FREE SWAG: Follow @ScanMyPhotos on Twitter for Free Photo Scanning

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More free stuff by following us on Twitter and just in time for Thanksgiving!

JUST FOR YOU! Imagine sharing all your analog photo snapshots during your Thanksgiving weekend. ScanMyPhotos.com is randomly giving away ten individual free photo scanning packages – each valued at $64.00. All photo scanning is completed and mailed back the same day.

All you have to do is follow @ScanMyPhotos on Twitter and “retweet” the below message. We are using @Tweetaway to randomly select winners and it could be you! No purchase necessary, but we hope you tell the world about ScanMyPhotos.com.

Ten separate winners will each receive $64.00 in free photo scanning – click here for details on how the photos need to be prepared for scanning. We will send the winners a Tweet with the award certificate. Hope it’s you!

RULES AND HOW TO ENTER: No purchase necessary to win free scanning of up to 1,000 photos. Ten separate winners will be announced on November 5, 2009. Enter as often as you wont, but Tweetaway will randomly select just one winner per Twitter address. Use this link for details how the pictures need to be prepared for scanning. To enter, use your Twitter account (click to sign up), then follow @ScanMyPhotos [http://www.Twitter.com/ScanMyPhotos] and enter this [tweet] message as often sa you want:

FREE SWAG: I’m following @ScanMyPhotos to win 1,000 free photo scans on 11/5: details: http://ow.ly/uoBe

HOW WINNERS ARE SELECTED: Using Tweetaways provides an easy way to pick a random winner for twitter giveaways. On November 5th, we enter this phrase – FREE SWAG: I’m following @ScanMyPhotos to win 1,000 free photo scans on 11/5: details: http://ow.ly/uoBe. We do require that you also forward (RT, “Retweet”) the message, then we click the ‘Pick A Winner’ button to draw ten separate random winners. Tweetaways selects a random winner from all the tweets in the Twitter stream that match that phrase. It could be you. This is a simple and fair way to select the winners.

Good luck!

Limit one winner per Twitter address selected. Winners will be notified via Twitter message and then the certificate will be sent via a Direct Message ["DM"], so you must still be following @ScanMyPhotos.com on Nov 5th to validate the prize. We make no warranties and this is not an implied contract. Winners must comply with all requirements, including how to prepare photos, limit of liability and copyright rules posted at ScanMyPhotos.com. Some restrictions apply and void where prohibited. No cash value. Must mail in box for scanning by February 15, 2010 from receipt. MUST BE RESIDENT OF U.S. and mailed to only U.S. domestic USPS address.

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ScanMyPhotos.com CEO, Mitch Goldstone to Address Intl Photo Imaging Conference in Cologne, Germany

IRVINE, Calif.–“Pictures are everything, we make yours last a lifetime and more,” is what ScanMyPhotos.com has championed as a pioneer in super-fast and affordable photo scanning and digital imaging. This slogan is the foundation for the parent company’s (30 Minute Photos Etc.) 19-years of leadership in the photo imaging industry.

Protecting generations of analog and today’s digital pictures will be the central theme of Mitch Goldstone’s discussion at the Photo Imaging News and INTERNATIONAL CONTACT 2nd International Business Forum Cologne event. “Memories Are More…” will occur on October 21 and 22, 2009 at the Koelnmesse Congress Center North in Cologne, Germany

Session Overview: Goldstone, president and CEO of U.S.-based ScanMyPhotos.com will share insights for reinventing the photo imaging business by using KODAK Picture Kiosks, KODAK Rapid Print Scanners and KODAK APEX (Adaptive Picture Exchange) as the foundation for having something new to share with consumers. According to Goldstone, “today’s modern tool for promoting these innovations is Twitter and other social networking strategies. Twitter is transformative. As digital was to film, Twitter is to traditional yellow page display phone books. It is revolutionary, free, and the preferred new instrument for listening to and engaging your prospective customers with a helpful and authentic dialogue.”

Goldstone will share proven tips about how his company gained international recognition and customers by implementing social network marketing. You will take away invaluable lessons that you can immediately implement to enhance your sales, reputation and buzz-marketing for your memory business.

Conference Info: http://photo-news.com/pdf/IBFCologne09.pdf

ScanMyPhotos.com is a well-known leader in the photo imaging industry. The company operates a retail photo center in southern California and an international ecommerce digital imaging enterprise which has scanned tens of millions of photos since 1990. They regularly are profiled in the national media for its innovations and entrepreneurial creativity to help picture-takers save and share their generations of photo memories. The ScanMyPhotos.com Web site lists scores of news profiles, including a profile in The New York Times by “Personal Tech” columnist, David Pogue and is ranked #16 on the Photography Web 100 listing. Follow them on Twitter (Twitter.com/ScanMyPhotos) and at Tales from the World of Photo Scanning [blog.ScanMyPhotos.com].

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$1,495.00 NEW IDEA COMPETITION Announced by ScanMyPhotos.com

Put your entrepreneurial thinking to the test; you could win $1,495.00.

ScanMyPhotos.com, the Ecommerce and retail photo scanning and digital imaging company, based in southern California, announced a $1,495.00 competition to recommend additional services, work flow solutions, marketing and public relations strategies to foster and enhance efficiencies and generate new revenue tools.

Since 1990, the parent company of ScanMyPhotos.com has championed innovative ways to promote and enhance the entire photo imaging industry. From being among the first retail photo center’s to convert from film to digital processing in the mid-1990s, offer APS (Advanced Photo System), commercialize photo kiosks, introduce Kodak’s (APEX) Adaptive Picture Exchange processing system, online photo ordering and bulk high-speed and affordable photo scanning, the company is always seeking new ways to help share pictures. ScanMyPhotos.com is adding new photo services to its extensive menu of imaging products available at its retail and online Web site.

MESSAGE FROM MITCH GOLDSTONE, President and CEO, ScanMyPhotos.com

We are constantly reinventing our business services and always engaging our customers. There is a urgency, and our principle mandate to listen and exchange ideas with our customers. They are the fuel of our success and best ideas. This is the foundation for our nearly 20-years of business success. Our legacy is to always provide a premium service that is fast and super-affordable. There are about 3.5 trillion analog photo snapshots that must be preserved and charted in today’s all-digital world. The contest is an innovative and interactive way to share all the great ideas we regularly receive with our fans. As this marketplace expands, it is critical that we constantly invite and provide new ways to enhance the photo sharing experience. Technology is moving at lightening-fast speed and so too is our business and product offerings. What ideas do you have? Let us know by submitting your entry in our NEW IDEA COMPETITION.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR NEW IDEA:

1) Submit a brief (under 400 word) recommendation to ScanMyPhotos.com and you could win a $1,495.00 prize for the winning idea to enhance our services, work flow solutions, marketing and public relations strategies, or foster and enhance our efficiencies to generate new revenues.

2) Email your submission to Info@ScanMyPhotos.com. Enter “New Idea Competition” in subject line.In the event of a tie, winning entrant(s) will split the prize. Submissions must be received via email to Info@ScanMyPhotos.com no later than October 30, 2009 (12:00 am PDT). The winner will be selected by ScanMyPhotos.com management and be announced on November 15th.NEW IDEA COMPETITION RULES: Eligibility, unless otherwise noted, ScanMyPhotosFamily Generations Photo Scanning package to scan about 10,000 photos – click here to review details. An individual is permitted to win one prize, multiple winners would spilt the prize. Only one winner per household is permitted. The employees and families of ScanMyPhotosAcceptance of a prize releases ScanMyPhotoslimit of liability and copyright terms apply (click to view). Winner grants ScanMyPhotos.com the right to use his/her name, image, recorded voice and photograph to publicize the contest and the awarding of the prize, and complete ownership in the provided idea submitted. No implied agreement is presented or implied that the winner’s idea will be monetized, used for any potential revenues or benefit shared with the winner. The prize is non-transferable and may not be redeemed. ScanMyPhotos.com assumes the right to discontinue this contest and to change these and any contest rules at any time. Decisions of judges are final in all cases. In the event of a tie, winning entrant(s) will split the prize. Submissions must be received via email to Info@ScanMyPhotos.com no later than October 30, 2009 (12:00 am PDT). The winner will be selected by ScanMyPhotos.com management and be announced on November 15th. .com from all liability and claims concerning the prize, its delivery, its use and all .com, 30 Minute Photos Etc. and its affiliates are not able to participate. All contest entries become the property of ScanMyPhotos.com and cannot be returned. ScanMyPhotos.com is not responsible for entries lost or stolen. All entries must be emailed to Info@ScanMyPhotos.com. Prize Delivery: The $1,000 cash reward and certificate for a free Family Generations Collection will be mailed to the winner after November 15, 2009 to the address provided by the recipient. Contest and prize valid only for domestic U.S. addresses. International entries will not to reviewed. Winner must claim the prize before March 1, 2010. Any prize not claimed within the allotted time will become the property of ScanMyPhotos.com. Taxes and Liability: Unless otherwise noted winners are responsible for any and all taxes which may be due or which may become due from accepting the prize. .com contests are open to anyone 18 years old or older. No purchase is necessary. If under ten valid and usable submissions are provided, ScanMyPhotos.com reserves the right to terminate or delay this contest. The prize will include (US)$1000.00 in cash and a free

 

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Oprah Winfrey Would Love This Inspirational Saga, Explains ScanMyPhotos.com

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IRVINE, Calif.–(Businesswire)–Two ways to get Oprah Winfrey’s attention and be recognized as one of her “Favorite Things.”

1) Write a press release;
2) Have an emotional story that shares an innovative and affordable way to digitally preserve generations of photo snapshots

During a recent European trip, destiny greeted Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman as they dined on the Greek Island of Mykonos. At the next table was Bernard LaChance, a charismatic Canadian singer who shared his story about creativity attracting the interest of talk show superstar Oprah Winfrey.

See links to Mr. LaChance’s YouTube story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohGOH20aGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWJCTujSQw&feature=related

As an influential icon, Oprah Winfrey inspires millions. Her recent segment on LaChance was the type of emotional story of remarkable people with inventive talents that make people watch and cheer. The ScanMyPhotos.com story is magical in a different way. It inspires other businesses not to give up during challenging economic cycles and threatening technology transformations. “By reaching out to Oprah and hopefully becoming part of her “Favorite Things,” our story can rekindle entrepreneurial passion by others to also reinvent and recalibrate how they do business,” said Goldstone, President & CEO, ScanMyPhotos.com.

As the photo imaging industry shifted from film to digital, many businesses closed – a lifetime of dreams dissolved. Rather than giving up, Goldstone and Berman, founders of a retail photo center based in Southern California, persevered. They rode the wave of change and expanded their retail photo center into an international E-commerce company that digitally preserves and shares tens of millions of photo memories. For just $49.95, they digitally scan up to 1,000 photos; the prepaid fill-the-box service holds about 2,000 photos and includes all shipping with same day return for just $124.95.

Just as LaChance captured Oprah’s attention, ScanMyPhotos.com is hoping for an encore to also share its story on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” By embracing change and reinventing every aspect of entrepreneurship,

ScanMyPhotos.com made a comeback and inspires others to never give up. Goldstone regularly addresses technology and trade associations; in October he will be in Germany to share insights on how to reinvent the photo imaging industry,

ScanMyPhotos.com is ranked 16th on the Web100.com Photography listing and was included as “The Best of LA 2009” by Los Angeles Magazine. David Pogue profiled ScanMyPhotos.com in his “Personal Tech” column in The New York Times. Scores of other profiles are referenced on the Web site. The company has trusted KODAK brand products since 1990 and credits the Eastman Kodak Company with pioneering new ways to share pictures in today’s all-digital world. “We launched an entirely new business by commercializing KODAK scanning technology, KODAK Photo Kiosks and KODAK APEX (Adaptive Picture Exchange) printing to provide innovative new products for our customers,” explained Goldstone.

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Save 10% off our new Mixbook Family History Albums; spend $15 or more! Use code FALLMIX10. Ends September 30!

New Family History Themed Mixbook Photo Albums You Design Online in Minutes!
 
Beautiful custom photo albums from your newly scanned ScanMyPhotos.com pictures and all digital images – Always free to design and share online!
 
NO CHARGE TO DESIGN AND PREVIEW YOUR PHOTO ALBUM – Click here to sample

AutoMix is our latest and greatest feature, allowing anyone to create a photobook in mere seconds. It is simple and easy to use, and completely revolutionary. Using innovative technology, we’ve created a way to lay out all your photos in a beautiful and ready-to-print book. Just pick a theme, select some photos, and you’re done! You can edit it how you like by adding text, changing the backgrounds, and customizing it until you’re satisfied. AutoMix makes creating a photobook easier than ever before!

You can enjoy your photobooks online and share them with the world by embedding our Mixbook player on your website or blog. Just use the sharing tool bar or copy and paste the simple embed code located on your profile. It’s that easy! Now your family and friends can marvel at your creativity!

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How to Order Custom Photo Albums With 1000’s of Styles

Click here to begin your amazing Photo Book experience from ScanMyPhotos.com and Mixbook

What is a photo book?
 A photo book is the next evolution of the photo album using your digital photos brought to you by ScanMyPhotos.com, partnering with Mixbook.com. Our photobook creator was designed to be easy to use and all online – no software download is necessary. We offer hundreds of layouts and backgrounds to choose from along with customizable frames and text to make your book beautiful. Just pick a layout, drag-and-drop your photos into the photo slots, and edit to your heart’s content. Photo books are free to create and share online. Pricing starts at just $6.99 per printed book for soft cover and $19.99 per hard cover.

• Free Online Editor – No download needed and no software to buy. You are only charged if you purchase a book
• Photo Zoom – zoom in on any photo and move it to place the photo within the frame
• Photo Rotation – rotate your photos in the photo slots
• Custom Frames – choose from our selection, or make your own frame by editing the thickness, color, and fill
• Custom Color Matching – when selecting background colors and text colors, you can drag the tiny eyedropper tool anywhere on the page to match the colors
• Transparent Text Boxes and Backgrounds – Change the transparency of backgrounds and the color of text boxes
• Photo Integration – take photos from sites like Flickr, Facebook, and Yahoo! Photo search to use in your Mixbook

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Instant AutoMix Book – Short on time? Let the Mixbook software create a book for you that can then be edited to your liking. It does most of the work for you and you just make tweaks as you see fit.

Create a photo book for every occasion:

Family History Photo Album
Wedding Photo Books
Baby Memory Books
School Yearbooks
Wedding Guest Books
Wedding Scrapbooks
Baby Scrapbook How is it different than the photo index book?
The photo book is designed by you through ScanMyPhotos.com using our templates to create a memory book of an event or special occasion. They are great for gifts or as a way to tell a story with your photos. The photo index book is designed to help you organize your photos by creating a thumbnail image of your photo along with the file name to create an easy way to catalog your photo memories. Learn more about the photo index book.

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Create your own Photo Book from scratch! (entirely using Mixbook software)

Even more ways you can use photo books:
Many people are creating impressive and treasured family history photo books. They gather photographic material and prints from across the country and the world. The format, quality and condition of these vary enormously in the amount of care and effort in putting these together. If you plan to use a lot of old prints, slides or negatives, you will need the right scanner for your needs. Or you can use a scanning service, which will save you a lot of time.

If you are about to renovate, remodel or decorate your home, use photo books to tell the story. Do a before-and-after series on facing pages. Learn how to place a tripod for identical positioning. For interior shots, lower the viewing height, and point the camera level to avoid those converging doorways and walls. Include pictures of yourself and others working on the renovation, as part of the story. Visit ScanMyPhotos.com

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Need a last minute gift? How about a simple photo book? Just make sure the book is one the recipient will enjoy receiving and will value, not just politely keep in a drawer and bring out when you visit them.

If you take a lot of good photographs for a family wedding, then this can make for a wonderful photo book. And you can add in other pictures of the happy couple as they first met, and on early dates, as part of the story. You can determine the style and quality that will allow you to make copies for the closest family members and friends. If funds are tight, maybe each person who wants one could offer to pay for their own, much as people do when they order from the photographer.

Sharing the news and pictures of a new baby can be done with a little photo book. It does not have to be a huge production or expensive – there are many simple and budget-priced books that can be chosen from.

A wonderful and caring approach is to create a tribute or memory book for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Here are a few tips… Caption and group the pictures to make sense for them. For example, someone with dementia is likely to be prompted by the inscription they once wrote on the back of a photo, even if it is cryptic to others. Be careful adding your own interpretations. But do add in names of others in the pictures and their relationships to your loved one. Maybe some added explanation and facts.

This can help you and the caregivers go through the book over and over again with your loved one, and for it to be a fresh experience every time.

It’s important for children need to see photos of themselves and their parents, and images of their grandparents at younger ages. They get a much better sense of their own identity through seeing their place in the larger family.

What better way to do this than give them their own family history book loaded with characters and stories? Pictures with captions, and more detailed stories they will grow into as they learn to read. They will be able to share this with their friends and classmates. Keep the separate set of digital originals on file, so that if a book is lost or damaged, you can easily have another made up from the same images.

So, with the range of books, styles, quality, formats and services available to you, whether online or at your local camera store, you can take advantage of this and create wonderful bound books, for whatever purpose you need.

NOTE: This is not the ScanMyPhotos.com custom “Photo Index Book.” For information about the Photo Index Book, please click here

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Data Recovery: How to Recover Your Lost Digital Files

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We have all experienced it, the panic that one feels when you accidentally hit “Delete All” instead of “Delete Image”. Perhaps you insert your card into your computer and it says, “The disc is not formatted, would you like to format now?” The most important thing to remember is if you’ve lost your digital images, DON’T PANIC. Stop doing anything more to the card.

You made the switch to digital to preserve your photos and now they are gone. ScanMyPhotos.com can help. Send us your media and let us try to recover the files for you instead of losing hope that your European vacation is lost. ScanMyPhotos.com searches your media at a low level to recover and rescue corrupted or lost data from damaged, unreadable, or defective disks. We are optimized to recover your photo image data but can also recover data and movie files. In some cases, we can even rebuild pictures that have suffered minor corruptions.We can recover data from:

• Memory Sticks and Memory Stick Pro
  
• Compact Flash
  
• SD and Mini SD Cards (SecureDigital Card)
  
• XD Cards
  
• CompactFlash Cards
  
• Thumb Drives
  
• SmartMedia
  
• Microdrives

ScanMyPhotos.com, headquartered in Irvine, California will place your recovered files onto a DVD data disc and return your media card with the DVD. While data recovery is not guaranteed, if your card is damaged, corrupted, or has been formatted, ScanMyPhotos.com is the best data-recovery solution you can get for your lost photos. See pricing below.

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How to Reinvent the Photo Industry

 Thanks to New York Times reporter, Sarah Lyall (@SarahLyall) for her August 1st front page profile on Ryanair CEO, Michael O’Leary. The smart lessons make for a Harvard case study on how every industry must refocus how they operate and manage growth. This month, Delta Air Lines is profiling ScanMyPhotos.com in Delta Sky, it’s in-flight magazine, so there is a connection between us and the airlines. Neraly 15-million worldwide passengers will read this “Editors’ Pick profile.

Just like the transportation business, the photo industry is ripe with failures. Rather than fuel being the transending inconvenience, for us it is technology and the transition from film to digital that has burdened our business. It is possible, and we proved it, about how to instantly reinvent the photo imaging industry; it took us 19-years, but the results are now transparent.

Mr. O’Leary’s message is a salutable model for every business. To reinvigorate and reengage customers requires a new approach. Pricing, technology and instant service is paramount and augments an uncompromising commitment to professional quality. Just as travelers want to safely arrive at their destination and not pay a premium price, ScanMyPhotos.com has equally pioneered a new way of thinking about pictures.

There are 3.5 trillion analog photos tucked away in shoe boxes. These fading memories must be shared, preserved and repurposed for today’s all-digital computer world.

For Mr. O’Leary, it went as far as charging for in-flight lavatory use. When asked what happens if “the plane were stricken by some nasty, effluent illness, like food poisoning? A snorting noise wafted over from the chair where Mr. O’Leary was sitting. “We don’t serve enough food for everybody to get food poisoning,” he said.”

At ScanMyPhotos.com, we recognized that millions of domestic and international picture-takers also want no-frills service, but, Ritz Carlton-like service. The KODAK slogan is “you press the button, we do the rest” and that too has been our principle motto. We provide the basics, plus a menu of hundreds of other ways to share and save photo memories. Once the images are digitized, we provide the magic that enables consumers to jettison how they historically thought about pictures; especially those memories from decades and generations of favored photographs.

There is a flourishing opportunity to recast how the photo imaging industry thinks about pictures. At the forefront is ScanMyPhotos.com, which is constantly using our entrepreneurial might to develop new ways to share and preserve those memories. For a menu of photo products, see

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Like Ryanair, since 1990, our business has always had shock value, but in a remarkable way; orders are completed and returned faster than it takes to find your seat on an airplane. It is the magic behind what we do and how we dazzle our customers that has caused such raving reviews, from The New York Times Personal Tech columnist, David Pogue, to the scores of other news profiles. A key value proposition is also our free 24/7 live support help desk to instantly solve most photo imaging questions [give it a try].

The backstage secret: Always trust KODAK technology, it has been a boon to our business. We are even recognized by Web100 as the sixteenth best photography Web site. It is back to the future as tens of millions of analog photo snapshots are instantly being digitized to share and preserve generations of family memories.

There is an urgency to digitize photos, slides and negatives before they fade away. We are the pioneers of super-fast and affordable scanning (less than $50 to scan 1,000 photographic pictures in minutes) by commercializing all types of KODAK technology.

Organizing and sharing photographs has never been simpler or more necessary as thousands of new iPhone, Internet and retail photo lab applications are driving demand to revisit pictures. Photo scanning is reinventing and growing the entire photo imaging category and we are honored to play a key role. Because of our international stature, the company regularly travels the world in our quest to educate and invent new growth opportunities. During the next few months, we will traveling to Italy, Greece, Egypt, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. The company has been a longtime and active member of the Photo Marketing Association for nearly twenty-years.

By solving the biggest problem in photography, bulk photo scanning is fast, effortless and affordable. Send your photos, or order online the prepaid, fill-the-box service that holds about 2,000 photos from ScanMyPhotos.com which includes same day service and completely free shipping for just $124.95 (buy two boxes and the third is free).

Scanning is also revitalizing the entire photo imaging category. Once pictures are digitized, consumers are ordering reprints, giant collage enlargements, custom photo greeting cards, photo albums and dozens of other products online at ScanMyPhotos.com and at its retail photo center, which exclusively promotes KODAK photo kiosks, printed on the new KODAK APEX eco-friendly dry lab system. There are also thousands of independent KODAK photo kiosks located throughout the country and abroad.

Los Angeles Magazine’s “Best of LA” August issue featured ScanMyPhotos.com as “the country’s leading source of quick scans” (p. 113). Nearly 15-million airline passengers will also be reading about ScanMyPhotos.com in the August issue of Delta Sky Magazine, which selected ScanMyPhotos.com for it’s “Lifestyles Editors’ Pick” profile (p 39). Learn more from our hundreds of blog postings at Tales from the World of Photo Scanning and on Twitter.

ScanMyPhotos.com International is a division of 30 Minute Photos Etc., founded in 1990 by Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman.

Pictures are everything, we make yours last a lifetime and more. Thank you for trusting us to help preserve and share your memories.

Mitch Goldstone
President & CEO
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Delta Sky Magazine’s “Editors’ Pick” Profiles ScanMyPhotos.com

The business and lifestyle publication, Delta Sky Magazine is read by millions of airline passengers around the world. In August, Sky is profiling ScanMyPhotos.com as it’s Editors’ Pick,” See link.

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Best of LA: ScanMyPhotos.com Selected for “Our Favorite Things!”

 

 

Thanks to the editors at Los Angeles Magazine (August edition) for profiling ScanMyPhotos.com as one of your favorite things.

THE BEST OF LA 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overview of The Best of LA: Reporting for Best of L.A. involves lurking and surreptitious note taking. It requires undercover visits to spas and bars, blind tasting carrot cakes from 15 bakeries, and investigating fishing holes. For the past few months we (34 reporters in all) roamed the city—sampling, questioning, comparing, debating. The results are in: We have determined the best cheese plate, children’s theater, ethnic vegan restaurant, and beach for novice surfers. We discovered that best doesn’t always mean most expensive. Accolades this year go to a cheap brow job, a Laundromat, a tuna melt, and jewelry under $300. So kick back and enjoy the fruits of our fun labors.

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A KODAK Moment on “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien”

[Photo: Jeff Hayzlett sitting in Conan's seat on the set of the NBC's "The Tonight Show"]

[Photo: The KODAK family and guests posing for our "15-minutes." Carl Berman is 4th from left, Mitch Goldstone 6th from left]

 

[Photo: Mitch Goldstone, president & CEO of ScanMyPhotos.com on the NBC set]

[Photo: Carl and Mitch at Conan's desk]

 [Photo: Host and amazingly nice guy, Conan O'Brien with Jeff Hayzlett ("the modern day George Eastman" KODAK's Chief Marketing Officer afterwards on the roof at the Universal Studios set for the KODAK party].

For anyone questioning the power of the KODAK brand, watch this Conan O’Brien video [about 12 minutes in] and the Kodak plug on “The Tonight Show.” In a humorous sketch parodying product placements in TV shows. In the clip, O’Brien is shown demonstrating and endorsing the Kodak M380 digital camera, all the while denying — with tongue firmly in cheek — that this was a paid announcement. The sketch concludes with a voice over from the “NBC legal department” explaining the product placement deal.

And now for a ScanMyPhotos.com connection. We were there. Thanks to Jeff Hayzlett and the KODAK family, Carl and I join in the fun and attended the show and after party. We were cheering from our seats watching it live and then reading all the Tweets throughout the evening and at dinner afterwards to @JeffreyHayzlett raving about the segment.

 

[Photo: Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman, founders of ScanMyPhotos.com with Mr. O'Brien at the after-party following the taping of Tuesday, July 21st "The Tonight Show."]  

 

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My Dinner with Walter Cronkite

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[Photo: Walter Cronkite and Mitch Goldstone in NYC, April, 2002

Back in April, 2002, Carl and I purchased one of those American Express Platinum Card "By Invitation Only" dinner events. We flew to New York City to spend the evening with Walter Cronkite.

Afterwards, I wrote some notes (below) as a memory from the very intimate dinner gathering.
 
As the entire world mourns the loss of this television pioneer, called "The Most Trusted Man in America," that evening will always be an endearing memory.

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Notes from NYC dinner with Betsy and Walter Cronkite (WC) on April 9, 2002 with Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman.

• In preparing for our evening with the Cronkite's, we had carefully prepared not say it. We both practiced and practiced, then when the time came, we both did it anyway; our first words to him were ... "we watched you on TV as a little kids." Oops.
  
• We began by first greeting Betsy Cronkite who was most approachable; she mentioned that everyone always first greets and treasures the company of her famous, former CBS News anchor, husband and forgets about her. WC noticed our attention towards her, smiled and we won him over.
  
• Great conversation. We even turned it into a sales pitch. He explained that had a digital camera, enjoyed uploading his images to his personal computer, but made prints at home with his home color printer. Imagine "Uncle Walter" making his own prints?
  
• We informed him that by uploading his images directly to our company, he could receive Kodak-quality photographic prints and returned the next day via FedEx. [Always the entrepreneur pitching, today our business is has metamorphosed into a much larger company].
• To paraphrase the evening’s conversation with WC:
  
• He loved President Reagan. In the early 1980s, President Reagan was addressing a gathering of teachers. He said that the first civilian to travel aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle will be… a teacher. He had mistakenly remarked that NASA was planning to invite a teacher rather than a journalist to travel into Space. Rather than clarifying the message, NASA politely went with the President’s comments and the rest was history. WC was to have been selected to be aboard that fateful journey.
  
• WC said the Middle East was reaching a situation as dangerous as was WWII and opined that we are a few feet from a new world war. Left to Israel and the Palestinians, there would be no effective solution. He said that the Palestinians and Israelis will not yield. There is an arrogance to the U.S. mandate on what should be done. Rather, the U.S. should send troops to sanitize and patrol the borders, with the UN troops involvement. The UN was founded to create stability and world peace. We should put our faith in the UN. The UN should enter the conflict with an international peace-keeping force, with troops from all regions, specifically Arab nations. We’re all in this together and the U.S. should have political courage.
  
• After a lengthy discussion on the Middle East, he turned to our waiter and said: “that has taken so much out of me, I’ll have a double.”
  
• The future will bring populations to distant planets and one day we will have space cities on the Moon. Five hundred years from now, the most important date will be Americans’ landing on the moon; much like how today we celebrate the discovery of America. WC said that future civilizations will laugh as they explain that in our day it took four days and a flimsy old rocket ship to bring us to the Moon. WC thinks of himself as the world’s greatest time traveler.
  
• I asked what person he would have most liked to have interviewed. WC: Adolph Hitler.
  
• Although he was hard-of-hearing, he was remarkably friendly and full of humor and stories. When we shared with him from where we reside, he remembered Irvine, Calif. from a profile he did over 30 years-ago when the Boy Scouts of America held a national Jamboree in Irvine and the only thing around, he recollected, were rattle snakes. Irvine today is a modern high-tech residential and business metropolis. [ScanMyPhotos.com is located on Jamboree Parkway, named after that scouting event].

 

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Create Your Own Photo Cards in Seconds

JUST FOR YOU: We just added 100s of new photo greeting card templates so you can instantly design memorable photo cards for every occasion. Our super-fast online ordering is complimented with a super-low rate of as low as 59-cents per card in larger quantities. Best yet, use our free 24/7 live support help desk to assist with your order.

A photo greeting card is a great way to send your customized year-round wishes along with a photograph to your family and friends.

 

Travel, weddings, anniversaries, moving, and dozens of other themed messages are a click away.

 

Each card is 4″x8″, includes a space for your photo and custom text, and ScanMyPhotos.com includes gold foil envelopes with every order. Choose from many different designs as you celebrate the holidays and year-round occasions. Prices are as low as 59¢ per card. It’s fast and easy.  All orders are completed and mailed back, or ready for pickup at our southern California retail photo center the same business day.

Click hereand follow the prompts to create your very own custom ScanMyPhotos.com 4×8″ photo greeting card in seconds. It’s the fewest clicks to card creation on the Internet.

 

 

 

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35mm Slide Scanning

@ScanMyPhotos: Since 1990: Same day, individual hand scanning, color correction of 35mm slides with Kodak Digital Ice at 2000/4000dpi – http://ow.ly/aL2r

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How Photos Can Be Protected From Natural Disasters, Advises ScanMyPhotos.com

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Expanding on the theme of National Preparedness Month (NPM), ScanMyPhotos.com is not waiting until the annual September event to issue an urgent recommendation encouraging people to take action and prepare for emergencies year-round. NPM is a nationwide effort sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Ready Campaign to increase awareness for preparing and to effectively deal with emergencies and natural disasters.

ScanMyPhotos.com, an associate member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), is urging people to have their analog photo snapshots scanned and backed up.

In advance of National Preparedness Month, ScanMyPhotos.com president and CEO, Mitch Goldstone, said, “Beyond gathering survival items when preparing for natural disaster emergencies, such as fires, hurricanes or earthquakes, think about protecting irreplaceable items in the home.”

While insurance may cover replacement of possessions that have monetary value, how are you protecting items of emotional value? Those shoeboxes of family photos tucked away are often overlooked until it is too late.

What is your backup plan?

According to ScanMyPhotos.com, the top six reasons to backup your photo memories are:

1) Offsite storage in case of a natural disaster.

2) Family divorce or relationship separations (duplicate copies solve ownership issues)

3) Halt ongoing fading and discoloration of your older analog pictures.

4) Easy sharing of photo reprints with others.

5) Making treasured photo gifts for anniversaries, birthdays and more.

6) Sharing stories and journaling to give a real ‘face’ for family tree genealogy projects.

“Preparing for a natural disaster is a year-round imperative,” explains Goldstone who said, “In an instant, when disaster strikes, you risk losing precious photo memories. Family photographs document our lives in a way that material items cannot. Once those photos are destroyed, that part of the family history is lost forever. Family photos can also be ‘lost’ due to neglectful storage, sun exposure and actual time. There is an urgency to preserve your analog photos before facing a possible natural disaster emergency.”

The daunting task of individually scanning each picture has been replaced with ultra-fast and affordable bulk photo scanning using Kodak technology and performed by photo imaging industry professionals with same day return. Your photos are digitally scanned and saved onto DVDs allowing you multiple off-site backups.

ScanMyPhotos.com provides secured Extreme Backup to archive all your images. Its menu of hundreds of other photo imaging gift and sharing items are posted on its Web site.

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Founded in 1990 as a boutique retail photo center, today, ScanMyPhotos.com is an international company, headquartered in Irvine, California. The digital imaging retail photo center and international online photo ordering service regularly makes national news for its leadership and entrepreneurial innovations.

Photos Must Be Protected From Natural Disasters, Says ScanMyPhotos.com

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(Irvine, CA) Expanding on the theme of National Preparedness Month (NPM), one company is not waiting until the annual September event to issue an urgent recommendation to encourage people to take action and prepare for emergencies year-round. NPM is a nationwide effort sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Ready Campaign to increase awareness for preparing and to effectively deal with emergencies and natural disasters.

As an associate member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), ScanMyPhotos.com is urging people to have their hard copy photos scanned and backed up now.

ScanMyPhotos.com president and CEO, Mitch Goldstone, said that “In advance of National Preparedness Month it is important to remember that beyond gathering survival items when preparing for natural disasters such as fires, hurricanes or earthquakes one should also focus on the irreplaceable items in the home.

 

What is your backup plan?

 

It is often forgotten that in the aftermath of a disaster, your insurance will cover replacement of possessions that have a monetary value, but items with emotional value can never be replaced. Those shoeboxes of family photos tucked away in your closet or attic are often overlooked until it is too late.”

“Preparing for a natural disaster is a year-round imperative,” explains Goldstone who said, “In an instant, when disaster strikes, you risk loosing precious photo memories. Family photographs document our lives in a way that material items cannot. Once those photos are destroyed, that part of the family history is lost forever. Family photos can also be ‘lost’ due to neglectful storage, sun exposure and actual time. Printed photos will never last forever, they have a very real shelf-life and they deteriorate a little more everyday. Making digital copies slows this process and also preserves them when faced with a natural disaster.”

Because of new photo imaging technology, no longer do you have to individually scan every photo. That daunting taste has been replaced with ultra-fast and affordable bulk photo scanning using Kodak technology and performed by photo imaging industry professionals with same day return. Your photos are digitally scanned and saved onto DVDs allowing you multiple off-site backups.

 

ScanMyPhotos.com also offers its secure Extreme Backup plan for independently archiving all your images assuring the client total photo preservation.

According to ScanMyPhotos.com, there are several reasons to back up your photo memories during National Preparedness Month:

1) Off site storage in case of a natural disaster.
2) Family divorce or relationship separations (duplicate copies solve ownership issues)
3) To halt the ongoing fading and discoloration.
4) Easy sharing photo copies with others.
5) Making treasured photo gifts for anniversaries, birthdays and more.
6) Giving a real ‘face’ to a family tree genealogy project.

Los Angeles based CBS -KCAL Channel 5 News wanted to know more about this process, and recently featured ScanMyPhotos.com showing every step in the speed-scan process from the company’s California headquarters.

Background: The history of ScanMyPhotos.com and affordable bulk photo scanning services: Founded in 1990 as a boutique retail photo center, the company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Today, ScanMyPhotos.com and its digital imaging retail photo center also operates a nationwide online photo ordering service that regularly makes national news for its leadership, entrepreneurial innovations and super-fast service. The company provides hundreds of photo imaging services. Years ago, the ScanMyPhotos.com division commercialized a new type of ultra-fast Kodak photo scanning technology to safely digitize and preserve tens of millions of millions of photo snapshots. Popular Photography called ScanMyPhotos.com a “leader in digitizing prints,” the company has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Click to read David Pogue’s Personal Tech review in The New York Times.
 
The National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) is the leading professional organizing authority dedicated to helping individuals and businesses bring order and efficiency to their lives. NAPO helps individuals or businesses conquer clutter and chaos with advice and insight on organizing as well as a way to connect with the most valuable organizing resource of all——the professional organizer. NAPO provides a variety of courses, business resources, and networking opportunities, especially through its annual conference and educational teleclasses. ScanMyPhotos.com is a NAPO associate member.

 

 

 

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In Preparation For a Natural Disaster, Are Your Photos Safe?

We have all heard it a thousand times ‘be prepared for The Big One’. And ‘The Big One’ varies from area to area. It is an earthquake, a fire, a tornado, a flood or even a home robbery. We hear about it. We talk about it. And we think about it …but when it comes down to it, just how prepared are you?

September is

But, sitting in front of your computer and scanning these photos one by one can a painfully slow process, even taking months or years to complete. It just isn’t realistic. Fortunately there are services like ScanMyPhotos.com which make backing up your hard copy photos easy and affordable with their ‘speed-scan’ process.Marcy Massura. A humorist, writer and actual customer of ScanMyPhotos. As well as a huge fan of being prepared.

A sturdy and secure box arrives at your home, which you can fill with your photos (approximately 2000 per box) and you return to ScanMyPhotos.com on your own time. (ScanMyPhotos.com pays for postage all three ways).

Once received, the photos are professionally scanned and returned to you the same day. There are also hundreds of other photo imaging products available from ScanMyPhotos.com. You receive your original photos back and new digital DVD data discs. Request several copies to share with relatives or to store off-site in multiple locations. Order custom photo index books and literately hundreds of other photo products to share and save your special memories directly from ScanMyPhotos.com.

In addition to knowing you are preserving your family treasures you can also email photos and upload to the Internet with ease.

Don’t let ‘the big one’ win!

With ScanMyPhotos.com, it is easy to be prepared for anything that comes your way.

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National Preparedness Month, which is a perfect reminder to us all to put that planning into action. While we might have a few extra canned goods stored, or a copy of our insurance policies in a safe, but what about your photos? One of the most over-looked areas of preventive preservation is backing up our hard-copy photos. When disaster strikes, it is the irreplaceable memories that affect the victims the most. Your wedding album, boxes of photos your children and photos of relatives no longer living are all examples of precious items that need to be cared for responsibly.

 

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Top 10 Apple iPhone Photo Applications

1. The CameraZoom app, from KendiTech, is currently topping the list of iPhone photo apps and is selling for just $0.99. CameraZoom allows users to zoom in or out on their iPhone camera with the capacity up to 4X digital zoom. This app allows users to adjust the photo to the best quality after taking the photo.
2. ColorSplash, from Hendrick Kueck, is remains on the list of top 10 iPhone photo apps and sells for $1.99. ColorSplash gives photos a dramatic look by converting them to black and white, while keeping chosen details in color. This effect helps draw the viewer’s attention to the colored portions of the photos.
3. The Photogene application, by Omer Shoor, allows users to improve digital photos and have fun while doing it, says the description. Photogene offers a comprehensive set of professional editing tools in a simple, appealing interface. Users can crop images, correct color distribution, rotate and mirror images, as well as add special effects. Photogene can be purchased for just $2.99.
4. With the Picfree app, from Pinger Inc., users can send pictures to any U.S. mobile phone via MMS or even to an email for free. Picfree is for sending picture messages only and retails for $5.99.
5. 101 PhotoFilters, from MacPhun LLC, includes more than 101 high quality filters and photo effects for the iPhone or iPod Touch. Users can take instant photos or choose pictures from albums and easily apply any filter in just three taps. This app is available for only $0.99.
6. The NightCamera app, from Sudobility, picks the decisive moment for capturing a particular image. NightCamera detects motion and pulls the trigger when steadiest. When the shutter button is pressed, for 3 seconds the app takes accelerometer readings, and at the exact moment the sensor determines that the camera is steady, the shutter is triggered. NightCamera also provides tips on night photography and can be downloaded for 99 cents.
7. Nick Campbell developed ShakeItPhoto, available for just $0.99. The purpose of the app is to take a regular photo taken with the iPhone into a Polaroid like snapshot with vibrant colors. Shaking the iPhone causes the picture to develop quicker.
8. The DSLR Remote Professional Edition app, from onOne Software, allows users to control their DSLR camera through their iPhone, including LiveView. DSLR Remote makes remote shooting with high or low angles and self portraits and taking photos of children easy and fun. Users need to have a Canon DSLR camera and a WiFi connection. This app is available for $9.99.
9. Sam Williams developed the Faces Wild! app that shows users how silly their faces would look on the body of someone else. With this app, users can choose a scene from different categories and align their face with the hole by pinching and dragging. More scenes are continuously being added and once the app knows where a face it, it automatically aligns it to subsequent scenes. This app retails for just $0.99.
10. With the CameraBag app, from Nevercenter Ltd. Co., users can enhance photos from the iPhone camera or iPhone/iPod Touch photo library. CameraBag has advanced filters that imitate seven different camera/film styles users can apply to pictures. CameraBag retails for $2.99.

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FREE Ice Cream Social: Make Your Own Sundae at ScanMyPhotos.com

 

DELICIOUS FRIDAY at ScanMyPhotos.com – Serving Up FREE Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream

MAKE YOUR OWN ICE CREAM SUNDAE – MAKE YOUR OWN KODAK PHOTO GIFTS

We love Kodak and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and invite all our Orange County neighbors to an old-fashion ice cream social on Friday, June 5th from 12:00 -2:00 pm at our Irvine retail photo center.

 

 

Since 1990, we have been bring smiles to many at our retail photo center [30 Minute Photos Etc.] and more recently through ScanMyPhotos.com – our international photo scanning and online digital imaging service.

 

Now, our ScanMyPhotos.com division is gearing up for providing more joy and yummy treats with our DELICIOUS FRIDAY’S. Stop by, say hello and make your own complimentary Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Sundae, while supply lasts. See if we have your favorite flavor?

 

 

And, to continue with the do-it-yourself theme, bring in all those shoeboxes of photos, 35mm slides and film negatives to have us scan and preserve your photo memories on digital DVDs. Also gather your digital photo memory cards, camera cell phones and other digital files to create beautiful Kodak memories; it’s super easy to use our banks of Kodak photo kiosks.

 

 

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Google Wave: Redefining How You Share Photos and Stories from ScanMyPhotos.com

 

This is the next new, new, application once your thousands of photos are digitized at ScanMyPhotos.com. Share your memories with friends and relatives and create a new community to discuss and laugh as you reminisce.

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave. Google Wave can make you more productive even when you’re having fun.

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Unlike online forums, Google Waves reflect changes in more or less real time: You can see responses appear from Wave participants as the typing occurs, network latency permitting. There is, however, an option to show a reply only after all typing has been completed.

Google Wave will be available this fall and check back often for regular updates. We are so excited and look forward to incorporating this brilliant new Google tool to compliment your photo scanning orders.

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Free Photo Scanning Swag For WSJ “All Things Digital” Executive Conference Attendees

FREE PHOTO SCANNING (a $49.95 Value):

If you are attending The Wall Street Journal’s “D All Things Digital” Executive Conference this week, and even if you are not, here is some free swag from ScanMyPhotos.com.

 

We are providing anyone attending the Carlsbad, Calif event and anyone else following @ScanMyPhotos on Twitter with digitally scanning up to 1,000 free analog 4×6″ photo snapshots with same day return (pay just $19.95 for return S&H) through June 1st.

 
WHY WE ARE GIVING AWAY FREE PHOTO SCANNING:

Heck, we’re smart markets and know that the tech world is watching the conference. “D All Things Digital,” known as “D7” is all about digital, and so are we. Besides, the business we pioneered years ago, by commercializing KODAK technology, is regularly scoring mega buzz. And, helping to preserve photos has been our passion since our company was founded way back in the days of film and chemistry in 1990.

ABOUT THE “D7″ CONFERENCE:

Since “D” began seven years ago, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher have championed bringing together the key influencers to discuss the digital revolution. According to their AllThingsD.com website, “[t]hey bring together the industry’s top players to the test during informal but pointed conversations about the impact digital technology will have on our lives now and in the future. The results are critical insights and relevant advice…”

ABOUT SCANMYPHOTOS

Few know better about how technology has transformed our economy from analog to digital than those in the photo imaging business. The problem was how to solve the biggest problem in photography – unlocking generations of analog photo snapshots to digitally share and preserve all those special memories. ScanMyPhotos.com solved that program by affordably and super-quickly getting all those snapshots onto your computer, iPhone and all the new digital applications.

 

INSTRUCTIONS: HOW TO HAVE UP TO 1,000 FREE ANALOG 4×6″ PHOTOS DIGITIZED (Pay just $19.95 return S&H) .COM:

1. Follow @ScanMyPhotos on Twitter.com
2. Download this order form and type “trade trial” in the box marked: “To validate, please enter the web address of your page”
3. We will scan up to 1,000 4×6″ non-copyrighted photo snapshots with same day fulfillment (regularly $49.95)
4. You pay $19.95 for return S&H via USPS Priority Mail
5. This special is valid for U.S. domestic orders only
6. Additional paid services are available, including custom photo albums, photo enhancements and extra DVDs
7. Limited to one complimentary scanning service per person / address. Cannot be combined with other orders. Expires on June 1, 2009
8. Click here for mandatory packing instructions (Photographs must comply with ordering requirements and be loose, out of envelopes and albums)
9. Access ScanMyPhotos.com 24/7 Live Support help desk anytime
10. Enjoy your newly digitized photo memories from ScanMyPhotos.com

Here are some of the extra paid services that you can add to your order:
 
Photo Soap (Photo Enhancement)
Extreme Backup
Photo Index Book
Additional DVDs
Image Rotation
Photo Scanning in Specified Order
Kodak Picture Movie DVD
ScanMyPhotos.com E-Gift Certificate

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APS, 35mm Negative, Medium Format Scanning to DVD, New Lower Prices, Intl Service

All Scanning is completed at our Southern California headquarters in Irvine, CA. Most orders completed the same day and full international delivery service is our speciality at ScanMyPhotos.com

35MM NEGATIVE SCANNING:
Trust ScanMyPhotos.com to preserve all your 35mm color or black & white negatives onto digital DVDs. Your negatives are scanned at 2000 dpi (5MP) with higher resolution files available at a higher cost.

International Service – Most Orders Completed Same Day

Now just $0.39 per exposure, includes one complimentary DVD Data Disc. Most orders are completed the same day and returned internationally, along with your original negatives and the new digital files.

REQUIREMENTS: Your standard 35mm negative strips must be at least two negatives long and we must scan the entire strip. We cannot selectively scan negatives on a strip (ex. frame #3a, #6A); it’s the entire strip that must be scanned. You can easily order additional photographic prints at the time the order is placed from our online pro lab ordering service.

We color and density correct and enhance each image using Digital ICE. (Note: Digital ICE cannot be used with B&W film. These negatives will be scanned without Digital ICE).

NEW: For $0.74 per exposure, have your negatives scanned at 4000 dpi creating a 16MP equivalent file. Best for museum-quality archival purposes. For this service, check the appropriate box on the order form of additional services.

PACKING INSTRUCTIONS: If you have your negatives in sleeves, please leave them in the sleeves. This helps protect your negatives from damage from shipping. If they are not in sleeves, we recommend placing them in a standard envelope to help keep them protected during transit. DO NOT FOLD YOUR NEGATIVES. This will render them unscannable.

Ready to order? Click here to download the 35mm negative and APS film scanning order form.

APS – Kodak Advantix, Advanced Photo System Negative Scanning
The same service and options as 35mm film scanning but APS film is $9.95 for per roll, regardless of exposure count (15, 25 or 40 exposure). Due to APS’ smaller film size, file sizes are smaller at the same resolution when scanned, compared to 35mm film.

When scanning APS film the entire negative is scanned regardless of what you shot the layout to be. The way APS film worked was it always shot a 4×7 proportionate negative and then would be cropped accordingly when printed. We scan the entire negative that was shot and ignore what the setting on the camera was at the time of the picture giving you the full image.

PACKING INSTRUCTIONS: APS film is self-contained in the canister. Please do not remove or attempt to remove the film from the cartridge.

NOTE: While this occurs only occasionally, we have found that over the years, some places decided to process and print APS film but did want to make the investment into the required equipment to do so. These labs would remove the film from the cartridges, tape it to a card and process the film. Unfortunately, when you use this process, you have to cut the film and official APS film printers/scanners require a very specific minimum length of film. If it is even the slightest bit short, it then becomes unprintable/unscannable with the proper equipment, which we have. Sometimes labs would get lucky with their cutting, however most of the time, it was cut too short for official equipment. Since we don’t have any other way to scan APS film, we are unable to scan those rolls and will be returned with a note.

Click here to download the 35mm negative and APS film scanning order form.

Medium Format Negative Scanning
We can scan single cut or strip cut medium format. Pricing for single cut or cut rolls is noted below. As with standard 35mm negatives and slides, all scans are processed with Digital ICE to color correct and remove dust and scratches that may be present. Standard scanning of medium format is done at 1000dpi. High-resolution scans are scanned at 2000dpi for double the cost. Due to medium format’s larger frame, we can scan them at a lower resolution resulting in high quality scans when compared to standard 35mm. You can easily order additional photographic prints at the time the order is placed. 6×4.5, 6×6, 6×7, 6×8, or 6×9 format only.

PACKING INSTRUCTIONS: If you have your negatives in sleeves, please leave them in the sleeves. This helps protect your negatives from damage from shipping. If they are not in sleeves, we recommend placing them in a standard envelope to help keep them protected during transit. DO NOT FOLD YOUR NEGATIVES. This will render them unscannable.

Medium Format Scan Prices (cost per frame)

Quantity…….1000dpi……….2000dpi
1-125……………$2.48…………..$4.96
126-750…………$2.14…………..$4.28
751+…………….$1.95…………..$3.90

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Starbucks® Scores “F,” Stifling Innovation, Says Entrepreneur

Stepping back from our regular Tales from the World of Photo Scanning updates and profiles on the photo imaging industry, as well-known entrepreneurs and photo industry leaders, our success at ScanMyPhotos.com has been based on innovation and stirring up new ways to reinvent our business, ever since we were founded in 1990.

This is why the recent nationwide Starbucks Coffee Company ad campaign raises such interest. “It’s Not Just Coffee. It’s Starbucks” ad campaign indirectly and precipitously assaults another American institution, McDonald’s Corporation. The poorly conceived ad campaign by Starbucks warrants a response, especially from entrepreneurs.

The copy editors who wrote this ad have a short memory. While they explain that Starbuck’s products are not “a hobby or a potential new ‘revenue stream,’” they conveniently forgot about its prior head-to-head battle against McDonald’s for quick, hot breakfast sandwiches to compete against McDonald’s McMuffins.

Mitch Goldstone, president and CEO of ScanMyPhotos.com, and a longtime consumer advocate said “the Starbucks campaign is stifling competition and thwarting innovation and entrepreneurial inventiveness. Today, more than ever, smart businesses are incessantly reinventing themselves. That is exactly what McDonald’s is doing with it’s investment with its McCafe brand. However, by assaulting competition, Starbucks, the global coffee purveyor, is instead cheapening its brand.”

ScanMyPhotos.com salutes McDonald’s and its drive to heighten its product categories. They are employing thousands of people and supporting many new businesses that are connected with this new product launch. That is a good thing. However, this campaign which is frightening consumers and warning them, without directly mentioning McDonald’s that “their coffee may appear less expensive. But, buyer beware. It’s the hidden costs that will get you in the end,” is anticompetitive and wrong. Besides, according to the ad, about 66% of all Starbucks beverages cost more than $2.00.

The result, from our prospective is that the new campaign undermines and compromises Starbucks integrity.

Good bye Starbucks, hello McCafe!





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Did You Win? The Ten Photo Scanning Winners From ScanMyPhotos.com Are…

Loads of free swag was just provided to ten people following @ScanMyPhotos on Twitter.

ScanMyPhotos.com just randomly announced the first ten winners to receive a combined, all-inclusive photo scanning package worth $3,499. We are contacting the winners now and will be mailing out the certificates with complete redemption information on Monday. Hope your name is listed below!

To redeem your certificate, review your direct message (DM) that was just sent from @ScanMyPhotros.

Congratulations to the winners. After your completed free order is returned, won’t you please share your feedback from your experience with ScanMyPhotos.com. Let others, and us know how you enjoyed the service. To assist, you can always reach us at our free 24/7 Live Support help desk.

The ten winners are:

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Each winner is receiving $349.95 in free products listed below. For contest rules, click on this link.

1- Prepaid ScanMyPhotos.com photo scanning box for our famous USPS Priority mail co-branded fill-the-box photo scanning (11″x9″x6″), holds about 2,000 standard photos and includes same-day fulfillment

4 Duplicate DVDs (total 5 DVDs of your order)

Up to 300 4×6 Kodak prints that you order from our online photo printing service (pay for return S&H)

FedEx Ground return with free signature confirmation

1 FREE professional Photo Restoration (up to $159.95 value)

Photo Index Book and Image Rotation

1 Year of Extreme Backup SM

Photo Soap SM to custom enhance your older, faded photos

Scan in Order

Total value: $635.72, regular price: $349.95, regular savings: $285.77. Your price: FREE

Another random contest will be announced shortly. The ongoing other contest just for following @ScanMyPhotos for another free Kodak ZI6 HD Digital Video Camera will be announced on May 20th. Click here for more info.

For more info on this contest, please click on this link.

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Gadgets We Want to Give Our Moms 10 (Via Switched.com)

More raves.

Thanks to Sean Captain at Switch.com, one of the leading gadget and tech websites for including ScanMyPhotos.com as one of the 14 recommended gadgets to give to Mom. The Editor’s Pick and also the Most Popular article right now at Switch is the one mentioning ScanMyPhotos.com. We’re cheering too!

Excerpt:

“9) ScanMyPhotos OK, so maybe you’re a good nerdy child, you’re getting mom all electronic with a digital camera, digital picture frame, camcorder and heck maybe even a Facebook page. But mom has spent decades accumulating memories in analog form-such as the thousands of photos sitting in the basement of in yellowing, cracking picture frames. No matter how much you love mom, you’re probably not going to take a week off to scan all her photos by hand. So hire someone. ScanMyPhotos.com makes it easy-offering 1,000 scans to 300-dpi JPEG images on DVD for a scant $50. You’ll have to spend some time sorting the pictures by size and bundling them up for shipping. But once you do, your work is done. $49.95 for 1,000 scans; scanmyphotos.com“

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Delta Air Lines, Inc: An Entrepreneurial Innovator

Yes, Delta Air Lines’ primary business objective is to safely get passengers to their destinations, but the story behind how they do it is a masterful entrepreneurial case study.

From the tens-of-millions of pictures that ScanMyPhotos.com digitizes, every order has something in common with airlines; travel pictures are regularly included within each order and create much of the treasured memories that become lifelong photo keepsakes. [Separately, Dan Carp, Delta's board chairman is an old time friend and the inspiration behind our success and reason we too constantly innovate our business model. Based also on Mr. Carp’s prior leadership as the Eastman Kodak Company’s CEO, it is no surprise that the airline is also so resourceful and steadfast in its resolve to always be creating new ways to be more efficient.]

Earlier this week, I attended the Kioskcom Self Service Expo in Las Vegas and experienced one of those educational lessons where you do not want it to end and take voluminous notes and garner inspiring ideas from. The visionary keynote speaker with sprightly ideas was Josh Weiss, Managing Director of Delta.com.

Just as how my company advanced from its early days – back in 1990 when we just developed film and printed pictures – into today’s international photo imaging ecommerce business and retail presence, Delta Air Lines, the world’s largest airline, also is an entirely new company today. As ScanMyPhotos.com is in the picture business, Delta Air Lines is all about airplanes, but it is what is behind how they do their magic that sparks real innovations.

From Mr. Weiss’ presentation, it is clear that the airline is much more about convenience than just flying passengers to destinations. Delta Air Lines has designed the world’s most appealing and friendly interactive kiosk service and Ecommerce online solutions to speed up passenger experiences. They are constantly innovating. Just thirteen years ago, there were no kiosks in use by the airline, today, nearly 80% of all passenger transactions are placed from the electronic terminals rather than at the ticket counter.

Just as how we use our banks of Kodak photo kiosks at our Irvine-based retail photo center to compliment every customer experience, Delta Air Lines also is simplifying and improving their passenger’s encounters.

Their objective is to keep customers happy.

An example is a new iPhone application that displays an electronic barcode boarding pass which is scanned at the gate – no more wasteful paper tickets. Today, customers at Delta gates experience literally no waiting due to the new Delta kiosks which interact with passengers and cause the airline’s employees to step out from behind the counter to personalize the ticketing experience and interact more as friends than robots.

Mr. Weiss explained that to further simplify the kiosk experience, even though there are multiple language selections, they made it super-easy. The proof is that rather than an “Order Now” prompt, the call to action has been minimized to just one word: “Start.” They made things really simple. At ScanMyPhotos.com we will follow that lesson by also simplifying our order prompts to just: “Start.”

These are shrewd lessons for all entrepreneurs to question how you too can constantly enhance your customer experience, while always be thinking and changing the way your company does business. At Delta Air Lines, nothing is stagnant and they are always inventing the next new service feature. Their commitment to passenger check-in kiosks is central to why Delta Air Lines is so entrepreneurial.

Each kiosk boasts plenty of personal space for luggage. They even position the kiosks to minimize any distractions for shadows caused by glare from outside sunlight. As for the airline’s self-service and Ecommerce business. I asked Mr. Weiss how he integrates social network marketing and Twitter into their business. He explained that when a corporate message is posted, there is not the same level of credibility as when it comes from a customer. There is more value when a message comes from peers, rather than just from his department. When Delta.com sends out a message they might get a handful of replies, when it comes from customers, dozens of responses are generated.

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Dear Mom, Use This E-Gift Card-Certificate to Enjoy Beautiful Photo Memories

Not sure what to get for Mother’s Day? Give her everything – share those thousands of snapshot family photo memories as newly scanned digital keepsakes.

ScanMyPhotos.com E-Gift Card-Certificates

Now Available For Mother’s Day

There are special stories to share and emotional memories from every snapshot, but most are tucked away in draws and haven’t been shared in decades. That is why Mother’s Day will be extra special this year when you buy ScanMyPhotos.com E-Gift Card-Certificates and prepaid fill-the-box photo scanning to present to Mom on May 10th. All orders are fulfilled and prepared for same day mailing

Give an instant gift!

You choose the amount from $25 to $500. Each is redeemable for our entire menu of online photo scanning services – including our just updated, Platinum Premier Photo Scanning Package – all-inclusive with loads of extra additions for one low price.

It takes a minute to order online and Mom also instantly receives your free Mother’s Day personalized gift message from you and the online secured access code via email.

Any questions, use our 24/7 free Live Support help desk at ScanMyPhotos.com. We are here right now! And, Mom will also have access to the help desk. Remember, all photo scanning orders are completed and mailed back the same day.

Share this unique photo scanning gift with Mom and ScanMyPhotos.com will help make it an extra special Mother’s Day!

Click here to instantly order ScanMyPhotos.com E-Gift Card Certificates

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FREE SWAG: Follow @ScanMyPhotos on Twitter for $3,499 in Free Scanning Products

$3,499 in Virtual Swag From ScanMyPhotos.com

More free stuff by following us on Twitter and just in time for Mother’s Day!

JUST FOR YOU! To help promote the newest all-inclusive photo scanning service, ScanMyPhotos.com is randomly giving away ten Platinum Premier Photo Scanning Boxes (a combined total value of $3,499) to ten separate people following us on Twitter. No purchase necessary, but we hope you tell the world about ScanMyPhotos.com.

Ten separate winners will each receive $349.95 in free products listed below:

• 1- Prepaid ScanMyPhotos.com photo scanning box for our famous USPS Priority mail co-branded fill-the-box photo scanning (11″x9″x6″), holds about 2,000 standard photos and includes same-day fulfillment
  
• 4 Duplicate DVDs (total 5 DVDs of your order)
  
• Up to 300 4×6 Kodak prints that you order from our online photo printing service (pay for return S&H)
  
• FedEx Ground return with free signature confirmation
  
• 1 FREE professional Photo Restoration (up to $159.95 value)
  
• Photo Index Book and Image Rotation
  
• 1 Year of Extreme Backup SM
  
• Photo Soap SM to custom enhance your older, faded photos 

• Scan in Order Total value: $635.72, regular price: $349.95, regular savings: $285.77. Your price: FREE
  

RULES AND HOW TO ENTER: No purchase necessary to win a free all-inclusive ScanMyPhotos.com Platinum Premier photo scanning package giveaway (each valued at $349.95). Just follow @ScanMyPhotos [Twitter.com/ScanMyPhotos] on Twitter and enter this message:

“FREE SWAG: I’m following @ScanMyPhotos to win free photo scanning package on 5/8 ($349.95 value) http://bit.ly/FVeQA“

HOW WINNERS ARE SELECTED: Using Tweetaways provides an easy way to pick a random winner for twitter giveaways. On May 8th, we enter the above phrase that we are asking you to forward (RT, “Retweet”), then we click the ‘Pick A Winner’ button to draw a random winner. Tweetaways selects a random winner from all the tweets in the Twitter stream that match that phrase. It could be you. This is a simple and fair way to select the winners. Good luck!

Limit one winner per Twitter address selected and the certificate will be mailed to the address provide when we DM (“direct message”) the winners. We make no warranties and this is not an implied contract. Winners must comply with all requirements, including how to prepare photos, limit of liability and copyright rules posted at ScanMyPhotos.com. Must mail in box for scanning within 365-days from receipt. MUST BE RESIDENT OF U.S. and mailed to only U.S. domestic USPS address.

Any questions, reach us on our 24/7 Live Support help desk or email: info@ScanMyPhotos.com

ScanMyPhotos.com – “Pictures are Everything… We Make Yours Last a Lifetime and More”

 

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ScanMyPhotos.com Joins NAPO (Natl Assn Professional Organizers)

 

NAPO is a group of about 4,200 professional organizers dedicated to helping individuals and businesses bring order and efficiency to their lives. The vision is to have the world recognize the value of organizing and turn to NAPO as the leading organizing authority. Its mission is to develop, lead, and promote professional organizers and the organizing industry.

In addition to serving professional organizers, like the services provided by ScanMyPhotos.com to unclutter and digitize generations of analog family photo memories , NAPO aims to help consumers and those interested in becoming professional organizers.

NAPO is also a national member of the National Preparedness Month coalition. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sponsors National Preparedness Month annually in September. It’s never too early to begin planning for these public-awareness campaigns.

At ScanMyPhotos.com, we provide year-round help in preparing and protecting your family’s entire photo history from natural disasters, decay, fading and even the damage caused by a family divorce, where photos are often, otherwise neglected or unable to be divided. Other easy-to-use services include instantly and affordable online photo ordering, custom photo albums, folded photo greeting cards, custom photo restoration, Kodak Picture Movie DVDs to share your photos on TV, and hundreds of other photo imaging services.

Let ScanMyPhotos.com help preserve and organize your pictures Today!

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ScanMyPhotos.com, the international photo imaging and scanning company, based in Irvine, Calif. has joined The National Association of Professional Organizers as an Associate Member.

 

Free Return FedEx Ground Delivery – Recession Buster

 

Free FedEx Ground shipping for all pay-per-1,000 photo scanning orders totaling $250 or more from ScanMyPhotos.com. Now, through June 6th, receive free FedEx Ground return shipping on your Pay-per-1,000 photo scanning order when it totals $250 or more and you type in on the order form* the code:
FREESHIPPING609

See below for sample order form and placement info

*Offer valid only on Pay-per-1,000 photo scanning orders and promo code must be entered in order form to redeem. Offer not valid for any other service and cannot be combined with any other offer, nor applied to orders already submitted/completed. US domestic orders only. Received order must be post marked by June 6th.

Before ordering, please click here to read the requirements on how to prepare your photos for scanning

To order, click here

Any questions? Visit ScanMyPhotos.com and use our free 24/7 Live Support help desk or Tweet us at Twitter.com/ScanMyPhotos

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