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Powerful call to action phrases will make all the difference with a brochure printing design – a difference between a stellar increase in sales and a little bit more than what you had before. In this market, brochures can illustrate your willingness to do what it takes to go the extra mile, but make sure that yours are worth your time and advertising dollar by including the following call to action phrases.

Sweeten the Deal with an Upgrade
Insist upon a giving an upgrade for ordering now, for instance, “Call now and we will add even more to your order for the same price.” Leave out how much you are adding on the printed brochure to create a curiosity. This will entice the procrastinators to order now rather than putting off ordering and just forgetting to order later. 

A Guaranteed Trial Period is a Must 
Nothing motives more than a win-win situation. With a guaranteed trial period, the consumer has no risk or reason not to order. Inform the consumer that returning the product will simply give you feedback and allow you to better serve your other future customers. Best of all, most consumers do not return a product within the given time period.  

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! 
“Special offer” or “Limited time only” are great call to action phrases for brochure printing pieces. Motivate the consumer with a discount that will not be available in the future. Use a short term deadline or a coupon. You might even try a “Coupons are limited to the first 1000 callers.”

Free Gifts are Great Motivators
Offer a free gift if the customers places their order now. To further encourage an immediate purchase, make it clear that the gifts are limited with a phrase such as, “Get your free gift before they are gone!” Free gifts are great for causing the phones to ring with more orders. Everyone loves a good deal and a free gift is just the way to do it.

Other Free Stuff! 
The customer will say, “Oh my gosh, this is unbelievable!”  A free gift, free accessories, and a limited time discount. No customer will be able to resist. Oh, and don’t forget the upgrade. All of this will call customers to action and push your printed brochure over the top.
        
One final tip for motivating customers: if what you sell is only available on your website or at your storefront, let customers know. For instance, “Call now! This is not available in stores.” You may even want to advertise that operators are available 24 hours, but only if you plan on following through with this offer.

A successful brochure printing can be similar to an athletic event: you too can take that shot that an athlete takes to make the winning score in the final seconds of the game. A good athlete will not let that chance for success pass them by and great brochure printing will not allow a consumer to pass by either. This chance is not a result of pure luck. It is the result of preparation and opportunity crossing and resulting in success. With a few simple tactics and phrases on your brochures, they too will seize the opportunity more often than ever before. Here’s how:

Action Phrases

Action phrases are the best way to motivate your customer.  Don’t sell your message short by being to timid for the action phrases. Most ads use “Call Now! or Purchase Today” to motivate the customer. Your brochure printing should too to move your customers to action.

Free Trial

Don’t just show confidence in your brochure printing; show the consumer that you have confidence in your product. Offer a free trial period in which they will be billed after the fact, if the product is not returned. By establishing a trial period, this will aid in getting that sale when the opportunity arises. Use a “Satisfaction Guaranteed!” for the action phrase in this type of advertising. Delayed billing and a time limit will especially attract new customers.               

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Distributing door hangers begins long before the boxes of freshly printed materials arrive at your business. Before you even place a new door hanger printing order, there are a few simple steps you should take. Here are a few ways you can be prepared when distributing door hangers.

Create a distribution list
Your distribution list may be a list of current customers or it may be a list you have purchased from another vendor. The message of your door hanger will depend on your product or service and the audience you will be targeting with your distribution.

Set a goal and write the ad to reach that goal
There are many reasons businesses launch a new door hanger printing campaign. What is it your business hopes to accomplish with this marketing campaign? Some common goals include new business launch, expanding the customer base, reaching a new market, informing current and prospective customers of new services / products available, a sale, limited time offers, etc.

Introduce the business and get to the point
Your business name and logo should be prominent on the door hanger printing design with your contact info not far away. Do not waste time or money proclaiming the virtues of your business. Jump right in to the everyday problems of your target market and start to tell them how your business can help.

Give a statement of benefit
Insert a clear statement of how your business can help in a specific circumstance:

- “We can lower your overhead cost by …”

- “Our product will last twice as long”

- “Our service department is on call 24 hours a day”

Include a testimonial or two
Testimonials can be a powerful sales aid in door hanger printing. The power comes from the testimony of a fellow worker with the same or similar issue that your company was able to resolve. Perhaps consumers reading the door hanger have never heard a solution to their problem, so they call you to put you to work for them!

Focus on the needs of consumers and how you can meet those needs
The best way to increase sales by distributing door hangers is to focus on your customers and the multitude of ways that you can help their process to be more profitable and successful. This should be the focus of your door hanger printing message and design. Remember that the offer has to be useful and so good that they won’t be able to refuse.

Presentations can be intimidating for the presenter and downright boring at times for the audience. One way to lessen the intimation and reduce boredom is to have a presentation that includes custom folders. Custom folders can enhance presentations on any topic to any audience. Here are some tips for a powerful presentation with the use of custom folders.

#1 Custom folders are an attention grabber
The beautiful design on the shiny cover of your presentation folder will catch the attention of your audience. The design can be customized to the presentation of a new product being launched or simply a representation of your business logo, large and prominently placed. Custom folders immediately give your audience something to focus their attention on and can help guide their attention throughout the presentation. Instead of the audience’s mind wandering, they can focus on your folder and the information it contains.

#2 Custom folders inspire confidence in your product
Selling is all about the confidence you have that your product can meet your customer’s needs. In addition to your spoken presentation and the points made in it, a custom folder gives the audience an impression of the confidence you have that your product will meet their needs. A custom folder inspires confidence because it is printed with your business’s logo. When your customers have confidence in your abilities, having your name and logo on the cover of a custom folder gives credence to all that it contains. Customers will trust your recommendation because they trust your judgment.

#3 Custom folders hold information
Without the use of custom folders, at the end of your speech the audience will stand up and walk out perhaps never again thinking about the information you presented. With a custom folder, all of the information your customers need can be placed inside ahead of time, and when they stand to leave they can take all of that information away with them. Custom folders are often printed with the business name and contact info and have a place to hold business cards inside in addition to product brochures and other information. Organizing all of this information neatly for your customer helps bolster their confidence that you can manage their needs just as well as you can manage your powerful presentation.

Effective marketing with print posters does not have to cost a fortune; it just needs to have the right persuasive techniques employed. By using these persuasive marketing techniques, you will create advertising that will increase your brand recognition and increase your revenue. The principles just ahead of you will show you the persuasive marketing techniques with which any business can advertise through print posters and see growth.
 

Be Frequent and Consistent
Many small businesses become discouraged when their poster printing and advertising efforts do not bring about the desired results. There are no marketing techniques for “instant” results, but with regular use on a frequent schedule over a continuous period of time, these techniques will pay off. Effective advertising requires getting your persuasive message in front of your market as often and consistently as your budget allows.
 

Create Comprehension
The first principle in creating a persuasive print poster is comprehension. Readers should be able to instantly understand the message of your print poster. To create instant comprehension:

• Make sure your message is clearly stated with text and illustrated in the graphics.
• Use the principle of repetition to emphasize your message.
• Keep the message simple. 
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Research is key when you are developing a marketing strategy. You have to know your target audience before you can design materials like brochures and door hangers that will appeal to them. While most people are probably familiar with the idea of catering to a specific demographic, there is a new way market researchers are starting to group people, and they call it psychographics. 

Demographics Explained
Demographics have to do with tangible differences between people. Demographics are categorized by information like age, gender, weight, and income level. It’s pretty easy to separate people into these kinds of groups because the distinguishing characteristics are observable.

Psychographics Explained
Psychographics are groupings of people according to intangible items like beliefs, values, and preferences. These are a little more difficult to measure than demographics, since it’s hard to know who believes what.

Using Demographics
Demographics are very important when planning your marketing campaign. Unless you have unlimited funds, you will need to target your marketing to a specific group. Which group you need to focus on should be relatively simple to figure out. If you run a beauty salon near a college, you know that you need to focus mainly on women between the ages of 18 and 22. Then you can just ask people in this group what kinds of things they want. Then you advertise that you offer these items.

Using Psychographics
Using psychographics is a bit trickier for some kinds of marketing campaigns. If you are using door hangers, for example, it may be difficult to know whose door to hang them on because people don’t generally congregate based on values. You probably don’t want to make your beliefs the focus of your marketing, just include them as a side line.  Continue reading »

Whether you are a new company looking for ways to make sure your brand is successful or a company that has tried and tried again but just can’t seem to get your brand to stick, there is a solution. When a brand flops, it is usually due to the same few mistakes. Your business can create a successful brand simply by knowing the most common reasons for branding failure and know how to correct them.

No Memorable Image – Some companies make the mistake of creating a logo without a memorable image. Make sure that the image in your logo is something that is uniquely yours and is appropriate for your company. The Nike swoosh image not only is one-of-a-kind but also appealing to their target audience – the swoosh looks athletic.

Inconsistency – In every single item that is associated with your company, whether color posters or packaging materials, consistently use the same core branding aspects. The same logo, company name, tagline will reinforce your brand over and over to the public. For the same reason, you will need to give employees the same business card design for further branding consistency.

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Word of mouth advertising is effective because it is trustworthy – when a friend or relative recommends a product or service, you know you can trust their opinion based on the history you have with them. Word of mouth advertising fits well into any budget because it is inexpensive, but it does take a concentrated effort. Here are some tips on how to encourage word of mouth advertising among your customers.

Give Rewards
The most obvious way to get your customers talking about your business is to offer them something in return. This should be a carefully thought out promotion or you may end up spending too much money in your promotional offers. Referral postcards are a great way to keep promotional offers within reason. Offer customers a few of your postcards at checkout. For each new customer who comes in with a referral postcard, the existing customer named on the card could be given 10% off one item or 20% off a purchase of $100 or more. You may want to offer the same special to the new customers as well. Continue reading »

Advertising is a sound investment for any business, but these days everyone is evaluating the bottom line. Poster printing is a great way to advertise effectively on a budget without giving the appearance that you are on a budget. Here are some tips for advertising successfully with poster printing.

Use a variety of sizes
One way to get your posters noticed is to have them printed in a variety of sizes. This allows flexibility to advertise in small or large spaces when placing your posters. The difference in size also breaks up the familiarity to persons who have already seen it. That is, they may have a greater tendency to dismiss a second poster of the same design in the same size but not recognize quite as quickly that they have already seen the poster when it is a different size format. This gives you more advertising time.

State the benefits of your products
The best way to advertise successfully with poster printing or any advertising campaign is to educate consumers on the benefits that your product offers them. Rather than pointing out features that your product possesses, tell the consumers that make up your target market how your product is going to make their task easier and more productive.

Vary your designs periodically
Variety is the spice of life and advertising. Adding a little variety to your poster printing designs will attract more “views” from passersby. Design variance builds on the two previous points. 1) Having a variety of designs increases the likelihood of a second look. And 2) you can use different designs to highlight different benefits. Make an even greater impact by hanging the posters close together.

Build on your brand identity
One of the most important elements to any poster printing campaign is incorporating the brand identity of your business. Do not over crowd your design, but be sure to include the established look of your business as well as your logo and tagline in every poster design. Maintaining consistency across all advertising venues is the key to quick brand (business) recognition when consumers spot your poster.

With the ever increasing use of texting, instant messaging, and other forms of modern communication, it may be easy to overlook or even purposefully include a few grammatical errors in marketing materials such as brochures. However, business marketing is not the place to become lax in the correct use of language. Indeed, writing an effective marketing message depends on the ability to communicate with consumers intelligently and with authority.

Use Correct Grammar

Brochure printing is a valuable marketing tool. Small yet informative, most people will keep color brochures handy for reference when making a decision related to the brochure topic. Incorporating informative and persuasive copy is the key to a successful marketing campaign with brochures. Informative and persuasive copy depends on the correct use of grammar to make a favorable impression on a reader who is developing their opinion of your business from your brochure. Seemingly insignificant mistakes in grammar can adversely affect a reader’s opinion of your business and your ability to meet their needs.

Build Credibility

Your brochure’s information should build credibility with consumers in your business’s abilities to meet their needs. Use testimonial examples to demonstrate how consumers will benefit from using your product as opposed to the competition’s product. Build up the idea that your business is the best answer to the customer’s needs throughout the entire brochure. Consider what objections might be raised and preempt them with the supporting facts of your superior product. Continue reading »