Living in a DIY World
Google it. Look it up on YouTube. Ask your neighbor’s cousin’s best friend for advice. Just wing it.
For better or worse, we live in a DIY world. If we need legal advice, we go to LegalZoom. If we need to replace a toilet, we find a tutorial on YouTube. Unfortunately, if we see a picture or a piece of artwork that we like, we take a screenshot. It’s free.
Unfortunately, none of this stuff is free. It all comes with a cost much greater than we could anticipate based on our individual actions of doing it ourselves, stealing someone else’s idea, for going to the 24/7 big box store instead of our neighbor’s Mom and Pop. We are so consumed by convenience that it denies us of relationships with people who want to serve us and improve our situations.
So, how does the small business owner compete with free, included, other-activity-based products, and misleading coupons?
As small business owners, our best defense is our integrity, our desire to serve and our willingness to work with a client on a personal basis.
I challenge you to resist the DIY temptation and to protect yourself against the cost of free.
If your photos are priceless, trust them to a company whose top priority and only job is to value and protect what is priceless.
- Your photos should not be a P.S. to another service.
- They should not be subject to data mining and loss of copyright.
- They should never be at risk for deletion, corruption, file compression, or even appearing on a billboard for a product or service you may or may not be a fan of because they became part of the public domain through the service posing as photo storage.
FOREVER® guarantees that your family stories, your genealogy, and your company’s or organization’s archives are our top priority. We do not claim ownership of anything about the files you store. We never data-mine, invade, or delete from your account.
Think of our storage as a high-end condominium. You are purchasing your unit. Upon selecting your unit, you pay the bill in perpetuity. There’s no further fee, no “HOA,” ever. We guarantee maintenance of your account for your lifetime +100 years.
Or, think of it as you do your life insurance. You purchase life insurance policies in your 30s and you trust that upon your passing the full value of that life insurance will be dispersed to your beneficiaries.
This is why Dani’s Pixel Place chooses FOREVER®. Industry-wide, storage is not permanent or guaranteed. The free and included services make their money off what they steal from you – data, contacts, even your favorite beach photo. FOREVER® is the only option through which you maintain ownership even after your passing. You choose the beneficiary of your story, genealogy, and business or organization archives. So, your work does not disappear into the abyss of our virtual world. It is not locked-down and unavailable to future generations.
If you have DIYed your way to lovely files on an external hard drive or organized folders in Google Photos or free storage on Amazon, know that there is no guarantee these photos will still be there after you get back from a quick trip to the restroom.
- Hard drives die. A tiny little speck of disc space can become corrupt and cost thousands in repair costs and attempted restoration – with no guarantee of success.
- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and all the others promise you absolutely nothing. In fact, when you clicked “accept” on their user agreements, you gave them permission to harvest your data, to include what you write in your e-mails and store in their clouds. They guarantee nothing except that they will invade your spaces and disperse and delete information as their algorithms see fit.
- Catastrophic losses happen. Fire, flood, even war can obliterate your holdings in a very quick blink.
You insure your home and your car. You insure your life and your health. Let’s insure your photos, your stories, your digital files.
- If you like the DIY, money saving approach, I can help you.
- If you prefer to hire an assistant to archive and do the work for you, I can help you.
With Dani’s Pixel Place and FOREVER®, you are always in control, choosing what happens to your digital legacy.
Create or log into your account and choose your storage space in the Preserve & Organize tab: https://www.forever.com/ambassador/danispixelchix/forever_storage
