#Business Post Maker

[tobyisave]

🍳 sunny side pups!!! 🍳

Now up for adoption on my etsy! 💐

Cooked from scratch (my sewing machine). Full of nutrients (plastic beans). Cage free (they are living in my house and they don't pay rent someone please take them away from me).

Thanks so much for checking them out!!! rbs very appreciated too <3

Bonus: squashing him....

[Video description: my hand holding and squishing a fried egg puppy plush, with the sound of beans shifting around inside.]

[grapecaseschoices]

[briefblueseason]

A rosary made with the LGBTQ+ community in mind. It is made with semi-precious stones in a rainbow block pattern with the twin hearts of Jesus and Mary centerpiece and a Trinity crucifix. All are reminders that queer folks are loved by God.

Get it here.

[flockoff]

(Happy belated birthday to me :) ) Thank you guys for the wonderful year. I haven't been able to post as much lately-but I just wanted to-well I wanted to take a picture of the beans with a cupcake. I'll do a more proper retrospective of the year in my main channel, but--this little devil may cry side blog, though small and less frequent in updates than I would like--has been really nice, and really encouraging honestly. I've actually made some progress on a possible webcomic, and I do think--part of that confidence did come from the support over here. So here's to the next year, and who knows, maybe we'll get something during the next game showcase. 🥂✨

[honeydots]

I would like some teasers about that Xander - Soleil father-daughter support fic please 💖

HEHEHE that'd be my pleasure~~!! i'll put a couple things under the cut c:

the fanart nattie drew for me is from their c-support!! the gist of it is that xander's employing a similar punishment to soleil as he did to laslow for excessive flirting :3 but as they're working in xander's office, they both end up falling asleep, hence the little scene in the art <3

the rest of the support is about soleil lying through her teeth about how she totally isn't flirting anymore so she doesn't get in trouble again, and xander completely seeing through her lie and doing a dad-thing of trying to make her come clean herself instead of directly calling her out !!

[freebooter4ever]

Your Geno patch is beautiful and if they are on sale, I would very much like to buy 🥹

Thank you! I'm very flattered! I'm also very embarrassed to say I underestimated the interest - I assumed it would be just me and a couple of my friends on here who would want them. I saw that the Gulo Gulo Geeks had to mark the item as currently 'sold out', and if I had to hazard a guess, I'm betting they weren't expecting the sudden influx of orders and couldn't handle all of them at once. Please remember guys this isn't a hugely staffed corporation, this is just a very nice couple with what is probably a small side business who likes geeky things (I found them through their amazing Jurass*c Park patches). And remember, I was quite serious - I have zero involvement in selling these. I bought mine (the 50$ original custom patch option plus 20+ for the extra practice patch and geno's) and I'm done lol! I haven't heard anything from them, so I imagine once they get through the current orders the item will probably go back on sale. I do know they had to custom order some thread colors for this patch, so if they ran out of that it could take a few extra days.

I feel like with the influx of mainstream fan merch, sometimes we forget that custom creators are actually human and not merchandising machines :( Just have a little patience, and pay your artists cause they're probably not charging enough for their time/effort anyway <3

[graphicdesignmaker]

The Ultimate Guide to Graphic Design Excellence.

Welcome to the ultimate guide to graphic design excellence! In this comprehensive blog, we delve deep into the world of graphic design, offering expert insights, creative inspiration, and actionable tips to help you elevate your skills and unleash your full creative potential. Whether you're a seasoned designer or just starting your journey, join us as we explore the artistry, innovation, and impact of graphic design.

Section 1: Mastering the Fundamentals Get started on your journey to graphic design mastery by mastering the fundamentals. Learn about design principles, color theory, typography basics, and layout techniques that form the foundation of every great design. Discover how to create visual harmony, balance, and hierarchy to communicate effectively and captivate your audience.

Section 2: Designing for Impact Explore the power of design to create meaningful impact and evoke emotion. Discover how to design with purpose, whether it's creating compelling brand identities, designing impactful marketing materials, or crafting engaging user experiences. Learn how to leverage design thinking to solve problems, tell stories, and connect with your audience on a deeper level.

Section 3: Embracing Digital Innovation Embrace the digital revolution in graphic design and unlock the potential of digital tools and technologies. Dive into the world of digital illustration, motion graphics, interactive design, and immersive experiences that push the boundaries of creativity and engagement. Explore the latest design trends and techniques that are shaping the future of graphic design.

Section 4: Navigating the Creative Process Gain valuable insights into the creative process and learn how to overcome creative blocks, brainstorm ideas, and bring your vision to life. Discover tips for effective collaboration, project management, and client communication that ensure smooth workflows and successful design outcomes. Unlock the secrets to staying inspired, motivated, and continuously evolving as a designer.

Section 5: Showcasing Design Excellence Celebrate design excellence with inspiring showcases, success stories, and interviews with industry-leading designers. Gain valuable lessons from their experiences, learn about their creative journeys, and discover the strategies they use to create impactful designs that stand out and make a difference.

Conclusion: Congratulations on embarking on this journey to graphic design excellence! Armed with the knowledge, skills, and inspiration from this guide, you're well-equipped to elevate your creativity, make a meaningful impact through design, and shape the future of visual communication. Remember, the best designs come from a combination of passion, practice, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Here's to unleashing your full creative potential and creating design masterpieces that inspire, engage, and leave a lasting impression.

[eldritch-nightmare]

appearing like a majestic fairy to drop off a doll maker bot. here you go. it's platonic btw okay love you all bye <3

[productiveandfree]

Top Social Media Branding Tips for Small Businesses

Social media branding is the cornerstone of any small business's marketing strategy. Since its inception, social media has been a great place for small businesses to advertise. Its ability to reach a specific audience with a wide reach is unparalleled.

To get the best response from your social media branding, you might want to take the time to create a plan. Small business marketing is all about getting the most from the smallest amount of resources, which is why social media branding is such a good fit for small business marketing.

Below, we discuss some of the key tips for small businesses to consider when making their social media branding strategies.

Create a Logo That Promotes Your Brand

For businesses, every space is an opportunity for branding. Use a logo maker to create the captivating branding that you will use on social media as your profile image. Your profile picture shows up in the comment section, in searches and in direct messages, so it needs to be on-brand for your business.

Choosing your logo as your profile picture will maintain brand consistency across your profile and help people recognise you and your products. On the other hand, if your products are popular but you don't have much social media presence, a logo will help your audience find you online more easily.

Authentic Designs

When developing your small business's social posts, it’s important to create images that authentically represent your business philosophy and mission. The colours and shapes in your logo should reflect this idea in some way. You should also avoid generic fonts and shapes as they will not stand out on social media.

Social media has an endless supply of content for its users. As a small business, posting unique designs that reflect your business objectives will help you build a solid audience quickly. When creating content for your social media, putting your own twist on trends will make you stand out in the crowd. So, get out there and get creative, make something that nobody has seen before.

Consistent Delivery

Staying connected with your audience is all about consistency because relationships can take some time to form and grow. Managing your platforms to simultaneously post to all of your platform accounts will ensure that your different audiences receive the same social media experience.

As well as platform consistency, it’s important to schedule regularly and routinely so that your customers can become familiar with your business. Changing logos, design language and messaging too much can make it hard for customers to connect with your products. Staying consistent in your presentation will make you instantly recognisable in your market.

Create a content schedule for your business so that there is always content in the pipeline. A good content schedule includes time for designing and creating new content as well as the release dates for finalised content. Your content schedule is the key to staying consistent on social media and staying consistent is your best way to maintain and grow a strong audience.

In addition, consider replying to user comments on your social posts. Interacting with users across your social media platforms and giving followers a personal experience will not only drive engagement but also help you retain your audience. Staying consistently connected with your audience is key to retaining followers on social media.

Quality Content

Engagement on social media drives the platform, as engagement such as likes, shares and follows is what the social media algorithms use to determine if they should recommend content to others. This is why constantly working to improve the quality of your content should be a priority for any business wanting to use social media branding to market their business.

This does not mean you need to spend a lot of money on fancy camera equipment or hiring third-party companies to create content, it just requires a little attention to detail. Most phones and entry-level digital cameras are more than enough to create engaging content for social media. Use creative lighting and settings to showcase your business, try different environments or use customers in your content to drive engagement.

You can then use social media analytics tools to track how your content performs, and identify which type of content performs the best. This will help you tailor your content to get high engagement.  

Slowly Integrate Marketing

Once you have gained an audience on social media, your business is then able to utilise your social media following to market your business through offers, product posts, ads and referral programs. When posting about your product or service ranges, go easy on the sales copy and let the image or video do the talking, or you could risk losing followers. For a direct sales push approach, use paid ads from your social media profile, as these can target everyone in your target demographic, not just followers.

Referral programs are an incentive program and a marketing tool that offer benefits to a customer for another customer's engagement with the business. This strategy works well on social media, as you can engage a lot of customers at once or ask your followers to share your post for a chance to win something. Referral programs work particularly well to drive further followers on social media as well as to promote a specific product. Theeffectiveness of social media referral programs is enough for some small businesses to run their entire lead generation through social media.

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Social media branding is a great way for small businesses to get their brand out there and appeal to their customers. With so much content, many approaches to branding and the complexities of social media algorithms, it can seem overwhelming at times. Taking the time to create authentic designs that reflect what your business is about will instantly have an impact. By using a content schedule, you will be able to retain your growing audience and build a relationship with them over time. As you track the performance of your posts, you will begin to improve the quality of the content and drive further engagement. Once you have established an audience you can utilise, you can begin to market your business with referral programs.

These are the key factors that will get your business on its way to mastering social media branding. Once you have incorporated these tips into your strategy look for other experts in social media branding, as social media is an ever-evolving area of business with new ideas all the time.

Share in the comments below: Questions go here

[digitalbanner]

Create Stunning Festival Posters with Our Easy-to-Use Festival Poster Maker App

Looking for an easy way to create stunning festival posters? Our Festival Poster Maker App has you covered! Whether you're organizing a party, cultural event, or festival, this app offers a range of customizable templates to fit your needs.

Download the Digital Banner App now on Google PlayStore and AppStore.

[http-numbah5]

One of the bigger screw ups on social media is everything is inflated and then fizzles out and is almost repressed at some point

[ktempestbradford]

I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

[creativelifebynherie]

Most times this is what creativity looks like. 💅

[avalonanthros]

Caw! Hello world~!

My name is Avalon, I have 4 years in cosplay-building experience, and have been involved in multiple local productions as speciality props/puppetry.

My blog will be mainly finished projects, photoshoots, deal listings, patterns and tutorials, and WIP shots! If that interests you, you're welcome to join the flock.

Tag directory:

Avalon caws! - If it isn't related to art, it has this tag.

Work in pawgress - My WIP shots!

Pretty bird - My photoshoot tag! (May not always contain birds)

The shiny stuff - My deal listing tag! Ravens do have an eye for glimmer...

Avalon's advice - My tutorial tag!

[godzexperiment]

nix 'you can't catch me talking about my past, what even is heaven' vs his joking about it- but an third secret (result stemming from his past) 'oh wow that's the most legible writing he might ever have accomplished' about the markings

[digiads34]

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