TnT Unleashed 1pic4twenty Blog

 

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1pic4twenty was, at first, the name we gave our first idea of a business – which related to somebody sending a digital photograph to us, and us sending 20 of the same photograph back – but different, as in various different forms of the same photograph eg in black and white, sepia, with a “frame”, red-eye removed, or applying photoshop filters that would mean the photo would appear as an oil pastel, or watercolour, or have a posterised effect. Also cropping so that more than one photo could be made from the same image, altering the colour tone, and basically doing fun things with one image. These new photographs could then be emailed back to the client and they could print them and use them for:

scrapbooking;
printing and enlarging and framing;
giving as gifts;
emailing to friends and family;
adding them to your blog or website;
using them for printing invitations or cards or for your own calendars;
whatever you want!

We didn’t know too much about marketing at the time though, and although we would like to look at this photo editing idea again sometime soon, but we do do photo editing (enhancing, editing, manipulation etc) on its own if required for a client, or also for our web design clients, and for now we are concentrating on web design, followed by writing, and photography services, but we feel that the name 1pic4twenty is still very much appropriate as we:

are versatile and offer many creative services, so it’s like we’re one stop for many services – one pick for twenty,

we do a bit of photography – mostly for accommodation establishments in the East London area, so the “pic” is still appropriate too, standing for “picture”, including related to photo editing of pics that we do!

and the 4twenty could also represent 24 hours – because that’s what we feel, as freelancers, we sometimes work per day!

Do we really offer 20 different services? We think it’s close, at least.

Sometimes we have requests for something that we don’t advertise that we do, and we do it because we can, so we are thinking of trying to catch up with our work a bit – hm, that might be never, but we’re doing the best that we can – and looking at adding a few more pages to our website or blog that informs of other services we’re capable of offering the public, businesses, and website owners.

We already advertise that we do web design, logo design, domain registration, website hosting, basic search engine optimization, photography, photo editing, article writing, and English Afrikaans translation, but some are not really detailed in our explanations of them, so we need to add more detail, and possibly split them up into categories for each main section.

This is beginning to look like a note to ourselves of “things to do”, so we will pop back and visit this page often to remind ourselves of exactly what it is we must do!

We also want to add some services we don’t mention at all, like:

website homepage analysis – where we look at your existing live website homepage, and give our opinion of what’s wrong with it, (if there is anything wrong) but it’s not all opinion – we also do a meta tag analysis using an online SEO tool, and also check that your page is W3C compliant and has clean coding – we send the reports for both these tasks. We will charge extra if also wanting tips on how to improve the page, although we’re sure to throw in two or three tips with just the “what’s wrong with your page” report too.

We also do SEO keyword work on articles meant for your website that you’ve written or had somebody write for you, or is already on your website – we check through the article and see where more main keywords could be added, or where areas are that you could rather use synonyms – as one never quite knows what people are going to type into the search bar when looking for something on a search engine like Google, so why not cover more possiblities, and at the same time avoid “spamming” the search engines with too many of the same main keywords that could cause your site to be excluded from being indexed at all.

We do the basic html coding for the new article, including the meta tagging for title, description, and keywords, and add robot crawl instructions too. We load a plain looking article to our own website, temporarily, to then do a keyword analysis check – if we’re not satisfied, that is if results are under 80% relevancy, we tweak a little more to try improve the relevancy (in the three sections of title, description, and keywords).

We send you the tweaked new article, the basic html coding for it, and the keyword analysis report. You can forward these results and pages to your SEO guy or website designer, to basically help him help you get your site found more easily by search engines.

For our usual custom website design service, we are also looking at providing some basic templates to choose from, where you can request certain colour backgrounds and font colours, you provide your content, images, and logo/letterhead, and we slot everything in for you – instead of you struggling to decide on a look (with customized sites) , you will have immediate choices.

Okay, we think most of our notes are down now, so take care, while we get on with work so that we can eventually get round to adding more detail and pages about our services to our web or blog. Thanks for listening to our plans – it helped.

Also see more information about our services:

Wordpress blog hosting service.

Good news and bad news about our web design services

Increase in the price of our East London Photo Shoot service

© Teresa Schultz

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