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4 Creative Ways To Use Styled Stock Images

December 1, 2017 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 3 Comments

If you run a business, by now, you’ve probably heard of stock images, yeah? Businesses have been using them for years to market their products because they are easier to use than shooting your own photographs all the time.

The latest trend is styled stock or you might know them as flatlays. I love these because they have a nice, clean look.

If you’re new to this you’re probably thinking “how the heck do I use stock images for my business?”

Don’t worry because I’ve got you covered!

Here are four ways you can use stock images to promote your brand and business:

Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter posts: Have a great post you want to publish, but you don’t have the right photo? Grab a relevant, pretty, stock image and slap it up with your words! I’m big on using your real-life photos most of the time, but I also love using stock when it’s appropriate!
Facebook cover image: Needing a pretty image for your profile, or group cover? Stock is great for this. Just crop it to fit and you can put your group name text on there too.
Blog header and posts: This gives a really professional feel to your website. Pick something that’s on-brand and will attract people who are in your target market.
Pinterest posts: Pinning links from your blog and social media? Stock images give a visual pop to make your posts stand out.

There are tons more ways, but I wanted to give you a few easy ones that you could start implementing right away.

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Make sure to check out the Terms of Use and FAQ which will explain what you can and can’t do with these images.

I hope these help your business and make your marketing a little easier!

XO,

Another 30 Days of Social Media Post Ideas

November 8, 2017 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 7 Comments

Do you struggle to come up with content for your social media? You’re not alone!

We all know that consistency wins when it comes to building a solid following, but some days it’s hard to know what you should be posting. After all, you’re probably running a business and a household, too.

Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered here with a ANOTHER full month’s worth of social media post ideas to get you started on producing quality content! The first PDF was so popular that I had to come back with another one.

Click here to sign up for my newsletter and you’ll be sent the FREE, printable PDF:

ANOTHER 30 DAYS OF SOCIAL MEDIA POST IDEAS!

A good rule of thumb is to post 1 time about your product or service for every 5 times you post about your personal life.

This list gives you ANOTHER 30 ideas for personal posts so you plan your content out in advance! Every 6th post you can plug in something to promote your business, but don’t make it salesy.

I still stand by stories being the best way to share your product or service.

XO,

Project Life Week 9

April 7, 2013 by Lindsay Teague Moreno 1 Comment

This was a totaly normal week except that we got a date night!!! I love date night!!! Also, I’m totally digging the fact that my kids adore old school cartoons. Anything made early nineties or earlier and the Moreno girls are digging it.

WEEK NINE

Week nine brought some sun so I took the girls out for a little photo shoot in their cutie clothes. Another card with our TV shows because I thought it was pretty funny that all of us were into some old-school shows lately. The girls love Tom & Jerry and M & I still into The West Wing.

Close-up right side. How cute that I got a pic of my hubs taking a very rare nap!

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Project Life 2013 | Week 4

February 4, 2013 by Lindsay Teague Moreno Leave a Comment

Week 4. Does it feel like we should be this far into 2013?

This week Michael had monday off of work and we ventured into downtown Seattle for the day. Fun! My grandma passed away as well, which is so sad. I didn’t have photos of that, obviously, but I wanted to include it so I made a little collage (bottom left) of photos that mean a lot to me that she is in. Make sure you include your relatives, family and friends that are out of town in your PL book.

Lindsay Teague Moreno Project Life Digital — Week 4 both sides together. This was a fun week and a sad week all in one.

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Welcome 2013

January 22, 2013 by Lindsay Teague Moreno Leave a Comment

So I wanted to update with my first few 2013 Project Life spreads before we get too far into the year and I finish catching up from 2012.

Here’s my 2013 cover page:

This year I’m doing the weekly spreads so here’s what our Week One looked like:

…and Week Two:

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Project Life Tuesday: A Catch-Up Week!

September 18, 2012 by Lindsay Teague Moreno Leave a Comment

So, I’m playing a little catch-up this week after a month full of photo editing! I’m almost through all 9 sessions I had! Really happy to be busy and really happy to see the light at the end of this tunnel before I fill up again in Oct/Nov!

So, here are a couple Project Life pages I have to share today. The first is from Boston & Teagan’s preschool end-of-year program. It was the first time we saw them “perform” for anything. They didn’t disappoint! They stood up on that stage and had a fist fight, knocked each other’s hats off and gave dirty looks. At one point, Addy got away from us and ran up to the stage, to which the girls laid down on the stage during a song to talk to her. ugh. Also, the girls were asked to tell the teachers what they wanted to be when they grow up. My girls responses?

Boston: “a beautiful rainbow over a garden”
I’m sorry, what?

Teagan: “Rapunzel”
Yea.

We have some learning to do in this house. I don’t even know where Boston’s response came from! We don’t have a garden. Truth. We do have video of the entire ordeal which proves that it really did happen and that they were, in fact, the worst-behaved children in the entire school that afternoon. A proud parent moment, to be sure.

How cute is that Smarty Pants card from Design Editor? I love. You can also see that I added a tweet from that day (which I think is such a great snapshot of real moments).

On this page, I added the pictures of the girls teachers and then the photo fail of the 3 girls together from the morning. I’m terrible with my own kids and a camera in my hand. Additionally, I added an Instagram photo with the caption to record Addy’s monumental melt-down when we went to pick out teacher gifts.

Next up is the 12 of 12 layout from August. M and I happened to be out of town for a wedding in August. We had a really nice day together, even though it was cut short because he had to go back and be with the girls at home and I had to drive to Tulsa from OKC for a visit with my grandma (who was sick) and a photo shoot. Also, I had very little desire to use my camera after photographing the wedding the previous day. 2000 photos will do that to a girl! 🙂

Another set of cards from Design Editor here for the “He Said/She Said” portion of the page in the top right corner. I love this part of the page. Also, that black and white photo in the bottom right is one of my favorite Chihuly pieces of art. It’s actually a color photo, if you can believe that. The whites in the piece are so white and the ceiling is perfectly black. I stood below the chandelier and shot directly upward to get this shot. I love it. There is no doubt that I’ll frame a few of these photos in the house.

Dale Chihuly is my favorite artist. Every time I see his work my mouth gapes open like an idiot. It’s just awe-inspiring. I can’t believe the colors in his pieces are even real. I’ve seen his work 6 or 7 times now and every time it’s as amazing as the first. M and I got to see his exhibit at the OKC Museum of Art on the 12th. I had been about 6 years previous with my mom and brother, Aaron, and it was there that I realized I might be falling in love with M. I thought about him a lot while I was there without him. It was nice to go back there with him.

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