Great learning video that covers using Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer to work with images. She covers capturing a certain piece of a image, saving that to a new file or clipboard, and then using that "saved material" in a new image. My challenge was I buy these vector images (EPS files) from a stock photo sites and then cannot figure out how to use part of the image. Those vector images have hundred ot thousands of layers in an image. Her video is a simple, quick solution to that challenge. Plus, she carry it out a tad more with some other ideas on using the tools for creating cool images. Well done video.

The items we buy say a lot about our lifestyles, our finances, and our domestic lives. If you have an Amazon account, the amount of data that the retail giant collects is astonishing. Many people don’t know you get much more just free two-day shipping with a Prime account. With these different areas collecting data about you, if you are trying to maintain some semblance of your privacy, you’ll definitely want to check these five not-so-obvious settings. 1. Remove your Amazon public profile We don't often think of our "Amazon profile." However, that's precisely what it is. Your profile is created automatically, whether you want it or not, and it contains comments, ratings, public Wish Lists, biographical information, and other site interaction. This profile doesn't include your purchases or your browsing history, but it's very informative. If you want to control what activity is visible on your public profile, do the following: 1. Put your cursor ...

With these three, free , tools you are upgrading your website technology and online marketing to easily receive important benefits: 1) producing robust organic listings in search engine results; 2) using the most advanced security; and 3) taking advantage of an easy marketing tool .... in the busiest search engine in your community and the world.  #1 Data Structure Information - Search Engine Tool Adding this tool provides explicit clues to search bots about how to classify and categorize the meaning of your page in the Google mother lode.  Google uses structured data that it finds on the web to understand the content of the page, as well as to gather information about your business services - features and benefits.  This is a top-shelf SEO (search engine optimization) tool . This is an introduction to this search engine tool: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data #2  Google My Business Profile - Marketing Tool Google has ...

What Is The #1 Goal of Any SEO Effort? We always hear about SEO will get us more website visitors, but what is the best measurable result of SEO dollars? The first goal os any SEO effort is creating sustainable organic listings on the first page of search results (FPSR). Today, in 2018, Google/Bing have made great strides to display local businesses on search results pages to improve local results. Those local results are produced at the whims of algorithms. Being an organic results on the first page of search results (FPSR), using proper SEO techniques, is a highly sought after achievement and considered a marketing success. For example, the Google Local Business maps and the Bing Local Business maps display local business results at top of FPSR. But, we know that those maps do not show all local businesses today, And, Google/Bing continues to make efforts to improve those local business results. On a national basis, when searching for a product or service, the websites tha...

Your private emails are being read by third-party Gmail app developers, an investigation into data privacy has revealed. Developers behind a number of popular online services designed to work with Gmail trawl through private messages sent and received from your email address, it claims. It is common practice for some of these third-party app creators to instruct employees to read personal emails. One app, which is designed to help users manage their Gmail inbox, lets employees read 'thousands' of emails, the Wall Street Journal investigation found. According to experts, this 'dirty secret' is now common practice among some firms. The revelation comes just a few months after it was revealed political data firm Cambridge Analytica had siphoned private data from third-party apps on Facebook. According to the investigation into Gmail, the hugely-successful Google email client allows third-party developers to scan the inbox of anyone who installs their app. Th...

Like it or not, if you want your website to gain traction in search engines, as an organic result, you must apply the seven steps in this video. These are seven distinct steps and each one has something specific you can do, and then measure the results from that action in Google Analytics. No use thinking you are going to beat the odds, online marketing is a process that is best accomplished step by step.  Real success is not going to happen overnight or even in weeks.  Be cautious of people promising you instant results to obtain organic results in search engine marketing. Newsletter :   Video Marketing Research (2018) Newsletter :  Digital Marketing - Two Proven Methods (2018) Techniques : 5 Tips To Build A Better Website

If you are serious about your online marketing success, then you have to become familiar with Google Analytics. This free data tool will measure many aspects of your website traffic. It can also be used to understand other channel traffic like your blog,  Facebook and YouTube sites. In this post we will cover two basic data views you MUST know in order to understand the 1) characteristics of your visitors are and 2) what activity your blog or website visitors accomplish in a visit. Once you are logged into Google Analytics you can view data or setup a new property.  A propoerty is a website or blog ... any URL you want to measure traffic on. ADMIN Screen To add or edit a property look at bottom left of the screen for the ADMIN icon that shows a gear. That will display this screen where you can choose the best button to continue your work. Link to full image of " Google ADMIN Screen ". When you first login to Google Analytics you see the screen below. ...

These are the clear signs that your digital marketing needs some tune up attention on any website platform, including Wordpress. #1 Video Marketing Your website traffic has not increased visitor traffic and/or your website pagesviews have not increased since you began your YouTube channel. FIX Revise the tags on your YouTube video to be more specific.  Or, include name of YouTube channels that are synergistic with your channel, meaning that when the synergistic channel videos play your videos will be displayed as a recommended video. #2   Voice Search Your website shows on first page of search results (FPSR) with organic listing using a traditional search - typing into the search field, however; site does not display organically in a search using Siri or Android Voice Command (AVC).   FIX   The best resolution is adding more content to flush out more features and benefits of your services/products. Either add more web pages or add more cont...

There are many great platforms to build your website. Each platform uses a unique process to edit and publish website content. WordPress is a popular platform. According to whoishostingthis.com in a 2018 report there are 175 billion websites of which about 75 million are WordPress sites. From that number about 37.5 million are hosted at the WordPress official site. Two Methods To Start A WordPress Website You can do a WordPress site in one of two ways. 1. Pick a website host . For example hostmonster.com . Purchase a plan from them that usually costs around $5 to $10 a month per year. Once you have a plan, install WordPress and you are off to creating your website. At Hostmonster they have 7/24 phone support and helpful videos for all web host plans. 2. Go to wordpress.com and select a plan .  Once you have a plan you move right into the creating your website. There are many forums integrated into WordPress with a question/answer format. These forums are exc...

Being successful with your digital marketing relies on your understanding the necessary components of a online marketing strategy . According to the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, almost half of the online consumers they interviewed stated a website’s design is the number one criterion for discerning the credibility of the company. In other words, the foundation of your online success is based on a professional web site. Your website design instantly creates a good reputation of your business, or a bad reputation for your business - there is no gray area in this fact.   Distributing Your Business Information According to current online marketing reporting, there are two proven online marketing methods. Marketing Method #1 The most popular content viewing strategy for years has been online videos. "One minute of video is worth 1.8 million words."  Source: Forrester Research Today, YouTube.com is the second largest search engine - aka marketing channe...