Our Favorite new way to Pimp out your exchange!  Pattern Cooler.  We have over 150 themes to choose from but by utilizing these backgrounds and ideas.  This would take us up over 177,000 color variations and styles.

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People are always asking us about the best way to get the word out regarding your exchange url your aspirations to collect a lot of photos.

1. Use the invitation tools provided inside of SeeYouThen to get your friends to sign up
2. Include your SeeYouThen URL in email signature and all correspondents with your potential guests
3. The one that always works!  Business Cards or Mini Cards with instructions and your URL. 
   

We love the Moo Mini Cards, but Vista Print and others have very reasonable cards to put out at all your events.

 

Ok, I must admit, didn't think of this one... but some good tips.

1. Bringing your own wedding photographer to your destination wedding... now that's cool.
2. • Weigh your "budget" options: Expense of getting them there, or the expense of a captive photographer.
   • Most don't due to the expense of getting them there
   • Most don't realize the expense of a "captive" photographer and the "limits that are imposed on you in a destination wedding (Ex: You can only use the location's photographer, therefore you must pay their prices to get your wedding photos back
     
3. Taking Nude Photos while you're there.... uggh.  Not sure that the way I'd go unless I had a "bottom" like these two.  What do you think?
   
4. If you can't afford to "bring your own Professional Photographer"  why not Bring "your Own Paparazzi".  Everyone that is traveling will be excited about going on their vacation and have no issue with filling their camera with your's and their memories.  Exchange them at the end in your Exchange.

Seth Godin always has insightful thoughts for entrepeneurs but I thought a few of these have some value for anyone that has a career or just figuring it out.

This is s "reprint of his blog" post from yesterday.

Some questions to help you get started:

1.     Who are you trying to please?

2.     Are you trying to make a living, make a difference, or leave a legacy?

3.     How will the world be different when you've succeeded?

4.     Is it more important to add new customers or to increase your interactions with existing ones?

5.     Do you want a team? How big? (I know, that's two questions)

6.     Would you rather have an open-ended project that's never done, or one where you hit natural end points? (How high is high enough?)

7.     Are you prepared to actively sell your stuff, or are you expecting that buyers will walk in the door and ask for it?

8.     Which: to invent a category or to be just like Bob/Sue, but better?

9.     If you take someone else's investment, are you prepared to sell out to pay it back?

10.   Are you done personally growing, or is this project going to force you to change and develop yourself?

11.   Choose: teach and lead and challenge your customers, or do what they ask...

12.   How long can you wait before it feels as though you're succeeding?

13.   Is perfect important? (Do you feel the need to fail privately, not in public?)

14.   Do you want your customers to know each other (a tribe) or is it better they be anonymous and separate?

 

15.   How close to failure, wipe out and humiliation are you willing to fly? (And while we're on the topic, how open to criticism are you willing to be?)

16.   What does busy look like?