe here.” And she said, “Ugh, so the weirdest thing happened to me. This guy”—it was her first tech conference ever, first of all, so you know—or I think it was her first tech conference in the Bay Area—and she was like, “Yeah, this guy came to my booth. I've been working this booth over here for this startup that I work at, and he told me he wanted to talk business. And then I ended up meeting him, stupidly, in my hotel lobby bar, and it's a date. Like, this guy is taking me out on a date all of a sudden,” and she was like, “And it took me about two minutes to just to be like, you know what? This is inappropriate. I thought this is going to be a business meeting. I want to go.”And then she shows me her hands, Corey, and she has a wedding ring. And she goes, “I'm not married. I have bought five or six different types of rings on Wish App”—or wish.com, which if you've never purchased from Wish before, it's very, kind of, low priced jewelry and toys and stuff of that nature. And she said, “I have a different wedding ring for every occasion. I've got my beach fake wedding ring. I've got my, we-got-married-with-a-bunch-of-mason-jars-in-the-woods fake wedding ring.”And she said she started wearing these because when she did, she got less creepy guys coming up to her at these events. And I think it's important to note, also, I'm not putting it out there at all that I'm interested in men. If anything, you know, I've been [laugh] with my boyfriend for six years never putting out these signals, and time and time again, when I would travel, I was very, very careful about sharing my location because oftentimes I would be on stage giving a keynote and getting messages while I delivered a technical keynote saying, “I'd love to take you out to dinner later. How long are you in town?” Just really weird, yucky, nasty stuff that—you know, and everyone's like, “You should be flattered.”And I'm like, “No. You don't have to deal with this. It's not like a bunch of women are wolf-whistling you during your keynote and asking what your boob size is.” But that's happening to me, and that's an extra layer that a lot of folks in this industry don't talk about but is happening and it adds up. And as my boyfriend loves to remind me, he's like, “I mean, you could stop tweeting at any time,” which I'm not going to do. But the more followers you get, the more inbound you get. So—Corey: Right. And the hell of it is, it's not a great answer because it's closing off paths of opportunity. Twitter has—Chloe: Absolutely.Corey: —introduced me to clients, introduced me to friends, introduced me to certainly an awful lot of podcast guests, and it informs and shapes a lot of the opinions that I hold on these things. And this is an example of what people mean when they talk about privilege. Where, yeah, “Look at Corey”—I've heard someone say once, and, “Nothing was handed to him.” And you're right, to be clear, I did not—like, no one handed me a microphone and said, “We're going to give you a podcast, now.” I had to build this myself.But let's be clear, I had no headwinds of working against me while I did it. There's the, you still have to do things, but you don't have an entire cacophony of shit heels telling you that you're not good enough in a variety of different ways, to subtly reinforcing your only value is the way that you look. There isn't this whole, whenever you get something wrong and it's a, “Oh, well, that's okay. We all get things wrong.” It's not the, “Girls suck at computers,” trope that we see so often.There's a litany of things that are either supportive that work in my favor, or are absent working against me that is privilege that is invisible until you start looking around and seeing it, and then it becomes impossible not to. I know I've talked about this before on the show, but no one listens to everything and I just want to subtly reinforce that if you're one of those folks who will say things like, “Oh, privilege isn't real,” or, “You can have bigotry against white people, too.” I want to be clear, we are not the same. You are not on my side on any of this, and to be very direct, I don't really care what you have to say.Chloe: Yeah. And I mean, this even comes into play in office culture and dynamics as well because I am always the squeaky wheel in the room on these kind of things, but a great example that I'll give is I know several women in this industry who have had issues when they used to travel for conferences of being stalked, people showing up at their hotel rooms, just really inappropriate stuff, and for that reason, a lot of folks—including myself—wouldn't pick the conference event—like, typically they'll be like, “This is the hotel everyone's staying at.” I would very intentionally stay at a different hotel because I didn't want people knowing where I was staying. But I started to notice once a friend of mine, who had an issue with this [unintelligible 00:17:26], I really like to be private about where I'm staying, and sometimes if you're working at a startup or larger company, they'll say, “Hey, everyone put in this Excel spreadsheet or this Google Doc where everyone's staying and how to contact them, and all this stuff.” And I think it's really important to be mindful of these things.I always say to my friends—I'm not going out too much these days because it's a pandemic—and I've done Twitter threads on this before where I never post my location; you will never see me. I got rid of Swarm a couple [laugh] years ago because people started showing up where I was. I posted photos before, you know, “Hey, at the lake right now.” And people have shown up. Dinners, people have recognized me when I've been out.So, I have an espresso machine right over here that my lovely boyfriend got me for my birthday, and someone commented, “Oh, we're just going to act like we don't see someone's reflection in the”—like, people Zoom in on images. I've read stories from cosplayers online who, they look into the reflection of a woman's glasses and can figure out where they are. So, I think there's this whole level. I'm constantly on alert, especially as a woman in tech. And I have friends here in the Bay Area, who have tweeted a photo at a barbecue, and then someone was like, “Hey, I live in the neighborhood, and I recognize the tree.”First of all, don't do that. Don't ever do that. Even if you think you're a nice, unassuming guy or girl or whatever, don't ever [laugh] do that. But I very intentionally—people get really confused, my friends specifically. They're like, “Wait a second, you're in Hawaii right now? I thought you were in Hawaii three weeks ago.” And I'm like, “I was. I don't want anyone even knowing what island or continent I'm on.”And that's something that I think about a lot. When I post photo—I never post any photos from my window. I don't want people knowing what my view is. People have figured out what neighborhood I live in based on, like, “I know where that graffiti is.” I'm very strategic about all this stuff, and I think there's a lot of stuff that I want to share that I don't share because of privacy issues and concerns about my safety. And also want to say and this is in my thread on online safety as well is, don't call out people's locations if you do recognize the image because then you're doxxing them to everyone like, “Oh”—Corey: I've had a few people do that in response to pictures I've posted before on a house, like, “Oh, I can look at this and see this other thing and then intuit where you are.” And first, I don't have that sense of heightened awareness on this because I still have this perception of myself as no one cares enough to bother, and on the other side, by calling that out in public. It's like, you do not present yourself well at all. In fact, you make yourself look an awful lot like the people that we're warned about. And I just don't get that.I have some of these concerns, especially as my audience has grown, and let's be very clear here, I antagonize trillion-dollar companies for a living. So, first if someone's going to have me killed, they can find where I am. That's pretty easy. It turns out that having me whacked is not even a rounding error on most of these companies' budgets, unfortunately. But also I don't have that level of, I guess, deranged superfan. Yet.But it happens in the fullness of time, as people's audiences continue to grow. It just seems an awful lot like it happens at much lower audience scale for folks who don't look like me. I want to be clear, this is not a request for anyone listening to this, to try and become that person for me, you will get hosed, at minimum. And yes, we press charges here.Chloe: AWSfan89, sliding into your DMs right after this. Yeah, it's also just like—I mean, I don't want to necessarily call out what company this was at, but personally, I've been in situations where I've thrown an event, like a meetup, and I'm like, “Hey, everyone. I'm going to be doing ‘Intro to blah, blah, blah' at this time, at this place.” And three or four guys would show up, none of them with computers. It was a freaking workshop on how to do or deploy something, or work with an API.And when I said, “Great, so why'd you guys come to this session today?” And maybe two have iPads, one just has a notepad, they're like, “Oh, I just wanted to meet you from Twitter.” And it's like, okay, that's a little disrespectful to me because I am taking time out to do this workshop on a very technical thing that I thought people were coming here to learn. And this isn't the Q&A. This is not your meet-and-greet opportunity to meet Chloe Condon, and I don't know why you would, like, I put so much of my life online [laugh] anyway.But yeah, it's very unsettling, and it's happened to me enough. Guys have shown up to my events and given me gifts. I mean, I'm always down for a free shirt or something, but it's one of those things that I'm constantly aware of and I hate that I have to be constantly aware of, but at the end of the day, my safety is the number one priority, and I don't want to get murdered. And I've tweeted this out before, our friend Emily, who's similarly a lady on the internet, who works with my boyfriend Ty over at Uber, we have this joke that's not a joke, where we say, “Hey if I'm murdered, this is who it was.” And we'll just send each other screenshots of creepy things that people either tag us in, or give us feedback on, or people asking what size shirt we are. Just, wiki feed stuff, just really some of the yucky of the yuck out there.And I do think that unless you have a partner, or a family member, or someone close enough to you to let you know about these things—because I don't talk about these things a lot other than my close friends, and maybe calling out a weirdo here and there in public, but I don't share the really yucky stuff. I don't share the people who are asking what neighborhood I live in. I'm not sharing the people who are tagging me, like, [unintelligible 00:22:33], really tagging me in some nasty TikToks, along with some other women out there. There are some really bad actors in this community and it is to the point where Emily and I will be like, “Hey, when you inevitably have to solve my murder, here's the [laugh] five prime suspects.” And that sucks. That's [unintelligible 00:22:48] joke; that isn't a joke, right? I suspect I will either die in an elevator accident or one of my stalkers will find me. [laugh].Corey: It's easy for folks to think, oh, well, this is a Chloe problem because she's loud, she's visible, she's quirky, she's different than most folks, and she brings it all on herself, and this is provably not true. Because if you talk to, effectively, any woman in the world in-depth about this, they all have stories that look awfully similar to this. And let me forestall some of the awful responses I know I'm going to get. And, “Well, none of the women I know have had experiences like this,” let me be very clear, they absolutely have, but for one reason or another, they either don't see the need, or don't see the value, or don't feel safe talking to you about it.Chloe: Yeah, absolutely. And I feel a lot of privilege, I'm very lucky that my boyfriend is a staff engineer at Uber, and I have lots of friends in high places at some of these companies like Reddit that work with safety and security and stuff, but oftentimes, a lot of the stories or insights or even just anecdotes that I will give people on their products are invaluable insights to a lot of these security and safety teams. Like, who amongst us, you know, [laugh] has used a feature and been like, “Wait a second. This is really, really bad, and I don't want to tweet about this because I don't want people to know that they can abuse this feature to stalk or harass or whatever that may be,” but I think a lot about the people who don't have the platform that I have because I have 50k-something followers on Twitter, I have a pretty big online following in general, and I have the platform that I do working at Microsoft, and I can tweet and scream and be loud as I can about this. But I think about the folks who don't have my audience, the people who are constantly getting harassed and bombarded, and I get these DMs all the time from women who say, “Thank you so much for doing a thread on this,” or, “Thank you for talking about this,” because people don't believe them.They're just like, “Oh, just ignore it,” or just, “Oh, it's just one weirdo in his basement, like, in his mom's basement.” And I'm like, “Yeah, but imagine that but times 40 in a week, and think about how that would make you rethink your place and your position in tech and even outside of tech.” Let's think of the people who don't know how this technology works. If you're on Instagram at all, you may notice that literally not only every post, but every Instagram story that has the word COVID in it, has the word vaccine, has anything, and they must be using some sort of cognitive scanning type thing or scanning the images themselves because this is a feature that basically says, hey, this post mentioned COVID in some way. I think if you even use the word mask, it alerts this.And while this is a great feature because we all want accurate information coming out about the pandemic, I'm like, “Wait a minute. So, you're telling me this whole time you could have been doing this for all the weird things that I get into my DMs, and people post?” And, like, it just shows you, yes, this is a global pandemic. Yes, this is something that affects everyone. Yes, it's important we get information out about this, but we can be using these features in much [laugh] more impactful ways that protects people's safety, that protects people's ability to feel safe on a platform.And I think the biggest one for me, and I make a lot of bots; I make a lot of Twitter bots and chatbots, and I've done entire series on this about ethical bot creation, but it's so easy—and I know this firsthand—to make a Twitter account. You can have more than one number, you can do with different emails. And with Instagram, they have this really lovely new feature that if you block someone, it instantly says, “You just blocked so and so. Would you like to block any other future accounts they make?” I mean, seems simple enough, right?Like, anything related—maybe they're doing it by email, or phone number, or maybe it's by IP, but like, that's not being done on a lot of these platforms, and it should be. I think someone mentioned in one of my threads on safety recently that Peloton doesn't have a block user feature. [laugh]. They're probably like, “Well, who's going to harass someone on Peloton?” It would happen to me. If I had a Peloton, [laugh] I assure you someone would find a way to harass me on there.So, I always tell people, if you're working at a company and you're not thinking about safety and harassment tools, you probably don't have anybody LGBTQ+ women, non-binary on your team, first of all, and you need to be thinking about these things, and you need to be making them a priority because if users can interact in some way, they will stalk, harass, they will find some way to misuse it. It seems like one of those weird edge cases where it's like, “Oh, we don't need to put a test in for that feature because no one's ever going to submit, like, just 25 emojis.” But it's the same thing with safety. You're like, who would harass someone on an app about bubblegum? One of my followers were. [laugh].Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service. Although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLTP and OLAP, don't ask me to ever say those acronyms again, workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora, and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: The biggest question that doesn't get asked that needs to be in almost every case is, “Okay. We're building a thing, and it's awesome. And I know it's hard to think like this, but pivot around. Theoretically, what could a jerk do with it?”Chloe: Yes.Corey: When you're designing it, it's all right, how do you account for people that are complete jerks?Chloe: Absolutely.Corey: Even the cloud providers, all of them, when the whole Parler thing hit, everyone's like, “Oh, Amazon is censoring people for freedom of speech.” No, they're actually not. What they're doing is enforcing their terms of service, the same terms of service that every provider that is not trash has. It is not a problem that one company decided they didn't want hate speech on their platform. It was all the companies decided that, except for some very fringe elements. And that's the sort of thing you have to figure out is, it's easy in theory to figure out, oh, anything goes; freedom of speech. Great, well, some forms of speech violate federal law.Chloe: Right.Corey: So, what do you do then? Where do you draw the line? And it's always nuanced and it's always tricky, and the worst people are the folks that love to rules-lawyer around these things. It gets worse than that where these are the same people that will then sit there and make bad faith arguments all the time. And lawyers have a saying that hard cases make bad law.When you have these very nuanced thing, and, “Well, we can't just do it off the cuff. We have to build a policy around this.” This is the problem with most corporate policies across the board. It's like, you don't need a policy that says you're not allowed to harass your colleagues with a stick. What you need to do is fire the jackwagon that made you think you might need a policy that said that.But at scale, that becomes a super-hard thing to do when every enforcement action appears to be bespoke. Because there are elements on the gray areas and the margins where reasonable people can disagree. And that is what sets the policy and that's where the precedent hits, and then you have these giant loopholes where people can basically be given free rein to be the worst humanity has to offer to some of the most vulnerable members of our society.Chloe: And I used to give this talk, I gave it at DockerCon one year and I gave it a couple other places, that was literally called “Diversity is not Equal to Stock Images of Hands.” And the reason I say this is if you Google image search ‘diversity' it's like all of those clip arts of, like, Rainbow hands, things that you would see at Kaiser Permanente where it's like, “We're all in this together,” like, the pandemic, it's all just hands on hands, hands as a Earth, hands as trees, hands as different colors. And people get really annoyed with people like me who are like, “Let's shut up about diversity. Let's just hire who's best for the role.” Here's the thing.My favorite example of this—RIP—is Fleets—remember Fleets? [laugh]—on Twitter, so if they had one gay man in the room for that marketing, engineering—anything—decision, one of them I know would have piped up and said, “Hey, did you know ‘fleets' is a commonly used term for douching enima in the gay community?” Now, I know that because I watch a lot of Ru Paul's Drag Race, and I have worked with the gay community quite a bit in my time in theater. But this is what I mean about making sure. My friend Becca who works in security at safety and things, as well as Andy Tuba over at Reddit, I have a lot of conversations with my friend Becca Rosenthal about this, and that, not to quote Hamilton, but if I must, “We need people in the room where it happens.”So, if you don't have these people in the room if you're a white man being like, “How will our products be abused?” Your guesses may be a little bit accurate but it was probably best to, at minimum, get some test case people in there from different genders, races, backgrounds, like, oh my goodness, get people in that room because what I tend to see is building safety tools, building even product features, or naming things, or designing things that could either be offensive, misused, whatever. So, when people have these arguments about like, “Diversity doesn't matter. We're hiring the best people.” I'm like, “Yeah, but your product's going to be better, and more inclusive, and represent the people who use it at the end of the day because not everybody is you.”And great examples of this include so many apps out there that exists that have one work location, one home location. How many people in the world have more than one job? That's such a privileged view for us, as people in tech, that we can afford to just have one job. Or divorced parents or whatever that may be, for home location, and thinking through these edge cases and thinking through ways that your product can support everyone, if anything, by making your staff or the people that you work with more diverse, you're going to be opening up your product to a much bigger marketable audience. So, I think people will look at me and be like, “Oh, Chloe's a social justice warrior, she's this feminist whatever,” but truly, I'm here saying, “You're missing out on money, dude.” It would behoove you to do this at the end of the day because your users aren't just a copy-paste of some dude in a Patagonia jacket with big headphones on. [laugh]. There are people beyond one demographic using your products and applications.Corey: A consistent drag against Clubhouse since its inception was that it's not an accessible app for a variety of reasons that were—Chloe: It's not an Android. [laugh].Corey: Well, even ignoring the platform stuff, which I get—technical reasons, et cetera, yadda, yadda, great—there is no captioning option. And a lot of their abuse stuff in the early days was horrific, where you would get notifications that a lot of people had this person blocked, but… that's not a helpful dynamic. “Did you talk to anyone? No, of course not. You Hacker News'ed it from first principles and thought this might be a good direction to go in.” This stuff is hard.People specialize in this stuff, and I've always been an advocate of when you're not sure what to do in an area, pay an expert for advice. All these stories about how people reach out to, “Their black friend”—and yes, it's a singular person in many cases—and their black friend gets very tired of doing all the unpaid emotional labor of all of this stuff. Suddenly, it's not that at all if you reach out to someone who is an expert in this and pay them for their expertise. I don't sit here complaining that my clients pay me to solve AWS billing problems. In fact, I actively encourage that behavior. Same model.There are businesses that specialize in this, they know the area, they know the risks, they know the ins and outs of this, and consults with these folks are not break the bank expensive compared to building the damn thing in the first place.Chloe: And here's a great example that literally drove me bananas a couple weeks ago. So, I don't know if you've participated in Twitter Spaces before, but I've done a couple of my first ones recently. Have you done one yet—Corey: Oh yes—Chloe: —Corey?Corey: —extensively. I love that. And again, that's a better answer for me than Clubhouse because I already have the Twitter audience. I don't have to build one from scratch on another platform.Chloe: So, I learned something really fascinating through my boyfriend. And remember, I mentioned earlier, my boyfriend is a staff engineer at Uber. He's been coding since he's been out of the womb, much more experienced than me. And I like to think a lot about, this is accessible to me but how is this accessible to a non-technical person? So, Ty finished up the Twitter Space that he did and he wanted to export the file.Now currently, as the time of this podcast is being recorded, the process to export a Twitter Spaces audio file is a nightmare. And remember, staff engineer at Uber. He had to export his entire Twitter profile, navigate through a file structure that wasn't clearly marked, find the recording out of the multiple Spaces that he had hosted—and I don't think you get these for ones that you've participated in, only ones that you've hosted—download the file, but the file was not a normal WAV file or anything; he had to download an open-source converter to play the file. And in total, it took him about an hour to just get that file for the purposes of having that recording. Now, where my mind goes to is what about some woman who runs a nonprofit in the middle of, you know, Sacramento, and she does a community Twitter Spaces about her flower shop and she wants a recording of that.What's she going to do, hire some third-party? And she wouldn't even know where to go; before I was in tech, I certainly would have just given up and been like, “Well, this is a nightmare. What do I do with this GitHub repo of information?” But these are the kinds of problems that you need to think about. And I think a lot of us and folks who listen to this show probably build APIs or developer tools, but a lot of us do work on products that muggles, non-technical people, work on.And I see these issues happen constantly. I come from this space of being an admin, being someone who wasn't quote-unquote, “A techie,” and a lot of products are just not being thought through from the perspective—like, there would be so much value gained if just one person came in and tested your product who wasn't you. So yeah, there's all of these things that I think we have a very privileged view of, as technical folks, that we don't realize are huge. Not even just barrier to entry; you should just be able to download—and maybe this is a feature that's coming down the pipeline soon, who knows, but the fact that in order for someone to get a recording of their Twitter Spaces is like a multi-hour process for a very, very senior engineer, that's the problem. I'm not really sure how we solve this.I think we just call it out when we see it and try to help different companies make change, which of course, myself and my boyfriend did. We reached out to people at Twitter, and we're like, “This is really difficult and it shouldn't be.” But I have that privilege. I know people at these companies; most people do not.Corey: And in some cases, even when you do, it doesn't move the needle as much as you might wish that it would.Chloe: If it did, I wouldn't be getting DMs anymore from creeps right? [laugh].Corey: Right. Chloe, thank you so much for coming back and talk to me about your latest project. If people want to pay attention to it and see what you're up to. Where can they go? Where can they find you? Where can they learn more? And where can they pointedly not audition to be featured on one of the episodes of Master Creep Theatre?Chloe: [laugh]. So, that's the one caveat, right? I have to kind of close submissions of my own DMs now because now people are just going to be trolling me and sending me weird stuff. You can find me on Twitter—my name—at @chloecondon, C-H-L-O-E-C-O-N-D-O-N. I am on Instagram as @getforked, G-I-T-F-O-R-K-E-D. That's a Good Placepun if you're non-technical; it is an engineering pun if you are. And yeah, I've been doing a lot of fun series with Microsoft Reactor, lots of how to get a career in tech stuff for students, building a lot of really fun AI/ML stuff on there. So, come say hi on one of my many platforms. YouTube, too. That's probably where—Master Creep Theatre is going to be, on YouTube, so definitely follow me on YouTube. And yeah.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:37:57]. Chloe, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I really appreciate it, as always.Chloe: Thank you. I'll be back for episode three soon, I'm sure. [laugh].Corey: Let's not make it another couple of years until then. Chloe Condon, senior cloud advocate at Microsoft on the Next Generation Experiences Team, also chlo-host of the Master Creep Theatre podcast. 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Today's question is “what ratio of Stock Images to Original Content should I use on Instagram?” Great question! Stock images are an incredible tool to help fill in the gaps (and save you time)! But we feel it is really important not to overdue it on stock photos. Your audience wants to get to know you as much as possible and so original content and imagery is very important. But like we said, stock photos are a great tool (which is why our members inside Instagram for Business get 30 styles stock images every month!)Check us out on Instagram @thesocial.focus @angela.s.doyon and @natcaronphoto JOIN INSTAGRAM FOR BUSINESS NOW! (the online course and community where you learn to scroll less and sell more!)We love and use Buzzsprout to host Instagram for Business Podcast and they have made it easy and seamless (plus their customer service is by far one of the best!)This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Wenn du für dein Unternehmen extreme Fortschritte im Online Marketing haben willst, dann gehe jetzt auf hs-online-marketing.com.   In der heutigen Folge sprechen Hans Schneider und Harald Müller darüber, wie Erwartungen vs. Realität von Online Marketing wirklich aussieht.   Kennst du das: -      Du baust dir eine Webseite -      Du erstellst mit ein paar Stock-Images oder einem schnellen Handyvideo eine Facebook Ad -      Klebst den Link zu deinem Kontakt Formular in die Ad -      Schaltest 10,00€ am Tag auf die Werbeanzeige -      Sendest positive Energie auf deine Kampagne und schwingst dich ein -      Nach nur wenigen Tagen kannst du dich von der Flut der Neukunden nicht mehr retten und bist Millionär   Diese Erwartungshaltung wird in der Online Welt oft kommuniziert, könnte aber nicht realitätsfremder sein. Quick and dirty funktioniert nicht! Nicht für ein Premiumangebot.   Was Du wirklich brauchst sind: -      Eine IST Analyse -      Definierung deiner Marketing- und Business Ziele -      Prozesse -      Messbarkeit -      Ein funktionierendes System das Fehler erkennt und sofort ausmerzen kann -      Einen Plan wie du richtig und kontinuierlich wachsen kannst     Vereinbare jetzt dein kostenloses Erstgespräch:   hs-online-marketing.com       Hans Schneider und Harald Müller zeigen dir wie digitales Marketing richtig funktioniert und auf was du genau achten musst um dich als Nº1 in deinem Markt zu positionieren. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

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In this episode, we look at the increase in demand for representative photography in marketing and communications by audiences. What are the best platforms to use? What are people looking for in images? For our 5 minutes, we talk about email newsletters and why Internal Communications is always the last thought for acquiring sophisticated email marketing platforms. Find out what newsletters we subscribe to and why.      Take stock: how photography is secretly shaping our society - Galdem https://gal-dem.com/stock-images-are-finally-getting-real/    Shutterstock Creative Trends 2021 https://content.shutterstock.com/creative-trends/    Stock Image sites which are worth checking out Picnoi https://picnoi.com/  TONL https://tonl.co/ Nappy https://nappy.co/  Allgo https://canweallgo.com/  Disability IN https://disabilityin.org/resource/disability-stock-photography/  https://unsplash.com/  UKBLACKTECH https://ukblacktech.com/stockphotos/  Disabled and Here https://affecttheverb.com/disabledandhere/  Pexels https://www.pexels.com/ Unsplash https://unsplash.com/   Pizaby https://pixabay.com/ Getty Images - #ShowUS by Dove& Girl Gaze  https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/showus  The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary - VICE https://genderphotos.vice.com/  Twitter Acquires Newsletter Platform Revue https://www.forbes.com/sites/ilkerkoksal/2021/01/31/twitter-acquires-newsletter-platform-revue/?sh=4bcc59a9f186    Newsletters we mention Rebecca has a weekly newsletter that shares youth research/insights and updates which you can sign up for here eepurl.com/g3rCU5  We also mentioned Black Balled, Comms2point0, Comms Rebel, Monday PR Club, Cut to the BS, Voxburner, Social Chain Make Work Better    Email Newsletter Platforms we talked about Revue LinkedIn MailChimp Substack    For Internal Communications  Puppulo https://www.poppulo.com/ Bananatag https://bananatag.com/    Find Rebecca:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebecca7roberts https://twitter.com/threadandfable   Linkedin: Rebecca Roberts Website: https://threadandfable.com/ Podcast: The Hear It podcast    Find Harriet: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarrietSmallies   Linkedin: Harriet Small Website: https://www.commsoveracoffee.com/

Are you missing out by not charging your clients for everything you can? Running your own design business or freelancing as a graphic or web designer seems like such an easy gig. A client asks you to create something for them, and they pay you for what you design. Simple right? For thousands of graphic and web designers around the world, that’s exactly how they do it. A Client brings them a project. The designer designs the project. The Client pays for said project. And the cycle repeats. What if I told you many of these designers are leaving money on the table? How they could and should be charging much more to their clients than they currently are. I’m not talking about design rates. I’m not saying these designers are worth more than the rate they are charging. Although they probably are. No. What I’m getting at is there are many aspects of what you do as a designer that you could be charging your clients for. And yet, many designers don’t. And as such, those designers are missing out on money they could be earning. Are you one of them? Case study. Imagine a client hires you for a new project. To design a poster for an upcoming local festival. Many designers will figure out how much to quote for a poster design. They may base it on an hourly rate. Maybe offer a flat fee. Or perhaps base their price on the value they’re providing, regardless of what pricing strategy they use. The price they quote is based on designing the poster alone. And that’s wrong. You’ll notice most successful designers refer to what they work on as projects. They’re not working on a poster for a local festival. They’re working on a project for the local festival that involves designing a poster. You see, a design project consists of multiple tasks. And not all of those tasks involve actual designing. Let me break this down. A client calls you on the phone to see if you’re interested in designing a poster for their festival. You say yes and set up a time to meet their organizing committee to go over what is required of you. You meet with them to discuss the festival, who it’s for, where it’s happening, when it’s taking place and how long it’s lasting. You go over what the festival's brand and message entail, and of course, what sort of information they want on the poster. Once you’re satisfied, you go back home or to your office and prepare a quote. Maybe they have some follow-up questions that go back and forth before they agree on your price and you finally get to work on their project. Your design process may include researching similar festivals from other areas to see what sort of posters they did. It may include browsing stock image sites to find the perfect images to compliment the festival's theme as well as your design. It may include contacting a local printer to ask about different paper stocks or finishing options. It may include coordinating with the festival’s web designer, if that’s not you, to make sure the poster and website follow a consistent brand. Then, once you’ve designed the poster, you need to present it to the client. Perhaps you place your poster design on situation mockups to help the client visualize it in place. Then you email them a PDF, or maybe you present it to them in person. Once the client approves your poster design, you prepare the final print files and hand them over to your client to bring to the printer. Unless you are also brokering the printing for them, but for this example, let’s say you aren’t. Then you prepare the invoice, send it to the client, and take care of the payment and bookkeeping once it's received. Only then is the project over. Out of all of that, for how much of it did you charge the client? Did you charge them for the initial phone call? Did you charge them for the travel time to and from any in-person meetings? Did you charge them for the time those meetings lasted? Did you charge them for the time it took you to prepare the quote and answer any follow-up questions? Did you charge them for the research you did or the time you spent browsing stock image sites? What about the time you spent discussing the festival’s brand with their web designer or the time you spent discussing paper stock with the printer? How about the time it took to present the poster to the client? Or the time it took to prepare the mockups and final files for the printer? And what about the time you took to prepare the invoice and handle any payment you received? Did you charge them for any of that? Or did you only charge them for designing the poster? Most inexperienced or struggling designers probably did the latter. Charge for only the poster. But that's wrong. The poster design is only one small part of the overall project you were hired to do. A project that started when the client called you and finished the moment you received the final payment. Everything in between is billable. Your time is valuable. You shouldn’t be giving it away for free. Think like a lawyer. Have you ever received an invoice from a lawyer? Make fun of lawyers as you will, but designers can learn a thing or two from how a lawyer runs their business. Lawyers keep track of every phone call. Every sheet of paper they print out. Every email they send. And every minute a client spends with them. And they bill the client for all of it. Why? Because lawyers know every little bit of it has a cost or value associated with it. And since it was all done on behalf of a client, that client should be paying for that cost or value. I’m not telling you to charge for every piece of paper or every paperclip you use. But, you would be in your right if you wanted to. How I charge my clients. Let me explain how I charge my clients. In my case, the initial email or phone call from a client is free. Providing that call doesn’t last more than 15-20 minutes. 15-20 minutes should be enough time to propose their project and for me to ask some initial questions. If it goes on longer than 15-20 minutes, I’ll make a note of it and incorporate the extra time into my project cost. But normally, if it looks like the conversation will go long, I’ll ask them to schedule a time with me to discuss their project in greater detail. I charge my clients for any travel time as well as the time I spend with them. That time could be for presenting a proposal, conducting a discovery meeting, making a presentation, or whatever reason I'm with the client. Once I’m back in my office working, I keep track of the time I spend doing research for their project. That may include learning about the client and their industry or browsing stock image sites. I use a tool called Clockify to keep track of the time I spend on a project. Clockify makes it very easy to turn timers on and off, assign them to a project and keep track of how much time I spend working on it. So before I start any research or anything to do with the project, I turn on the timer. Just a side note here. Most of my projects these days are quoted using either project-based or value-based pricing. So I’m not billing by the hour. But I still like to keep track of how much time I spend on every project for my own benefit. That way, I get to learn how much time it takes me to do certain tasks. If a client calls me while I’m working on a different project, I’ll switch the timer to their project for the call duration. Again for my benefit. And I also know from experience how long it takes me to prepare and send out an invoice. All of this is taken into consideration when quoting on a project. Of course, most of this is speculation and guesswork. But it’s accounted for. How many trips will I have to make to the client’s office, and what is the average duration for these meetings? What’s the travel distance to the client's office? Will I need to coordinate this project with another designer, printer or other third parties? How much research do I anticipate having to do? Etc. All of this is worked into the quote. Because my time is valuable, and if it’s spent on behalf of the client. Then the client should be paying for it. If I only charged for the actual designs I create, my business would not be as successful. There are plenty of other aspects of what you do you could be charging for. Consulting I receive lots of inquiries from people wanting to “pick my brain” about design or branding. "Mark, I have an idea for a new mail campaign for my business. I want to get your opinion on it." Or "Mark, my wife is opening a new business, and I was wondering if you had any ideas of what she needs branding wise to get started?" You know the types of questions I’m talking about. Sure they may turn into paid work, but most of the time, they’re innocently looking for free advice. Once in a while is not a big deal. But when this starts happening regularly, it eats into your valuable time. The time you could be spending working on projects you are being paid for. It got so bad at one point that I implemented a consulting fee. Now, whenever someone calls or emails to ask for my advice. I tell them I would love to help, but I can’t right now. And then provide a link to a webpage where they can schedule a time with me. The page I direct them to is titled One-On-One Consultation, and it allows them to book a 1-hour time slot at the cost of $100. And you know what? 9 out of 10 times, they follow through and book a time with me. I used to get asked these questions and ended up spending my valuable time offering advice free of charge. Now I’m being paid for my knowledge. I’m an expert. That’s why they’re reaching out to me. So why shouldn’t I be paid for that expertise? And so should you. I use a service called Book-Like-A-Boss for booking. But there are many other options you could use to set up your own consulting schedule. Charging for add-ons. Another thing you should charge for is add-ons. Add-ons include WordPress plugins or perhaps stock images—basically, anything you need to purchase to complete the client's project. Every web designer that works with WordPress uses themes and plugins to enhance the sites they build. Many of these themes and plugins are free. But oftentimes, a premium plugin is required to get the job done. Premium plugins come at a cost. And in some cases, those costs should be passed on to the client. For example, I love Gravity Forms for creating custom forms on websites. But not every website needs a custom form. In most cases, the default form that comes with Divi, the page builder I use, is good enough. However, I have several clients who need something more than basic, and that’s where Gravity Forms comes in. Gravity Forms is a premium plugin. It costs $59/year for one site.  So there’s nothing wrong with me charging my clients $59/year for the use of that plugin. I’d just be passing on the cost to them. The same cost they would pay if they were designing their site themselves and purchased the plugin. However, I pay for an Elite license, which allows me to install Gravity Forms on unlimited websites. But why should I incur that expense for something that benefits my clients? If it were a single client, I would pass the cost on to them. So why not do the same thing with multiple clients? Every client that uses Gravity Forms pays $59/year for the use of the plugin. For the record, my website maintenance plan includes premium plugins. So if a client signs up for my maintenance plan, the cost of all premium plugins is included, which is another great selling feature for the maintenance plan. Stock Images. I mentioned Stock images above. There’s nothing wrong with charging your clients a small fee for any stock image you use on their project. Include them in your quote or itemize them as extra items on your invoice. Think of stock image sites as image wholesalers. Meaning it’s OK to mark up the costs of the images you use. Every year I stock up on DepositPhotos credits when they come on sale at AppSumo. The deal works out to $0.50 for each stock image I download. However, if the client bought the images themselves, without the benefit of AppSumo credits or a DepositPhotos subscription, they would pay between $5-$10 per image. So five stock images are used while designing a poster, why not charge the client $25-$50 for them? There's more you can charge for. The whole point I'm trying to get across is to help you realize there are things you do for your clients that you could be charging for. It’s nice to think these things are just the cost of doing business. And in most cases, they are. But why should that cost come out of your pocket when your client is the one benefiting from them? It’s OK to charge your client for all the extra things you do beyond the actual design you create for them. Don’t believe me? Try to think of the last down on his luck starving lawyer you’ve seen. Designing might be your passion. It is for me. But passion doesn’t pay the bills. If you want to run a successful design business, you need to treat it as a business. 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Are you ready to grow your design business by letting go of what's holding you back? Let me start with a story. A young boy is visiting his grandparents' house with his mom and dad. As young boys will do when in an environment not meant for young boys, they explore and sometimes get into trouble. Well, this young boy just so happened to be walking around with an antique vase, a precious family heirloom. When his mother spotted him, she immediately told him to put the vase down before breaking it. But the boy replied that he couldn’t, his hand was stuck inside. A little frustrated, the mother takes the vase and tells the boy, “If you were able to get your hand in the vase, you could surely get it out.” But as she pulls on it, there’s no give. Hearing the commotion, the father comes in to help. He, too, tugs on the vase, but the boy's hand is firmly stuck. He tugs and tugs until the boy says it’s hurting him. The grandmother, in her wise old ways, suggests using butter to help the hand slide out. But alas, it has no effect. Completely perplexed, with the mother still tugging on the vase, the father throws his hands up in the air, stating, “I’d give 50 dollars just to get your hand out of that vase right now.” The young boy's eyes opened wide with excitement. “Really?” he exclaims. Suddenly, they hear a clinking sound, and the boy’s hand slides out of the vase. In disbelief, the mother looks into the vase then upturns it, and a quarter falls into her hand. The young boy explains that it’s the quarter grandpa gave him when they arrived. He had put it in the vase, but when he reached in to grab it, his hand got stuck. But when his dad said he’d give him $50 if he got his hand out of the vase, he let go of the quarter. Now I’m sure you’ve heard this or a variation of this story before. So you probably knew the outcome before I ever reached it. But I wanted to tell it anyway as a kind of analogy to your design business. Many designers who run their own business tend to hold on to that metaphorical quarter when they should be letting go of it for bigger and better things. This is the first episode of 2021. And I don’t have to tell you what kind of year 2020 was. You were there. But with all of that fiasco behind us and light of better things to come finally peeking through at the end of the tunnel. Now is the perfect time to take stock of your business and figure out what you need to do to help it grow and succeed. What are you going to do more of? And what, if anything, can you let go? No business, design or otherwise can grow without making changes. Restaurants change their menus. Telecommunication companies change their phone plans. Governments elect new officials. Changes are a natural precursor to growth. And every successful business does it. By grow, I don’t necessarily mean taking on more design work or more clients, although that may be the case, and it still counts as growth. What I mean by grow, is making progress, expanding while focusing on your goals. You do have goals, don’t you? Without them, how will you know if you’re making progress? If we take 2020 out of the equation and compare this upcoming year, 2021, to your previous years, you should be striving to not only make more money but also to be more satisfied with yourself and your business than you’ve been in previous years. At the very least, you should aim to stay on par as in previous years. What you don’t want is to step backward. If you make less money or aren’t as happy, you’re doing something wrong. And chances are, it’s because you’re holding on to that metaphorical quarter and not letting go. Growing your business and making more money doesn’t necessarily mean doing more work, which, in turn, could increase your stress level. In fact, you can grow your design business and make more money by doing less but smarter work. The easiest way to do this is to raise your rates. But to raise your rates, you have to let go of the notion that you’re not worth higher rates. Or that your clients won’t pay higher rates. Thousands of designers have already debunked that theory when they started charging more money for their services, and their business didn’t fail. Myself included. I make more money today, putting in 10 hours of work than I did five years ago doing 30 or 40 hours of work. How? It’s because I let go of the notion that an hour of my time is worth X amount of dollars. When I started charging clients based on what I thought their project was worth and not how much time it would take me to complete it, I started making a lot more money. And you know what? The only clients that objected to my price increase were the clients I didn’t really want to work with, to begin with. Those clients who didn’t object were the clients who truly valued what I do for them. And you know what? When I raised my rates, they started bringing me bigger and better projects. They stopped sending me simple things to design and started sending me entire campaigns to work on. It’s that perceived value I talked about a few weeks ago in episode 240 of the podcast. The same service I provided was perceived as much more valuable to these clients because I was charging more for it, and they are willing to pay me much more for those services and trust me with bigger jobs. Want another way to look at it? Consider a Rolex watch and a Timex watch. Both timepieces fit nicely on your wrist. Both tell time. And both can make you look pretty darn good fashion-wise. And yet, the Rolex is worth so much more than the Timex. Why is that? Is what they’re made of? There may be a price difference in the actual materials each watch is made of, but I doubt it’s enough of a difference to justify the huge difference in each timepiece's cost. Is it craftsmanship? Both are precision instruments. They both need to be finely crafted to function. Is it the mechanics? I don’t think so. As far as I know, watch mechanics haven't changed much since they were first invented. So what is it? What’s the real difference between a Rolex and a Timex? The true difference is not the watches themselves. It’s the companies behind the watches. They’re the ones who create the value. Rolex markets itself to the elite, the A-listers, and therefore has an elite price tag to match. Whereas Timex markets itself to the general populace, the everyday person, therefore, has a price to match. Their value is exactly where they’ve set it for themselves. Both companies are very successful. However, and I’m just speculating here, but I bet Timex has to sell a whole lot more watches than Rolex does to stay in business. You have a say in how your design business is perceived. Which, in turn, dictates how much clients are willing to pay for your services. Do you want to take on dozens and dozens of small paying projects? Or would you prefer to work on a few high paying projects? Are you a Timex, or are you a Rolex? In my Podcast Branding business, for example. Time and time again, clients tell me they chose my business, one of the more expensive options in the podcast space, because I looked the most professional, and I instilled a sense of confidence in them that I know what I’m doing and they would get quality work from me. Because of that, they are willing to pay more for my services than for any of the less expensive options. So let go of the notion that you’re not good enough or not worth enough because it’s not true. Even the most inexperienced designer, a student fresh out of school, is worth more than they know. I’ve been talking a lot about prices, but there are other ways you can let go to grow your design business. Look at the services you offer. Are there any that you’re just not that keen on doing? If so, why do you offer them? Even a general, all-purpose graphic designer can set limits on what they do. When I started my Podcast Branding business, I offered social media graphics but quickly realized I didn’t like doing them. So I eliminated the service. I still offer to create the branding for my client's social media platforms, but I no longer create graphics for their individual social media posts. Just because every designer around you seems to be offering website design doesn’t mean you have to as well. If you don’t like designing websites, even if you know how, you don’t have to. Let it go and concentrate on the things you do, like designing. Not every designer enjoys designing logos. And not every designer is good at it either. If you don’t like it, stop offering logo design as a service. It’s OK to let these things go and concentrate on the things you are good at and enjoy doing. In a way, it’s kind of like niching down. I’ve talked about the benefits of niching before on several episodes of the podcast. Culling your design services is a form of niching. In fact, it could set you apart from other designers and make you more desirable to clients. Look at Ian Paget from Logo Geek. His entire business is focused on designing logos. The first thing you see when you visit his website is the phrase “I Design Logos.” If you know Ian, you’ll know that his background is in designing websites and yet nowhere on his current site does he mention that. Why? Because it’s not what he wants to do. Ian is passionate about logos, so that’s what he offers. He let go of everything else he knows how to design to focus on one thing. And now he’s killing it in the logo design space. I’m not saying you have to go to that extreme, but it’s a great example of how letting go can help propel you forward. One thing to note. Removing a service doesn’t have to mean never doing it. Ian, for example, still offers other design services to his clients besides logo design. He doesn’t advertise it because it’s not his passion. In my case, If one of my clients asked me to create a social media post for them, I can say yes if I feel like it and do it for them. Nothing is stopping me from doing it. I don’t advertise it as a service anymore. It’s OK to let things go in the name of progress. In fact, it’s somewhat necessary if you truly want to succeed. Ask any successful designer running their own business if they’re doing the same thing today as they were five years ago, and the majority, if not all of them, would answer no. You have to evolve if you want to survive in this industry. If you don’t, then you’ll lose when those around you do. Don’t get your hand stuck in the vase grasping a quarter when there are much bigger things you could be going after. That’s my 2 cents. What are you going to let go of this year? Let me know by leaving a comment for this episode. Resource of the week Chrome Browser Groups In episode 239 of the podcast, I shared how to turn Chrome browser tabs into desktop apps. I got so many responses thanking me for that tip that I thought I’d share another Chrome tip. If you have a bunch of related browser tabs open, for example, you may have several tabs open for different stock image sites. Or, if you’re a web designer, you may have tabs open for each of your client’s websites. An easy way to organize this tab chaos is with Tab Groups. In Chrome, right-click on any tab and select “Add to New Group.” If you already have a tab group, the menu changes to “Add to Group” with a pop-out for you to choose an existing group or create a new one. When creating a new group, you can name it whatever you want, such as Stock Images or Client Websites. You can also assign it a colour, which makes it very easy to navigate. Once a Tab Group is created, simply right-click on any tab to add it to the group. A Tab Group appears in your Tab bar like any other tab. The difference is you can open and collapse a tab group. So if you have 10 client sites in a Tab Group, clicking it will expand to show you all 10 tabs, and each one will be underlined with the colour you assigned the group, making it very easy to see which tabs are part of the group. When you’re done looking at the client sites, simply click on the Group Tab, and all 10 client website tabs collapse into the one Group Tab, freeing up your browser window and making it much easier to navigate. This is a great solution for anyone who likes to keep dozens, if not more, tabs open at once. One thing to note if you’re testing this out, you cannot collapse a tab group until you have a tab that is not part of the group.

In this episode of OutBüro Voices featuring LGBTQ professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders from around the world, host Dennis Velco chats with Donna Williams, out lesbian entrepreneur and co-founder of LibertiPix. LibertiPix is a new online stock photography site that is authentically LGBTQ from A to Z. Co-founder Donna Williams has years of experience in the marketing media industry. In that role she became frustrated with the limited selection of stock images and video represent, or trying to represent the LGBTQ community. She discusses some of the negative stereotyping as well as images that clearly misrepresent completely. She cited an example of what clearly was a mother and daughter yet it was categorized as a "lesbian couple". Having worked in the marketing industry for years she knows first hand that there is a need and demand for images and video that authentically represent the LGBTQ community. This lack and need sparked Donna along with her wife as co-founders to launch LiberiPix. On LibertiPix, all photographers, videographers, and models identify as LGBTQ. The startup has a small yet strong base of photographers and videographers in the UK and seeking others from around the world to join and submit images and short videos. LibertiPix is offering an unusual 50% commission share. Do you know an LGBTQ photographer? Tag them in the comments below or share this video on social media and tag them. LibertiPix is seeking images that move beyond the stereotypical to breathe authenticity into LGBTQ marketing. Currently, site customers pay for each image however they are making site enhancements to offer a subscription model in early 2021. Join LibrtiPix today. Fing great images to freshen your marketing campaigns. In my usual conversational approach, we interject lessons for entrepreneurs with stories of our own startup journey. Connect with Donna on OutBüro at: https://outburo.com/profile/donnal/ Join me and Donna on OutBüro, the LGBTQ professional and entrepreneur online community network for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, allies and our employers who support LGBTQ welcoming workplace equality focused benefits, policies, and business practices. https://www.OutBuro.com Would you like to be featured like this? Contact the host Dennis Velco. https://outburo.com/profile/dennisvelco/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/outburo/message

SHOW NOTES   Throughout the course of creating the Off-Farm Income Podcast I have interviewed a handful of photographers that specialize in agricultural and rural themes.  I started this back in 2015 and have enjoyed these interviews more and more, each time that I do them.  Each of these photographers have fundamentally similar businesses but they all go about it in their own, unique ways. Today's guest, Erin Brown, has her own story of growing up around agriculture, leaving it and then coming back.  She also talks about how she discovered photography and developed her skills.  And like every photographer that I am honored to interview, she has her own unique business model for producing her income. Erin does custom photo shoots for agricultural companies, and she also shoots stock photography.  She is the second photographer in a row that I have interviewed that talks about controlling your market on your stock images.  Selling stock images through an online service greatly reduces what you can make for your work, so she prefers to sell direct.  This is very similar to my own model of selling pork and beef.  If you sell direct, you can control the price. Being a photographer allows Erin to live wherever she wants and to be at home with her family.  And, no matter where you live, as a photographer you can specialize in the photos that are offered to you in that area.  In Erin's case, she gets to photograph the type of farming that she grew up with, and the featured image on her website is actually her dad, combining corn on their families farm.   HOW TO CONTACT ERIN & GRAND VALE CREATIVE: Website: LINK Blog: LINK Instagram: LINK Facebook: LINK LinkedIn: LINK Email:   Where Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald Can Be Heard:   Member Of The National Association Of Farm Broadcasters

HOSTED BY LEE SANDERS. 9/28/2020: It's back! The RCWR Show 2020 WWE MOCK DRAFT edition! Lee goes over his personal picks for the WWE DRAFT ahead of the actual draft on October 9th's Smackdown and October 12th's WWE RAW. Also, keypoints from WWE RAW including thoughts on the latest Mysterio saga as it's becoming cringe to watch====Retribution members have COVID supposedly===Dwayne The Rock Johnson endorses Joe Biden for President and more!Follow on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube at THE RCWR SHOW. Become a Patreon member for bonus and exclusive content! Patreon.com/rcwrshowTHIS EPISODE OF THE RCWR SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU IN PART BY THE FOLLOWING:FREEPHOTOSDEPOT.COM IS YOUR ONE PLACE DESTINATION FOR COMMERCIAL USE PHOTOS, STOCK IMAGES, DESIGNS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS. ALL PROFESSIONAL FOR ANY CATEGORY!NEED ROYALTY FREE IMAGES, PHOTOS, ICONS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS? FREE PHOTOS DEPOT.COM HAS YOU COVERED! HAVE IDEAS FOR NEXT YEAR'S CALENDAR? FREE PHOTOS DEPOT HAS THAT AND SO MUCH MORE! FREEPHOTOSDEPOT.COM IS ALSO HOLDING a photo contest with a cash prize for 1st place and 2 free depot gift cards for 2nd and 3rd places.MBUNIVERSAL.COM FOR THE LATEST FASHION TRENDS WHEN IT COMES TO JEWELRY, WATCHES, LINGERIE, SMART BEDS, HANDBAGS, WALLETS AND MORE AT AFFORDABLE PRICESVISIT MBUNIVERSAL.COM RIGHT NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME AT MBUNIVERSAL.COM THEY'RE HAVE A SUPER SALE UP TO 80% OFF ALL ITEMS! LIMITED TIME OFFER! SHOP AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE AS THEY SHIP TO OVER 185 COUNTRIES! JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!SHIRTSANDAPPAREL.COM where anyone can upload their own images & custom text to different styles of t-shirts, hoodies, caps, drink koozies, coffee mugs, posters, clipboards, tote bags, stickers and custom Igloo ice chests. Make your own political shirts, BLM shirts or peace & unity shirts.OPT.TV IF YOU'RE READY TO CUT THE CABLE THEN OPT.TV CAN HELP! LOW PRICES BEGINNING AT JUST $6 FOLKS! USE THE PROMO CODE "RCWRSHOW" TO RECEIVE 20% OFF ANY PRODUCT YOU SELECT AT CHECKOUT.CULT OF THE ECLIPSE! THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM WINFIELD WINFIELD! Searching for her runaway child, Jaclyn Ellsworth is led into the derelict parts of western Pennsylvania. After hearing of the supposed miracles of tech industrialist Anthony Charles, she suspects her child is taken by the surrounding cult.But as she winds up in the run-down township of Dourmsburg, its practices turn more sinister and grotesque by the hour. The cult's leader is about to return. Horrifying rituals are hidden behind the walls and under the streets. As Jaclyn tries to escape, she discovers why this place seems so familiar.Cult of the Eclipse is Winfield Winfield's explosive debut, and an electrifying ride of body horror, delusion, and why people are lured into malicious cults.BUY IN PAPERBACK OR KINDLE AT: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CWDBD35/AUDIBLE. BEGIN YOUR 30 DAY TRIAL ON US WITH OUR URL! AUDIBLETRIAL.COM/RCWRFree membership for 30 days with 1 audiobook + 2 Audible Originals. After trial, get 1 audiobook and 2 Audible Originals each month. You will get an email reminder 7 days before your trial ends.ScreamingBulls1, a fantastic wrestling sculptor. If you need custom figures or busts made, hit him up!This episode was made possible by our kind Patreon members as without them this content and other great content would not be possible. Special shout out to Patreon members Geno Morgan, Justin Rebstock, Shawn Kenter, Tony Bing Gaming, Michael Wolf, and John DavisJoin our DISCORD community and interact before, during, and post wrestling shows and events. Link: https://discord.gg/39qHaJeNEW! WE'RE NOW ON PANDORA! https://tinyurl.com/pandorarcwrshowSPOTIFY! https://tinyurl.com/y93fghx7SUPPORT THE SHOW FOR EVEN MORE GREAT, NEW, AND EXCLUSIVE CONTENT! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/rcwrshowGOOGLE PLAY MUSIC: http://tinyurl.com/zb73e86SPREAKER: http://bit.ly/1z81cT5ITUNES: http://bit.ly/1B9Fy1ESTITCHER: http://bit.ly/1yByytu

Stockrush – https://www.marketingsharks.com/stockrush/ Worlds 1st Traffic & Sales Stock Media Platform w/ ZERO Monthly Fees Inside StockRush There Are Millions Of Stock Images, Videos, Vectors, GIFS, and Audios + Money-Making Tools Never Before Offered Inside A Stock Media Platform What Makes StockRush Unique? Stock media is something that virtually every online marketer needs, but there’s not an affordable option for quality stock media in the marketplace, until now! StockRush features media across virtually every niche imaginable The price is lower than any other stock media platforms out there during the initial launch This isn’t just a bunch of images – StockRush includes millions of stock images, videos, vectors, GIFs, audios, and more! Anything any marketer could ever need is included inside This isn’t just stock media – StockRush was created by marketers for marketers, and because of that, there are some revolutionary money-making features inside that have NEVER been offered as part of a stock media platform ever before Stockrush – https://www.marketingsharks.com/stockrush/

We have discussed about branding previously but how important are the images we use to help promote our business? Should we simply use the Stock Images available on a number of great sites or should we go bespoke?When is a good time to use our own in house photography/  mobile phone/ DSLR? When should we bring in a professional?These are great questions and need to be answered, so Dave and Marie bring in the help of Professional Photographer, Videographer and Drone Pilot, Mr John Cooper.John has been helping businesses get an edge in their marketing for so many years with his marketing knowledge and more recently professional photographer.Let John weave you through the difficult questions on when to do it in house and when to outsource.John covers many aspects on shot framing, subject selection and considerations.What steps do you take when selecting your image?

Should you be using stock images for social media? How many is too many? How can I still look like “me” and be authentic with my brand on social media? Tune in as Nat and Ang cover ALL of this! In today’s episode, Nat and Ang dive into how you can implement stock photography and images into your strategy. As a Brand Photographer and Social Stylist, they know the importance of creating brand reflective imagery and how important it is for social media. But they also recognize that the struggle is real and sometimes it is hard to constantly create unique images for your business. This is where stock photos can help!While it is important to invest in professional services, such as a branding photographer and good stylist; there will always be times when new imagery is needed. Stock images are great for small businesses to “pepper” in to their strategy. One of the best strategies for social media is consistency. And it can be hard to stay consistent when you’re constantly trying to find new images that work with your message. Tune in at 3:24 for a great example of how a service-based business can appropriately utilize stock photos. One of the best ways to do this is by choosing images that fit your brand and themes you share about. Images are visuals to storyteller so when you can create a great message with the right image, you can still reach your audience.At 6:39 Nat and Ang discuss a burning question…. How many stock images is too many? In short, two. This is the part you don’t want to miss as they explain why two is the ideal number of stock images to share in a certain period of time. And don’t forget - stock photography images can be manipulated! You can add text overlays, adjust the image size and add your own filters or edits!At 9:20, the ladies give a great example for product-based businesses and how they can also implement stock photography into their Instagram feed or on Facebook. They tie it all back to experience and storytelling. If your message corresponds with the image and you’re telling your story, stock images can still work for you! Stock images can be a great opportunity to save time and stay consistent on social.Where else can you use stock photography? Why not use in your Instagram Stories or for your Pinterest feed? They mention Word Swag which is a great app for creating amazing videos for IG Stories! And they are the perfect platform for stock photos. IGTV thumbnails and cover photos are a great spot for them as well. And lastly, using images from someone else’s account without the appropriate permission, that is the same as stealing. Screenshots from other peoples pages and shared on your own is a big no no.The Social Storytellers Community is open! Want to learn more about this online course and community that will help you create better content and visuals for social? Check it out here!On Instagram we are:@angela.s.doyon @natcaronphoto @thesocial.focus

*Stay tuned to the end for a special interview with Vlad Catrinescu (Twitter), Author & Microsoft MVP, concerning the new Power Platform Data Loss Prevention features.*    Resource mentioned during interview: Power Apps Center of Excellence    We all have our go-to sources for stock images. But soon, you won't need to leave SharePoint to find stock images to brighten up your modern pages.    Also on the show:    - Yammer app for Microsoft Teams    - Third party online meeting providers in Outlook for Android    - Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE)    - New and updated usage reports in Microsoft 365 admin center    - Prepare for update to the new My Apps and My Account experiences    - Change in OneDrive and SharePoint files links created in Outlook for Windows    - SharePoint Designer feature deprecation    - Microsoft Forms collaboration permissions and co-authors    - Microsoft Bookings to be added as an Office 365 app    Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message Center.    Check out Daniel and Darrell's own YouTube channels at:    Daniel - https://www.youtube.com/DanielGlenn     Darrell - https://www.youtube.com/modernworkplacescenarios     

Lo strumento di grafica Canva ha recentemente incluso nel suo abbonamento la possibilità di scaricare illimitatamente milioni di immagini stock per solo 12 euro al mese.Dopo il lancio della collezione low cost di Storyblocks, i vari siti per lo scarico gratuito di stock images, come Pexels, Unsplash e Pixabay, e il progetto low cost di Pond5 che presto andrà online, un'altra notizia poco piacevole per chi vende le sue foto online.In questo episodio di "vendere foto e video online" Daniele Carrer parla anche di:- Keyword.io che diventa dropstock.io- Come si può trovare il tempo per produrre più contenuti- Shutterstock che spiega come guadagnare con i video senza uscire di casa- Pond5 che mostra i contenuti più richiesti dai compratori- Il profilo colore delle fotocamere Sony- I prezzi giusti per vendere video 4K su Pond5- Se è conveniente partecipare alle promozioni che regalano i video- Un fotografo che usa un palo di nove metri per riprendereTrovi il testo del podcast, insieme a tutti i link citati in questa pagina:https://stockfootage.it/stock-images-12-euro-mese/

Lo strumento di grafica Canva ha recentemente incluso nel suo abbonamento la possibilità di scaricare illimitatamente milioni di immagini stock per solo 12 euro al mese.Dopo il lancio della collezione low cost di Storyblocks, i vari siti per lo scarico gratuito di stock images, come Pexels, Unsplash e Pixabay, e il progetto low cost di Pond5 che presto andrà online, un'altra notizia poco piacevole per chi vende le sue foto online.In questo episodio di "vendere foto e video online" Daniele Carrer parla anche di:- Keyword.io che diventa dropstock.io- Come si può trovare il tempo per produrre più contenuti- Shutterstock che spiega come guadagnare con i video senza uscire di casa- Pond5 che mostra i contenuti più richiesti dai compratori- Il profilo colore delle fotocamere Sony- I prezzi giusti per vendere video 4K su Pond5- Se è conveniente partecipare alle promozioni che regalano i video- Un fotografo che usa un palo di nove metri per riprendereTrovi il testo del podcast, insieme a tutti i link citati in questa pagina:https://stockfootage.it/stock-images-12-euro-mese/

Welcome to episode 21 of the Branding With Jade podcast. Join host Jade Scarfone as she talks about The Do's and Don'ts of Using Stock Images Jade will be talking about: Why stock photos can be useful When to use stock photos How to use stock photos to enhance your personal brand Where to use stock photos Show notes: https://jadescarfone.com/2020/03/the-dos-and-donts-of-using-stock-images/  Want access to my favourite stock photos? Check out Haute Stock. They've just turned 5 and to celebrate they have a bonus birthday bundle available at the moment. Check them out and take advantage of the bundle at jadescarfone.com/hautestock

Episode 92 It's ok to take an image off of a search engine like Google.com and use it for your own marketing right?  Maybe not!  Today I talk to my friend Melissa LeMay and she takes us through everything you need to know about stock images you find on the web.  It will have you thinking twice before you swipe a photo from your favorite online resource! FREE Gift from Melissa:   Video Tutorial with direct access (not an opt-in) How to use + reuse a stock image to create consistency on your SM platforms.  Use + Reuse Stock Images - Watch Video  Affiliate link for IvoryMix Photos:  https://ivorymix.com/shop/?wpam_id=428 Not affiliate: Get 20% off your membership TIde&Tree  Use coupon code: MAVEN20  https://www.tideandtree.com/   Stock photo sites: www.pexels.com https://unsplash.com/   Important Links:   Lora's Yeti Blue Mic click HERE For Lora's Dragon Pad pop filter click HERE For Lora's Sound Shield click HERE   Learn Instagram and Canva easily and affordably, visit:  https://lorashipman.com/courses/    Check out Lora's Blog:  https://lorashipman.com/blog/   Connect with Lora on the Socials: Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/lora_shipman/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoraShipmanOfficial/ YouTube Click HERE

Lexi and Rekha take a trip through a painstakingly and sometimes bafflingly curated set of stock images, and in doing so discover the dark corporate underbelly of the Visual DNA test. TEST: http://bit.ly/VisualDNATest PLUGS: Horny Kalutas: https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/kalutas-perverts-too-horny-to-live.html Baby Bats: @wingspawsnclaws Quokkas: @cruzysuzy Follow us @pquestpod on Twitter & Instagram and don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe! CREDITS: Created & Produced by Lexi Cary and Rekha Mohan

In this episode, I'm asking Stuart McAlister LLP all about how as entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and mompreneurs we can protect ourselves and our business! Stuart gives us the 411 on how to do exactly that. What you should know about Stuart: Stuart is a lawyer practicing corporate/commercial law at the Kitchener-Waterloo office of Cohen Highley LLP where he provides legal advice to start-ups and small businesses. He assists in incorporating and organizing closely held corporations, professional corporations and not-for-profits. Stuart has experience with licensing agreements, service contracts, and asset and share purchases agreements. His diverse experience and background, including working in civil litigation and working in-house at one of Canada’s largest film distributors, offers a results-focused understanding of business development, organization and growth, and pragmatic risk analysis. He is currently serving on the board of directors for the Women’s Crisis Services Board of Waterloo Region and is a founding member of KickAbout - an annual charitable soccer tournament for professionals which has raised over $100k for various charities in southwestern Ontario over the last 5 years.Disclaimer: The following conversation is provided for general information purposes only and does not constitute legal or other professional advice or an opinion of any kind. Listeners are advised to seek specific legal advice by contacting their own legal counsel regarding any specific legal issues. Cohen Highley LLP, nor Stuart McAlister, do not warrant or guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any information provided herein. Listening or otherwise accessing this information does not create a lawyer-client relationship.Addendum: As I have only been called to the Bar in Ontario, I can only offer information relative to Ontario law and cannot comment on its similarities or applicability in other jurisdictions. Nonetheless, forum and jurisdiction of law can be complicated matters, and listeners with questions are encouraged to reach out directly to me (or their own counsel) to determine if certain rules apply to them and what to consider in their jurisdiction.Link: http://cohenhighley.com/lawyers/mcalister-stuart/Email: smcalister@cohenhighley.comReady to start your own online business? The Dream Hustle School is now open for enrolment! Learn more here: https://shanarecker.mykajabi.com/dream-hustle-school

Hey Guys this is Vaishnavi Shetty welcome to my podcast episode. I gonna tell you from where do you get free stock images with a high quality. The website is PEXEL. COM. I hope you will like this episode.

Storyblocks sta cambiando profondamente il suo sito. Dopo aver reso disponibile per la vendita in abbonamento una quantità maggiore di contenuti, ha deciso di chiudere il Marketplace, sia delle stock images che dello stock footage.Così molti produttori che avevano investito il loro tempo per costruirsi un portfolio su Storyblocks vanificheranno i loro sforzi.In questo episodio, Daniele Carrer parla anche di:- responsi alle richieste di partecipazione all'area abbonamenti di Storyblocks,- che logica seguire per guadagnare (con foto e video) grazie ad Internet,- perché con il microstock si impara a fare soldi anche se non si fanno soldi,- perché la politica di Storyblocks è giusta,- stock footage creato da chi realizza filmati industriali,- quanto contano le keyword per i revisori di stock images e stock footage,- come usare Multcloud se si ha una linea internet lenta,- perché BlackBox si conferma uno strumento deludente,- come certi utenti rubano i video su YouTube nonostante il watermark.Trovi i testi dell'episodio e i link citati in questa pagina:https://stockfootage.it/storyblocks-chiude-marketplace-stock-images-footage/

Storyblocks sta cambiando profondamente il suo sito. Dopo aver reso disponibile per la vendita in abbonamento una quantità maggiore di contenuti, ha deciso di chiudere il Marketplace, sia delle stock images che dello stock footage.Così molti produttori che avevano investito il loro tempo per costruirsi un portfolio su Storyblocks vanificheranno i loro sforzi.In questo episodio, Daniele Carrer parla anche di:- responsi alle richieste di partecipazione all'area abbonamenti di Storyblocks,- che logica seguire per guadagnare (con foto e video) grazie ad Internet,- perché con il microstock si impara a fare soldi anche se non si fanno soldi,- perché la politica di Storyblocks è giusta,- stock footage creato da chi realizza filmati industriali,- quanto contano le keyword per i revisori di stock images e stock footage,- come usare Multcloud se si ha una linea internet lenta,- perché BlackBox si conferma uno strumento deludente,- come certi utenti rubano i video su YouTube nonostante il watermark.Trovi i testi dell'episodio e i link citati in questa pagina:https://stockfootage.it/storyblocks-chiude-marketplace-stock-images-footage/

This week we talk about how to sell stock images and make mad money from it. We also talk how to get started and pull away from competitors. We share some beautiful insight to this competitive business. Best SLR Camera in the game:https://amzn.to/2SZ3DWt Best Camera Backpack in the game: https://amzn.to/2Tvwk2n --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bare-reviews/support

Welcome to The Digital Natives Cast, where we help you get found! Every Friday we'll bring you the latest in technology, design, and marketing from the point of view of digital natives.   Find our show notes hosted by our sponsor at: KeystoneClick.com   Music by: DJ Quads

For years I've sold stock photography online. And last year I started selling stock video online as well. Often I just didn't have time to upload to multiple sites (it's bandwidth intensive for video). But recently I came across a company called Blackbox.global. Submit your video to them, and they get it listed with several stock footage sites. So I'm giving them a try, and I'll share the experience with you. Stock images and video are another possible revenue stream for full time travelers. •Share better travel images with Lightroom - Only $10 for listeners: https://bit.ly/2NDHSNj •Check out my Drone Photography Course - Only $10 for listeners: https://bit.ly/2Q9Y1Zo •Learn to build websites with X Theme and Wordpress. Only $15 for listeners: https://bit.ly/2LWrnqT •If you enjoy the music check out Soundstripe: https://bit.ly/2AcOxst •My YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/2mI1qkm •Instagram: https://bit.ly/2PPukfc •E-mail Me: rich at rlcdesign.net --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-airstream-chronicles/support

Nonostante da tempo si dica che il mercato delle stock images sia saturo, in questo episodio racconto la storia di un'architetto che ha iniziato con il microstock un paio d'anni fa e, ritagliandosi spazio in una nicchia, è riuscita ad arrivare a guadagnare due mila euro al mese vendendo foto online (molti più di quelli a cui può puntare oggi con la sua professione).In questa puntata Daniele Carrer parla anche di:- copyright delle foto pubblicate sui social network;- potere dei motori di ricerca nel determinare il successo dei contenuti;- Vimeo che ha iniziato a vendere stock footage;- codec video utilizzati per lo stock footage;- una reflex che va bene per fare i time lapse in 4k;- come utilizzare le occasioni per creare stock images e stock footage;- un business che può far guadagnare fotografando le città all'alba;- Videoblocks che ha alzato i prezzi dei contenuti.Puoi leggere il testo dell'episodio e trovare i link citati in questa pagina:https://stockfootage.it/2000-euro-al-mese-vendendo-stock-images/

Nonostante da tempo si dica che il mercato delle stock images sia saturo, in questo episodio racconto la storia di un'architetto che ha iniziato con il microstock un paio d'anni fa e, ritagliandosi spazio in una nicchia, è riuscita ad arrivare a guadagnare due mila euro al mese vendendo foto online (molti più di quelli a cui può puntare oggi con la sua professione).In questa puntata Daniele Carrer parla anche di:- copyright delle foto pubblicate sui social network;- potere dei motori di ricerca nel determinare il successo dei contenuti;- Vimeo che ha iniziato a vendere stock footage;- codec video utilizzati per lo stock footage;- una reflex che va bene per fare i time lapse in 4k;- come utilizzare le occasioni per creare stock images e stock footage;- un business che può far guadagnare fotografando le città all'alba;- Videoblocks che ha alzato i prezzi dei contenuti.Puoi leggere il testo dell'episodio e trovare i link citati in questa pagina:https://stockfootage.it/2000-euro-al-mese-vendendo-stock-images/

#11 Freelance designers, have you ever considered creating stock images to generate passive income? Stock up on some tips and best practices from Anne Bracker of the YouTube channel Graphic Design How-To, who’s been doing just that, so that you can make the most of your efforts.

Imagine a buyer browsing the internet for their next property… They’d be quick to pass up a home due to lack of visual appeal, and they wouldn’t look twice at a listing without photos. Think of your real estate site in the same way. You only have eight seconds to make an impression, and images [...] The post Free Stock Images for Your Real Estate Website appeared first on Agent Evolution.

Ep78: Death to stock images or not? The post Death to stock images or not? appeared first on The Real Magic Podcast, Unpacking Design with Greg & Alan.

Ever considered whether your authenticity is ever questioned because your images are not originals? Or what 1000 words your images are actually saying about your company, brand and product? Listen up and grab a piece of gold inside!

Welcome to Episode 73 of HubShots! Welcome to HubShots, the podcast for marketing managers who use HubSpot hosted by Ian Jacob from Search & Be Found and Craig Bailey from XEN Systems. Ever responded to a promotion of a free trial only to find out they then ask for your credit card? Infuriating right? We highlight a recent experience, plus review some of the new HubSpot features including the new ShutterStock integration - sweet! Join our WhatsApp group here: http://hubshots.com/whatsapp/ Join the Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1608138752821574/ We’re also testing a new Facebook Messenger HubShots Room: https://www.messenger.com/t/1099519836821248 https://m.me/g/AbYPyswc4gtK5d5c Recorded: Monday 20 February February 2017 | Published: Friday 24 February 2017 Full show notes available here: https://hubshots.com/episode-73/

Today we talk stock images and mention a few sites where you can find some great stock pictures. Liz gives you tips on picking a perfect stock image for your company's digital marketing use and shares a tip on subscription vs buying images via credits. Sites we mention include Libre Stock http://www.librestock.com iStock http://www.istockphoto.com and Deposit Photos http://depositphotos.com/

The Amazing Task of File Management! A little to enthusiastic? Oh well, can't blame a guy for trying. The fact is file management is probably one of the most boring tasks we do as graphic designers. Boring, but necessary if we want to run an efficient and streamlined business. After all, the less time we have to spend searching for some file we haven't touched in several years the better. A good file management system will make your life as a designer so much easier. So although file management isn't the most glamorous topic to cover in a graphic design podcast, it is what I choose to cover In this week's Resourceful Designer. Different areas of file management In order to try and make this week's podcast episode a little more interesting I decided to break it into seven different sections of file management Resources Client Files Logos Fonts Training/Education Material Bookkeeping Backups Resources Resources cover everything you may use that helps you be the wonderful graphic designer that you are. I'm talking, image libraries, application plugins, Photoshop actions and styles, website themes, Wordpress plugins etc. Anything that you can use in the design process. If you're like me you've probably purchased a few design bundles at some point (or many, don't judge). Design bundles are a great way of acquiring resources for your work. The thing with design bundles is they often come with way more than what you're actually interested in at the time. However, some of those pieces are worth saving for that "someday" you may need them. Having a Resources folder makes it easy to find all those often used or seldom used pieces to help you in your designing. My Resources folder contains many different folders for all of the above. For example; we all know that sometimes a good background can complete a design project. In my Resources folder I have a Backgrounds folder that contains every image file I own that can be used as a background. The folder is divided into sub-categories to make it easier to find what I want. Metal, stone, leather, paper, wood are a few of those sub-categories. If I'm ever working on a project and I think a nice wood background is needed I know exactly where to look for one. That's good file management. Also in my Resources folder is a Stock Images folder. In it I have the original copy of ever single stock photo and image I've ever purchased. I have this folder subdivided as well into Photos, Vectors, and Illustrations and each of these is also subdivided. For example, my Photos folder is divided into People, Landscapes, Vehicles, Interiors, etc. and each of those is subdivided further. People is divided into Women, Men, Couples, Seniors, Families etc. Every time I purchase a new stock image I make sure to put it in the right category. If it could go into multiple categories I make aliases of the file (Shortcuts in Windows) and put them in each category they fit into. This makes it extremely easy for me to search through specific categories and quickly find what I'm looking for. There are other ideas for the Resources folder I talk about on the podcast. Client Files File management of client files is a must. Otherwise you could spend hours searching for things when an old client contacts you down the road. On my computer I have my client files organized like this. I have one main folder that I call "Jobs In Progress". The title is a bit misleading since not everything in the folder is "in progress" but that's the name I gave the folder over 10 years ago and I just never bothered changing it. Inside my Jobs in Progress folder I have a separate folder for each client I have. There are two special folders in there as well called "Old Clients" and "Inactive Clients". Old Clients is for any client I know will never come back. Businesses that have closed or have been bought out. That sort of thing. From time to time when I need to clear up HD space I will move these clients to an external device but for the most part I leave them there. Why? I've learnt over the past 25 years that just because a client doesn’t exist anymore doesn't mean you wont need their files anymore. It's happened more than once that someone came looking for something and I was glad I has saved them. My Inactive Clients folder is for any client that I haven't heard from in over 2 years. They're still around but either they've found someone else to design for them or they haven't had need of me. That leaves the rest of my Jobs In Progress folder that contains a folder for every client I've worked with over the past two years. Opening any one of the client folders shows folders for each project I've done for them. Stationary, Flyers, Billboards, Website etc. Now what's found in each of these changes depending on the client. Clients that I do a lot of work for I may divide their folders by year, month and date if need be, others just by year. Regardless of that hierarchy, once I get down to it, every single client project folder I have is built the same way. Inside the project folder is the actual layout file (QuarkXpress or InDesign), or the website files. There are also four folders in every project folder. Working; for all the .psd and .ai files pertaining to the project. Images; for all the completed images that are actually used on the project. Supplied; for all file that the client has supplied me. Final; The final approved file to be sent to the client, printer, etc. If there are common elements such as graphics or photos that are used across all marketing material I store these in a special "Images" folder at the root level of the client folder. Logos Now you may be wondering why logos don't fall under the images folder for the individual clients? I discovered many years ago that it's much easier to save each and every logo I have on my computer in one centralized location. In my case I have a Logos folder in my Resources folder. In it I have all my clients logos as well as every single logos I've accumulated over the years. The reason i do this is for those time when you need to include "sponsor" logos on some poster or website for a client. Trying to remember if, or on what project you may have used some obscure logo a few years ago isn't fun. Since I started keeping all my logos in one place I've never had this issue. Listen to the podcast for a fun story about my logo storing method. Two Tricks For Acquiring Logos Sometimes it's a real pain to get good, usable logos from a client. Especially if they don't understand what it is you need. I have two tried and true methods of acquiring good quality logos quickly and easily. But you'll have to listen to the podcast to hear them (hint, it's at the 27 minute mark) Font Management Fonts are another thing we graphic designer tend to amass over time and it can be a real pain to sort through them to find just the right one. That's why I think everyone should have some kind of font management software to help organize the chaos. I can't speak for all the various options but I can tell you about Suitcase Fusion by Extensis. I've been using Suitcase Fusion since before they added the Fusion to it. This font management software integrates with all the design software we use to turn fonts on and off as we need them. This way you don't bog down your system with unnecessary fonts. Suitcase Fusion is a great way to organize your fonts and make it easier to find that perfect one for the project you're working on. In the application you can create sets to organize your fonts. I have mine set up alphabetically as A, B, C, D etc with each font in it's appropriate folder. I also have special folders for Celtic Fonts, Script Fonts, Hand Drawn Fonts etc. The best thing about Suitcase Fusion is the ability to assign styles and/or keywords to fonts. This makes it so easy to narrow down your choices. Looking for a slab serif font? Eliminate all fonts that don't fit that category and your search just became that much easier. Training/Education Perhaps not file management in the technical sense, but I've found that keeping all your training material in one place is a big help. Any eBook, video, guide, manual, web clip etc. should be in easy access for when you do need it. I have my Training folder divided into Web, Photoshop, Illustrator, (plus other applications) etc. Any time I download a guide or manual I store it in the appropriate place. Any time I stumble upon a good tutorial page or video I I grab the URL, label it as what it is, and put it in my Training folder for later access. Having this resource has saved me many hours searching online for something that I remember seeing some time in the past. Bookkeping This is a simple one that I use. The numbers on every invoice I send out begin with the current year. This January I opened my invoicing program, I use Billings Pro by Marketcircle, and I changed the numbering to start with 16-xxxxx. This makes it easer down the road to know exactly when a certain job was done. Backups Now backing up really has nothing to do with file management. But, what's the point of implementing a great file management strategy if you end up loosing all your files due to some unforeseen circumstance? There are things in this world beyond our control. Fire, flood, tornadoes, theft are just a few. On-site backup via Apple Time Machine or some other external device is a must for all graphic designers. But off-site backup is something we should all be using as well. For this I use a company called Backblaze. Backblaze is a set it and forget it solution. It works in the background backing up your files so you never have to worry should a natural disaster ever happen. There are other solutions available but Backblaze is the one I'm familiar with. Another form of backup you should look into is website backup. Most hosting providers offer site backup but they don't say how often. Some are every 30 days, 60 days, even 90 days. That's fine for a static website. But for any site that is updated on a regular basis it wont do. My preference for website backup is BackupBuddy by iThemes. BackupBuddy offers real time backups of your site. As soon as something is changed on the site it gets backed up. I have all my and my clients' sites backed up this way. So there you have it. File Management in a nutshell. I hope that wasn’t too hard to get through. I would love to hear your comments. Share your strategies by leaving me a comment. In next week's episode of Resourceful Designer I'm going to talk about the dangers of working from home. Questions of the Week I have another Question Of The Week to answer. If you would like me to answer your question in a future episode please visit my feedback page. This week’s question comes from Teri, Hi Mark, I have just started listening to your podcast in the past month and am really enjoying it! Thanks for all the fantastic advice! I have been working in the industry for about 7 years now here in Atlanta, Georgia. After the birth of my daughter a year and half ago I have started working from home part-time (which I love) and it has been keeping my quite busy! I was wondering if you had any advice on passing off work to other designers? Is there a good network you use or how do you build that network? I also feel that part of my value as a designer is that I know the clients and what they are looking for, thus it is difficult to explain that to another designer, especially with a super fast turn around. To find out what I told Teri you’ll have to listen to the podcast. Resource of the week is BackBlaze One of the scariest things you can think of as a designer is what would happen if disaster strikes and you loose all your computer files. What would it mean for your business? Backblaze offers a simple unlimited online backup solution for your design business for less than $5/month. And it’s so easy. You just set it up and forget about it. Backblaze works in the background automatically backing up your files. And if you ever loose your data for whatever reason, you wont have to worry because you’ll know everything can be restored from Backblaze. If you’re interested in finding out more about Backblaze’s online backup solution and trying a 15 day free trial, visit resourcefuldesigner.com/backup Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe on iTunesSubscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Android Contact me Send me feedback Follow me on Twitter and Facebook I want to help you. Running a graphic design or web design business all by yourself isn't easy. If there are any struggles you face running your design business please reach out to me. I'll do my best to help you by addressing your issues in a future blog post or podcast episode here at Resourceful Designer. You can reach me at feedback@resourcefuldesigner.com  

——— In this episode, I discuss three aspects of publishing books that indie authors must consider. First, writing book blurbs is a huge pain so I lay down some simple tips to optimize your book descriptions online for better sales. Additionally, I highly recommend authors check out Bryan Cohen’s book description service. He’s also got a giveaway going on right now with $1,000+ in copywriting services, so check that out! Second, I go into detail about templates for formatting both your ebooks and print books. There’s a huge difference between the two, not to mention the steep learning curve for print. Ebooks aren’t too hard to format in a program like Scrivener and

This week we discuss the following: Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide - but not of murder NFL Investigation Leads to Questions on Law Firm Choice Pic of Fake Sex Act With Jesus Statue Lands Teen in Legal Trouble Md. Man Stabbed Over Meatball Dispute at Work Law Firm Sued Over Use of Stock Images on Website  

Farocki relates how the Romanian culture and society, as well as the decisions of the USSR, had a key role in his film ideas.

Welcome to another episode of the Regulators! This week Justin was too busy to grace us with his presense so we wnt on without him! This week Terry van Horne, Steve Gerencser and David Harry rap about the recent Penguin update, some wacky Google SERPs; Prism; Google's WT recent changes and more on SEO Dojo Radio's news show! Penguin analysis links: LRT Penguin analysisSEO RoundtableAgent Blackhat Poor Smartphone design changes rankings Google intern pay GWT adds support for tagmanager verification Stock Images do not affect rankings Alternative SE's benefiting from Prism Expanding Google Author Snippets beyond Web pages SEO byTheSea authorship Patents German Parliament limits Patents Google Webmaster Notifications to show examples GWT Query data is worthless the Regulators: Terry Van Horne Steve Gerenscer Justin Parks Dave Harry iTunes and the Dojo Radio iPhone App! our Sponsors

In this weeks show Kelvin Newman, Andy White & Daniel Rowles sat down to discuss the latest internet marketing news and tools See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.