TRAINING: How to Create Magazine worthy Digilogs-Digital buy From Catologs For your ecommerce Campaigns:

Aim: Creating the digital catalog or e-catalog magazine for our content and sales marketing campaigns: all of them or handpicked.

To Take our ecommerce and affiliate marketing campaigns to a personal and relatable level.

Objective: Creating digital catalogs or e catalogs for our campaigns by relatively inexpensive or sometimes free avenues.

Hypotheses: We will amplify our sales and enjoy the process (albeit time consuming) with regards to product marketing, content promotion and marketing.

The result should be a highly engaging, dimensional and at times interactive e-catalog.

Why?

Because we want the bottom line: Traffic, audience, Readers, subscribers and eventually the sales to go with it!

Null Hypotheses: Possibly the only drawback is excessive time and energy spent and slow results, if the technique is not repeated for all articles and may require consistency on a timely basis.

(This tutorial took me a lot of time to learn myself ! )

That is, if you start this you should expect to pick a handful of your affiliate reviews or your ecommerce store to promote your work, YOUR OWN digital catalog.

Another questionability that may arise, is in terms of technological glitches and responsiveness between software, rendering our project laced with risk to begin with;

ensuring that legal requisites such as regular disclaimers appear in pertinent sections of your catalog, such as foreword, credits or back pages for glossary.

Dont ask me why I selected this picture its just appealing to stimulate creativity!

Tools and Materials:

Software and programs are either free or paid for in a subscription. Most methods employ a version of HTML5, and the basic version is free to use and edit.

You will always be coerced into buying packages, so that's why its so imperative to get it all set in place, in the draft stage itself.

That is the PDF that you will be repeatedly asked to upload into these software's.

LIST OF TOOLS IN MARKET TODAY : (no specific order)

1. Issu.com

2. PUBHTML5 THE SOFTWARE OF CHOICE IN THIS TUTORIAL.

3. FLIPHTML5

4.FLIPBOOK CREATOR

5.Canva.com

6. I spring Flip

7. Yumpu.com: paid plans only for a very interactive digital catalog experience; as a part of CJ conversant affiliate networks. You may even affiliate this for your articles and promotions, to earn commission as part of CJ conversant.

8. Flip Snack

9.Flip Builder.com: http://www.flipbuilder.com/application/interactive-catalog-p...

You might need to type this into your browser search field as I'm unsure of it's link-ability currently.

10.Flipping book

11.D2D-catalog

12.Yudu

13.Flip PDF Builder. ( can be considered in the section below too)

14.For paid or consultancy based larger business structures or if you can afford a private designer on a project basis, here are some worthwhile and highly reputed names I came across in my research quest:

a. Dribble.com

b. Upwork.com

c.99 Designs

d.Guru.com

For the purpose of this tutorial I will only use The free edition , with PUBHTML5 as its least complicated and that's what we want!

CREATING THE PDF DRAFT TO UPLOAD IS A MUST!

The ideal places to start your PDF DRAFT:

1. Adobe InDesign Templates: see attached for free references and templates.

(shh this is from my subscription I have included free templates for your perusal should you like it: ensure you save it according to your articles and projects)

2.Adobe Photoshop and Adobe photoshop cc.

Adobe suit of software and even Adobe spark video and spark posts to get your message across channels.

3. Envato + Tutorials are a great side reference actually a mainstay for our campaigns here in WA.

4. Word.doc and use a free pdf maker and compressor.

5. Autodesk CAD 360 software and c concepts for certain image scales, especially if your niche revolves around home décor and fittings.

6. Microsoft word, excel and Microsoft publisher templates free ofcourse.

7. Google templates that are free.

8. PDF maker free or lite.

9. your paid subscriptions

10. canva.com

11. Did we forget? You tube and flash player ? Stock photography and videos are a great feature to add!

Remember you can use all of these synchronously and make a stellar project.

Stipulated Methods and approaches:

1. Set focus key word to save pdf and document.

2. if free pdf software exists, such as google templates, you can customize these.

3. Another free to low cost option if you dont want the adobe subscription, is to use a canva free 3 sided brochure template. You can edit a number of combinations as to your campaigns and save as pdf.

4. Alternatively, an option is to add your affiliate link to the affiliate linker in canva to work image by image, save and collect as separate pdfs to add to free templates again either in canva, 3 sided brochure or within adobe in design for ease.

5. Work section by section and take it slow there is no hurry, but yes dont deliberate too much. If anything the hit publish button is so gratifying and I keep stressing this albeit a perfectionist of some sort.

BASIC FLOW OF THE PROCESS: REFER TO THIS AS THE FOUNDATION:

1. DRAFT DRAWING ON PAPER OR NOTE PREFERABLY.

2. DELINEATE TEXT AND IMAGE SPACES BY LABELING

3. CREATE PDF AND SAVE AS AN EXTENSION_ECATALOG.pdf

4. ensure all your images are also alt-text saved for SEO and keyword crawl. Pubhtml5 does make your publication crawlable.

you do get rankings by doing this for your e-cataog, much more with interactive elements,

5. UPLOAD PDF TO PUBHTML 5 ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED EVERY NITTY GRITTY EDIT! IT NEEDS TO BE GOOD ENOUGH TO NOT DO SO MUCH ON PUBHTML5.

6.CREATE PUBHTML5 LOGIN CREDENTIALS AS LINK IS PROVIDED BELOW FOR FREE SIGN UP.

7. IF ON DESKTOP RUN THE SOFTWARE AND IT IS SAFE FOR YOUR FIREWALL. MY RECENT SCAN SHOWED NO BUGS AND NO MALWARE DESPITE DOWNLOADING IT. (BUT PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE MALWARE PROTECTION)

8. ONLINE MODE IS ALSO OFFERED IN PUBHTML5. USE IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF DOWNLOADING.

9. EDIT YOUR PDF USE THE VIDEOS BELOW TO HELP .

10. A FEATURE TO ADD LATER IS THE WOODEN BOOKCASE EMBED FEATURE, FOR ALL YOUR PUBLICATIONS.

11. ANIMATE, CREATE PAGE FLIP USE MINIMAL MUSIC AND LET YOUR READERS DECIDE TO PLAY VIDEOS. DONT DO AUTO PLAY OF ANY VIDEOS IT WILL TICK THEM OFF AND YOU GET A BOUNCE RATE OUT.

12. NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS .

INCLUDE A FEW LINES AND GET TO ADDING THE ECATALOG.

Alternatively, text message marketing is catching up these days and can be used to promote all your commercial campaigns faster and wider spread,

13. PUBLISH YOUR CATALOG and ensure to EMBED IN WORDPRESS.

14. CREATE A PINTEREST PIN FOR YOUR CAMPAIGN

15. PROMOTE YOUR WORK EVERYWHERE YOU CAN THINK OF;

A. LINK OUT IN QUORA

B. FACEBOOK

C. INSTAGRAM.

D. WHATS APP

E.GOOGLE PLUS

F. PINTEREST.

G. ALTERNATIVELY CREATE A FREE ADOBE SPARK POST AND SPARK VIDEO TO PROMOTE A SLIDESHOW OF YOUR CAMPAIGN. ADD A FEW NOTES TO IT AND PUBLISH IN LINK WITH YOUR NICHE WEBSITE. THIS GETS PUBLISHED TO ADOBE COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL.

H. SEND TO ALL YOUR FOLLOWERS IN INSTAGRAM MESSAGES USE YOUR MESSAGING TOOL FOR THIS.

YOU'RE OFFICIALLY DONE AND DUSTED PROCEED TO SELECT A NEW EXPERIMENT TO TRY AGAIN :)

6. PUB HTML5 is free and some video links are as follows:

More can be found in you tube as there are volumes for your taking.

Some involve photoshop but in most cases you can get away free using WORD.doc templates and free google templates or canva. pdf with a URL link to your niche website. Save and download as pdf.

Its best I add the links to videos that is pretty self explanatory instead of me re iterating my understanding of the software. It may give you clarity of perspective.

Meta description: A comprehensive walk through the mesmerizing world of Tooth whitening Products and systems. This is the place for the most comprehensive list of all your tooth whitening solutions that flow to your incisal tips.

FOCUS KEYWORD: set your own focus keyword now !

It has to be the same one you chose to publish .

In my example it is tooth whitening products and systems.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, DONT FORGET TO MENTION HOW OFTEN YOUR RESOURCES MAY NEED Updating and own it. It shows dedication and passion to your target audience.

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1. 1. Create your draft pdf as illustrated in the previous section, the draft skeleton.

2. 1. In example 1 above: and from previous section hand draw first a rough outline of where you are placing text and images.

3. 1. ESTABLISH YOUR PDF SOFTWARE OF CHOICE FIRST

4. 1. ADD IMAGES TO YOUR PDF. Alt_text Save these per your article

5. Images, Seo and Alt -text per your article chosen

6. watch video to get an idea : https://youtu.be/lnfzivqoCeU

7. Set focus keyword the same for your published article for this project.

8. Set focus key word for your project the same as you did for your article

9. AFTER SETTING THE FOCUS KEYWORD, DRAW IMPORTANT SECTIONS OF YOUR ARTICLE TO SYNOPSISE TO IMPACT

10. Complete all text and image imports and SEO for Images or text now in pdf draft

11. Denote sections clearly in draft and start with your pdf as in example 2 above.

12. USE YOUR KEYWORD PUBLISHED ARTICLE TO SAVE THIS PUBLICATION BY THE SAME NAME.

13. add your logo to the top or inner front credits page of e-catalog.

14. add layers and ensure you have specially chosen choice text for your catalogs with keywords ofcourse!

15. choose images and save them with alt_text to correspond to what you have designated for your published articles.

16. Create a clip board of your images and videos to be saved exactly the same

17. WRITE A FEW CALL TO ACTION COMMANDS ON NOTE AND USE THEM. YOU CAN USE RHYME BLOCK ON APP STORE FOR A CREATIVE SPIN OR PORTENT.COM FOR SNAZZY SECTION TITLES.

18. Upload to a chosen free or suggested HTML software, for creation of the magazine per se.

19. After specifiying dimensions in pdf document, please save regularly with your keyword article title.

20. add your affiliate disclosure.

21. continue working on pdf until satisfied you have succintly described yoru product and in an appealing way. look at some printed and e-catalogs to draw inspiration.

22. keep a pin ready and instagram posts > see TONY HAMILTONS

23. work incrementally in sections and focus on synopsyssing the outstanding features of products .

24. ADD TEXT BOXES AND ADD ANY ADDITIONAL FEATURES TO BRING IMPACT.

25. Edit and add background, peruse links, animation boxes, drop downs, buttons per campaign.

26. If you are working on a template as I have shown in example 3, ensure that the document preset is to US magazine specifications. This is on adobe in design. Free trials are available see external link.

27. save pdf continually as you did your published article with extension_ecatalog.pdf

28. Add buttons and bubbles for your entincing call to actions. Arrows, baloons, thought baloons, stickers, images or videos.

29. USE STRIP ADS FROM AMAZON, CUSTOMIZE IMAGES FROM YOUR AFFILIATE MARKETING RESOURCES, CREATING YOUR OWN BANNERS OR STRIPS.

30. Use layers and mark: Image layer and text layer. optional add layer 3: misc and extras/Graphics

31. Keep your workspace defined: First start the sketch then proceed to use Pdf on your chosen software.

32. ALTERNATIVELY USE THE IMAGE ONLY EMBED IN THE ADD HTML FUNCTION OF ADOBE. You may be able to add this later in PUBHTML5 animated sections.

33. Proceed to next set of instructions.

34. Set document preset in Adobe In design if using, to US magazine preset,

35. Access Amazon coupons and make coupons attractive.

36. Add layers : text, image and graphics, misc. to work in different modes that is within IN Design specifically

37. Draw a grid for a insert of gift guide suggestions or alterantive product sections. Provided this is reviewed in your article or a separate article you can link out.

38. Finish each page to your satisfaction. Take inspiration from other high end catalogs.

39. finish and save continually. Upload to PUBHTML5.

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HERE ARE TEMPLATES AS THEY ARE JPEG YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE THEM AFTER SAVING AND EDITING. ITS EVEN BETTER IF YOU HAVE THE SUBSCRIPTION OR YOU CAN UPLOAD TO CANVA TOO

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That was toooo much Shweta, but excellent.
Actually, for a person like me this kind of exhaustive Training is a little bit hard, but at the end of the day I can say to me - if you did, why can't I.
I will definitely go to apply the actions but will take some time.

Thanks for putting a lot of sincere efforts to teach the community which include people like me who are not that tech savvy.
Its really going to help.

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Thankyou Gaurav I am so honored that you regard this pretty exhaustive..indeed I was overwhelmed myself.
Ofcourse you can and should do it. Its tons of fun esp the drawing of the skeleton of the magazine.
This is the option to use graphic colour pens, cool paper and stationery or being crafty.
I still have to edit some parts there are parts to be included I read through it yesterday and will add those bits and details.
Do let me know I will also include a template Gaurav :)

You made my day honestly :) wish you the most creative outlet in doing so .

Warm regards
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Thanks, Shweta , my pleasure:)

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I will add those templates here for everyone including yourself Gaurav. they are free for the most part and can be customized.
Even if thats not an option i can just easily add my own project and everyone whom ever wishes, may customize it per their campaign.

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It will be easy to customize the Templates. Thanks Shweta:)

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Here are some templates Gaurav including my own one . Its ok as there is tons to do as I keep saying. It wouldn't make a difference to include my own one as that wont be of interest to you :)

Let me try adding it in the tutorial as its in some format . Ill reply again with the exact location. IT will be easier than to search through dense text.

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GAURAV IVE ADDED A FEW JPEGS YOU MAY SAVE THEM AND EDIT ACCORDING TO YOUR PROJECT. :)

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Lesson 1: The preconditioning and Establishing your DRAFT SKELETONS:

LESSON TASKS

1. Devote a notebook or word document to writing a draft, alternatively use site content to list your keywords.

Additionally and As usual for your affiliate campaigns, create a column in a draft note or word: Image URL and Product URL. Write down all the relevant products and specifics in each column respectively.

1. Write down the topics that you feel are inter-related on a column either in excel or in your notebook/draft hard copy in paper. These are the articles that can be tied together owing to subject similarity.

Highlight some good lines in your product reviews, per product, enlist a pros and cons

After importing the keywords from Jaaxy, Enlist products that match the research you did in a relevant article.

Identify banners and images that you would usually for your affiliate campaigns, add these banners to a draft document. In word: or site content as you wish.

2. After identifying the articles, perform a JAAXY Research on that topic, and save the list as your article+giftguide/ or as stated in the examples above, just as long the term gift guide or ditigal catalog are saved.

Set The focus keyword and save file with this keyword_ecatalog as shown in examples above

Import pictures and links into site content. Remember this a draft skeleton stage.

With your specific campaign Keywords: Use title generators such as portent or any title generator you prefer.

3. Decide on your storage options or if you wish to store it on an external drive at this stage?

Ensure that your focus keyword is atleast within the title of your ecatalog.

Sketch or create a quadrant or in canva.com create a draft of where you will place images and associated links (purchasing links or affiliate links). If using canva.com dont immediately resort to using the affiliate button unless you have prepared an article around this topic.

Head over to Canva.com, locate your logo and flyer templates such as a 3 sided brochure or flyer.

Draw a layout on paper of your images positions, text positions, designate with labels and use as your template

Re name images and save with Alt text relative to your specific post/campaign.

Save your draft if it

Have a practice run if time permits, especially for new comers with the layout and customizing options on canva flyers and brochures

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Progress and edits

LESSON TASKS

1. Start working on your text selections. Keep your published article in WP back office edit open to select text.

add text incrementally and take it slow. synopsyse and add rhyme with apps on phone called rhyme block for text. Type and rhyme to add.

Insert or place your canva creations for your articles in your e-catalogs near the beginning, once in the middle and the end of your e-catalog,

Use different workspaces to add rich features to your draft. Use layers to edit within planes of your document, IN DESIGN specifically or free pdf makers with such features.

If boosting the process, use your canva free templates for 3 sided brochure or purchase a single license to modify many times. Convert to pdf download and edit within canva. you can embed also directly from canva

Save pdf and continue working. extra pages can always be added if you feel its not complete without that. This is a creative process you can always add!

Alt_text_SEO save your publication. Open PUB HTML5 choose your SAVED PDF

Within PUBHTML5 or the softwares listed in THE tools section, first lesson ever: you can now do alot more by animating this to page flipping, video, drawdown buttons, this is a separate tutorial coming up.

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The Experiment

LESSON TASKS

1. Create your draft pdf as illustrated in the previous section, the draft skeleton.

1. In example 1 above: and from previous section hand draw first a rough outline of where you are placing text and images.

1. ESTABLISH YOUR PDF SOFTWARE OF CHOICE FIRST

1. ADD IMAGES TO YOUR PDF. Alt_text Save these per your article

Images, Seo and Alt -text per your article chosen

watch video to get an idea : https://youtu.be/lnfzivqoCeU

Set focus keyword the same for your published article for this project.

Set focus key word for your project the same as you did for your article

AFTER SETTING THE FOCUS KEYWORD, DRAW IMPORTANT SECTIONS OF YOUR ARTICLE TO SYNOPSISE TO IMPACT

Complete all text and image imports and SEO for Images or text now in pdf draft

Denote sections clearly in draft and start with your pdf as in example 2 above.

USE YOUR KEYWORD PUBLISHED ARTICLE TO SAVE THIS PUBLICATION BY THE SAME NAME.

add your logo to the top or inner front credits page of e-catalog.

add layers and ensure you have specially chosen choice text for your catalogs with keywords ofcourse!

choose images and save them with alt_text to correspond to what you have designated for your published articles.

Create a clip board of your images and videos to be saved exactly the same

WRITE A FEW CALL TO ACTION COMMANDS ON NOTE AND USE THEM. YOU CAN USE RHYME BLOCK ON APP STORE FOR A CREATIVE SPIN OR PORTENT.COM FOR SNAZZY SECTION TITLES.

Upload to a chosen free or suggested HTML software, for creation of the magazine per se.

After specifiying dimensions in pdf document, please save regularly with your keyword article title.

add your affiliate disclosure.

continue working on pdf until satisfied you have succintly described yoru product and in an appealing way. look at some printed and e-catalogs to draw inspiration.

keep a pin ready and instagram posts > see TONY HAMILTONS

work incrementally in sections and focus on synopsyssing the outstanding features of products .

ADD TEXT BOXES AND ADD ANY ADDITIONAL FEATURES TO BRING IMPACT.

Edit and add background, peruse links, animation boxes, drop downs, buttons per campaign.

If you are working on a template as I have shown in example 3, ensure that the document preset is to US magazine specifications. This is on adobe in design. Free trials are available see external link.

save pdf continually as you did your published article with extension_ecatalog.pdf

Add buttons and bubbles for your entincing call to actions. Arrows, baloons, thought baloons, stickers, images or videos.

USE STRIP ADS FROM AMAZON, CUSTOMIZE IMAGES FROM YOUR AFFILIATE MARKETING RESOURCES, CREATING YOUR OWN BANNERS OR STRIPS.

Use layers and mark: Image layer and text layer. optional add layer 3: misc and extras/Graphics

Keep your workspace defined: First start the sketch then proceed to use Pdf on your chosen software.

ALTERNATIVELY USE THE IMAGE ONLY EMBED IN THE ADD HTML FUNCTION OF ADOBE. You may be able to add this later in PUBHTML5 animated sections.

Proceed to next set of instructions.

Set document preset in Adobe In design if using, to US magazine preset,

Access Amazon coupons and make coupons attractive.

Add layers : text, image and graphics, misc. to work in different modes that is within IN Design specifically

Draw a grid for a insert of gift guide suggestions or alterantive product sections. Provided this is reviewed in your article or a separate article you can link out.

Finish each page to your satisfaction. Take inspiration from other high end catalogs.

finish and save continually. Upload to PUBHTML5.

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The Final Framework check.

LESSON TASKS

1. Check spelling and grammar in the pdf. You cannot really do this later so complete it NOW.

The style and images are saved. This is within PUBHTML5

PUBLISH to ALL SUBSCRIBERS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND WATCH THE MAGIC BEGIN

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