Custom Flickr calendars are a quick, easy way of keeping you business in front of customers and clients 365 days a year. Whether you sell the calendars as an end product, use them as unique perks and awards or give them away for marketing purposes, having your own customized photos available for quick reference helps your business stand out and make an impression every day.

Whatever your business mission, you'll find Flickr calendars to be a handy way of making it public. You've got 12 shots at getting your message across. Here are just a few of the ways that Flickr calendars may help you to stand out:

1. Use your Flickr calendars to depict a day in the life of your employees, or to show the range of services your company provides.

2. Honor and showcase long-term employees and loyal customers by featuring them in the pages of your Flickr calendars.

3. Place your business logo prominently on every page of your Flickr calendars.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Start with basic Flickr calendars information

Sometimes simple is better; a complicated visual product may befuddle your customers instead of drawing them in. Start with simple designs and products to get a feel for what Flickr calendars can do for you and your business.

I recommend: Start by uploading photos you'd like to see printed in calendar form to your Flickr photostream, then go straight to the Big Huge Labs Flickr calendars site and start creating.

Use special features to create custom Flickr calendars

Make the system work for you by taking advantage of extra features available through both Flickr and Big Huge Labs.

I recommend: Use the Flickr Organizr to sort your uploaded photos into sets. This is especially helpful if you're creating more than one calendar through Big Huge Labs, or if you've uploaded a lot of photos to the Flickr photostream for other uses and are having trouble keeping your card photos straight. Market your calendars by producing custom prints of selected calendar pages through Big Huge Labs.

Troubleshoot your own Flickr calendars experience

Creating your own calendars through Flickr and Big Huge Labs is fast and easy, so the odds are good that if you're having problems creating your custom Flickr calendars, advice is only a few clicks away.

I recommend: If you're having trouble incorporating photos from your Flickr photostream into the Big Huge Labs Flickr calendars program, make sure that the Flickr filter for the photos you're trying to use is set to "public" and "safe." If you're still having trouble using your already uploaded Flickr photostream to create calendars, verify that you've already authorized Big Huge Labs to link to your Flickr account.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Remember that because you have to set the Flickr filter to 'public' and 'safe' when using Flickr photos to create customized Flickr calendars, the general public will be able to search out and use your Flickr photos. If you don't want this to be the case, set the Flickr filter to 'private' when you're done creating your custom calendars.