During my weekly SEO activity’s I found searchengineland.com again. It’s been a while since I’d been there and thought it would be wise to look into search term researching on that specific website. Turns out they have a list with easy to use, mostly free tools for search term researching! With these tools it’s easier to get you keywords right. Below the list of tools you’ll find every article searchengineland has related to the topic!

You can find the list & articles @ http://searchengineland.com/library/search-marketing/search-marketing-search-term-research

Photo retouching is something I barely do in Photoshop. I just don’t get to starting of with. It’s one of the things however I really like to see and would like to do. So in my spare time I try as much tutorials about the topic. Of course I can’t keep those tutorials for my own good, so below you’ll find my top 10.

Professional Photo Retouch – Photoshop® CS4

Not a real tutorial, but it shows the possibilities to me and the end result is very nice.

Glamorous Glowing Model Effect on Your Image

This tutorial is short and easy. Even a beginner can do some real nice stuff after he follows this tutorial. That’s at least my opinion. With some really simple options and modifications your picture will get more glamorous.

Professional Photoshop retouching tutorial

This tutorial goes significantly deeper into the retouching. It explains to you what happens and you get to see how this guy does it.

Design Surreal Composition Fallen Angel’s Dream Fly

Not the retouching you might think of. The techniques used however can come in handy when retouching your own photo’s. On the other side, creating these kind of compositions is a specialty on it’s own.

Create a High Clarity Photo (Dave Hill style)

Everybody knows Dave Hill, at least you should! He always creates some nice HDR photo’s. You can accomplish something similar on your own photo’s with this tutorial.

These days everybody wants to be on some kind of social media. Big company’s are jumping into it like flies on a sugar cake. And if the company itself isn’t actively participating in social media, the company’s customers and fans will. I wondered how bigger company’s use social media in their marketing and went searching. I found some really useful links that will help you to implement similar things in your own social media marketing activities.

• 25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips
  This blog asks 25 company’s, and there in-house social media marketers, what there success story’s are when looking at social media in their businesses.
• How To Promote Your Business On Social Media
  Just like the title states, how can you promote your business on social media. It provides explanations about it.
• 8 Social Media Marketing Tips for Companies
  Same as above. The blog explains what 8 things you can do to start with when beginning your social media journey.

On the 8th of June this year, we organized a kart event for all our customers. They had to race for 100 rounds, including switching between riders and of course getting some fuel in time. Afterwards there was a BBQ which closed the event.

The whole marketing around the Q4YOU! event was made by myself as you may have seen in my earlier post about the invitation. Today we finished the photo folders. We sent these afterwards every time we have a Q4YOU!. It features a DVD with all pictures from the event and some printed photo’s which are personalized for every client. Below you can find the end result. Let me know what you think of it.

Today I presented my Immersive space to my fellow students and teachers. The presentation went very well and the reactions were positive. Let’s just hope it get’s me through the entire course! Anyway, the space has some bugs in it, sound bugs mostly. Due to incompetence and lack of time I didn’t get the time to fix those. I’m still happy with the end result and it displays my current technical knowledge about Actionscript 3 I worked with for the first time! It was difficult and time consuming, but got the job done in the end.

The space storyline is about Grave Bridge. WW2 is the setting and style. All information is in dutch, so I’ll explain it in short. First you have to collect eight or more mines / grenades. You also have to find the two pieces of information (documents) you have to find in the different scenes. When you’ve accomplished that you can exit by clicking under the bridge. Let me know what you think about it!

• Immersive Space in Flash – Grave Bridge

Note: It seems the online version doesn’t play out the outro when exiting the space. The projector file does however!