Sunday, May 4, 2008

Full Color Postcards as a Marketing Tool

By Jacques Di Salvia

A cost-effective marketing tool that is used today is using color postcards that are bright with vibrant colors to reach your prospective customer base and help them choose your product or service over someone else's. This also is a great benefit because it helps them to keep updated with changes in your company and it is also a very cost-effective form of marketing. With today's technology in printing services, full color postcards have replaced the black and white postcards.

If you are trying to send a message to your customers using a simple and appealing postcard with lots of color, this will definitely make a bigger impact. Lengthy brochures with multi-pages and booklets or catalogues are too time consuming to review and not very cost effective. Postcards offer a higher readability and the customers much prefer being able to get your message quickly without a lot of hype.

The postcards are done on an offset press but to have a more personalized touch digital printing is advancing to become a more popular method. Digital printing is still more effective and with features such as "variable data printing" techniques each postcard is printed with a unique and personalized approach.

By seeing your postcard on a monitor during the design stage gives you an actual view of what the original print will look like. By adding metallic or fluorescent colors it will make your postcard more eye-catching.

To get the ultimate look and a quality postcard it is critical that you choose the right stock which the final printing will take place. Your design will depend on the stock that you choose such as; gloss, matte or pearl finish, just to name a few. Special effects can be used when printing your postcards to emphasize texts or images by applying UV or special effect varnish.

Should you choose to use the offset printing method it is actually less expensive to print in larger quantities. But, if you have designed your postcard using the digital press method then print in small quantities. You can meet your budget requirements utilizing both processes.

By using full color postcards as part of your marketing campaign, you will definitely be effective in reaching your customer base and in giving information about your products and services without wasting your customer's time.

Most promotional materials received in the mail usually goes straight into the garbage, based on statistics. But, by marketing with full color postcards you eliminate that concern because people are most likely to remember something that is vibrant and with colorful designs. They will help in turning your potential client base into loyal and long-term customers and in meeting your company's revenue target.

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