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How to Find a Supplier

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If you are in the middle of the great adventure of starting a website and open an online business, you will need to learn how to find a supplier. Will you set up your business with the affiliate marketing model or will you choose drop shipping?

If you chose affiliate marketing, you would advertise your supplier products on your website. When the customers click on the product, they will be redirected to the manufacturer’s or wholesaler’s page and finish the transaction there. It is a great way to start a business without having to deal with inventory, accounts, and customer service. The affiliate business will receive a percentage of the sales.

If you choose drop shipping when customers click on the products you are trying to sell, you will finish the transaction on your website, manage their accounts and deal with customer service and returns. It is a great way to have control over prices and have flexibility to choose to concentrate on a certain line of products.

Follow these tips:

Research, research, and research.

Find a local small manufacturer or wholesaler.

Chose a national manufacturer with excellent reviews.

Be careful and look close at their return policy.

Avoid Foul Language Ad

Introduction

This blog uses two ads to help the youth to avoid bad language. Fly high with clean speech.

Obtained from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints
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Original Ad

Design

The background is a forest background. There are a boy and a parrot in close proximity.

Typography

There is contrast in the use of typography with big and small text.

Color

The color scheme is a variety of green, blue, yellow and brown. The text is in bright yellow.

New Ad

Design

This new ad was created in an attempt to recreate the original ad. I included the jungle background. There are a boy and a parrot in close proximity.

Typography

There is a great contrast in the typography with big and small text.

Color

The color scheme is a variety of green, blue, yellow and white.

Conclusion

The original ad sends a message about the importance of clean language and the new ad follows the same message. Both ads play with words such as foul and mimic. They both have the same color scheme. Both ads contain a male youth and a parrot.

Photography Techniques

Leading Lines

This technique makes the reader feel that he is taken on a journey and he is traveling through the scene. There are all kinds of lines that can be used in an image, but in this specific picture the photographer chose to use a long straight line that turns into a soft left turn in the end of the image. It is an awesome technique and it makes the reader wonder what is beyond the image.

Cropping

Cropping is a technique that is used for photographers to center the public attention on the main component of the image. In this picture the professional centered the attention on the girl and the snowman. The rest of the picture gets kind of a foggy look. The blurry background creates the adequate stage for the main scene.

Rule of Thirds

This picture shows a perfect example of the rule of thirds. If you divide this picture in 9 equal segments by two vertical lines and two horizontal lines you will see that the most important elements of the picture are along these lines or in the point where they intersect.

Mimicking

I tried to recreate the same scenario of the picture in the rule of thirds. The wood background is almost the same color as the original fence. I placed a snow man on the left side and tried to recreate him with the accessories I found in my house. The light is appropriate. This is a good example of mimicking a picture.

Conclusion

All these principles contribute to the overall design. These techniques are simple to learn and use, and if applied correctly, it will give a special effect to the image you try to create. These images I got from the article How to make a Snowman: Tips for the Perfect Mr. Frosty by Juliana LaBianca. Photography is fun and I hope these tips will be helpful to you.

Colgate Dental Floss Advertisement

This ad is about Colgate Dental Floss. I found this ad at http://www.boredpanda.com in the article “33 Powerful and Creative Print Ads That’ll Make You Look Twice” by Lina D. The advertising agency who created this ad is Cerebro Y&R, Panama. It shows the four design principles: proximity, alignment, repetition and contrast. It also shows professional use of colors. I was impressed with this ad and Its simplicity and mastery of color use.

Proximity

It is important to group the items that are directly related. It helps create a nicer look to the page. It helps a more efficient visual communication. The kiwi seeds next to the kiwi and the strawberry seeds next to the strawberry are perfect examples of proximity.

Alignment

The kiwi and the strawberry, and the two dental floss packages are vertically aligned creating unity and organization. The author chose a vertical alignment and stuck to it. The picture looks unified and organized which is the basic purpose of alignment.

Repetition

The element of repetition is encouraged in the visual arts and it helps tie separated parts. In this ad the author uses the two packages of dental floss to connect the pictures. The two pictures send one message because of the element of repetition, and it adds graphic interest. The repetition is not excessive but is enough to catch visual attention.

Contrast

I noticed two main elements of contrast. One is the big kiwi and big strawberry contrasting with the small seeds from both fruits. Another element of contrast is the light gray background against the bright green and bright red fruit colors. Contrast needs to be strong to create visual interest. The artist definitely got the element of contrast in this ad.

Colors

In visual media we need to be aware of the right use of colors. Primary colors yellow, red and blue are highly used for kids’ items. We reach harmony when we use related colors. In the well of colors, the opposite colors are complementary colors, like for example: blue and orange, red and green, yellow and purple. The author of this ad used the colors green and red as complements and achieved a great outcome.

Conclusion

It was really fun working on this assignment. I learned how to identify the four elements of design. Now when I look at an advertisement, I analyze it searching for proximity, alignment, repetition and contrast.

My First Blog Post

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— Oscar Wilde.

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