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This is a busy time of the year as many parks are finally organizing last summer's photos for use on their website, advertising, brochures, or post cards. If you're storing your digital photos at their original large size or about a 1 meg per photo, you probably have the best resolution possible from any print work. However, if you plan to use those some of your photos for either an email campaign or your new website, you'll need to make the photos smaller for faster loading.
About once a week a friend sends me a pitcher of a their cute baby or new puppy and I have to wait and wait while the huge file downloads! To prevent this problem, I use a FREE program call VSO Image Resizer. It is a Windows based software. The link below will take you to the site to download it, but you might also view the free demo.
After installation, you select the photo you want to resize, choose the new size, and click OK and in seconds it makes a copy of a large photo and resizes it in seconds! The photos stay clear with bright colors, only the resolution is now manageable.
You can ignore the message to buy as that is for commercial use only. Just click continue and you can do as many photos as you want. You can fix dozens of photos at the same time.
Save this tool for the next time you have a batch of photos to prepare for your web gallery. It will save you time and make your photos look great!
Here's the Link: http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/
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Invest in your future reservations by looking for opportunities to do one last thing to put a smile on the faces of your guests. If you're really clever, you'll also find ways to use good marketing techniques to enhance their experience as well. Here's some quick ideas to get you started:
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Here's my list of the tools you'll need for a great year:
If you can afford it, buy, lease, or rent a backhoe tractor with a bucket scoop on the front. You can easily dig new ditches for power, water, or sewer, or help the rainwater drain away. The bucket scoop makes it easy to level a site, haul in more gravel, or fix those darn potholes. If you can swap out for a blade, you can keep your road smooth, and if need be, clear the snow on your roads and sites faster.
Sometimes a park has to lock the pool and laundry after hours, but after opening the office the following morning, they can get busy and forget to open the laundry and pool at the scheduled time. It is not much fun to carry a load to the laundry only to find the door locked, or dress a bunch of kids of all ages, grab snacks, suntan oil, and herd the gang to the pool only to find it closed. Perhaps they need to buy something from your store, or update their reservation in the office. Flying a flag when a service is open keeps everybody happy.