Cut the High Cost of Shipping Supplies

Hey Gang,

found this one just before the holidays and got so busy, I forgot to pass it on. That's ok though, because it's ongoing.

If you run a business, sell items by online auction or just do a lot of mailing, here a simple way to cut the costs. Order your shipping supplies from the USPS website!

They provide a variety of shipping supplies, including boxes and tape, shipped directly to your door and most are absolutely free! You can even prepay shipping charges and print out the labels ( sorry, you do have to pay for that part ).

Boxes from your local store or supply shop can cost up to $3.50 each and tape is a buck minimum, so you can start to see where thing could add up.

Again, it's the US Postal Service website but keep in mind, their supplies can only be used for to ship stuff via the USPS! Just think of the time and money you'll save preparing your packages at home, with labels completed, so all you have to do is drop them off or have the postman pick them up!

Be sure to check it out and get a jump on the next holiday season rush and remember, if you find a good low or no cost item/service on the net, drop me a line so we can share it!

Eric

Upgrade your website with a Flash Intro!

Here's one that can take your personal website or home page to the next level.

Have you seen those cool flash animated intro pages that many people have on their sites?

Look expensive don't they? We'll, you're right. They're also fairly complicated to produce requiring pricey software and a lot of skill unless, you know where to look.

Flashberry.com offers an easy-to-use online tool you can use to build your own flash intros. All that's required is a Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher web browser with the Macromedia Flash plug-in 6 or higher plug-in installed (both of these are available for free) and you can create your own flash intro in a matter of minutes, with no technical knowledge, or software to download or install.

The Flashberry Intro Builder, let's you design and download flash intros by combining free templates with your own content. You can also add you can insert in your intro movie clips, images, text effects and sound templates.

Once you've finished, you can instantly save and download your intro file (swf) and the web page to embed it (html). Then, just download your completed intro at absolutely no charge, (Flashberry does add a small, non obtrusive flashberry logo in the upper left corner of your downloaded content).

There are a variety of colorful and creative templates to use plus, you can insert your own non-interlaced jpg graphic files up to 20KB. You can also add up to nine pages of text and a link targeting an email or internet address. Click here to see an example.

Although Flashberry Intro Builder is based on free templates you can customize all the elements you insert by changing their color, position and size.

You have the ability to insert your own graphic files: non-interlaced jpg files up to 20KB. You can also insert up to nine pages of text and a link targeting an email or internet address!

To recap, no flash skills are needed, it's easy to use, has a click-n-drag interface with a large number of flash templates to choose from and instant download!

Flashberry.com is the site and I've tried it and this thing is cool! The only thing is, with the free service, you're limited in what you can save and where you can import the files to but for only $4.99 per month, you can load images up to 100kb and save them without the Flashberry logo add.

Either way, you can't lose so, check it out and let me know what you think!