Tools and Tips for PODs

Daniel has updated his Imagekind Art Review Builder with some added features. There are more features for you to use in building reviews of IK art. You can choose to include a price line, display how often art is featured, and choose options for ‘view larger.’

He has also written more complete instructions along with a better page display that includes the artist’s description of the art for reference, and change the name to ‘Imagekind Art Review Builder.’

This has to be one of the best tools around for reviewing art or blogging about your own art. I’ve been using it everyday on my NiftyPiks site, and it works Great!  You can also check out Daniels reviews at Artistic Opinions.

So… If you’re an IK affiliate and reviewing art, or blogging your own Imagekind art… I’d highly recommend using the Imagekind Art Review Builder.

Here’s a great tool for making blog posts and writing about Imagekind art. It’s great for affiliates (and bloggers) that want to write a regular review of art.

All you do is find some art you like on Imagekinds site, click on a bookmarklet that you get from http://www.modestopinions.com/ikartreview.php. The bookmarklet takes you to a site that generates code that you can easily put in your blog post.

This wonderful tool was written by Daniel M. Clark with Jen Goode.

Below is an example for a photo from my tiger lily flower gallery at Imagekind.

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This week’s featured art is Tiger Lilies by Kent Lorentzen

This is a lovely framed photo of a couple of tiger lily flowers with their heads hanging down and petals curled up. The spots on the orange petals are so pretty in flower arrangements.

Tiger Lilies by Kent Lorentzen

New art featured weekly, courtesy of the artists at ImageKind.

Tags: Tiger+Lilies,ImageKind,Flowers,affiliate,blogging,reviews

Jen uses the word (hopefully) in the header on her list of Cafepress tools. I think most people that have tried them would say they are completely useful and maybe even essential.

I hadn’t looked at her list of tools in a while and see she has added some information on working with cpshop. (a script for having your shop on your own website) I’ll have to read through them since she covers some things I haven’t used cpshop for yet.

Next she lists a couple of tools for affiliates and shopkeepers that are pretty much the same except for the affiliate thing. The html page builder is great for making pages to include on your website or blog. Just enter keywords to use and it will make a table of products or designs for you.

The link builder makes links to a product, section, or shop for you. There are options for text links and image links with small or large images. Very useful when writing a blog and including a cp product or section in the post.

Plus there is the cp product finder, it’ll find a cp product from the product number. And… the CP Affiliate view test, which shows a plain view of a shop without the custom features most shopkeepers use.

Many thanks to Jen for her great tools!

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Just heard from Jim of Cafewish that the CafewishAds have now have the ability to display a grid from 1 x 1 to 6 x 8! Plus there is now a preview function to see it before you copy/paste it.

CafewishAds work well for highliting your Cafepress designs on your blog or website. They are also great for affiliates. Simply enter keywords of your choice, select the size ad, and get your code.

Here’s and example showing ‘peas’ designs from my Cafepress shop:

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Ever been working in your Cafepress shop and needed to quickly edit the image tags for a product you were working on? Well…. Adam of Buy Tees has a great little tool to do just that. It’s really a bookmarklet that you add to your browser’s bookmarks, when you’re editing a product in your CP shop just click on the bookmarklet and it’ll take your right to the image tag editing page for the image on the product.

A couple of things to remember, you must be signed in to your account and you can only edit tags for your own images. Oh…. BTW – It’ll work when viewing any of your products just as long as you are signed in, you don’t have to be editing the product for it to work, you can be looking at it in your shop.

To get the bookmarklet go to http://www.buytees.net/affiliates/tools/ and drag ‘Edit CafePress Tags’ to your bookmarks bar or bookmark it. Simple huh!

You can also get a CafePress affiliate checker from the same page, it’ll tell you if a product is safe to affiliate.

Who is an Affiliate?

An affiliate is someone who promotes a product or service for a merchant or service provider. The affiliate most often gets paid with a percentage of any business they send to the merchant.

How do Affiliates work?

There are many ways an affiliate can promote a merchant. They can set up a website where they write reviews and link to the products they review. They can be a blogger and have links to products in their blog. Or…. There are many other ways such as: Having a coupon site, writing articles, sending newsletters, or setting up an online shopping mall.

What do merchants get out of having affiliates?

A merchant gets their merchandise advertised in a lot more places, and often by experts in promotion. The merchant most often only has to pay when the promotional efforts of an affiliate works by creating a sale that they wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.