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5 Misconceptions in Booklet Marketing

The art of competing using marketing booklets relies on proper booklet practices, design creativity and of course cunning marketing deployment.

By: Steve James R. Perkins
Category: Business
Posted: Jul 15, 2011
Updated: Jul 15, 2011
Views: 44


Booklets are not the first choice of many for marketing. That is why there are a lot of rumours and misconceptions out there about booklet printing and marketing that are just not really true. Let me clear out some of these common misconceptions in marketing using booklets for you. Hopefully with these explanations, you will be able to open up your mind and consider printing color booklets as a good investment in your marketing campaigns.

1. It is hard work – When some people look at booklet printing and design, they see a lot of work for a marketing print. Besides the cover for the booklet, all the content from the table of contents to the index or bibliography must be done of course for a proper color booklet to be done. At the outset, this does seem like a lot of work for a marketing print.

However, if you look at the current nature of desktop publishing applications today, creating color booklets is already a cinch for most, even for kids. It is just a matter of loading a booklet template and then using the built in features of software to make the creation of the cover and all the other parts of the booklet easier and faster. So in reality, with today’s software, it is not really hard work to do booklet printing today.

2. It is expensive – If you do look at booklets with their special covers, paper materials, binding and coating, it does look like it will be very expensive. But this is just an illusion. Full color booklet printing is pretty affordable today, especially when you print them online.

With the tough competition in online printing markets, most online booklet printing firms offer their services at very competitive cheap rates. This means that booklet printing is accessible to anyone, from the respectable project manager or small business owner to the largest of those professional companies. That is why you do not have to worry too much about the costs of booklet printing.

3. It is outdated – For marketing, color booklet printing might actually look very outdated. What is a lowly color booklet after all when compared to a TV commercial or online listing? Well, in truth however, there is more to color booklet marketing than meets the eye.

In fact, the reason why color booklets work well in marketing is because it is deployed in areas or situations where online or digital marketing cannot reach (the real world). So even if TV and Internet marketing is dominant these days, people actually still need to be unplugged for a time to deal with real life of course. In those situations, color booklets can still rule and be effective when done right.

4. It is highly local – Another common misconception about booklet marketing is that it is highly local. Many people think that with a physical color booklet, you can only reach people in the immediate vicinity and you won’t gain enough exposure to be effective.

Now, while there is some merit to that kind of thinking, in truth, color booklet marketing is not limited to just one localized area. With special distribution methods you can actually market to a mass audience as long as you place and deploy your booklets at key high concentration points. From transportation nodes to public events, there are tons of ways to reach a lot more than your local audience from your color booklets. So you should not worry about being limited in booklet marketing.

5. It takes long – Finally, people may think that booklet printing may take a long time, perhaps weeks, but in truth this is just a plain lie. Booklet printing can be done correctly overnight if one is truly determined. However in most cases people receive their booklets from around three to five working days which should be fast enough for most campaigns. So really it does not take long for those prints to be produced right not. You do not have to worry.

Great! Hopefully now that the light has been shed around these misconceptions, you do not have to really look down upon color booklet printing. It is really a worthy type of marketing medium that does deserve significant attention.

Steve J. Perkins is a specialist of printing and is also a graphic designer. He is dedicated in the printing industry and continues to support the developments in the field of marketing.

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Steve J. Perkins is a specialist of printing and is also a graphic designer. He is dedicated in the printing industry and continues to support the developments in the field of marketing.

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