Sending your material to ShowMe via Dropbox

Providing the best possible material for your online presence at ShowMe helps us to design a quality product for your business

Your potential clients will be purchasing from a business they have never visited, and in the online world, they associate the quality of the content they see on-line with the quality of product or service they would expect from your business, if they purchased from you.

Potential clients look at a number of businesses offering the same or similar products or services as your business, and those companies that have put in the effort to market themselves well, will get the business.

Research has shown that 70% of users on the internet are mainly attracted by pictures and that masses of text is not read. Your text must be to the point and emphasised by relevant, quality images.

As we have seen, quality images are vital. If you do not have great images that our designers can use, then do not skimp on your budget for purchasing them. For unique pictures like those of your premises, products and staff, you would need to hire a photographer or make a deal with a friend you know who takes excellent pictures.

For more generic pictures,an alternative is for our designers to purchase them online. In the signup you can select how many pictures we can purchase based on the suggested number for your type of listing or website. At R40 per picture, this is not an over the top amount to pay for quality.

You tell us about your business in your own words, and we will massage the information for Search Engines and readability

We realise that while most our clients are excellent at running their business, they may not be skilled in writing about their business. We do not expect you to suddenly turn into a journalist. We will take the text you have given us and massage it into good online copy, as long as you tell us in your words exactly what you do in all areas of your business.

Where to start?

The most difficult thing for most clients is to know where to start. Our consultant will help you with the layout of your navigation tabs and tab headings as seen in the picture above – working with you to create the skeleton of the information we need. This will point you in the right direction and make it easy for you to send us the material.

We gather some of the information we need via the DTP Info Form that you fill out to clearly tell our designers about your business, the styles you like and what materials you already have available.

Then we install Dropbox on your computer for you and show you how to use it to easily send us photos, word documents, pdf’s and other material.

We have also written up easy step by step instructions below on how to use Dropbox.

DropBox is free for up to 2GB of disc space and can be downloaded from www.dropbox.com. Dropbox is a great place to keep all the documents and images that relate to marketing your company.

In case your ShowMe Consultant was not able to install Dropbox for you, here is what you do.

• Go to www.dropbox.com
• Click onSign Up

Enter your first name, last name, email address and chosen password before ticking the box to agree to terms and conditions.

Click on “Sign up”.

Your Dropbox download should automatically start within seconds. If it doesn’t, click on “restart the download” as shown in Figure 3 below.

You will see the program loading at the bottom of your screen. It takes about 6 minutes to download. When it has loaded, click on it, and then choose Run. Follow the default install instructions and then login to Dropbox, using your e-mail address and password. There will be a Get Started document which you can delete if you wish.

Look at the icons at the top of the page

Add the main folder

Click on “Add Folder” and add the parent folder with the following name:Business Name, the type of product and the town name. So Magic Embroidery(Your Business Name) Website, (The product you purchased) Plettenberg Bay(Town Name) for example.

Press Enter. The folder will be created and saved.

Sub-folders

Now you need to add sub-folders to your main folder in order to organise your information for all your navigation tabs.

If you have a Basic Listing you will need a General Information sub-folder, a Welcome Tab sub-folder and sub-folders for your Special Offers if you are using them and one for Contact Details if you wish to add branch and additional contact information.

For a Basic Plus Listing, in addition to the General Information, Special Offers and Contact Details sub-folders, you will need sub-folders for your Home Page, and up to two other pages.

For Feature Listings and Websites,in addition to General Information, Special Offers and Contact Details sub-folders, you will need sub-folders for your Home Page, and up to five other pages.

How to add sub folders

To add the sub-folders, click on the main folder to open it, and add the sub folders using the suitcase with the green +. When finished it should look like the picture below.

Upload Content to your folders

Upload images, documents and other files into each folder by clicking on the upload icon at the top of the screen. Choose your files from wherever they are saved on your computer.

Upload information for the General Information and sub-folders as required.

See our notes below for what we need.

General Information Folder

Your logo/s (in highest resolution available) or any corporate identity or advertising/promotional material such as Corporate Identity Colour Code, brochures, menu.s, business cards, adverts etc must all go in here.

Tab Folders

Within each Tab folder, add all the text and photos. For feature listings and websites, add the instructions and materials for the extras like galleries, articles, products, video, etc.

General Notes:

Photographs: Photos must be kept at the highest resolution available. Very low resolution photos will not be used.

Text Content:There must be text for all the pages, except the Special Offers and Contact Us. Text can be added to Contact Us, if for example, the client may have several offices. For Websites, there must be some text to support each heading on the site.

Listing Requirements:The ShowMe DTP Form must be put in this folder. (How do we do this). There must be a save option on the form with the option to save in Dropbox.

Invite your ShowMe Consultant to share the files

You must always use the“Invite to folder”when you select the share folder option – NOT the Share Link option next to it.

When you first go to the Share Folder Icon at the top of the page, you will be asked to verify your e-mail address.

On receipt of the verification e-mail, click on Verify e-mail. Now you are ready to share folders. Click on the share folder icon again and follow these steps by selecting the options shown with the red arrows.

By sharing the Main Business Folder, all the sub folders will also be shared automatically. Please e-mail your Consultant as soon as you have shared the folder with them.