Does your product line upset you or make you feel unhappy? Do you think there is some problem with your products? Well, you may be wrong, yes, chances are you need a new brochure and not a new product line. To project your corporate identity and brand positively, a good brochure design goes a long way.
Your company brochure introduces your entire company. It encompasses your entire product offering and production. A brochure is an important marketing tool, which is essential for every business. Customers and clients are influenced more than ever by the visual presentation of your products and services.
An influential brochure design is more likely to be read and remembered. For a good quality design, follow a few simple and essential tricks.
1.A brochure must be brief:
It must effectively communicate the most important fundamentals about your business and your products or services. For example consistency in use of colors, shapes and sizes should be maintained. When reviewing the brochure for the last time, double check for colors, bullets and lists (if any)
2.Highlight the most important point to make it stand out:
There are certain elements or areas in a brochure, which need to stand out. Areas such as CALL NOW or TAKE DISCOUNT OFFER ADVANTAGE. Put these areas in either BOLD or ITALIC or enhance them to make them stand out from other areas on the page. Use a provocative statement at a different position on the page. Decorate the borders and outlines with some bright contrasting colors.
3.Use readable fonts:
In general, when you have a large amount of text, it is best to use a serif font because it is easier to read.
4.Make use of quality stock photos and images when required:
A creative and an impressive brochure will certainly attract a customer to your product. Check out internet sites which provide clipart and stock photos and when you find some use them in your brochure design. Some internet sites offer images and photos at very affordable rate.
5.Leave an impression:
It must leave a strong impact on the reader thereby, prompting the prospect to buy the offerings. The prospect should be left in lurch to know more about the company and its products.
A good brochure is not just enough, for strong branding, a combination of quality images along with outstanding marketing techniques is required. A good marketing mix can make or break the sales curve.
Free Brochure Design Templates
But do you know the characteristics that your brochures have?
These characteristics are the factors that make up these cards even before you put all the styles and techniques you chose. It is best to know them before deciding on the appearance itself.
What are the two characteristics of a good brochure?
Brochure type number 1:
This brochure is designed to attract attention. It plays on the emotions of the customer. When they see it in a display rack they must pick it up and see what it says. It has an attention getting headline.
It is designed to spend all its time, on public display, exposed to as much of your target market as possible. It will contain lots of white space and short thoughts rather than long paragraphs.
It contains a "call to action" that requires or asks the customer to make a phone call, come on down, clip a coupon, mail a reply card or some other action that puts you and the customer in contact.
Think of this brochure as the appetizer of your business. Something to tickle the pallet but still leave them hungry.
Brochure type number 2:
Think of this brochure as the main course. This brochure is designed for the customer who has learned of your company and has requested more information.
They might have seen your "Type One" brochure described above. Unlike Type One, Type Two can be crammed with information. Customers who request information want to know everything. They become insatiable for product knowledge.
No matter what you send, it may not be enough to satisfy some customers.
This style of brochure should never be used in display racks or laid out for the curious passerby. A casual customer who is unfamiliar with your business will be "turned off" by the thought of wadding through this mountain of information just to see what you do.
Now that you know the functions of your brochures, maybe it is time to think about designing them again to better serve the purpose you want it to have.
For those who do not have one yet, consider the two characteristics first and create the brochure that will work effectively for you.
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