Before we get to this, I want to remind you about my newest release, Conducting Effective Twitter Contests. With this training product, you get a mix of video instruction and text that teaches you step-by-step instructs on how to launch a successful Twitter contest and use it to drive traffic to your site while putting your name in front of the followers of experts in your niche. Though this is great training on how to conduct Twitter contests, it's also a strong marketing training product that you can start using today.
Now, regarding our topic for today, there will come a point when you will need to create some sort of graphic for your website or blog. While there are great fee-based tools out there that will give you more control over your final output, Banner Fans is a free alternative that can give the marketer on a shoestring budget a viable option.
What can you create with Banner Fans? Here are just a few of the template sizes you can use (Click image for full-size view):
Not only can you use one of eighteen preset standard sizes, you can also create banners with custom sizes so you can get the exact size you need. If you want to take a look at one of the banners I have created, just look at the top of my blog. The header was created with Banner Fans.
If you want to learn more about creating free banners, here is a video that I made for my newsletter subscribers that walks you through how to use this nifty free tool. I hope you enjoy it.
Tony Eldridge
9 comments:
That's kinda cool!
It's a great resource if you are looking for a free alternative. For paid graphics, I ran across something that is easy to use (a big plus for me) and is very powerful. It's called Bannershop GIF Animator. It's relatively cheap as well ($49).
Bannershop GIF Animator
Oh, my gosh. Just when I was needing this, Tony! I'll tweet. Everyone can use this!
Tweeting writers' resources @frugalbookpromo
What a cool tool! As a die-hard DIYer, this is something that could really come in handy. Thanks!
You're welcome, Sandi! I hope it helps. Make sure you check out my Resource Page for a lot more free toys for DIYers.
Nice information !!!
when I started writing my blog some difficulties I have but your blog help me a lot in that case.
Thanks for sharing !!!
www.Bannerfans.com seems to be not working.
Hey JM-
I have been watching the Banner Fans site since you left your comment and it looks like it's back up again. I'm not sure what happened, but I suspect they have a server move that didn't go smoothly. Anyway, it's up and running as of now.
Thanks Tony! Definitely going to share this with all of my peeps. Great for folks updating their Facebook biz page graphics too.
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