The online marketing tools are in full bloom for any enterprising photographer. I just put together a photo book to try out a free promo for an 8x8 book using some of the same pictures I used in my previous post about The Ghost River, Wolf River float trip I took. It looks good online and it was easy enough. I could not get the promo code to come back up in the offer so I could plug it in after spending the time opening an account, choosing the photographs, and writing text to fit the text boxes--and I thought I had been had.
I opened a Chat dialog, but Rabish (Out-Sourced again) could not help me unless I had--guess what--a promo code from the offer. Then in an amazing stroke of good fortune and memory, I remembered that I had had the foresight to copy the promo code--and it was still in the clipboard. I tried it and it worked. The postage was reasonable. I hope the book is nice. If it is, I will reorder sufficient to gift each of my sons a copy and give one to the young guy that served as our guide. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Shutterfly is a big outfit and I am sure this kind of thing is old-hat to many. But I just have never used them much. I plan to. I am going to attempt to plug in source code they provided for sharing the online book and an offer now. I hope it works.
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