subject: 4 Ways to Hack and Create Free Avatars for Your Website [print this page] 4 Ways to Hack and Create Free Avatars for Your Website
In this article, I will discuss a series of steps on how you can turn your avatars into something more profitable. Of course, you have to learn how to create free avatars but that's pretty easy-- the tweaking part, however, needs more attention.
Making the most out of your avatars
If you are an internet marketer, you are probably looking for a way to monetize every feature on your website or Facebook account. What I am about to show you are ten ways to "hack" your avatar and turn them into powerful money-making tools.
If a picture can say a thousand words, make sure it's worth a thousand bucks too!
Pose with your product. On Facebook, the first thing people see, members or otherwise, is your profile picture and it would be such a shame if you upload a picture that does not manage to sell your services or products right off the bat. You need to be your own supermodel on your very own profile picture-- you need not pose like one, but you must understand the concept of selling products through pictures. Instead of posting a casual image of you, post an avatar of you wearing or using your product or service. For example, if you sell diet pills online, show off your curves as well.
Animate your Twitter avatar. I have tried posting animated photos to Facebook but it didn't work so let's move on to Twitter instead. Animated Twitter avatars are very attractive and they tend to call people's attention too in a sea of inanimate profile pictures. Make sure your Twitter picture stands out by animating them. Google "How to Make an Animated Twitter Avatar" to read how-to modules about this.
Watermark your photos with your website or company name. Watermarking pictures is common and yet not a lot of internet marketers do it. Watermarking is simply making a transparent stamp on your photos to claim ownership, but you may also opt for simply putting the name of your website on the image itself. This can be done in MSPaint or Adobe Photoshop.
Use cartoon avatars that look realistic. Most internet marketers do this because it is casual and formal at the same time. It looks fun and it is also a breath of fresh air from the usual and boring formal picture.
Case in point: Barack Obama's campaign vector image sure did him good. In 2008, this digitally-rendered picture became one of the most popular images swirling on the internet. Folks, that's a cartoon avatar of a man running for president and it worked for him!
Cartoon avatars also protect the true identity of the internet marketer, that is, if you do not want to be known. All you have to do is to create free avatars-- make sure you create one that looks realistic. Do not choose avatars that are funny, like chibi-anime pictures or even images of trees (yes, people use trees as their main picture)
