If you’re a business owner, your head is probably swimming with numbers right now. You’ve got your 2012 budget to finalize (if it’s not done already), worries about how Q4 is going to turn out, Holiday discounts and sweepstakes, employees putting in for time off to spend the holidays with loved ones, and if you’re in retail… a lot of customers that are in a hurry.
6 Christmas Card Verses We Dare You to Use
If you’re like most people, regardless of the style of Christmas card you chose, you’ll opt for a fairly traditional verse for the inside. However there are some amongst us who are a bit more daring, who live life a little more on the edge, who like to stick things in a lion’s cage and see what happens, who have been on Santa’s list for coal more than not!
Black Friday Madness – Business Style
Every year it seems that major retailers “leak” their Thanksgiving Day ads for Black Friday deals earlier and earlier. Yep, here we are, more than two weeks away from the most wonderful shopping day of the year and you can probably already find most retailers’ ads for it online with a quick search. Unfortunately, ever since posting of “leaked” Black Friday sale ads became a phenomenon a few years back, the stupendous offers and once-in-a-lifetime door buster savings they carry seem to get less and less exciting. That is unless you plan on spending Black Friday shopping for stuff for your micro business.
Invitation Etiquette – Holiday Edition
You don’t need me to tell you that the holidays are rapidly approaching. The malls are decorated and surely you’ve seen at least one Black Friday or Christmas commercial reminding you that time is running out to get your shopping done. Personally, the holidays don’t start for me until I see the famous Hershey’s Kisses Christmas commercial. Growing up, that was always the key that soon I’d be gorging myself on turkey and after that Santa would be visiting.
4 Holiday Promotion Ideas for Service-Oriented Small Businesses
I hear you screaming from here – “Holiday promotions? It’s not even Halloween yet!” and in a way you’re right. It is a little early for Holiday promotions, but that’s also the point; now’s the time to start thinking about what you’re going to do and how you’re not going to get lost amongst all of the multi-million dollar campaigns the big boys are going to run between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portrait – Part 4
You’ve successfully turned your living room into a somewhat convincing Christmas-themed photo studio. Now comes the real fun – getting everyone in the family to pose decently and look at least somewhat happy about it – and framing it all up with the camera to get a great shot…
Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portrait – Part 3
OK, so you’ve found a room to shoot your Christmas card portrait in, you dug out some decorations to help give a festive feel and everyone has outfits selected. Now it’s time to figure out what to do with the photographic equipment you’ve also rounded up…
Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portraits – Part 2
Let’s face it, about the only thing that sets a Christmas portrait apart from any other family portrait is the fact that it clearly says “Christmas.” Any good family portrait tells the story of the family’s personality and bond; but when you’re putting a portrait on photo Christmas cards, the holiday is also part of the story that the photo needs to tell…
Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portraits – Part 1
As one of the resident photographers here at 123Print a lot of people ask me how they can get the professional looking shots that the sales brochure for their fancy new camera alluded to…