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What You See Is Not What You Get
I completed my second photo book with Shutterfly, and I now understand more about how the Shutterfly process works and why I had difficulties with my first book. This book also required two reprints and it’s still not perfect, but … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Reprints
Shutterfly offers an automatic photo book creation process. I created my photo book but when it was time to order, I suffered a case of severe case of photo book sticker shock. No problem. I could easily wait to place … Continue reading
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Tagged binding defect, cover, missing adhesive, photo book, professional 6-color printing, Shutterfly, white line
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Shutterfly Wins at Automatic Photo Book Creation
After my previous post on creating a photo book at Shutterfly, I received multiple suggestions from readers of this blog to try Forever’s automatic photo book creation process. I decided to give it a try and see how it worked. … Continue reading
Photo Book Creation at Shutterfly
I recently finished creating a photo book using Shutterfly’s online photo book creator. I had various reasons for selecting Shutterfly, but the primary reason was the need to deal with an overwhelmingly large number of photos from a family trip … Continue reading
Preservation Is Forever
[Presented at Forever Live! in Buckhead, Georgia, September 25, 2015] This past year I went to Disney with my family. The trip lased one week; yet, the memories are forever. For Disney, Forever means 30 days, since all photos in Disney … Continue reading
Posted in Backup, Memories, Presentations
Tagged business model, Costco, Disney, Dropbox, e-commerce, Facebook, forever, Forever Guarantee Fund, Forever LIVE!, Google, photo preservation, Pinterest, quiz, Shutterfly, Snapfish, social media, Terms of Service, Walgreens, Walmart
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Shutterfly and Snapfish rated worst online photo labs
Improve Photography recently compared eleven online photo vendors, rating Snapfish and Shutterfly at the bottom, even lower than Walmart. I was surprised at these results since Snapfish, Shutterfly, and Walmart are large enough that they should be able to implement … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Prints
Tagged Improve Photography, Nations Photo Lab, online photo vendors, Pro DPI, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Walmart
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Fish For Sale
If you have any money left after next week’s Ahni and Zoe by Creative Memories liquidation auction, you might consider purchasing Snapfish. That’s right. Another photo site is up for sale. The real problem is the endless array of promotions … Continue reading
Posted in Industry Info
Tagged Ahni & Zoe, liquidation auction, promotions and sales, Shutterfly, Snapfish
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Shutterfly Up For Sale
If Ahni and Zoe don’t meet your needs, Shutterfly is now up for sale. Unlike Ahni and Zoe, Shuttterfly has four mobile apps, as well as the ability to order various photo products, including prints, photo books, mugs, and mouse pads, directly … Continue reading
Snowden Reveals Existence of NSA Billion Camera Program
Former NSA Contractor Edward Snowden has just revealed that the NSA is planning to install a billion cameras around the country. These cameras will put the average American under the surveillance of at least three cameras at any one time. In … Continue reading
Posted in Cameras, Photo Books, Photo Gifts, satire
Tagged Edward Snowden, Minnesota, NSA, Shakopee, Shutterfly, Surveilance
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Sell Stuff
“And the bottom line was, they weren’t very good at selling stuff. They were more interested in telling you how good they were.” Christopher Bonanos in Instant: The Story of Polaroid, describing the decline of the company (p. 155). Polaroid … Continue reading