Over 100 New Photo Book Designs: APM Content Release 2!

This content release can be installed on APMs with 6.0 or 6.1. Over 100 new book designs in 11x8.5, 8.5x11, 8x6, A4, A5, and square-page photo books. New themes include Dog, Cat, Backyard Party, Beach Nature, Relaxing Getaway, Elegance, Romance, Travel, Birthday, School, and Season’s Greetings. Square-page books offer customers some great scrapbook-inspired styles—a quick and easy way to get creative with photos! As well, this release contains envelopes in categories and posters with 1/4-1/2" borders ready for framing. When you update to 6.1, you will have the ability to offer book covers, proof books, note card packs, banners and non-keyhole books.

Contact your Sales Rep to order the content on DVD ($25), or download the 700MB of material via the Lucidiom Downloader tool. (more info about this tool in Step 4 on this page)

APM 6.1 & Lab 50 6.1: Ready to Go!

Steve weighs in on his top 5 in "Steve's Top 5 in 6.1" -- Read his list on the Lucidiom Blog.

The APM update features scanner calibration, new products (book covers, proof books, note cards, banners), multi-photo gifts and a ton of improvements and fixes. The Lab 50 update includes product category positioning, direct print product editing, optimized order export processing, a paper saver feature for wide-format, inkjet and roll-fed printers, and also a list of improvements and fixes. Visit Support > Downloads to download the updaters.

Custom Photo Wrapping Paper!

It won't even matter what the gift is when it's wrapped in photo wrapping paper.

Offer specialty gift wrap on your APM! We are selling the Gift Wrap Kit as an add-on, for $300 per kiosk (ask your sales rep about site license discounts). The sheets are 24x36" - easy to print on an inkjet wide format printer, like the Canon iPF6100. We used Matte 90 gsm paper in the test store and it looks great. Pair the wrapped gift with a folded card for maximum WOW...and if what's in the wrapped box is an EQ Gift that your customer ordered from your APM...bonus for your bottom line!

Get this product in place before holiday shopping gets rolling! Contact your Sales Rep to order.

Lucidiom End-Of-Summer Sales Specials

EQ Essentials, $15k: Everything you need to get started with convenience and great pricing. Includes: APM 2700 Kiosk with EQ Pro software, EQ-9850 Printer, Lab 50 Management Software, On-Site, A-to-Z Install & Training, Photo Finale Web (> of 7% revenue or $150/month). The fine print: shipping not included, offer expires 9/30/08.

Free US Shipping on Paper through September: Stock up your supplies for 4Q sales and save on shipping charges that amount to nearly a quarter of the paper cost. Hurry – this offer is only good through September.

Grow Your Business with EQ Connection

Grow your business in-store and online by subscribing to an EQ Connection plan.

Choose from 3 EQ Connection plans:

EQ Connection-Remote Pricing Plan is $25/month and allows you to configure kiosk product prices and promotions through remotely-managed product catalogs. You can even plan ahead by setting start and end dates for your next promo.

EQ Connection-Membership Plan is $40/month (or 7% of sold plan revenue, if greater), includes the Remote Pricing Plan and allows you to reward your customer’s loyalty with managed membership plans of products, discounts, and promotions. It is easy to design programs to target new customers! Save $10/month when you sign up by the end of September.

EQ Connection-Photo Finale Online Plan is $150/month (or 7% if sales revenue, if greater), includes both of the above tiers, as well as an online Photo Finale store that you configure from Lab 50 and fulfill orders for in your store.

Summer Special. Subscribe to EQ Connection-Membership Plan by the end of September for only $30/month! You’ll be able to track, promote, and reward customers as well as remotely manage your kiosk prices and promotions.

Industry Insights – The Business of Emotions

Lucidiom President Steve Giordano, Jr. recently addressed the crowd at the PRO show. Here is an excerpt of his remarks, which may also be found online at http://blog.lucidiom.com/

“The future of imaging is bright. For Lucidiom, it clearly is based on the social picturing phenomenon. And no single facet of this concept is the key to success. That’s why the EQ platform is a complete imaging solution.

Customers will want to interact with their images and friends from the in-store kiosk, from home on the web and with desktop applications. The whole social picturing package is the industry trend and the key to the imaging consumer in 2010.

Notice I said 2010, not 2008. Today, consumers are still learning about the possibilities with social picturing. Lucidiom is looking ahead to 2010 when it is not only familiar, but expected. We’re busy building products today like Photo Finale 6.0 and the robust EQ product line that are rich in social expression features, so that when a customer walks into your store or visits your website in 2010 you’ll be ready for her.

But we have to work together. Embrace the changes sweeping across our industry and don’t be bashful about asking for help. You’ll undoubtedly need to acquire some new tools and know-how. Once you do, you’re guaranteed to increase customer loyalty, top line revenue and your margins.”

September 4-5 Training Classes, A Few Slots Remain

Want to learn about the APM and Lab 50 and how you can really customize and make full use of the software? Want to learn to create your own content for the APM and your own Photo Finale site?

Now you can, through 2 back-to-back one-day classes that Lucidiom offers once a month. Attend the class for content design, technical training or both. Each course is independent of the other and held back to back on consecutive days, to make it easy if you would like to attend both. Email training@lucidiom.com to reserve your spot. We are currently scheduling classes for September 4 (Content Design Training) and September 5 (Technical Training). More details are posted in the May Newsletter.

Always Strong, Always Secure – The Latest Lucidiom Network Infrastructure Enhancements

Lucidiom is one of the strongest and most secure companies in the industry because we are continually enhancing our network architecture and infrastructure. In June, we successfully moved our primary datacenter operations into one of the newest, most secure and state of the art collocation facilities in the world. This facility is situated directly on the MAE-East internet exchange backbone, providing the fastest, most direct internet connections available. This move increased our already impressive internet connectivity bandwidth by an order of magnitude, and tripled our available rack space and high-density power to give us plenty of room for our continued growth. This past week, our upgrades continued as we transitioned several key elements of the Lab 50 / Photo Finale infrastructure to a new class of server equipment, with superior processing power, memory, availability and recoverability. These enhancements ensure that your customers’ precious memories will continue to be safe and secure well into the future on our robust network.

Summer Sunset, Fall Harvest

We know the end of summer means it’s time for you to get busy gearing up for the busy holiday selling season, but don’t forget your customer’s here and now. As summer sets and fall looms around the corner, be ready to help your customers harvest their memories with personalized photo calendars for the upcoming year. With Lucidiom EQ Pro software, you’re equipped to offer a year’s worth of memories for your customers and another great gift idea for the holidays.

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