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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.

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

Put the FOREVER Club to Work for You

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101: BUDGETING YOUR MEMORY KEEPING EXPENSES

It’s Like Layaway, but in Reverse!

Remember Layaway? I’ve got something better.

There was a time when only a few of us carried credit cards. Hard to believe, I know. But we also used paper maps rather GPS, as hard as that is to grasp. Not everything from those days-gone-by was awful. Take Layaway, for instance! You’d see something you liked, but couldn’t afford. If you put it in layaway, the store would hold it for you and give you several months to pay it off. The plans varied, but they let you stay in your budget and still get special items you couldn’t afford otherwise.

Then we all got credit cards and the debt just keeps adding up. The flip side of the coin is that when you see something you want, you can get it immediately. The downside is that you may still be paying for a purchase long after the item you bought is useful to you.

The FOREVER Club is like a mashup of credit cards and layaway. It’s a tool you can use in several ways to make Memory Keeping affordable.

The Layaway Plan

I know Memory Keeping is not cheap. It’s worth every penny and every hour, but it’s an investment you make in yourself, your family and your future. Let’s say you do want to get started, but you really can’t afford it right now. Could you afford $25? Especially if that $25 would spend like $26.25. Sounds better doesn’t it.

So, join the Club! Invest $25 a month. Charge it to your credit card or put it on your debit card. Forget about it for a few months and soon you’ll have paid for a lot of Memory Keeping. In fact, in about a year, you’ll have saved up enough money for a large digitization box, one that holds 20 VCR tapes or 500 photos. During the year you can be organizing your media, so that when your box comes, you’ll be ready.

Don’t need digitization, just a safe place for all your digital images. Great, start putting that $25 a month away and in a year, instead of a large digitization box, you’ll have enough saved for about 25 GB. What will that hold? Up to 25K digitized images. Would that help?

Using The Club as a layaway plan can help get you to any of your Memory Keeping goals without getting into deep debt. You want Artisan 6 Scrapbooking software – less than 6 months of savings. The same with Historian. Save up for Family History Research or Video Streaming. You don’t get the 5% discount on Family History Research, but you can use the Club to save up for it.

The Credit Card Plan

If delayed gratification is outside your wheelhouse, then The Club can still help you. Not everything in FOREVER can be purchased today and paid out over time, but some of the large ticket items can. Take that Video Streaming Plan for instance. You can get it now with the 60 month Payment Plan and use the The Club to cover your payments. That way, instead of incurring $1600 on your credit card today, you’ll be charged about $26 a month and can cover it with the Club. Imagine the interest you’ll save.

Or how about that storage? Step up to 50GB and pay it off in 24 months, covering your payments with The Club. You could even join Pixels 2 Pages, the amazing online community of digital scrapbookers and let The Club cover your monthly payments.

The Automatic Discount Plan

So, perhaps you don’t need to save up for your Memory Keeping Purchase, but don’t believe you should pay a penny more than you need to for anything. You want a TB of storage, a video streaming plan and a large digitization box. Cool. You’ll need to spend about $7800, but with The Club you can save about $300. Just join The Club, invest your $25 and get 5% off everything you buy. After your shopping spree is over, just get out of The Club and enjoy your purchases. Or stay in for future purchases. It’s up to you.

The Budgeting Plan

Another great way to use The Club is as a budgeting tool. Let’s say you’ve got several Memory Keeping Projects you need to do, but you don’t want to spend more than $100 per month on your projects. Welcome to the Club!

You sign up for The Club and choose the $100 level. Job one is digitizing some precious memories which are at risk, so you invest in a small FOREVER Box. Using your Club Membership and your $20 Off Welcome Coupon, you order your box and use about $35 of the money you invested in the Club, leaving you about $65 in the Club.

You get your photos and videos together while waiting for your box. When it arrives, you’ve got 2 VCR tapes and 100 photos you want to have digitized. The 2 VCR tapes are covered by the price of the box, but with your Club Discount the photos would be just under $69. You go ahead and return the box to FOREVER, who will audit the box and verify the price of your extra items. In the meantime a month has passed, you’ve put another $100 in The Club and when the $69 comes out, you’ve still got $96 in The Club.

When your items have been digitized, you have 60 days to decide what you want to do with them, but you’ve always known you wanted them to go into your FOREVER storage you own rather than rent. After your third Club payment is made, you’ve got $196 dollars to spend and that easily covers the price of 10GB of storage. You buy the storage you need for your images and still have money left over for your next FOREVER purchase and because it’s the third month of the plan, you’ll get 2 extra GB of storage – something you’ll get every third month you belong to The Club. At this point, you probably also have plenty of room for the hundreds of images you’ve got stored on you phone.

Using this example, let’s say that you spend a couple of months curating the images you’ve uploaded to FOREVER. You’ve also been sharing them with your family and friends through FOREVER’s connections and a few times you even shared some on social media, which is so easy with FOREVER. Then things get crazy at work, you go on vacation and a couple of months pass where you don’t get anything done in your account.

Don’t worry! Club Dollars never expire and while your back was turned you got another 2GB of storage. When you get back to your projects you have about $440 waiting for you. You’re ready to start getting creative with Artisan 6 and you want to join the Pixels 2 Pages Digital Scrapbooking Community Online. Go for it and you’ll not only have the software and belong to P2P for a year, but you’ll have plenty of money left to shop for some digital art to go with all the free art you got with Artisan and with your P2P membership.

Getting Even More Creative

These are just a few of the scenarios I’ve seen with The Club. I’m surprised every day by the way people discover to use it. Remember the client who saved $300 on a $7800 purchase. Well, some people make the whole purchase with Club Dollars to also get free storage.

So, they know they need to stay in The Club for 3 months to earn free storage. They divide the $7500 they need to spend into a three month investment, buying $2500 worth of Club Dollars (i.e. that’s 10 $250 memberships). At the end of the 3 months, they buy the things they wanted and they get 50 GB of free storage – a value far above $600 on top of the $300 they saved on their purchases and their savings are near $1000!!

The Club comes with other benefits. Free shipping for print projects on Club Weekend, Quarterly Zoom Calls with the Founder and even a CLUBload contest every month, where you can win gift certificates for uploading the most images! Specials offered only to Club Members. The list goes on.

I know few people will be stepping up to buy $7600 of Memory Keeping at one time, but whatever your project and your budget, share that information with me and I’ll help you get the very best deals possible. With Christmas just around the corner, you may need to touch base immediately, but I’m always here to help you with your Memory Keeping.

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, Photo Organization, Photo Organization Coach, Photography, Scrapbooking

Taking Video to the Next Level

Jane Sadek

MEMORY KEEPING 101 – VIDEOSTREAMING FOR THE SHARE!

Don’t Be a Captive!

There’s a reason we all love YouTube and Facebook, but there are also a lot of reasons we all hate it. If you love video, then I don’t need to enumerate either set of reasons. Perhaps you’ve enjoyed both watching and sharing on these channels. If you’ve ever wished you had more control over the videos you post, then I have an answer for you. If you don’t know the pitfalls and challenges of using these channels, we should talk.

The primary problem with using YouTube, Facebook or any other streaming service for your personal videos is that once you upload them to the channel, those videos belong to them, not you. They have no duty to you. They are doing you the favor of making your videos available to others and they are in control. They can reformat, compress or delete them. Your agreement with them says so. It also says they can data mine them, sell them or whatever they want.

You might have thought you had no choice. You had to be a captive of these services or keep your videos captive on your own device. Forever offers you a choice.

Store Your Videos on Forever

Last week I talked about digitizing videos to which you may have lost access. I touched on the fact that storing these videos on Forever would be a good idea, because DVD’s and thumb drives are not permanent storage devices. Neither is your computer or an external hard drive. I know! Before I discovered Forever I lost an entire year’s worth of real estate photography which was stored on an external hard drive. And your phone is certainly not the right place for these precious memories. We all know the horror stories associated with losing or damaging your phone.

Another answer is to rent space on a cloud – those services like iCloud, Google or Dropbox – but that’s not a good answer either, for so many reasons. If you follow my blog, then you don’t need to be reminded of all the dangers of renting storage, but in case you have missed it, when you use these services, the terms you agreed to allow them to:

  • Mine your photos and videos for marketing purposes
  • Sell your photos and videos to third parties as stock
  • Carry no responsibility if your photos and video disappear
  • Compress and/or reformat your photos and videos
  • Terminate your account when you die
  • Delete your photos and videos whenever they so desired
  • Own your photos and videos
  • Delete your account if you pay

With Forever YOU own your storage. You’re not just renting it. None of those things listed will happen to you. You pay once, you’re done and your photos and videos can be enjoyed for generations to come. Forever guarantees it.

Download or Stream?

It’s easy to share photos and video with Forever, but when what you are sharing is video, which is ok. Your recipient will just have to download the video to watch it. Or you can get video streaming. Then when you share, they just click the arrow. They will love you for it!

If you are an avid fan of video, then you know the value of your precious memories and you can appreciate the convenience of a personal video streaming service. Imagine sending video to your family and friends without forcing them to watch ads! Yes, that would be nice.

I’m not going to sugar coat it, though. There’s a price for streaming, but there’s always a price, even if it is not dollars and cents. The list above is one price. Forcing people to watch ads might be the price. Or paying every month for the rest of your life might be another price.

With Forever, you can chose to pay monthly if you want. The price is the same as you’d pay for similar services, but without being subject to the list of issues I outlined above and a few others we can talk about. This is great if you just want to try out video streaming.

You can also pay by the year and save 15% over the monthly plan – which is great. Perhaps if you’ve had a special event like a wedding or the birth of a child and you want others to easily enjoy and share the videos for a while, this would be the plan which would interest you.

However, with Forever, you also have the option of buying video streaming that will last as long as your Forever account. This means those who enjoy your videos on Forever would never have to download. They could always watch the videos right in account. You can pay for it in a lump sum or pay it out over a year. Then video streaming would belong to you always.

The retail price for this generational legacy is $1600, but with deals and The Club, you never have to pay full price. If this is the right choice for you, then I can show you how to get the best price.

Many of Forever’s customers buy their storage and video streaming as a family. They all use the account for sharing photos, videos, documents and more. It’s an investment for everyone that will be enjoyed by the family members of the future, without those future family members having to pay for it into perpetuity – and some storage solutions won’t even allow you to pass down accounts, even if they were willing to pay for it!

Everything Works Together

The real beauty of Forever is that everything works together. The reason this company even exists is because the founder got frustrated when he found out he needed several different kinds of accounts to do his memory keeping. He had to send his photos one place for digitization, store them in another and make photo books someplace else – and the compatibility of the various accounts was in no wise seamless.

With Forever, you store and share all your media in the same place and all the tools you need are right there. For instance, you could make a digital photobook and include video by adding a QR code. Or maybe a calendar with a QR code that allows a grandmother to hear her sweet grandkids saying hello, anytime she wants. When you’re using Forever, the possibilities are endless.

Video streaming may not be a service you need at all, but if you’re into video, then you should at least think about the benefits you could enjoy. Come back next week and we’ll talk photo printing. I have two choices to offer and they are both great!