Quickly Add a Professional Touch with Stock Content
Add Personality to your Websites, Online Videos and Multimedia Presentations
123 Royalty Free
123 Royalty Free – Our favorite stock site for photography and vector images. Advanced search tools allow you to find the perfect images or graphic to use to tell your unique story. Create lightboxes to store your favorite images and have them handy for when you need to add to your blog or other presentations. Great for graphic designers to share stock samples with clients. Pricing from $1/image!
iStock
iStockphoto – Royalty-free photography and vector images.
iStockphoto Video – A quarter of a million videos available, over 60% of which is available exclusively at iStock.
iStockphoto Audio – A collection of high-quality, affordable royalty-free tracks for multiple use worldwide. Try searching for background or introduction music for multimedia presentations.
BigStock
Big Stock Photography – High-end photography with a royalty-free licensing agreements covering usages that other so called “royalty-free” agreements fail to offer – such as use within web design templates. If you are a creator and seller of web design templates most services like Getty and Photodisc, etc. limit your ability to resell your templates with their so called “royalty-free” photos in them – but not at BigStockPhoto!
Photo & Video Sharing with Unlimited Storage
SmugMug
SmugMug – Looking to create a photoblog? Are you a photographer looking to create beautiful galleries? Just want offline storage for your digital photo library? Embed your photos, slideshows and videos in forums, blogs and web pages. Invite millions to see your galleries because traffic is unlimited. Linda worked with the Founders of SmugMug at Fatbrain and will verify the high quality service and products they deliver! Photos also may be for sale!
Video Production
Our Recommendations for Creating Multimedia Content
Professional Screencasting on Your Mac
ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow – An award-winning application for creating amazing screen recordings on your Mac. Using a unique screen capture system, powerful enough to capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer’s audio, you’ll be creating incredible screencasts in no time.
Read Like a Professional with Videocue Teleprompter
Videocue Teleprompter
Videocue Teleprompter - A unique rich media presentation toolkit that allows you to write and record your speeches of you reading your words aloud, add movies, images and titles and then easily publish your finished presentation to websites or weblogs. Create striking movies of you reading your words aloud, all without memorizing a single word!
Cost-effectively Create Live or On-demand Video Broadcasts for the Web
Wirecast
Wirecast for Mac or Wirecast for PC – An advanced webcasting software for Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP/Vista that allows you to cost-effectively create live or on-demand video broadcasts for the web. Stream multiple live video cameras while mixing in other media. Built-in Chroma Key, titling features and layering system allow you to create professional webcasts which can be streamed using Flash, QuickTime or Windows Media. When ready to go live, Wirecast provides direct integration with a number of streaming service providers.
Logo Design
While some of the work we have seen does seem a bit “stock”, and definitely no where in the league of our preferred logo specialist, these companies can help spread your budget across logo design, web development and Social Media branding.
Logos, Custom Stationary, Word Templates & Business Card Design
LogoNerds
LogoNerds – Need an inexpensive logo for your business venture? Design companies such as LogoNerds are an option. If you’re not completely in love with your new custom logo, they will re-draw you a new logo absolutely free of charge. We specifically cater to small businesses. A client of ours worked with LogoWorks and was able to get a good final product after several rounds of changes and some suggestions from our team.
LogoWorks
LogoWorks by HP – Logo design packages starting at just $299 – and your satisfaction is guaranteed. An investment in professionally designed stationery will pay off every time you hand out your business card and every time you send a letter. Nearly everyone has been handed a cheap business card or received business correspondence on generic letterhead. It leaves you wondering if the business is reliable or if they’re fly-by-night. Having an electronic Word template is a VERY EASY way to start producing reports that can be used to build your subscriber list.
