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How to Find Copyright Free Images So You Don’t Get Sued

On By Trisha BarnesIn Blogging, Marketing Tips, Recommended Tools, Social Media Marketing

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How to find copyright free images? This matters greatly to any blogger and anyone who posts images on Social Media sites.

We’ve all done it – hurriedly and excitedly grabbed an image from Google to use in a blog post, a Facebook meme or a sales page. It’s so easy and there’s so many great images available on the internet.

Plus, it seems everyone else is doing it, so what’s the big deal? Why should you be so very careful with the images you use? Here’s why! You could be sued for using a copyrighted image.

That quick download of an image could end up costing you big money in a lawsuit.

Roni Loren experienced this firsthand when she was sued for an image she used in a blog post.

Recently an avid internet marketer was sued for the image he grabbed from the internet.

Roni Loren explains It DOESN’T MATTER…

  • if you link back to the source and list the photographer’s name
  • if the picture is not full-sized (only thumbnail size is okay)
  • if you did it innocently
  • if your site is non-commercial and you made no money from the use of the photo
  • if you didn’t claim the photo was yours
  • if you’ve added commentary in addition to having the pic in the post
  • if the picture is embedded and not saved on your server
  • if you have a disclaimer on your site.
  • if you immediately take down a pic if someone sends you a DMCA notice (you do have to take it down, but it doesn’t absolve you.)

How to Find Copyright Free Images

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1. Use your own pics.

With the ease and technology that smart phones have provided, you have the means to stay safe by using your own pics.

2. Subscribe to an image service.

The costs for subscriptions like Shutterfly varies but it can get pretty pricey if you use a lot of images.

3. Use copyright free images.

Ever since I read the first horror story of a blogger being sued for using a copyrighted image, I always refrain from just grabbing any image from Google. The great news is that I’ve always been able to find exactly what I needed when my own pics just didn’t suit the intent of my blog post or Facebook meme. This is where I find copyright free images. *** My first go-to source for images is Pixabay.com. Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist – even for commercial purposes. Set up a free account and begin using this amazing service. *** My second source is actually Google images! But it’s more involved. I do an advanced search to find images that are copy-right free and available to use and modify, even commercially. Here’s how to find copyright free images  on Google

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How to stand out so others will find you on the internet ... you're competing with millions!

How to Stand Out Among Billions on the Internet

On By Trisha BarnesIn Blogging, Marketing Tips, Social Media Marketing, Work From AnywhereLeave a comment

Stand out among billions on the internet or you’ll stand in the shadows of those who do …

If you don’t stand out, you’ll wring your hands, beat your head against the wall, cry out to the gods of cyberspace and probably start to think of throwing in the towel.

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HOLD ON!  Before you scream “It’s no use,” read on for some tips on standing out on the internet.

Just so you know, as of just a few minutes ago, there were nearly 3 million blog posts written today, over 154 billion emails sent, and over 648 million tweets.  And the day ain’t over yet!
[source: http://www.internetlivestats.com/]

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Click the pic to see the “real time” numbers

As the number of internet users it is more evident than ever that you stand out as a blogger, as a marketer among the billions on the internet – but how?

HOW TO STAND OUT ON THE INTERNET LIKE THE NAKED HIPPIES’ PICKUP CAMPER PARKED IN THE MIDST OF CLASS A RVS

1.  BE YOU – the #1 thing you can do

You're among MILLIONS of bloggers, Facebook users, Tweeters on the internet ... how do you stand out?
It’s really, really, really okay to be YOU!

There is no one else like you. No one else has your style, your voice, your personality and yes, even your quirks.

But, that’s exactly what attracts followers.  You just have to be as real as it gets. Be the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s all allowed and adored because everyone is sick and tired of the hype and false pretensions on the internet (and everywhere else in life, too.)

People have a keen sense of smell … they can smell the stink of fake or the fragrance of genuineness.

Nobody can DO YOU like you do you!  There’s a ton of people copying other styles, trying to “fit in,” attempting to be something they truly aren’t.  You just do you and leave the mask off.

2. BE CONSISTENT

It doesn’t matter whether you blog every day, three times a week or even once a week. What matters is that you are CONSISTENT.

Consistently showing up is one key to standing out on the internet among the billions.
Every day matters. Be there!

On social media platforms, it’s a daily requirement – at least once a day, but even better to have a presence several times a day for this reason … your social media posts have a short shelf life:

TWITTER: The median lifespan of a tweet is 18 minutes.

FACEBOOK: 75% of the engagement you get on your posts happens within the first 5 hours. After that, engagement pretty much dies off. [more statistics here]

INSTAGRAM: Your photo on Instagram may only get seen once, so make it a good one. [source]

PINTEREST:  Your Pinterest pins are on Pinterest forever.  However they are only going to show up in your followers’ streams when you initially pin them. [source]

3. USE IMAGES

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and it’s been proven to be the most engaging, the most valuable element of your social media marketing and on your blog.

Using great images increases your chance of standing out on the internet.
Find some fun pics like this on Pixabay!

Research from Skyword found that if your content includes compelling images, you can average 94 percent more views than your boring counterparts. [source]

 

Word of warning though:  use only your own personal pictures or images that you have permission to use without worry of copyright infringement.  The last thing you need is a lawsuit for grabbing an image from Google or Pinterest or someone’s blog, thinking because it’s on the web, it’s okay to use it.  WRONG.

A great source for copyright-free images is Pixabay.  The search function gives you tons of images to choose from, and they are available in different sizes to suit your needs.

4. TITLES  AND FIRST LINES 

A great title and the first few words of your social media post have to GRAB the attention of the reader. If it doesn’t, they will click off or scroll away from what you are sharing.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.  -David Ogilvy

Too often, more attention is given to the content created than the title or headline.

Jeff Goins writes, “You should begin and end every article with the question: ‘Would this make me want to read on?'”

In this article, he offers a simple formula for your titles:

Number or Trigger word + Adjective + Keyword + Promise

You’ve got about 3 seconds to get someone’s attention with your title or your social media post.  Pay attention to the subject lines of the emails you receive from other marketers … notice how some have a title that you can’t ignore … you just have to read more. That’s exactly what you want your titles to do.

5.  BE A RESOURCE

Be a resource for what people need.

Most people are always looking to increase pleasure or decrease pain in their lives.  You can be the “go-to” person that they will learn to rely on for either (as you incorporate all of these tips.)

Being a resource doesn’t mean you have to have a PhD in a subject.

You have skills and life experiences to share with the world.
Life has given you a boatload of skills and experiences to share.

You just have to share what you know … the knowledge you’ve gained and the experiences you have had in life.

Decrease the pain:   What are your skills?  There is someone who is searching how to do exactly what you already know.  You probably have more skills than you realize.  Make a list of everything you know how to do, no matter how insignificant it might seem, from your expertise as a realtor to your amazing skills as a mom. You’d be surprised at what people type in the search bars!

Increase the pleasure:  Are you a motivator?  Do you inspire and encourage people?  Are you funny and entertaining?  Do you write poetry, compose music, create beautiful works of art?  Share your strengths to be a source of light in other lives.

These five tips to help you stand out on the internet are intended to get your creative juices flowing and encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and show the world what you’ve got!

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It does take work, effort and commitment to implement these tips, but, remember, there are millions, sometimes billions of eyeballs.

What other tips have you found to help you stand out on the internet?  Share!  I’d love to hear!

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Trisha
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Quick and easy tips to SEO your wordpress blog images.

How to SEO Your WordPress Blog Images

On By Trisha BarnesIn Blogging, Marketing Tips, Personal GrowthLeave a comment

Make sure you do this: SEO your wordpress blog images.  

SEO (search engine optimization) is important for all parts of your blog, including your images.

If you want your blog post to be ranked higher in search engine results, naming your images as you upload them will help you SEO your wordpress blog images … and it’s easy to do.

An added benefit to using the steps below is that your image will have a description readily available for Pinterest.

Assuming you have done the keyword research for your blog title, follow these steps when adding and naming images in your blog posts:

TITLE

Most images when uploaded have an unrecognizable title that Google can’t make sense of, such as Image01.jpeg. 

The title of your image should be the title of your blog post, which includes the keywords you have chosen.

ALT TEXT

The alt text simply refers to a text alternative for images when a web browser can’t properly render them.  Have you ever received an email that included an image you couldn’t view?

If you take time to write a descriptive, keyword-rich alt text, your readers will have added description of the content you are sharing.

Adding the alt text to your blog images automatically adds those words to the description when pinning the image. Additionally, if you are using Pinterest to market your blog, the alt text will be added in the description on Pinterest automatically, so you don’t have to take that necessary step when pinning.

FINDING THE RIGHT IMAGE

If you have your own pictures to you, that is absolutely the best way to protect yourself from copyright infringement.

But, sometimes, you need an image to convey the right message and none of your own images are appropriate.

My favorite source for free images that are Creative Common licensed come from Pixabay.  You can search for images by typing in a subject or a color, emotion, gender, event, etc.

The images from Pixabay are high quality and available in various sizes to download.

Set up your free account and start searching!  You’ll be amazed and relieved to find such a vast amount to choose from.

Be careful of grabbing images from Google.  There have been countless reports of lawsuits filed against bloggers who innocently thought it was okay to use any image from Google.

The general rule of thumb is this: if the image isn’t Creative Common licensed or you didn’t buy or create it, don’t post it.

ADD A HYPERLINK TO YOUR IMAGE

Be sure to add a link to your images, usually the link in your CTA (Call To Action.)  People get click happy on blogs and if someone happens to click on one of your images, they will be taken right to your capture page, or social media page – whichever link you choose.

When you upload an image, the default setting is for the media link within your wordpress blog.  Use the drop down to add a custom url to the image.

ANOTHER GREAT PINTEREST TIP

Use an online image editing software to add your blog title to the featured image on your blog.  (as I did for this blog post)

Adding the alt text will put it in the description on Pinterest automatically.
This is my Naked Hippies Roadtrip Blog board on Pinterest. Note that every blog post has the title added to the image.

This is so that when the image is pinned to Pinterest, the blog title gives your fellow pinners quick, compelling information right there on the image when they are scrolling.  It will increase the likelihood that they will click to read more – and be taken to your blog!

I highly recommend PicMonkey for your online image editing. It does have a yearly fee, but the value delivered from the membership is priceless.

PicMonkey regularly sends out image editing tips with short videos to show you how to use the endless array of editing features. I’ve been able to revive images that seemed too dull to use with their editing features.

The bonus is their affiliate program. (seriously, whatever tool or resource you use, become an affiliate to make extra money by referring people to the product! It all adds up.)

Using images in all your marketing is a no-brainer. But their value as an asset for organic search results and SEO is often overlooked. Your images can also show up in image searches, which is why optimizing every image you use is an important step to take.

My image from a recent blog post now shows up when people search Google for images of Vanabode.

SEO your images - they WILL show up on Google image searches!
SEO is so important! This image from a recent blog post shows up on the first page of Google.

The bottom line is this … everything you can do to SEO your WordPress blog images matters if you want to be ranked in Google and get eyeballs on your amazing blog.

What other tips do you have for optimizing your blog images? Share below in the comments!

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Trisha
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How about a done-for-you, all set up blog so you don’t spend weeks and weeks and weeks learning about how to set up a WordPress blog?   Message me, text me, call me!

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Top 10 Takeaways from Kim Garst’s Boom Social 2015

On By Trisha BarnesIn Blogging, List Building, Marketing Tips, Social Media Marketing, Work From AnywhereLeave a comment

These are the top 10 takeaways from Kim Garst’s Boom Social 2015 in Chicago 

 

The 2015 Boom Social event, held in Chicago, was one of the most informative, helpful and inspiring events I have ever attended.

I was delighted to meet Kim Garst in person and express my gratitude and excitement for all that she shares to help us in our social media marketing.

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She’s just as fun and gracious in person as she is online! Loved meeting Kim Garst!

Every social media platform was included in the two full days of training … Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Periscope.

It would be an arduous task to elaborate on ALL the training and knowledge shared at the event in one blog post, so I’m sharing these top takeaways from the Boom Social 2015 event.

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Best communication tool ever … EMAIL!

Email STILL rules!  It’s been said the money is in the list … that’s wrong.  The relationship AND the money is in the list.  – Kim Garst

 

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Deciding to start is not the same as starting.

Hesitation is the enemy of hustle. –Nathan Latka

 

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People come to Pinterest to be inspired!

Pinterest is not a social network, it’s a bookmark. –Peg Fitzpatrick Author of The Art of Social Media

 

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Keywords DO matter!

Don’t write for SEO, but don’t write without SEO in mind. –Emeric Ernault 

 

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Every social media platform requires an email to sign up.

If you are not building your email list, then you are wasting over 90% of your marketing $$$ & efforts. -Syed Balkhi

 

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300 million users on Instagram! Are you one of them?

Your Instagram hashtags fall into one of these areas. Use CLEEPS to help you remember!  Category,location,emotion, event, product, services. -Sue B. Zimmerman

 

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Figure out what causes people to buy from you.

Correlation does not equal causation. –Joshua Parkinson, founder of Post Planner.

 

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LinkedIn isn’t Facebook, it’s business!

Visibility creates opportunity and social media can be used as either a soapbox or a mountain top to stand on to get your message heard.-Viveka Von Rose ,author of LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day

 

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Great way to get traffic to your blog!

Borrow  an audience from an influencer in your niche.  -Ian Cleary CEO & Founder, RazorSocial.com

 

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Toot your horn! Make yourself known! Get OUT THERE!

You didn’t start a business to hide under a bushel,  you started your business to change your life and to impact other lives. -Kim Garst

 

These leaders taught, inspired and shared their experiences and tips to an audience of eager entrepreneurs from all over the world.

My recommendation to you is to get on their lists and begin receiving more of their valuable content and knowledge. (click on the name after each quote to subscribe to their list.)

Most of all, get connected to Kim Garst so that when Boom Social 2016 rolls around, you will grab a seat at one of the best events to help you focus and grow your business.

And finally, keep this first and foremost as you explore and consider all the social media platforms.

CHOOSE ONE TO MASTER.  

It’s definitely exciting and enticing to try to juggle ALL of the various social media sites, but you will end up overwhelmed, exhausted and more like a plate spinner in a circus act rather than a productive business owner.

In the coming days, week and yes, even months, I’ll be sharing more of what I learned at Boom Social 2015.

Which of these top ten takeaways from Kim Garst’s Boom Social 2015 event fires you up?

Stay tuned!

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Trisha
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Why Your Online Home Business Might Fail

On By Trisha BarnesIn Marketing Tips, Social Media Marketing, Work From AnywhereLeave a comment

This is straight talk about why your online home business might fail.

No sugar coating this time. Nope!

Your online home business will fail because of you.

Not the company, not the system, not the tools.

It’s you.

Now, that’s pretty rough talk for someone who has the passion and vision to help others succeed in this industry.

It comes straight from experience, from my heart and from the hundreds of conversations I’ve had coaching teammates and clients.

The coaching session is usually prompted by this statement:

“I’m not making any money. I need you to help me.”

And as the conversation continues, I begin asking questions that will give me clarity on where the issue lies … and it’s almost ALWAYS a matter of not being plugged in.

For example, here are the questions I ask:

1.  Have you been through the training in the back office?

2. Have you plugged into the private Facebook group for daily updates and new training?

3. Are you attending the free training webinar each week?

4. Have you invested time to see and understand the products/services/resources you are selling?

5. Are you consistently creating content?

The answers I receive to these questions are not a definitive YES.  The answers are, “No, I haven’t, not completely.”  “No, I don’t.” or “No, I haven’t gotten around to it yet.”

And the old familiar saying comes to mind immediately …

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

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You can’t MAKE me! 🙂

 

The issue that surfaces so often in online marketing that causes you to skip the valuable training steps is the sense of urgency to make money.

It’s usually so urgent that people jump in and start sharing their link without investing time to study exactly what the products are and they do not take the time to go through the training – to learn how to effectively market online.

It’s the culture we live in – the push-button, lottery ticket mentality that makes people want it all NOW, or sooner.

But, an online home business is not a lottery ticket and unless you invest in the time to learn how to build your business the right way, you will be calling me with the familiar plea for coaching because you are not making any money.

You joined an opportunity probably because you saw or read that others were having great success, earning a great extra income … so you were eager to get going and get to that level also.

You probably jumped in so excited that you began to pitch your business on Facebook like you see so many others doing.

You skipped the training and went straight to the pitching.

And the results?   Zip! Zilch!    That translates to OUCH!

I certainly understand the urgency that most people feel to start earning some cash flow.

But, it’s not going to happen unless you truly plug in and invest the time to learn the steps … to learn marketing skills that work … to engage with teammates and develop skills from watching what the leaders are doing.

You can do it your way … and end up calling me… at which point I’ll take you back to the questions, back to the beginning.

Or, you can do it the right way so that you start building your online business step by step so that you are building something that stands on solid ground, not sifting sand.

You’ve been led to the water, to the fountain of training … but I can’t make you take one sip of the water.

This is the #1 reason why your online business might fail.

Plug in or peter out!

This is the #1 reason why your online home business might fail.

 

 

 

 

Trisha
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P.S.  Check out the Art Williams video over there on the right sidebar … motivation like you’ve never heard before … and probably need to hear right now!

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Facebook Embed Video Feature is a Great Timesaver for Bloggers

On By Trisha BarnesIn Blogging, Marketing Tips, Social Media MarketingLeave a comment

The new Facebook embed video feature is a great timesaver for bloggers.

 

In the past, if you wanted to include a video on your blog, it required you to upload your video to YouTube  to get an embed code.

Same thing if you wanted to include a video that was relevant to the content you were publishing.

It took time to go through the steps to upload the video to Facebook.  And when it all comes down to it – time is money to online marketers.

Additionally, with the recent changes in the Facebook algorithm that now gives native videos on Facebook more promotion, this added feature is making it even easier for bloggers to include their videos on Facebook as well as their blogs.

See how easy this is:

 

This should save you some extra steps.

Make use of this now in your video marketing.  Utilizing Facebook’s new algorithm and now this new video embed feature is one of the most impactful actions you can use right now in your business.

As always, be sure your videos provide value and service to your audience.

Be sure to keep them short and always remember to grab your viewers’ attention in the first few seconds of recording the video.

Would love to hear how this Facebook video embed feature is going to help you in your marketing!

 

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P.S.   If you missed the series of training I recently did on
Facebook video marketing – you can get ALL the tips here.