Our friends at 5DayDeal are at it again — they just launched “The Complete Web Essentials Bundle”, featuring a collection of eBooks, marketing resources, and tools, focused on helping you setup and promote your photography-based website. It’s available for only $87 for five days only — the deal expires on July 19th at 3 PM ET, and this bundle will never be offered again!
This year, 5DayDeal is trying to create much more focused bundles. They started with the “The Complete Photography Business Bundle” earlier this year. This current “The Complete Web Essentials Bundle” focuses on providing photographers the tools to get online: creating and hosting websites to display portfolios; themes, fonts, and plugins for customizing your website; tools and education for marketing your site in social media.
We found the following parts of “The Complete Web Essentials Bundle” the most interesting:
- Free Hosting Vouchers. Two vouchers are provided for free hosting — a 5-year hosting for a portfolio site at StickyFolios, and 6 months of hosting for 5 websites at Imagely. We can’t vouch for these services as we’ve never used them ourselves, but this alone can pay for the price of the bundle.
- Guides and Resources for Setting up Websites. Several eBooks describe how to setup a WordPress-based site for your photography portfolio. A WordPress plugin is provided to enable you to sell stock photos directly (and automatically) from your website. Several WordPress themes, a package of unique fonts, and a guide on Search Engine Optimization complete your website.
- Marketing Material for Websites. There are several nice toolkits for making very professional promotion “postcards” — perfect for posting on social media. Collage templates for Photoshop and Lightroom let you easily make professional image collages. A tutorial on Adobe Illustrator and a package of logo templates enable custom logo design. A video tutorial on using hashtags in Instagram was surprisingly educational.
- Terms of Use Template by Rachel Brenke. Nice and simple — a template for creating a Terms of Use document on your website, a necessity to prevent legal troubles and headaches.
The folks over at 5DayDeal are meticulous in assembling good bundles, and this one is no different. As before, we recommend purchasing “The Complete Web Essentials Bundle” if you see a few items of interest and feel you can use the resources. The $87 price tag is easy to justify.
