If you’ve been wanting to put together a calendar for client gifts or to promote your business, then stop procrastinating and get to it!

MagCloud makes it easy to enjoy your photos in beautiful print and digital formats. So why not enjoy Summer all year-round by creating a calendar with your photographs?

In case you missed it we had two great blog posts this week filled with tips and tricks on how to create a 2011 calendar and easily publish it on MagCloud.

Microsoft Word users download our MagCloud ready calendar templates and get step by step instructions for creating your own 2011 calendar.

Apple Pages users we have some great templates for you too, with tips on how to customize them for your specific calendar needs.

We’re back today with our exploration of calendar design, and today’s focus is on Apple iWork’s Pages. See how many great looking calendars you can design using the exact same template, by just making a few changes to fonts, color and pictures.

Whether you are looking for a gift idea for your family, a fundraiser for your children’s sports team, a new way to gain exposure for your art and photography or another way to build brand awareness for your small business– at $5.60 for a 28-page publication on MagCloud, creating a calendar is both easy and affordable.

Professional photographer and magazine publisher, Cory Ann Ellis talks about self-publishing and finding the right people to partner with so you can do what you do best.

So you’ve survived the holiday season, but now your smartphone is filled with a veritable art gallery of filtered Instagram photos. Those Amaro- or Kelvin-tinted shots don’t need to sit there collecting dust in your phone, however, and this is especially true for small businesses and publishers. The question is: How can those Instagram pictures lead to more paying customers for your small business or publication?

Do you find yourself making New Year’s resolutions each year only to break them within days or a few months? You have a lot of company. Keep your goals top-of mind by putting them up on your wall as a MagCloud-printed poster.

‘Tis the season for holiday cards and newsletters, and MagCloud is here to help! MagCloud’s print-on-demand capabilities offer a great way to produce personalized holiday communications on an affordable budget.

We receive a lot of great questions from our MagCloud community, but this particular one really sparked our curiosity—so we decided to investigate!