Adding Pizazz to Your Blog Posts

Dale Hogan Category

Blog Design, Blogging, Blogging Help, Fotolia, Images, iStockpoto, online, Plugins, Stock Photography, web, WordPress

Making your blog posts snazzy can be a chore when you’re an active blogger. With all of life’s demands, it’s hard enough to just find the time to string together a few coherent sentences and get them published to your blog with any consistency. What’s needed is a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ solution for adding great, legally licensed images to your posts. Adding the right images to a post can really make it pop! Well placed thematic photos and illustrations can aid in garnering the type of attention and traffic you want. read more…

Apr

Looking at the Camera More Engaging to Stock Buyers?

David Gilder Category

Design and Development, Photography Tags

Advertising, Copy, design, Microstock, Models, Photography, Sales Trends, Stock Photography, Text

Rahul Pathak over at LookStat (a multi-stock agency statistical analysis webtool) has put together some information about whether or not it is more engaging to have the models looking at the camera, or looking away. He looked at sales trends between images of senior citizens, comparing images where the models were looking at the camera to those where the models were looking at each other or off into the distance. His results were very surprising.
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