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5 Proven Strategies For Maximum Brochure Exposure

five simple and proven strategies that can help you take your brochures to the market without fear of failure

By: Lynne Saarte
Category: Marketing:Advertising
Posted: Aug 31, 2011
Updated: Aug 31, 2011
Views: 41


There are many approaches to marketing with brochures. You cannot just have generic content and generic marketing messages. You have to have a strategy or an angle of attack so that your color brochures get better results in marketing. In this guide, I will give you five simple and proven strategies that should help you take your brochures to market without fear of failure. So read on and learn what you can use for your prints.

1. The temptation strategy.

One of the most basic strategies in color brochures is the temptation strategy. This tactic hails from the days of the travel brochure where those prints tempt potential travellers with relaxation, adventure and frolicking on distant destinations. While there are a lot more types of brochures nowadays beyond travel brochures, the concept is the same.

You basically can tempt readers with what they really want. Do they need money? Give them a picture of lots of money. Do they crave success? Give them a picture of a successful person. You will always get people’s attention when you tempt them with a visual of what they want. That is why this is a great brochure marketing strategy.

2. The information strategy.

Information is one of the most important commodities in this modern world and you can use it to your advantage in marketing. By promising people important and exclusive information with your color brochures, you can convince them more easily to read your whole brochure, giving your marketing message all the advantages that it can get. As long as you do deliver with real valuable information and incredible insights, your brochures will succeed quite wonderfully and provide you with positive responses.

3. The “not to be missed” strategy.

Another good strategy that you can try out is the “not to be missed” strategy. This special move basically tells people that they will miss a BIG OPPORTUNITY if they do not read the brochures now. They might miss earning hundreds of dollars for example. Or maybe they might miss that opportunity to get more partners or more customers.

People do not like missing out on great stuff and your brochures can capitalize on these fears. By telling them that they will not get what they need unless they read your brochure immediately and respond to it, you will of course get more people to actually read and respond. This is one of the best and most effective strategies for brochures, to try it out.

4. The picture strategy.

Sometimes, it can also be all about the pictures. Images have a very powerful pull on people. Using a very impressive, unusual or artistic image can sometimes be all you need to hook people into picking up your brochure print and reading it from end to end.

All you need is the best professionally crafted image that has an emotional pull on your readers. Make sure that it is of course related to your theme, and set at a very high resolution. With the best most impressive prints, no one should be able to resist the beauty of your brochures and of course will they will try to pick those up and even keep them.

5. The teasing strategy.

Finally you have the teasing strategy. The teasing strategy basically teases some kind of interesting information or value to the reader. This might be a mysterious statement about getting money, or maybe a teasing line about knowledge about getting ahead in one’s career.

By teasing but not giving away information, you encourage people to look a little closer and read the brochure more. This strategy typically uses questions so that people will want to read the brochure for answers. Quite effective if you have a certain demographic that you really want to target.

So before you take your brochures to the market, make sure that you have a good strategy much like those listed above. This should increase your success rates and of course help you have a more memorable color brochure.

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