Like everyone else in North America, Paperie is switching gears from summer to fall / winter. This means shorter days, longer shooting schedules as the holidays approach, and giveaways galore!

In a few weeks we’ll be announcing the exciting details for the second annual “best packaging contest“. Remember how much bigger / better this year’s second birthday celebration was? Well the next packaging contest will be no different! One vendor has already kicked in a $500.00 gift certificate!

What does all this mean to photography-related vendors? There’s never been a better time to advertise on Paperie! During our birthday celebration in July we logged well over 7 million unique hits and over 450,000 page views. We’ve followed that up with over 10 million unique hits from early August – mid September! Those numbers are only guaranteed to climb as the holidays and the annual packaging contest approach!

Kathy of the Boudoir Business Boutique writes:

“I just thought you’d like to know that I’ve received triple the amount of traffic from your site than any other site I’m advertising on! I’m so pleased with choosing to advertise with you!“

Paperie Boutique is proud to announce a recent addition to our vendor family / elite sponsors — CPQ Professional Imaging!

The CPQ Lab was started in 1972 with a small group of 15 employees, and since that time CPQ has grown to over 150 employees providing superb quality in a timely manner to the discriminating photographer. The current CPQ location, built in 1993, encompasses 47,000 square feet and houses a full-service lab (both optical and digital) that serves clients from all over the United States.

Users can sign up with CPQ, and receive free evaluation prints, here.

Miss the sale? Go here to advertise with us!

Once payment has been made, write todd AT paperieboutique DOT com and include a copy of your receipt and attach an image for the ad-size purchased.

If you are interested in being a sponsor + advertiser, please e-mail todd AT paperieboutique DOT com for the additional discounted rate.

We look forward to having you join the family soon!

@overheardatmoo recently Tweeted: Stickers, Business Cards, MiniCards, Postcards and Greeting Cards – 25% off until Sunday (in case you didn’t hear) at http://www.moo.com.

And don’t forget Paperie offers several FREE Moo templates for download!




We also have a couple of recent contest winners to announce! First up are the two Capturing Couture camera strap winners…Connie McClain and Kim Young!

And the Fanciful Kites giveaway winner is…Michelle McDaid!

Thanks to both Capturing Couture and Fanciful Kites for the fun giveaways, congrats to our winners (watch your inboxes this weeked!), and a thank you to everyone who entered!

New contest coming up momentarily so stay tuned…
-Robyn & Todd

Did you see the tease of all the great vendors participating in the birthday celebration…starting tomorrow?!? The event is going to be HUGE – as will the opportunity to reach your target market. There’s never been a better time to advertise with Paperie!

In addition to deep-discounts on our normal ad rates, we are also going to include each new vendor (that signs up between Monday, July 18th thru Tuesday, July 26th) in a blog entry for better Google indexing through text links! So take one of our most-recent ad renewals for example… This is what your entry would look like:

Paperie Boutique is proud to announce a recent addition to our vendor family – Florabella Collection! “Florabella Textures” are .jpg or .png images that you apply as a layer on top of your image…you change the texture’s opacity and blending mode to achieve the desired result.

Textures can do so much for an image: they can make it look vintage, nostalgic, dreamy, shabby, etc. They can add warmth and depth, or just increase the overall wow factor. With the click of a mouse, an entire series of post processing steps will be applied to your image.”

Kathy of the Boudoir Business Boutique writes:

“I just thought you’d like to know that I’ve received triple the amount of traffic from your site than any other site I’m advertising on! I’m so pleased with choosing to advertise with you!”

See everyone at the party TOMORROW!
-Robyn

P.S. Vendors, if you are interested in being a part of the birthday celebration, e-mail me at “robyn AT paperieboutique DOT com” ASAP!

Several businesses are offering “Christmas in July deals” this week, so we’re joining in here at Paperie Boutique, too!

Purchase any ad (excluding our fADtastic program and Blogads) between now and 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 25th, and get 10% off AND three months FREE!

Our readership has grown 30.9% since the first week of June and we’d love you to be a part of it! Just contact Todd FAST for more details.

And don’t forget that we’re currently doing a giveaway with the Photographer’s Wall Display Guide. Contest ends Friday night, so hurry up and enter to win!

I’m excited to announce the launch of something new at Paperie Boutique just in time for summer – the fADtastic merchant ad program. Not only will you have the opportunity to advertise with Paperie Boutique starting today and running the next three months (through September 15th) for just $100.00, but you’ll also be able to increase your Google ranking / SEO by being linked on our readers’ websites in addition to being linked here! A bit about how it works…

If you’ll scroll to the bottom of the page, I have put together a demo set-up of current Paperie advertisers. New fADtastic program members will send 100×100 pixel (flat, non-rotating) images and I will create a uniform-looking square bordered ad for you just like the ones you see there. Your ad will appear at that section of the site (by the “Older Entries” and RSS links) – grouped together with the other fADtastic program member ads – for the duration of the program. There is no limit to the number of vendors who can participate. Your ad will also appear on a separate page – always linked at the top of Paperie (by both image and text) – where Paperie readers can go and get the HTML to copy, cut, and paste your ad’s HTML code so they can add it to their own blogs, websites or Facebook accounts.

In exchange for the Paperie readers adding your ad to their blogs, websites or Facebook walls for a minimum of 7-10 days, you are asked to provide a product or “prize” in return that is valued anywhere from $10 – $25. This could include a gift certificate code without a minimum purchase requirement, an action, a photo prop, a template, etc. You get the exposure to their website audiences and an SEO boost – they get to learn more about your business / service and a little freebie to reward their efforts. (Your ad will remain on Paperie Boutique from the date of purchase through September 15th. The 7-10 day time limit applies to ad display time on Paperie reader sites only. Paperie readers may only collect one prize per vendor during this promotion. Please do not register multiple times with the same vendor over the course of this promotion. Play nice!)

So if you’re a vendor and you’re saying, “Sounds great! What do I need to do?” Just three little things!

1. make your $100.00 ad payment:

2. send “Robyn at paperieboutique dot com” your 100×100 pixel flat,
   non-rotating image

3. send “Robyn at paperieboutique dot com” an e-mail address for
   site visitors to contact you after they’ve added your ad to their site
   for you to verify and then send on their prize – and list the prize
   you’ll be giving away to Paperie readers who link your ad

As always, if you have any questions just let me know! Thanks and I can’t wait to see you “get with the program” – happy summer!

UPDATE:: We have our first vendor added to the site! Please
welcome BrandSixty – copy the HTML shown below and e-mail
“create at brandsixty dot com” for your prize (5×5 gift certificate
template).

<A HREF="http://www.brandsixty.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://paperieboutique.com/fadtastic/brand_sixty.jpg" BORDER=0 width=110 height=110 ALT="brand sixty"></A>

Then view even more vendors just added at the new ad-HTML page.