You are a Small Business Owner (or thinking about becoming one). You have a ton of questions. Some of them are about how to promote your business, what the best way to market your company on the Internet or what marketing materials you need. You dig through a lot of books and websites. But you may have missed this one - Duct Tape Marketing. This website has a blog or better say a series of blogs that cover several directions, such as Ideas Deparment, Customers Count, Design Matters, Buzzworthy Branding, Internet Marketing Unleashed and others. I recommend that you visit this blog and subscribe to its feeds.

Who knows how to frame an image rise a hand! Not many as I see. Don't worry it seems that I don't know either.
Why would you want to learn about framing? Several reasons. For instance, you may need to frame a photograph, which you bought at a flea market and want to get a best frame and a best deal. You may want to speak with the guy who does the framing and do it on a professional level. Or may be you are selling your own photographs and need to frame quite a bunch, that's why you are thinking about doing it in-house.
So if you are interested, then let's learn about it at StartFraming.com. There are many good educational articles on this topic.

If you are a serious photographer and manage a lot of photographs, you may want to consider an investment into a tool that would cover most (if not all) of your day to day activities. ExpressDigital offers a matured version of such a tool - Darkroom v8.7.

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Marathon Press is a set of tools that could help you drive the business to your goals. It provides several lines of services:

• Promotional Printing - Custom designed cards, brochures, flyers, presentation folders, multi-page publications, preproduced portrait promotions and more.
• Internet Services - Website creation and hosting for professional photographers. Services include session proofing, shopping cart capabilities and marketing and sales support content.
• Marketing Programs - Cost-effective and efficient photography marketing programs that create a consistent and custom-designed marketing message.
• Publications - An ever-increasing list of photography publications by some of the most successful authorities in the professional imaging industry.
• Schools and Events - Marathon Press is the school and event photographer's one source for today's cutting-edge products and services. This complete product line features the industry's highest quality printing and creative designs teamed with superior customer service.

At Imaging-Resource.com I learned about a new software that is presented by SeeFile. It is "Online photo sharing and slient communication tool" as it is said in the press release.
What's it good for? Here how it is described in the press release:
"The Macintosh-based software is aimed at photographers, designers, and smaller graphic arts shops looking for a way to promote their work and interact with customers on the Internet. Traditional solutions to this problem have cost as much as $50,000. The SeeFile 2.0 system is being shown in booth 3280 at PMA at a complete price of only $1,095, including hardware that puts a Web server on an affordable platform. Once plugged in, it provides instant Web access for any images stored on the system."
SeeFile supports upploading and downloading of various types of files:

• RAW Files: CRW, NEF, TIF, CR2, OLY, DNG,
• Image Files: JPEG, GIF, TIFF, Targa, PNG, PDF, PICT, PSD, BMP,
• Multimedia: QuickTime, Animated GIF, AVI, DVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
• And a bunch of other types.