How to Survive the Catalog Printing Wars

Catalog printing is a war of sorts. Especially if your industry as well as your specific market is a competitive environment, you have to print catalogs as weapons in a sense and try to survive the onslaught.

In this guide to catalog printing, I will help you survive these wars and cutthroat competition. Just follow the tips below. These will help you stand out, survive and perhaps even succeed in these wars.

• Be one, but be different – Now, here is a simple yet ever so complicated motto in catalog design. However, this is an important one to remember. This motto has you being one with the industry in terms of basic design, but being different enough that other people can remember yours even if they have seen hundreds. You have to be one with others in terms of functionality and configuration, while you also need to be distinct enough so that it is easily remembered. Learn that great balance of looking like a common catalog but being totally different and you should have a higher chance at surviving.

• Target readers precisely with content and designs – Another important tip to consider is to target readers precisely. Just like precision guided weapons, yours must have content and designs that targets specific readers precisely for a response. That content should appeal to the wants, needs, tastes and common issues that those target readers can relate with. If you can get the right attractive content and design to a specific kind of market, you might just succeed.

• Use the best printers possible – Surviving a war also means using the best equipment right? Hence, it is important to use the best catalog printers possible to produce your designs. I do not mean using your own great digital printer at the office or house. In this situation, I mean you will have to hire a professional printing company to do all the important printing work. This should give you the best color catalog weapon that is durable, powerful and fresh/new looking. So try to balance your budget and hire the best printing companies that you can to make sure that your catalogs are printed in the best possible conditions.

• Be dynamic and adaptable – Survival also depends on adaptability. Your custom content must always be changing to match the changing tastes and desires of your market. Some people might like one kind of design one day, and then prefer a very different one the next. The faster you can change your design and content to match these changing desires, the more you can take advantage of the change. This means you can maintain a concerted and powerful printing campaign with just a few reprints now and again with adapted content. Yours will always be ideally designed and composed if you do this well.

• Get a niche or defining characteristic – Finally, to survive in the tough market of catalogs, you will need to get a niche or a defining characteristic that people can remember. Your materials might become the best things in which to read about cheap offers, elegant offers or stylish offers. It can also be the catalog that is most accessible or most sought after. As long as you stand out among the crowd with these defining styles, your copies will always catch attention and hence have a long run with their printed life, benefiting you along the way.

Just follow these tips and I can assure you that you will survive.