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DESTINATIONS, DFW Metroplex, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization, Photo Organization Coach, Photography, Scrapbooking, Shopping

Let Your Linens Do the Talking

Jane Sadek

MEMORY SHARING: THROWING IN THE TOWELS

FOREVER’S Latest Thing

Photo Books and Coffee Mugs have been popular ways to share memories, but FOREVER has come up with something a little out of the ordinary for your next photo gifting, to yourself or others: Towels! And guess what, the fish and the fly don’t have them.

Three Options & You’ll Love Them All

BEACH TOWEL

Let’s start big – a big 30″ X 60″ beach towel big. If you choose to use the Create & Print feature on FOREVER, there are two pages of templates for you to personalize, including one called The Big Picture, where you can fill the whole towel with a picture you love. If you use one of the other fun templates, you get to personalize them with colors, fonts and orientation. Add your name to be sure no one can claim it. If you can’t find what you want, let me know and I can design it in Artisan for you and I’ll have a blank page to start with.

The towels have a poly front with the print and a cotton terry back, but that poly front is not one of those water repellent polys you might have tried to dry off with in the past. It’s soft and absorbent it dry you off quickly and comfortably. The towel are machine washable and you tumble them dry.

GOLF TOWEL

These waffle weave wonders will please all your athletes, not just golfers, but their design is based on the traditional golf towel with a grommet and metal hook. However, add it to your gym bag or any other sports bag! You might even want to hook it from your scrapbooking tote. Don’t let that “golf” word deter you.

This towel is 16″ X 25″ and it’s a cotton/poly blend which is durable, absorbent and convenient. Like the beach towel there are all kinds of designs in FOREVER’s Create & Print templates for you to customize or you can start your design from scratch in Artisan.

TEA TOWEL

Tea towels are a great gift for many occasions and something we all need for ourselves. You know those tea towels that have hilarious sayings on them. Have you ever wished you could change the wording just a little bit to fit someone you know? Well, now you can.

Looking for the perfect wedding gift? They’ll love seeing their name and or monogram on personalized tea towels. And housewarming gifts? Their name and new address, right on the towel. And how about recipes? Think of this as a whole new way to share that recipe you’ve become famous for.

Waffle weave, like the sports towel, and the same size, but without the grommet & hook, you can make these up in both vertical and horizontal designs. They are a little larger than a standard placemat, but imagine a meal where your guests find their place by finding their face and the placemat goes home with them as a party favor. Cool, yes?

I just ordered this one and I can’t wait to take it to the next potluck I attend. I’m thinking I’ll be having them standing in line to order their own! Thanks for sharing memories with me and come back on Monday for a little Memory Making!

DFW Metroplex, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization, Photo Organization Coach, Photography, Scrapbooking

FOREVER – Try It You’ll Like It!

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: TRY IT FOR FREE & GET $20

A FOREVER Account Is Free

There may be no free lunch, but there is a free FOREVER account. If you’ve chosen Memory Keeping as your New Year Resolution or if you’re just curious, there is no cost and no obligation when you try out FOREVER.

Just use this link to get signed up:  https://www.forever.com/ambassador/jane-sadek

When you click the link, it will take you to FOREVER and walk you through the sign up process. Then FOREVER will send you an email to verify your address. You’ll want to do that, because the reward is a $20 Off Welcome Coupon and you have 60 days to spend it. If you decide against FOREVER, no harm, no foul, but you’ll have 60 days to try it out and if you find something you love, just apply the coupon code.

So, I Have the Account, What Now?

Now, that you’ve signed up, start checking things out. 

If you’re the kind who likes to start with a little how-to, then right on the first page under the big picture, you’ll see this. Click “Get Answers” and you’ll enter a world of how-to intro videos. That should keep you busy for awhile!

Or if you learn by doing, look for the avatar icon in the upper left hand corner. Hover over it and choose “Library”. FOREVER gives you 2GBs of storage for free, which is 375-1250 images depending on their size. You can upload some images and get started with your curating!

Whether you start with the videos or just start, you can’t blow up FOREVER, so try everything. The Library is where your images will live, but you can set up albums according to how your brain works. FOREVER does not create duplicates, so you’re not using up GBs. The albums can be nested for ease of handling. There’s also great tagging tools that let you cross reference the ways you find images. Don’t forget to name the photos and write a description.

Check Out the FOREVER Guarantee

You may not be impressed, yet. I loved FOREVER from first sight and couldn’t wait to put all my memories there, but you might be telling yourself you haven’t seen anything you can’t get with other cloud providers. Well, there is the fact that you own FOREVER storage rather than rent it. That’s a big deal, but the really big deal is the FOREVER Guarantee. You don’t just get FOREVER for your lifetime, but access to the images is guaranteed by FOREVER for 100 years after you are gone, without anyone having to pay another penny.

After you’ve looked at what FOREVER does for you and for your images, go check out the terms you agreed to with whoever has your digital images now. Basically those other agreements say that when you load your images, you give us all rights to those images to whatever provider you’ve chosen. They can compress them, delete them, transfer them, mine them for ads, etc. etc. etc. 

One Stop Shop

And speaking of those other providers, how many of them would you need to do all the things for you that FOREVER can? We don’t just store your images, we’re a platform for sharing them. We can digitize your hard copy media. You can make photo books and photo gifts. We have video streaming and family history research. There’s a world of amazing software available for managing your images and using them everywhere. There’s even an online community you can join who know everything there is to know about Memory Keeping. There’s a blog. There’s pages and groups on social media. Whatever Memory Keeping tools, devices and support you need, you can find them with FOREVER. No need to juggle multiple photo-related accounts and apps.

Test Drive Our App

Your FOREVER account is free and so is the app. It is available for both Apple and Android phones. Go to the App Store on your phone to install the app and then see what it does. Imagine being able to have access to your images on your phone without having to worry about losing your phone, damaging your phone, having your phone stolen or having it die. That’s what the app does. It does more than store your images – it protects them. You can set the app to auto-synch with your phone and every picture and video you take can go right to FOREVER.

Drive-Thru Create & Print

Though FOREVER is great for storage and sharing, it’s also good for photobooks and gifts. Click the Create & Print tab, choose a product and try out our interface. There are lots of great products to personalize with your photos – from greeting cards and calendars, to photobooks and coffee cups. Though our products might look like some you’ve seen on other sites, I assure you that when you hold them in your hand, you’ll understand why FOREVER is a better choice.  

It’s OK to create a few things, just for the fun of it. It doesn’t cost you a thing until you actually order it. You can try things out and change them a zillion times. You can even share your creation and show off your ideas without spending a cent. Sometimes the process of creation itself is enough, but it is tempting to buy and share your creations.

Will It Be a Yes or a No?

I hope you’ll take FOREVER up on it’s free account. Check out all the pages, load up some photos, look at the deals, take advantage of the free trials and see how FOREVER fits into your life. If you need a guided tour, we can jump on Zoom and I’ll show you around.

Once you’ve gotten your account, find something to spend your $20 on. Coaster sets and magnets are a fun inexpensive way to check out our print products. Or you can invest that $20 towards storage or digitization. Or you’re welcome to delete your account and walk away. 

I’m Jane Sadek, your Memory Keeper. I’m Saving Legacies and Sharing Smiles. Let’s talk, 972-971-5263.

ART, DFW Metroplex, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization, Photography, Scrapbooking

Give the Gift of FOREVER

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: SHARE THE LOVE

Start Something with FOREVER

Talk about a gift that keeps on giving! What if a gift you give this Christmas could tell generations you’ll never meet how much you care. That’s what the gift of FOREVER can do.

A Permanent Digital Home

Perhaps the perfect gift for your someone is FOREVER’s permanent online storage they own rather than rent. Phones, tablets and other devices are lost, corrupted and destroyed every minute of every day and yet, they contain some of our most valuable possessions – our memories. With FOREVER Storage, those memories can be automatically delivered to safe, permanent storage and you never have to worry about losing them again. Because you own rather than rent FOREVER storage, you’re not signing up for someone to make monthly or annual payments into perpetuity. You buy it, they have it – FOREVER. Not only do they have it, but their kids have it and their grandkids have it and their great grandkids have it and – well you get the picture.

What’s more, those images are not going to be mined for advertising, compressed, sold or shared, because your giftee will own it. They’re in control of who has access and that access is guaranteed by the FOREVER Guarantee Fund. And FOREVER storage is more affordable this month than it ever will be again, because January 1, 2024 the price goes up!

FOREVER Digitization Boxes

Somebody in your family is the Family Historian. Everyone knows who they are. They were the ones who agreed to store all of the photos/slides/videos left behind by your mother/father/grandmother/grandfather/aunt/uncle. That means in some closet, under some bed or on some shelf all of your family’s history is sitting around and no one has access to those images. Give that historian a gift that all the family will enjoy. Get them a digitization box and begin the journey of turning a mess into shareable memories. Just for fun, FOREVER has a special Holiday Edition Box that will look great under the tree.

Genealogy Genius

Perhaps the Family Historian, with the Media Mess, is also the Keeper of the Family Tree. Perhaps someone else is constantly researching the Family Connections. Perhaps family members belong to the DAR, DRT and/ or ODC. If someone is researching genealogy, then it is inevitable for them to hit a brick wall. Did you know FOREVER has a team of Professional Genealogists with connections all over the world to help amateur sleuths climb over those brick walls? There are a number of plans from 1 hour consultations to months long research projects. Brick walls melt before these seasoned pros and your favorite genealogist will love you for gifting them some help.

Click & Play

Who’s the videographer in your family? They’ve got their phone out all the time and they’re taking videos rather than photos. So then, what happens next? They might put it on social media, but with all the hacking going on, they’re account might or might not be there next week. The videos can disappear into their phone or perhaps be loaded on another device, but then you have to download it to play it. There are sites like YouTube or Vimeo, but the bottom line is that they own the videos, not you. So, your videographer will love FOREVER’s Personal Video Streaming. Buy it once, own it forever. Share videos without the recipient having to download to watch.

A Community of Crafters

Crafters love other crafters. Crafters will pack up all their stuff and travel many miles to hang out with other crafters. What if they could just sign in, instead? Pixels 2 Pages is an online community of digital crafters who use Artisan 6 software as their vehicle of creativity. Gift your favorite crafter Artisan 6 and a month long trial membership in Pixels 2 Pages or if they’re already using Artisan 6, how about a membership in P2P? Or perhaps they’d like to be part of an online crop. FOREVER has one in January and another in April. Whatever you choose, your crafter will love you.

These are just a few of the gifting ideas with FOREVER and there’s always a gift certificate, which allows them to decide how to invest in their memory keeping. FOREVER is the gift which truly keeps on giving. They can’t eat it all or out grow it. They can’t lose it. It won’t ever be out of style. What’s even better is that long after you or your giftee are around, your thoughtful gift will still be enjoyed by family and friends for years to come.

Just call me at 972-971-5263 and let’s talk about who you’d like to gift with FOREVER and decide on the perfect gift or if you already know what to get, just follow this link https://www.forever.com/ambassador/jane-sadek and order it now. And just in case you come up short Christmas morning, remember FOREVER will be there for your order!

DFW Metroplex, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization, Photo Organization Coach, Photography, Scrapbooking

Get Ready for January

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: ADD MEMORIES TO EVERY DAY OF 2024

Calendar, Planner, Notebook or Journal

So, how do you keep your life organized? A large monthly calendar on the wall? Or is it a chunky planner you carry everywhere you go? Or are you the more free flowing type who keeps a notebook with all your pertinent information and to do lists? Or perhaps you’re the reflective type that settles down at the end of the day to write down what was important.

Just about every store you’ll walk in for the next month or so will have zillions of calendars, planners and blank books on fixtures throughout the store – especially in those impulse buying areas. They want you to think “Oh yeah, I need a ___________________________(fill in the blank: calendar, a planner, a journal)!

Ooooh those exciting travel places! Look at those cat and puppy faces! That one has motivational sayings! What’s your hot button? How about, instead of that canned theme and stock pictures, you design a calendar or planner that instead focuses on your travels, your pets, your goals, your friends and your family?

Well, with FOREVER Create & Print you can use photos of your own memories, motivational sayings and Bible verses you choose, or even download images from the internet of things you want to do – it’s up to you. Just click on Create & Print on the FOREVER website and start designing your calendar, planner or notebook with their great templates. Or use Artisan 6 to add even more more exciting choices, like a personal event list.

The Wall Calendar

No matter what other calendars and planning tools you have in your life, most of us have a wall calendar hanging somewhere – on the refrigerator, next to our desk wherever we need to be reminded of what the year looks like. Every insurance agent, real estate agent and most financial advisors are quick to offer you a free calendar, but do you really want to look at their advertising all year long?

There are many great designs for wall calendars in Design & Print. You can have one large glorious image on each month or multiple images with a variety of themes. While the basic calendar design is great, with Artisan 6 you can change up the format, putting the month and days where you want them, the way you want them, in the font you want them.

Oh, and if you do choose Artisan 6 to design your calendar, then you have even more options when you design from a blank page. Perhaps the best part is that there’s a customizable event list which will offer both sets of holidays like Christian and Jewish or American and Canadian, OR you can create your own personal event list with birthdays, anniversaries and milestones! (Oh, and with Artisan you also have the choice of making desk calendars!)

The Planner

I’m a planner girl. Confession, I also have a wall calendar and desk calendar, because I am a little obsessive, but I love my planner best. FOREVER Planners became available in the summer, so mine starts in August. That’s one of the beauties of of creating your own calendar, you can start it whenever makes sense for you, whether it’s tied to an event or just when you decide you want a new planner or calendar.

One of my favorite features of the FOREVER planners is the three templates available. I’m a month/week girl, but you may identify most with a weekly or daily view of your life. Along with three different page styles, you can choose between hardbound and spiral-bound. I’m using spiral bound right now and I love it.

Notebooks/Journals/Blank Books

FOREVER calls them notebooks, but you might call them journals or blank books. Whatever you call them, there are a million ways to use them and the choices we offer make it easy to create your own perfect place to jot notes, ideas, memories, dates, goals – anything.

First, you choose what you want on the cover. Will it be a motivational statement, your Bible verse for the year, photos of your goals, photos of the ones you love or photos of the places you love.

Then you can have hardbound or spiral bound – whichever best fits your taste and usage. How people resist having a few of each is beyond me!

Best of all, you get to choose exactly which style of pages best suit your needs. (See why it’s hard to resist having a stack of them?) Do you think best on lined pages? Are you using the notebook to journal your way through your year? Do you think in images? Then you’ll definitely enjoy the bullet pages. If your method depends on your mood, then perhaps the graph/lined combo will attract your attention.

Create Your Planning Tool Today

While we’re talking about planning tools, I wanted to let you know you can use our Table Top Panels to make great dry erase boards. That’s not the same thing, but it’s in the planning family.

Whatever planning tool you’d prefer, give it a go with FOREVER – and while you’re at it, I will remind you, they also make great holiday gifts. Design & Print your calendar today.

DFW Metroplex, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization, Photo Organization Coach, Photography, Scrapbooking

Win, Win, Win

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: FOREVER REFERRALS PAY OFF THREE WAYS

An Easy Win for You

Most of us would love to refer our friends to our friends, but it can get complicated. With FOREVER it’s easy. In fact, it’s so easy, some people do it without even realizing it.

From the App

Every FOREVER storage owner gets a free app which makes their photos accessible on their phones. If you’ show someone a photo from your collection and they say, “Oh I love it, can you share it?” You can say, “Sure!” and use the handy-dandy share symbol, but you can also be a hero.

You can also say, “I’d love to share it! Can I send you an invitation to join FOREVER? It’s free and it will make it really easy to share not only this photo, but anything else I want to share with you now and later.” If they say yes, and why wouldn’t they, then you’ve kicked off a great opportunity – for you, for your friend and for me!

Once your friend accepts your invitation, sharing photos and albums is very easy – not just that photo, but you’ve got an easy connection for sharing other items whenever you want. In addition, your friend immediately starts to enjoy some of the benefits of FOREVER and they will get a very special gift – but more about that later.

From Your Online Storage

Let’s say you’ve just uploaded all your vacation photos from your recent trip to Disney. Your kids are so cute and you know someone who would love to see them, but how are you going to send them? We’ve all been there. There’s too many to text, your email will convert it to some file you’re friend or kin may or may not be able to open or any other of the various things which can happen digitally. You just wish you could let them see them right there in your account. Well, you can.

You can hit the share button or your can be a hero! With the share button, they’ll get photos they can look at and download, but when you’re a hero, you give them their own access to FOREVER.

Just go to the person icon on the top right of your account, click on refer a friend and choose the way you want to share. In your invitation say, “I want to share some photos with you and FOREVER is an easy way to do it. Just sign up for free with this link.” when they connect with you, sharing will be easy.

So, How Do You Win, They Win and I Win?

When you send them the link and they verify their free membership, they get a $20 Off Welcome Coupon they can use any time in the next 60 days. That gives them time to see the photos you shared with them and they’ll get 2 GB of free storage to play with. When they make their first purchase, whether that’s storage, a digitation box or a print item, you’ll automatically get a $20 Off Coupon to use. That’s how you win and they win.

The more you refer, the more you win! Every time you refer someone who becomes a FOREVER customer, you get a $20 coupon with their first order. Want to buy something a little out of your budget? You can stack up to 3 coupons on any purchase, on top of any FOREVER deal and a FOREVER Club discount.

I will confess though, I am the biggest winner. First of all, I get a new client and that’s the best thing I can think of. What makes it better is that both you and your friend have been rewarded by FOREVER. Those $20 off coupons don’t come out of my pocket. That’s a present from FOREVER. But you know what? I always get a reward from FOREVER, whenever I get a new paying client from a referral link, whether the link came from one of my clients or from me.

So, when you refer a friend to me, who becomes my new paying client, you win, they win and I win in more ways than one. And let me tell you something! Those clients who send me referrals are my favorite clients and rest assured, I find ways to reward you. Please be a hero and refer a friend today!!

DFW Metroplex, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization Coach, Photography

Get Down to Business with FOREVER

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: MEMORABLE BUSINESS GIFTS

Coffee Mugs, Water Bottles, Magnets, Coasters and More

Most of the time, when I’m talking about the amazing photo gifts offered by FOREVER, I’m talking to individuals about items for them to gift to family and friends, but if you have a business, FOREVER could be your resource for gifts and giveaways your clients will love. We not only have the usual suspects like Coffee Mugs, Water Bottles and such, but we also have very unique, totally customizable ideas you will love.

The first thing business people want to know is, “How much?” My first question would be, “When do you need them?” FOREVER offers a variety of deals every month. I can see at the first of every month what the deals would be and if you don’t like the deals this month, hang on and let’s see what they have next month. For most items FOREVER offers (with the exception of storage, digitization and family history research), the deals can get as good as 50% off. Also, depending on how many you need, there might be a volume discount available.

But why FOREVER instead of one of the many other vendors on the internet? Well, to begin with, there’s me. I’m a local small businessperson and you know me. I know you, too, and I am going to take care of you. I am not a bot. I’m not an anonymous person on the phone. I’m not some app. I’m me.

Personalized Gifts should be Unique

I’m also not a template. When you order online from most vendors, you have to fill in their template and hope it turns out like you wanted. What’s more, they’re usually sourcing their offerings from someone else who is selling stuff to who knows how many other companies. In the end, your personalized gift looks just like every other personalized gift.

FOREVER has templates, too, if you want to go that route, but they also have their own designers on staff for those templates. FOREVER doesn’t merely look in some wholesale catalog and offer up what everyone else offers. They design what they want and then work with the printers to develop their unique templates for products unique to FOREVER.

But you’re not stuck with a template. You can send me your stuff, tell me what you want it to look like and I’ll design it for you. If you have no idea what you want, beyond you want something, I can also take it from there. Artisan is a design product unique to FOREVER. It began as a tool for digital scrapbooking which these days can be used to put a unique custom design on whatever FOREVER offers.

Quality First

Another reason to choose FOREVER is the quality of their products. I don’t know about you, but in my days before FOREVER, I ordered a lot of things that looked great on my computer screen, only to open the box when it arrived and drop it in the trash. It was what I ordered, but not what I wanted. Even more embarrassing, I’ve drop shipped things to people, thinking I’d sent something amazing, only to discover it was something awful. You won’t feel that way with FOREVER. They just don’t offer bargain basement products. You can get some version of their products a lot cheaper elsewhere, but I can assure you it won’t be the same thing. You might pay more, but you are going to be more satisfied.

So, let’s talk. Bring your budget and your ideas. I’ll be sure you have wonderful items for client gifts and promotional items. I hope you’ll contact me soon!

Decorative Arts, DFW Metroplex, Gardens, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization, Photo Organization Coach, Photography, Scrapbooking, Shopping

Pre-Designed (But Flexible) Photo Projects

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: DESIGN & PRINT PROJECTS

AutoPrint vs. Design & Print

Last month I walked you through a couple of easy, peasy AutoPrint projects step-by-step. AutoPrint is what you want to use to create very quick projects. The layouts are very simple and while you can make some edits, the primary goal is done.

Design & Print is the next level of (shall we say) fussiness. You want more in the way of decoration and more opportunities to add your own touches, but you also want the heavy of lifting of design to have been done by someone else.

Available Projects

While AutoPrint and Design & Print offer many of the same projects for you to choose from, there are some differences. I have compared the AutoPrint Offerings with the Design & Print Options.

  • Photo Books (In AutoPrint you have all these choices with each photo boo. In Design & Print, options for size, binding and style depend on design chosen, but all of these can be found in various designs.)
    • Sizes 8X8 -12X12
    • Softbound & Hardbound
    • Standard & Layflat
  • Photo Gifts (Varies)
    • Coaster Sets (Both)
    • Tabletop Panels (Both)
    • Notebooks (AP Only)
    • Magnets (Both)
    • Ornaments (D&P Only)
    • Puzzles(D&P Only)
    • Blankets (D&P Only)
  • Drinkware (Varies)
    • Water Bottles (Both)
    • Photo Mugs (Both)
    • Frosted Glasses (D&P Only)
  • Wall Decor (D&P Only)
    • Canvas Prints
    • Metal Panels
  • Cards (D&P ONly)
  • Calendars (D&P Only)
  • Photo Prints (AP Only)
    • Glossy & Lustre
    • Sizes 4X6 – 11X14

Selecting Your Photos and Your Design

When you have a project you want to do in Design & Print, I suggest you first go to your albums and set up one for the project. Then add all the photos you want to include in your project into the album. It’s also a good idea to get them into the order you want them to be in the project. This will not only get you prepared for making the project, but it could help you decide which design to use.

Then it’s time to choose the design for your project. According to your point of view, this part is either your favorite thing about the project or your biggest headache.

If you like shopping online, this part is fun. You can go in and browse around, checking available options for size, style, material and etc.. You can put together your whole project and then decide you want to change the design or the layout. You’ll love it.

I’ll admit it makes me a little crazy. In prepping for this post, I went in to find a coaster set project to walk you through and hit a brick wall. Artisan is my favorite way to design in FOREVER because I like to start with a blank page, but many people find a blank page daunting. They want a design template. FOREVER offers three design options because different people like different things.

Let’s Make a Blanket

Since I’m definitely not in the mood for coasters, let’s make a blanket. I’ll use the photos I have tagged as Floral for the images on the blanket. On FOREVER I would hover over the “Create & Print” Tab and a selection box comes up offering AutoPrint, Design & Print and Digital Scrapbooking & Deign. Under Design & Print, Photo Gifts are in the center and Blankets are at the bottom of that list. Click “Blankets.”

There are many, many design to choose from, but for this project I wanted to include as many floral photos as possible, so I used the “# Of Photos” filter to find the blanket designs which included the most images. I got two choices. (Ignore the pricing. The image I included shows the deals available on the day I wrote this post, not the day you are reading it)

When I clicked on the Photo Grid Blanket, here’s the screen I got. It advises me of all the options I have. There are two sizes, two orientations and two materials available to me and there is a big PERSONALIZE button. Let’s do that.

So, I went in and added a photo for each space and chose a Bible verse as my text. If I clicked on “Layouts,” the designer offered four options, but this was the one with the most spaces, so I chose it. I could still select my size, orientation and material. Then I could add it to my cart and order it!

I like this a lot, but honestly, I would prefer a design without text and I’d probably choose a different background color. And that’s why I love Artisan, but that lesson will be next month. Here’s the link to the project so you can take a look at it: https://www.forever.com/app/users/jane-sadek–1/containers/c7f1ebef-e74c-4069-9d00-0c75dfd7daf8/6ao6nbcgjnp7v0b3adq7j2lrt

DFW Metroplex, Memory Keeping, Photo Organization, Photo Organization Coach, Photography, Scrapbooking

How to Get Your $20

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: A LITTLE INCENTIVE TO GET STARTED

The $20 Welcome Coupon from FOREVER

I want you to discover FOREVER! I know I rave about it all the time, but I’m not sure you know how easy it is to get started. I probably also fail to tell you FOREVER has $20 waiting for you to sweeten the pot. Here’s how it works!

It Starts With My Link

FOREVER has assigned me a unique and specific link. They want you to sign up with an Ambassador you know. Someone who you feel comfortable with. They do not want to be an anonymous website like so many of web-based companies out there which assign you a number and talk to you through bots. They have a wonderful Customer Service staff and a great help page, but they want you to have a real live Ambassador of your very own.

This is my link: https://www.forever.com/ambassador/jane-sadek

If you prefer QR Codes, here you go:

That link takes you to FOREVER. According to the device you use, you may immediately be asked to provide your email and create a password. It’s OK, it’s free. If it just takes you to the Home Page, click on Log In in the upper right hand corner and then under the green Log In button, there’s a link “Need an Account? Sign Up Free”. Click that and you will go here.

Fill it in and hit the Sign Up button. That’s it! Welcome to the wonderful world of FOREVER, but don’t stop there, because you need to claim your $20.

FOREVER Will Send You an Email

When your sign up is through, go to your email. If you don’t see an email from FOREVER then check all those spam folders. Confirm your email address and then FOREVER will send you your Welcome Coupon.

Twenty dollars is waiting for you. When you open the Welcome Coupon email I suggest you either print it out and/or save it someplace where you can find it again.

Near the bottom of that email is a code. That’s your $20. You’re going to want that when you make your first order. Many clients are ready to buy when they join. They cut and paste their code into their order and they are done. But I also have clients who aren’t ready to buy from the get go. That’s why I want you to print it out or save it somewhere you’ll be able to find it later.

In Fact, FOREVER Will Send You a Lot of Emails

So, one of the reasons FOREVER wants you to verify your email address is because like everyone else, they want to send you all their stuff – and that’s why you have an Ambassador. FOREVER stuff is great if you are about to start a bunch of projects, because the emails will keep you informed of all the great promotions which are going on. If you’re just sticking your toe in the water and aren’t interested in the stuff, when you get your first promo email, go to the bottom and click either “update your preferences” or “unsubscribe from this list.” Then you can tell them thanks, but no thanks – but wait until after you get your $20 coupon!!! I don’t want you to miss that.

Use That Coupon!!

First of all, you have 60 days to use that coupon. On Day 61, it will no longer be valid. So please find a way to use it within 60 days of signing up. The coupon will work with most things on FOREVER, with a few exceptions – gift cards, events, FOREVER Club memberships etc., but for merchandise, it’s all good.

Stack your deals!! Many, many, many companies are quick to send you a coupon, but then trying to use it is almost impossible, because you can’t use it with any other offers. That’s not so with FOREVER, except in very, very rare cases, which will be clearly marked. You can stack your $20 welcome coupon with all the deals on the Deals page, as well as with The FOREVER Club discount, which I would be happy to explain to you.

Get the best price! At the first of every month, FOREVER informs its Ambassadors about all the deals for the month. When you know what you want to buy, just give me a shout before you hit the buy button. I can let you know if you can get a better price by waiting a day or a week.

And that’s it! Twenty dollars towards your Memory Keeping project. You can also get $20 for referrals, but we’ll talk about that and The FOREVER Club another day!

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What is FOREVER AutoPrint?

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: CREATE PROJECTS LIKE MAGIC

How to Get There QUICK

If you are one of my FOREVER clients, then just log into the FOREVER website or get on the app. Both avenues will allow you to do AutoPrint projects.

If you haven’t become a customer yet, it’s free and easy to sign up. You’ll also get a $20 Welcome coupon just for confirming your email address, so don’t forget that part. You do not need to have storage to create these AutoPrint projects. From the main page, hover over “Create & Print” and select “Autobooks from the left side.

For current customers, on FOREVER’s website >go to the Library > select your photos, >select Print in the upper right hand corner. Then follow your nose. I selected 4 photos, chose Coaster Set and in milliseconds I had a set of four gorgeous coasters. All I needed to do was hit the “Add to Cart” button. It’s that easy!

Breaking It Down a Little More

If that’s moving a little too fast for you, let’s take it a little slower. With AutoPrint, you have a wide variety of quick gifts to create:

  • AutoBooks
    • Sizes 8X8 -12X12
    • Softbound & Hardbound
    • Standard & Layflat
  • Photo Gifts
    • Coaster Sets
    • Tabletop Panels
    • Notebooks
    • Magnets
  • Drinkware
    • Water Bottles
    • Photo Mugs
  • Photo Prints
    • Glossy & Lustre
    • Sizes 4X6 – 11X14

Your first job is to select the images you want to use. While these selections can be chosen on the fly from your FOREVER Library or in a folder on your device, if you have storage, it’s easy to make an online album and collect the photos you want there. Start with the photo you want for the front and then add the rest in the order you want them to show up. A little preparation makes the actual ordering go even faster.

When you are on the website, hover over Create & Print and select “AUTOPRINT” from the drop down menu. Then select one of the four categories above. For this exercise, we’re going to make a standard 8X8 softbound AutoBook.

I selected AutoBooks and on the next page, I chose Standard. The screen moved up so I could choose an 8X8 Softbound. And here’s the Get Started Page.

When I clicked “Get Started” it gave me this screen. From here I can go to my Library, my Albums, my Tags or as you can see there is an “UPLOAD” button in the upper right hand corner.

For this project, I chose tags and selected the “Floral” Folder. This folder has 161 photos in it, but I can have up to 892 images in my 99 page book. (Artisan 6 users can have up to 199 pages!!) I used the “Select All” button to get all 161 photos and then hit the “ADD SELECTED” Button.

Before one second could pass, my book was created. I could literally hit the “Add to Cart” button and print out my album.

But wait, at this point, I have options. I can add “Photo Pages” or “Text Pages.” Or I can “Edit Pages.”

Let’s do some Editing! I added a title to the front of the book and the spine. I changed the layouts on some pages which had textboxes, because I just wanted photos. There are text boxes at the top and bottom of each page, but I left them blank, so they won’t print. I chose a pattern for all the pages and then a solid color for the cover.

It’s taken me longer to explain what I did than it did to do it.

And there we go. I hit “Add to Cart” and it was ready to order. FOREVER also added it to my project page, so I took it out of my cart and if I ever did want to order it, it would be there. I added the project to an album I have created for my completed projects, so I can share it with you: https://www.forever.com/app/users/jane-sadek–1/containers/4b1391db-884a-4733-86ec-8da5fc1637c5/8ogwkito47c7x05hru9sugzs6

Were I actually to print this photobook there is some cleaning up to do. I decided to do this particular tag folder very spontaneously and there are some duplicates. I might reorder the photos, too, but I wanted to show you just how easy it can be.

There are some changes in the works for AutoPrint, to streamline it further into Create & Print world, but FOREVER is devoted to offering the quick, easy and clean looking option, so while the navigation might change a little, the look and the ease of AutoPrint is not going anywhere.

I have to tell you, the retail price of the album was $27.15. My FOREVER Club Membership knocked it down 5% and a promo on that day knocked it down another 40%. I could have printed the photobook for $15.48 (plus tax and shipping). Who said Memory Keeping is expensive? And if you’ve been using another online vendor, because you thought they were cheaper, maybe this will give you pause.

In later posts, I’ll cover Design & Print and the Artisan 6 program, but next week we’re going to talk about how to $20 on your first order.