New frequently asked questions page available on Fabulous Photo Gifts

Hi

Just to let you all know that we've just uploaded a brand new Frequently Asked Questions page featuring real questions from real customers received over the last few months.

Hopefully, it will help new customers to Fabulous Photo Gifts get the most out of their personalised photo gift experience, however, if your question isn't asked here, then please contact Fabulous Photo Gifts for a prompt and personal reply.

You can visit the page directly by clicking here

Purple 13 / Fabulous Photo Gifts RSS feed url change

Hi.

The rather excellent RSS feed of Purple 13 and Fabulous Photo Gifts is moving URL.

As of 23rd February 2007, the new url is: http://www.purple13.co.uk/rss.xml

Either replace the existing url in your news reader with this one or visit www.purple13.co.uk (or www.fabulousphotogifts.co.uk) and click on the RSS / XMl symbols on the Home Pages to add.

See you there!

Jonathan.

Devilishly difficult jigsaw puzzles now at Purple13

If you enjoy a more challenging jigsaw puzzle experience, then Purple 13 have the answer.

We've brought 4 of the larger jigsaw puzzle sizes available on Fabulous Photo Gifts and added Purple 13 artworks to them. Now you can buy Purple 13 art by Award Winning Mandy Collins on a quality jigsaw puzzle.

For square artworks, there is the 1520 piece Puzzle 1500 – probably the U.K.'s only square jigsaw you can personalise on-line with your own photograph – that measures 68cm by 72 cm.

It comes in a beautiful 2 part box with the completed jigsaw image printed onto the lid. Delivery is free.

We've added our favourite's and will continue to do so, however, if there's a particular Purple 13 artwork you'd like on a jigsaw, then just drop us an email with your request and a note of the artwork reference number (the little red box beside the larger image) and we'll have it added to the shop page for you to buy on-line.

For rectangular artworks, either landscape or portrait, we've added 3 jigsaw size options for you to choose from: the 546 piece Puzzle 550, the 1040 piece Puzzle 1000 and the 2000 piece Puzzle 2000.

These also come in a 2 part box with the jigsaw image printed onto the lid. Delivery is also free!

Again, we've added our own favourite's and will continue to add to the selection instantly available to buy on-line, however, if you would like a particular Purple 13 artwork on one of the jigsaw options, just drop us an email with your request and a note of the artwork reference number (the little red box beside the larger image) and we'll make it available straight away.

Just click on 'Art Jigsaw Puzzles' on the home or shop pages and select either square or rectangular puzzles. Purple 13 features secure server payment with your debit/credit cards or PayPal. Delivery is usually within 14 days to your door. Now you can give an art gift with a difference.

Beware: Purple 13 features some seriously challenging jigsaws – you have been warned.

If you're an artist and would like to find out more about selling your artworks on quality jigsaw puzzles, please contact Fabulous Photo Gifts for more information without any obligation on 0845 003 4118 or email enquiry@fabulousphotogifts.co.uk

Business opportunities using Fabulous Photo Gifts range of Photo Jigsaws

The scenario – you run a successful gift shop selling a range of tourism gifts to visitors but you're looking for something new to offer your customers or perhaps your a business looking for a marketing method that's a little bit different?

Perhaps you have a party, wedding or other social function planned and want to send an invitation with a difference or maybe just to let all your friends know your new address?

Luckily, Fabulous Photo Gifts have the perfect answer.

Fabulous Photo Gifts personalised photo jigsaws not only make a great gift idea for any special anniversary occasion or fun event, they also make a great personalised marketing / promotional opportunity for businesses, resellers and private individuals with a bulk requirement.

We can take any photograph or image and add it to any quantity from one off's to multiples of 10's, 100's or 1000's across our entire range of Jigsaw Puzzles from the fun sized 24 piece A6 sized jigsaw puzzle, the ever popular 48 piece A5 size jigsaw puzzle (also available with magnetic backing) right up to our largest 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle.

Our panoramic and square jigsaws are also included in our bulk prices, so there really is a jigsaw at a price (and quantity) for everyone.

Our personalised photo jigsaws also present other marketing opportunities for businesses. As promotional give-aways, mail shots with a difference, new product or service promotion, even special event invitations can be made more appealing and aid longevity of your message when added to our jigsaws

Other uses include: promotional give-aways, event invitations including social occasions like weddings etc, restaurant menu's, new product launches, an alternative to stickers or stationery, address change following house or business premise move, tourist attraction gift shop stock, Christmas cards etc.

When you want to introduce a further fun element, why not write a message or clue on a jigsaw before breaking it up and giving to someone in a small presentation bag? Our smaller A6 and A5 24 piece jigsaws are ideal for this.

We not only accept photographs, but any digital file so if you have an invitation or sales message you want adding to any of our range of personalised jigsaw puzzles, then we can help. No digital file? No Problem. Simple post us your photograph or artwork (max A4 size) and we can electronically reproduce it onto the jigsaw of your choice, usually at no extra charge.

We even offer a photographic restoration service or why not apply a sepia tone to a colour image or have a 'pop-art' effect applied etc. We're happy to discuss such requirements with you without obligation.

Our 24 piece A6 and 24 or 48 piece A5 jigsaws come completed on a stiff card packaging that's then shrink wrapped so your message can arrive or be given out already completed.

Our larger jigsaws (A4) 96 piece upwards come in a two part box with the jigsaw image printed on the lid at no extra cost!

We'll soon be adding a new range of jigsaws that come in either 30 or 96 pieces, featuring a solid border, making them ideal for travel gifts. These also come flat packed, completed and shrink wrapped.

We're highly innovative so if you've got an idea we haven't mentioned here then please contact us. We are confident we can exceed your expectations.
Please visit our website – www.fabulousphotogifts.co.uk for more information. From the Home Page, select either individual orders or bulk orders and make your selection.

If you have your image file to hand, you can complete your order on-line there and then. If you prefer, you can view the range of jigsaws available and the corresponding quantity and price breaks, before contacting us by email or phone with your order enquiry.

Individual orders are normally delivered within 14 days. For bulk orders, we would be pleased to discuss delivery times and schedules on a per order basis with you.

Need your jigsaws in a hurry? We're here to help and will do everything we can to meet your requirements. We're not afraid of telling you if we can't!

Here at Fabulous Photo Gifts, we strive to operate a policy of complete transparency in our pricing and service levels. It's a policy that is already paying dividends as more and more customers enjoy dealing with us and testimony to the levels of repeat orders we receive.

Fabulous Photo Gifts – what will you put on your jigsaw?

Fabulous Photo Gifts is the creation of Mandy Collins, award winning digital photo artist whose artworks sell worldwide and have also been used in such diverse areas as scholastic publications, fashion houses, floral illustration and by Epson at Olympia.

With over 500 artworks available to purchase on-line in print, ltd edition framed or stretched canvas finishes from her Purple 13 studio website – www.purple13.co.uk, in addition to numerous stock photography, all available for licensed uses.

I found the perfect Mother's Day gift

Hi.

I just found the perfect Mother's Day gift! - a personalised photo jigsaw.

A picture of you, the family, the Grandchildren, even one of themselves all make a terrific gift idea when personalised on a photo jigsaw of your choice.

You can upload and order your jigsaw online. Deliveries take 14 days so order early to avoid disappointment.

You can choose from over 13 different jigsaws including fun 24/48 piece 'fridge magnet' jigsaws right up to our 2000 piece monster for the serious puzzler.

A4 size 100 piece and upwards photo jigsaws come in a 2 part box with the completed image printed onto the lid at no extra charge! Even the delivery is free on all orders.

SO make Mother's day on March 18th, 2007 and give her an amazing personalised photo jigsaw.

Go to: www.fabulousphotogifts.co.uk and order today.

Jonathan.

January – month of seo and ppc experts

In the UK, you know it's January when you can't change a TV channel without seeing a holiday advert. It's the same when you run a busy e-commerce website, you know it's January when you get inundated with calls from various SEO companies and PPC management companies offering their services.

And the personalised photo jigsaw / personalised photo gift industry is not exempt it seems. Here at Fabulous Photo Gifts, we've had our share of calls the last few weeks.

Not that I've anything personal against them. Many do a very good job for their clients I'm sure, but if your a smaller on-line trader, then every penny counts. Budget that may get soaked up in optimisation fees could be better spent on your own managed PPC campaign. If you have the time, why not manage your own as opposed to paying someone to do it for you.

It's important to realise that the great arsenal of methods available to SEO's is also diminishing as Google and others catch onto link farms, false index pages that divert and duplicated content.

SEO companies may promise you top position but on what search phrases and is it reasonable to expect that your potential customers will type those exact phrases in anyway when looking for your goods or service?

It may not be the easiest task, but the only way to get good page rank and position is with solid, well written copy that is key-worded without spamming and good inbound links from industry related websites.

It's well documented on various forums that the opinion on links from non-specific websites is at best ignored and at worst considered a 'spamming' technique and so penalises rather than promoting.

These same forums often discuss the best place for key worded text. The general consensus seems to be on placing the most key worded text at the top of your page, preferably within h1 and h2 tags for maximum visibility.

Style Sheets (CSS) can help greatly here. To allow search engine crawlers to get to the meat of your website, try cutting down on the amount of html in their way by replacing many table and font attribute tags with one style tag.

Again, if you haven't already, visit a few forums and see what others are saying on the subject.

I digress – back to the topic in hand, there is a lot you can do to promote your own website without others. Explore optimisation methods yourself and make appropriate changes to your text and coding as appropriate. Is your main key phrase in your page title? Sounds obvious but you'd be amazed.

Look at PPC (pay-per-click) campaigns on Google etc yourself. It's relatively straight-forward to set your own campaign up. Experiment with the functions and get help selecting the right keywords to sponsor etc. Set a low daily budget if you're not sure just to gauge response. What are your competition doing?

You can further promote your own site with Blogs, RSS feeds and even MySpace profiles. If you've read any of my previous 'articles', you'll know I'm big on the social networking idea and pretty soon every on-line retailer will be running to catch up with those who started. And because it takes time to reap any benefit from such strategies, they'll have plenty of catching up to do.

Don't know what a Blog is? Spend a few minutes searching and you'll be amazed. Don't be put off by the fact that many seem irrelevant, personal 'drivel'. Those same 'drivelings' attract quite a following amongst their own communities of followers – all you've got to do is attract your own community of potential customers.

Amongst the personal Blogs, you'll also find a lot of topic specific ones (a bit like this one) from professionals and enthusiasts alike. The main thing is to keep contact with your social networks, or at least be regular with your contributions (something I know I sometimes forget to do myself).

Finally, don't be discouraged if after all your efforts, you see no particular increase. Visitor numbers will creep up slowly but surely and so improve your chances of making a sale.

And if all that's cost you is a little of your own time, then that's got to be money well spent.

Jonathan C Crouch

About the author: Jonathan is an I.T. Professional responsible for the on-line marketing and website design for Fabulous Photo Gifts – personalised photo jigsaws and Purple 13 – digital photo art of Award Winning Artist Mandy Collins.

Please feel free to link to this article or copy and use on your own. Please credit the author and link to http://purple13.blogspot.com