Gearing Up Your Brochures For Winter
Posted on February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Online Marketing
Spring, summer and autumn promotions are different from winter promotions. For brochure printing, the difference really is in the nature of its materials. Most people toughen up their color brochures in this season. For the brochures to stay intact longer and deliver their message to more people it is crucial that the brochure printing materials are chosen correctly. In this guide, I will teach you how to gear up your color brochures for the winter with a few tips you can follow.
Toughening up the paper
The first step is to toughen up our paper. To do this you will only need to use thicker paper materials than the usual ones you print on. Ask your brochure printing company about the different “paper weights” or “paper thickness” that they have available and choose the one that is thickest for brochure printing. This will make the brochure more resistant to physical damage and it will be more durable against the cold weather. So try to ask and see if you have the option of thickening and toughening up the paper.
Protecting the paper
The next step is to see if your brochure paper can be protected. This can be done through the use of special coatings. Some brochure printing companies can offer coatings such as glossy coatings, UV coatings, aqueous coatings and many other special substances. These coatings add a certain resistance to weathering elements, more particularly moisture. Just ask your brochure printing company if they have nice moisture resistant coatings that they can apply to your brochure paper. This should protect it from water, snow, ice and other kinds of fluids and dirt.
Alternative materials
Now, if you still want very tough and durable brochures, you might want to move from paper to something tougher. In recent years, plastic printing has become more widely available. Nowadays you can actually print plastic promotional materials such as plastic posters, rack cards and business cards.
This can also be ideal for brochure printing. If you have some extra money stashed for good brochure printing, you may want to opt for plastic brochures. These kinds of brochures are quite durable. They are harder to fold permanently, can take on moisture without any difficulty, and generally can last in the cold. Moreover, the content of plastic brochures do not easily “run” or deteriorate. This makes for a very powerful kind of color brochure that resists the elements quite easily.
Whether they are thicker brochures with special coatings or plastic brochures that are very tough, there are ways to gear up your brochures for the winter. It might add some cost to your brochure printing, but these options can make your brochures last longer and look better all throughout the winter months in any environment. That is a great advantage for anyone.
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Tips for Brochures Using Adobe InDesign
Posted on February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Online Marketing
Are you using Adobe InDesign for brochure printing? This software is quite a powerful tool in creating full color brochures. If you are just starting out with brochure printing and design though, let me give you a few tips that should make your design process a little easier. First let me talk about templates.
• Always use the templates – Templates are quite the handy feature that you should rely upon, especially in the early months of your design career. Templates makes it easier for most people to design brochures since of of the major options are already set in the template. All you really need to do is to add and build upon the template to create your own design. Adobe InDesign has a few brochure templates built it for your convenience.
• Always download new templates – If you do not like the templates with the software itself though, I recommend downloading some templates over the Internet. A lot of people actually share their brochure layout templates with others and some are quite nice indeed. This can be a good thing to do especially if you have been using the built-in templates in the application. I find it good to look for special new and improved brochure templates at design blogs and brochure printing company websites.
• Use blending options for text – Now, while images are usually the focus of some color brochure designers, to make them look great, you should also remember that the text can also be edited and changed quite extensively. Do not forget that the you can use blending options to shape and alter the look of text. Effects like shadows, colored strokes, glows and texture surfaces can easily be applied to make certain text stand out and be better understood. So if you want your text to shine, try using some of those effects quite liberally.
• Make efficient use of paragraph formatting- You should also know that while Adobe InDesign is not a word processor per se, you can control a lot about your brochure’s text by using paragraph formatting window. In this window you can set a lot of things from line spacing, character spacing as well as the length and width of the characters themselves. This can be quite useful if you are aiming to fit a sizable amount of text into simple and short color brochures.
• Always check the colors – Finally, for your images, you should always pay attention to their colors as you switch form designing to printing. Most printers prefer that the draft file uses the four color CMYK mode so that it matches their printing technique. So always check this setting to be sure that what you see on screen is the color that will be printed. Otherwise you should try and change the color mode in the application to see things better.
Great! Hopefully those simple tips can go a long way in improving your experience with brochure printing using Adobe InDesign. It should get easier and better as you print and print more brochures for the future.
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Why Online Poster Printing Is Best During Holidays
Posted on February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Online Marketing
You might be tempted to do poster printing at home during the holidays. It might sound cheaper and indeed easier, especially if you are a small business. I am here to tell you now though that online poster printing can be your option too. I will give you 5 simple reasons why online poster printing is best during the holidays.
1. Convenient printing.
Simply, one of the best reasons why online poster printing is best is because of convenience. During the holidays you might be really busy with your business. From promotions, holiday offers, special products, shipping etc., you will have little time to focus on poster printing.
If you print your posters online however, you can easily order up nice looking color posters all from your computer at home or at the office. It will take only 15-30 minutes if you are decisive about your choices. After that, you will not have to worry about your holiday promotional posters until they get delivered to you. So there is little trouble with online poster printing, and it is pretty convenient for the busy businessman or businesswoman.
2. Cheap printing.
Also, printing your color posters online means you can save money on it. Online printing can be really cheap because of tough competition between the different online printing companies. Usually you can expect really low and affordable poster printing quotations with still very decent options in terms of colors and paper materials. So if you need to save on money with your promotional printing budget, online printing can get you that savings you need.
3. High quality printing.
Now, if you need high quality printing, the online printing process will always guarantee that. You do not have to worry about the quality of your color posters since most online printing companies use state of the art off-set and digital printing machines. Quality is always assured even if the printing is done in a rush. As long as you choose the best online printers with a good reputation, you will always get the highest quality poster printing that you need.
4. All your options done.
Online poster printing is also great because you can have the entire poster printing options that you want done. You can customize your posters in terms of poster dimensions, paper materials, ink quality, special holes and cuts, special materials, and protective coatings. You just need to specify the options you want in the online order form and ask your poster printer if you can place in other more customized features. Most online printers will happily oblige to do what you want for the posters so you can produce any kind of unique and original full color posters for the holidays.
5. Delivery and distribution.
Finally, online poster printing is great because the posters can be delivered and distributed to the locations that you really need. Besides having the posters sent to you, it is also possible to have your new color posters sent to different locations. You can basically use the online printer as a courier service sending your promotional posters to the branches that need them. You do not have to give your color posters away yourself. This saves you a lot of time and lets you deploy your holiday posters quite faster and in multiple locations.
Hopefully that convinces you that online poster printing can be quite advantageous for holiday promotions. There are plenty of benefits that you will appreciate so try printing posters online yourself. It might really be convenient for you.
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What Great Letterheads Always Have
Posted on February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Online Marketing
Do you want to print letterheads that are great looking? Well there are several things that need to come together in letterhead printing to make it look great. You have to know what these things are and the proper ways to do them so that you can be sure your own letterhead printing can produce something quite remarkable. To help you out in this task, I have just the tips for you. Below are the five common properties that great letterheads always have that make them quite successful.
• A full color spread – All the great letter heads use full color nowadays. Its just something that is almost standard if you want real high quality letterheads printed. So whether you have a logo or not, or whether you want to add in images, symbols and other design elements in your letterhead, it must always always be printed in full color for it to be great.
• Clear, simple and understandable text – A great letterhead is also very functional. All the text it has should always be clear, simple and very understandable. Hence, the font style for letterheads should always be clear and simple every time for it to be great. That is why for your letterhead printing you should always using a simple font. Do not get too creative with the font styles or you will suffer some consequences.
• High quality images and logos – Of course, a great color letterhead will always have the highest quality images and logos available. In drafting the letterhead designs, this means that those images and logos must always be from original high resolution sources that are perfect for letterhead printing. The resolution must at least be 300 dpi or more for the letterhead to really look clean and clear.
• Impressive printing quality – Great letterheads cannot be done of course if they are not printed well. All great letterheads are made with an impressive printing quality. This means that the machines that created the color letterhead must be pretty sophisticated with professionals using it. So if you want your own letterhead to be great, you will need to partner up with a good letterhead printing company with a good reputation. Just look around the Internet and there are plenty of very professional printing companies that you can choose from.
• Complete and precise information – Finally, all great letterheads are printed with complete and very precise information. Nothing must be left out from its content. It must contain everything that a person needs to understand who the letter is from and the authority or image it represents. So for your letterhead printing this means taking the content seriously, composing it wisely, and proof reading it when necessary.
So those are what all great letterheads have. Does your letterhead match them? If it does not, then you might want to go for a new batch of letterhead printing once again. Good Luck!
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Pros and Cons of Television Advertising
Posted on February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Online Marketing
Television advertising is most powerful form of advertising traditionally, as it is a combination of audio and video advertising messages with unlimited varieties, unlike other means of advertising like newspapers, magazines, radio stations, and websites. Based on research reports, people spend four and half-hours watching TV as it is most common leisure activity. As a result, many times television is considered as ‘king’ of advertising media as it has so much impact on people. It is also considered as ‘king’ of advertising costs (expensive).
Before a product is advertised, market research is conducted to know the reaction of consumer on the product. Television marketing should follow many strict standards (restrictions). Television advertisements have proved to be successful in election campaign of a politician as they influence the public views. In television advertisement, animated advertisements are very popular (Kellogg’s) and are long running (series of advertisements can be done). According to OECD communications outlook 2001, in US Television advertising shared 37% of total advertising revenue.
Advantages of TV advertising:
Though television advertising may not make an instant sale like search engine advertising, it strongly influences customers and slowly persuades the target market.
· Television advertising enables the product to hit large number of people (at regional and national level) in short span of time.
· Television helps in conveying a message (advertisement) with visuals, sound and action.
· Advertisements can also target local people with independent stations and local cable network channels.
· Different segments of people like children, house wives, young people are targeted by organization through different channels (cartoon) at different timings (time at which many people watch TV).
· They provide flexibility and selectivity options for customers to choose a product offered by many companies.
· Creative television advertisements can easily attract people and makes them to buy products. This is very advantageous for small businesses.
Disadvantages of TV advertising:
· Costs involved in television advertising is very high as it need to be repeated for many times and so it costs more to air advertisements on television channels.
· Television advertisements are short, so they do not convey more about the product.
· Television advertisements are sometimes obscure (mess up), as they do not show relevant information on products.
· If television advertisements are not creative then people do not show interest to see them and do not buy the products.
· Some times television advertisements will be in such a way that people do not believe it, so they do not buy the products.
· It is difficult to modify television advertisements unlike advertisements of print media.
· Producing a television advertisement involves hiring scriptwriters, actors, video editors, or an advertising agency. So, it is a complicated procedure.
Television advertisements have both advantages and disadvantages. When rightly chosen and right presented based on the purpose helps businesses to reach their target customers flawlessly.
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