Brochure Printing: Creating a Fusion of Online and Printed Marketing

Oct 6
08:07

2011

Michelle M. Abreu

Michelle M. Abreu

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Aside from setting aside your marketing budget on online marketing, it is still important to invest in printed materials for good results.

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With more and more people relying on the internet these days,Brochure Printing: Creating a Fusion of Online and Printed Marketing  Articles a lot of business owners have invested their marketing budget to online marketing. But this doesn’t mean that printed marketing materials should be completely ignored. They are still a big part of your marketing campaign for several reasons:

- People can easily look over them. They can skim through the pages to get the overview of the material, and this they can do anytime, anywhere.

- They are easy to read. They can touch the paper physically and understand the message at first glance.

- The images and graphics can help reinforce the message so readers would have an easy time understanding the message.

Aside from setting aside your marketing budget on online marketing, it is still important to invest in printed materials for best results. Perhaps you are wondering now what type of printed material to use in your business. With your limited budget, is there a material that will fit your meager budget? There actually is. In fact, there are plenty of materials you can invest in. One of them is the brochure.

Brochures is an effective way to promote your offerings. With high quality images and informative content, it would be easy for you to communicate your message to your customers and prospects. However, the main trouble of a lot of businesses when it comes to creating their brochure is developing the content. As much as possible the content should be brief and clear. Here are ways to make it easier for you to write your brochure content:

- Create a strong headline. It is important that your headline should capture your prospect’s attention. You don’t need to use fancy words and long sentences to do this. Keep in mind that an ideal headline should be short and catchy. It should contain your main message and benefits to help draw attention to your materials at once.

- Come up with an informative body. The body is used to quality the headline. Again, you don’t have to make the body long and wordy. The simpler and shorter the body is the easier it would be for people to understand it. Be sure to highlight the good points about your offerings in the body.

- Use bullet points to enumerate important details. To avoid making the body wordy, you can use bullet points to draw reader’s attention to the important information. This will help you save space and keep your message direct to the point.

- Include a strong call to action. It is important that you tell people what they should do next. You can encourage them to call you, check out your website, or visit your store. If you offer discounts or rewards, consider putting a deadline to them to create a sense of urgency. This will help encourage people to make an action right away.

- Don’t forget to include your complete contact details. Make it easy for people to contact you. Include your phone number, email, website, and mailing address. If you have accounts in social networking sites such as Facebook, you can also include them in your templates.

With a good content, it should be easy for you to convince people to patronize your business. Remember that brochures are just one of the printed marketing materials that you should invest in. Create your own postcards, business cards, or flyers along with your online ads and you can be sure to enjoy a comprehensive market exposure.