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Easy Web Page Graphics Released Today

I’ve released Easy Web Page Graphics today. I’ve been working on this for a while now and finally plucked up the energy to finish off the sales letter and get a payment button on the letter.

I love creating products but the act of writing the sales letter and putting it out onto the market is always difficult.

If you would like to find out how I create some of the nice branded graphics on my blog then this product could be for you.

To be honest it is not as good a product as I had hoped but, in the right hands, it could be life-changing.

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Why do I say that?

Well, for me, the discovery of Photoshop Actions and Smart Objects has transformed my ability to create visual works of art. I love the aesthetic satisfaction of creating graphics and good-looking websites. It’s work I love to do.

The problem is that it is probably not the best way of making money online. I really need to focus more on marketing and traffic generation but my heart does not lie in that direction.

I console myself by the fact that design and packaging are important aspects of product and content creation. If I can just find a systemised way of creating traffic that only takes up a small part of the day then I could ‘eat the frog’ and then get on with what I really love to do.

Anyway, Easy Web Page Graphics fits into the framework of products that I am creating to coach anyone to success in internet marketing. I’m covering all the skills that I have had to learn along the way in order to do business online.

Now that Easy Web Page Graphics has been launched I will keep improving it over time as my own skills keep moving forward.

Solo Ads Assassin is all but finished, but my partner in this project, Daniel Madeira, has got distracted by his solo ads coaching business because he is raking in more money on this part of the business. I have therefore put a proposal to him to at least release this product and find out how it is received.

That will leave me with two outstanding projects – Email ATM and Business Creation Mastery. This latter project is under construction and will be my high-ticket coaching programme. Email-ATM will be created in conjunction with my next product.

Before I release Business Creation Mastery, I am creating a sales funnel product called Honey-Trap Funnels. This is a cloned sales funnel system teaching others on how to quickly create sales funnels.

This project was already on a mind-map when Jason Fladlien released his Reverse System which costs $500 to $700 – he sold 500 copies to gross around $250,000 recently.

I don’t have this product so I won’t be copying it but I guess my product will be a poor-man’s version. I do want to templatise my system as much as possible to make it an easy system to implement. I will be using this system myself to sell my own products as well as affiliate products I like and use.

I do think that Jason Fladlien & Wil Mattos are doing a great job of increasing prices in our niche – I won’t knock them for that. However, their products are now beyond my budget and I believe that I can produce a product that is equally easy to deploy.

Anyway, the release of Easy Web Page Graphics is another step forward on my journey – next month is my 5 year anniversary in internet marketing which I started on 9th April 2009 by joining my first training with An Sieg and Mike Klingler. A few months later I discovered WordPress and I have not looked back since.

Mark Is Exploring Photoshop Actions

I have been exploring Photoshop Actions recently and, because I share what I am doing to build my business, I thought that I would share this with you.

Part of the reason for playing around with Photoshop is that I am creating a product called Easy Web Page Graphics sharing what I know about how to create graphics.

I am mostly self-taught.  I started out with Macromedia Fireworks which was bundled with an old purchase of Dreamweaver.  I find that Fireworks is now relatively simple to use and I use it a lot for simple graphic creation for that reason.

However, some time ago I managed to get a free copy of Photoshop CS5 (which I have since upgraded to CS6).  I was buying products that had Photoshop Actions as part of the purchase and was curious about how to use these.  With a little bit of experimentation, I soon found that Photoshop Actions make graphic creation very easy.

Recently I discovered a site called GrahicRiver.net that sells loads of Photoshop Actions for very cheap prices and I have been buying a few of these to take my graphical skills to the next level.

Recently Brad Gosse was offering some free stock ‘spicy’ photos.  Whilst these do not really have a place in my internet marketing business, I thought that I would share some of the stunning results.  

I think that design excellence when presenting your website, content and products is extremely important and I am hoping to take my graphical skills and turn my content into works of art.  This combined with green screen video where I can use images as video backgrounds will make for some interesting results.  I can also use nice images for squeeze page backgrounds, headers, banners etc.

These sketches have been created from ordinary photographs – some are cropped and others have been touched up.  I just wanted to show you what is possible with Photoshop Actions.

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As you can see I love creating digital art.  For many years, I think I have buried my creativity because my employment (banking and consulting) has really been more about logic than art.

I remember writing an essay at school about an apocalyptic, post-war scenario.  The creative process was extremely hard work and I think I frightened myself by my creative potential.  I gained outstanding top marks for the work but I never again exercised my creativity to the same extent.

Only during the last year or two, with my websites and now with my graphic creation, I am I now re-finding the creativity that at one time scared me into almost a lifetime of burying the creative muse.  I find that this is the kind of work I would like to do but I wonder if I can make a living from it?

Anyway, I love exploring Photoshop Actions – please comment below if you have any ideas on how I can make money from this!

Update:

I am finding the images I have created with Photoshop Actions super-useful for my web design business.  When I have a free few moments, i create more designs that I hold in readiness for use on future projects to set my work apart.

They are also useful for eCovers, banners, headers and general website images or even to drive traffic from Pinterest or Facebook.  If you want to know how  I am doing it, then you may want to pick up a copy of Easy Web Page Grapghics.  This product could set your design business alight with the possibilities and tools I reveal.