Deal Busters: - Time to look Dehind the Scenes at a Train Set Up
Hope you all had a fabulous weekend and did some shopping. I did two trips to LD and managed to use some coupons. :-)
This next slideshow will give you a better idea of what the conductor for a train does plus how to leave ratings for a train. I also discuss some of pitfalls with trains.
Next up: will be more on trading and shopping with coupons, the store policies, the cashiers, nerves and apprehensions
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Watch Thing 6: How to Conduct a Train
And ... Your Activity
1. What do you think (or know) are some of the best things about trains?
2. What are some of the troubles with trains that lead riders to be disappointed and feel the train wasn't worth it?
3. Do you think you'll ride trains or conduct them (or are you already doing so).
SC Tip: How to Post Flyers from photos you take with your camera
Here we go.
Snap your photos and download to your computer. Usually they are pretty large size so you may want to resize them.
If you don't have a graphics program to do this don't worry.
You can choose a free photo site to upload them to such as:
1. Photobucket
2. Flickr
3. Right here on Smart Canucks in your album.
Step by Step Guide
1. Go to your profile page and look on the right hand column. There's should be a section for Albums. See below. I already have some albums so there's a "thumbnail".
http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/members...-add-photo.jpg
2. You will likely want to create a new album.
Click on "add album" and fill out the form with the name and save.
http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/members...reatealbum.jpg
3. You'll see a link to upload photos and click it to get to this form.
For each photo you'll need to click the "browse" button and go to the place where the photo is stored on your hard drive.
Then click upload.
Note: As the photo is uploaded, the SC bulletin board resizes it to 800 pixels wide and scales the height accordingly. This fits nicely on the board but it can be blurry.
http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/members...uploadpics.jpg
After uploading you have the option of adding a better title or description.
4. When you click on the thumbnail and see the full size image there will be 2 choices for the link to the photo:
http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/members...-photolink.jpg
You'll notice in the purple ellipse there is the HTML link and the BB code link. BB means bulletin board.
It`s fastest to cut the BB code and paste it into your post. That`s what I did just above. It puts all the coding you need into the post.
If you prefer the HTML link then you need to click on the picture icon - see below and then paste in the URL to the photo that you copied. You can do this for any photo on or off Smart Canucks site.
http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/members...tolinkhtml.jpg
What are the pros and cons of using SmartCanucks or a free photo site?
Photobucket has the ability to use CTRL key and click on many photos and then hit upload. Saves a bit of time. You have an option of choosing the size to post or resizing the photo. You can have a HTML or BB code.
Flickr has similar features to Photobucket but you can not resize. Flickr requires you to include a link back to its site whenever you post an image from there (it's all in the code you paste so no worries).
Are there other options?
Yes there are many free file upload sites where you can put your photos and then add them to your post on Smart Canucks for people to see.
Questions?
Chimmi - the train is coming to you next
Reno's are crazy. Can we see a before photo?
Chimmi - the train left on Sunday going to you. So it could even be there tomorrow if we're lucky.:-)
Here's the train order and list: 2nd post in this thread
http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/184316-...uponer-canada/
Deal Busting Divas - you are amazing
So happy when people post and share their experiences like you're doing.:-)
Do you find it interesting? Helpful too?
Time to chug along to another Thing or Two.
Here's hoping the train arrives at Chimmi's tomorrow:biggrin:
Thing 7: Your First Coupon Shop or ...
How I Learned to be a Confident Couponer
This is an audio recording (podcast) of an interview I did with Susan who is part of this EPIC couponing group. I'd like to thank her so much for being willing to share her experiences starting out shopping with coupons and what she did when she encountered obstacles.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...ithcoupons.jpg
Listen to the interview now.
Thing 8: How To Handle Cashiers That Won’t Accept Your Coupons
Mrs January an amazing couponer has a super section on her blog for starting out couponing (which I just discovered).
So why invent a wheel, when there's a super one out there?
Here's her take on: How To Handle Cashiers That Won’t Accept Your Coupons Fixed the link a 2nd time. It works now.
I think this fits nicely with the ideas Susan shared in her interview and has a few more suggestions.