Hey there,

Today I want to highlight two deals that help make your author brand look polished, consistent, and professional, without you needing design skills, a big budget, or hours of extra time.

These are both tools I personally use, rely on, and recommend, especially if you want your visuals to look intentional (and legally safe!) going into 2025.

I can’t emphasize enough the importance of making sure you’re not just downloading images off the internet, but have the legal rights to use them in your business. These two tools will insure you’re on the right side of content creation.

But also, I like to be able to “hit the easy button” as my husband would say, and the combination of these two deals, both of which I use in my business, make creating graphics, promotion, marketing, and even workshops a whole heck of a lot easier!

​Pixistock — 60% off (just $150 for the year)​

I’ve been a lifetime member of Pixistock for around 3-4 years and it’s one of my most valuable memberships. If I wasn’t a lifetime member, I would absolutely pay $150 (I would pay far more) for a full year of this membership!

Pixistock is an all-in-one visual branding membership packed with stock photos, Canva templates, planners, and content tools created for busy creators — and it shows.

If you struggle with:

• keeping your visuals consistent
• creating graphics for launches or announcements
• making your author brand “look like a brand”
• having content ready when your brain is fried

Pixistock solves all of those problems in one place.

This subscription is so stacked with templates of all kinds, not just Canva templates for social media, but other things as well (for instance presentation/workshop templates!).

AND you’ll also get access to a content scheduling calendar, to help you organize your brain when it comes to your visual brand and marketing.

Also, if you’re looking to be more intentional with your spending this year and support small businesses run by underrepresented creators, this is an easy and impactful place to start.

​Instantly upgrade your author brand with polished visuals and templates that make your platform look like you hired a designer.​

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​DepositPhotos via AppSumo — 100 credits for $49​

This deal comes around only twice a year, and I buy it every single time.

If you do any kind of marketing, whether it’s newsletters, social posts, graphics, ads, presentations, website updates, you must be using images you have the legal rights to. As creatives, we want others to respect our IP, and we need to respect the IP of photographers too.

DepositPhotos gives you:

• high-quality commercial-use images
• a massive library of 320M+ assets
• credits that never expire
• peace of mind that you’re legally covered

And you can stack codes if you want a bigger library.

​Get the peace of mind of always having legal, high-quality images ready for every author promo, launch, and marketing asset you create.​

Both deals — and the full list of my 9 recommended Black Friday offers (I’ve added one!) — are here.​

More deal highlights coming your way this week.

Quick reminder: I’m not doing a big Black Friday promo of my own this year because Edit Your Way comes out on December 11. If you preorder now, you’ll also get a special preorder bonus I’ll be sharing more about next week.

If you have any questions about any of these deals, shoot me a reply. Since I use these tools and/or know the creators, I can hopefully answer your questions!

~Angela

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