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Sunday, March 6, 2011

How to Make Promotional Postcards Work

There are three phases in the postcard creation. The first is the planning stage. This phase is used to create an idea of how your postcards would appear, what materials are to be used and what content will be suited.

The phrase being the end in mind can be applied. The phase may mean consider the business goal. If it is to promote a product or a service, be it. If it is to maintain the market standing of the business, then, postcards must be used to attain the purpose.

The second phase is the production. In this phase, little by little, the concept will materialize. Tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker can be used to bolster your postcard design.

Finally, we have the printing process. There are two choices available in the printing process. The first one is the doing it yourself. Here, you can use your desktop printer and begin making your printouts. If you are already satisfied with the paper, color, brightness, contrast, and the content has already been proofread several times, then you are ready to print.

On the other hand, if you choose to go outsourcing, you can go for a skilled commercial printer which is offering quality postcard printing services. You know you get the right one when you worry no more about your postcard printing needs. The commercial printer knows exactly what to do with them. Not only that, the moment you receive them, they are exactly the way you want them to be.

Now, your postcards are ready for mailing. You can mail them in the conventional way via first class mail.

Aside from printed postcards we also have online postcards. These postcards are affordable and easy to distribute. To create, you just have to choose from the wide-array of available postcard templates. After that, put in your promotional content. Be sure that it reflects you company and call to action. Then, you are ready to send it to the recipients. Viola! In just a matter of seconds your e-postcards are sent. Fast, easy and worry-free!

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