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One image serves it all
As an artist or crafter selling your handmade items, images are one of your biggest asset in promoting your work. What if your images become alive and clickable?
That’s possible, even easy. ThingLink provides the best image interaction tools online that lets anyone to add music, sounds, video, social media or eCommerce on top of their images. When you have ThingLink installed on your site, you can drop in links from your favorite services; YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, SoundCloud, Etsy and Twitter, and make them pop up on mouseover. Sounds magical, doesn’t it? Here are some examples what you can do.
Hover your mouse over the images below to discover the magic of ThingLink. If you are viewing this on a tablet device, just tap the images to reveal the tags. Tap the tags again to discover the links.
Creating engaging maker profiles
Images are the most important media for engaging your audience. Images transmit who you are, how you view the world, and most importantly, what kind of things you create.
With ThingLink you can turn your own profile image into a rich personal experience with stories, music, how-to videos or social media. Thinglinks on your images are like watermarks that follow when the image gets shared on Facebook and Twitter, or embedded on other blogs. This way we make sure you will benefit from the exposure!
Reveal details with rich media tags
With art, craft, and design objects it’s all about the details. There are fascinating things to tell about the materials, the techniques, the initial idea, the variations, and the vision.
With ThingLink you can explain your creations in a new way. Sign up at thinglink.com, copy-paste your personal tagging tool to your website, and start annotating your images with rich media links.
You can even record an audio greeting, a song, or the sound of your instruments to your image by using our new SoundCloud integration. Click ‘edit’ in the upper left corner of the image, and then click ‘record a sound’. Once done and saved, a player button appears on the image. It’s as easy as that!!
Bring your Etsy shop on the image
If you are using Etsy, you can now link items from an image directly to your shop on Etsy.com. This helps your viewers to instantly view more information about the items and find your shop with one click!
Encourage embeds and sharing - you benefit
Good news: ThingLink images are embeddable. Yes, with tags. If people want to feature your images, ask them to use the embed code and paste it on their blogs (remember to use the HTML view of the post). Tags will follow and you will get the traffic just where you want.
People can also share your photos to Facebook and Twitter. Again, you will get the traffic.
Measure engagement, see hovers and clicks
By using ThingLink you can always follow the traffic and the engagement around your images with our real time statistics. Make sure you are logged on your account on thinglink.com, and check your click through rate. We bet it’s pretty good.
How to get started with ThingLink
Here is a little how-to video about getting started. We have plugins for all major blogging platforms, and a complete set of guidelines and useful tips that you can read and get it going. Happy tagging!
Want to try how easy it is? Click the edit button in the left corner of the image below and add your greetings to this happy wonderful couple!
Want to become our launch partner or do business with us?
Send us an email or tweet us and we’ll respond. If you have problems you can also leave a message for us at ThingLink Support and our tech team will work to resolve your issue.
Feel free to contact our team members below.
SAN FRANCISCO - Neil Vineberg | @nvineberg
NEW YORK - Jake Cox @areyoujakecox
EUROPE - Jonas Forth @Jonas_Forth
