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Important Questions For Your Brochure Cover

By: John Ray Daniels


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Designing the cover of your color brochures is one of the most important tasks that you will do for brochure printing. While the use of brochure templates can help you somewhat in this endeavour, there are also a few important things you must determine for yourself to make sure that your covers are really being designed the way they must be.

Let me help you determine these “important things” by telling you about the important questions that you must ask when designing your brochure printing cover. If you answer in the positive to these next questions about your cover, they should be well designed for brochure printing. So read on and see.

• Can you understand what the subject matter is within 5 seconds? – A brochure’s primary point should be understandable at least five seconds after someone looks at it for the first time. This is a big test of the power of the color brochure. The main message and the type of brochure must be obvious almost immediately.

If it is a travel brochure, then people must see immediately at the cover that there is some kind of travel opportunity involved. If it is an awareness brochure, the primary issue or object of the issue must already be shown. It is important that your brochure covers can accomplish this feat easily. Otherwise, you’ll be hard pressed by other competitive brochures out there. So ask yourself and test if the subject matter of your brochures can be understood in 5 seconds.

• Can you quickly determine for whom the message is within 5 seconds? – Another important thing to ask with regards to your brochure cover is, can you quickly determine the target of the message within five seconds? Is the brochure for tourists? For professionals? For the general public etc.? If it is clear immediately to whom the color brochure are for, then the cover of the brochure is quite effective at targeting its ideal audience. This allows your brochure to reach its important target audience more easily. So try to determine if the target of your brochure message is obvious. If not, you may need to change your approach in brochure printing.

• Is the benefit to the reader obvious within 5 seconds? – It is also crucial that the benefit to the reader is obvious within 5-10 seconds of reading the brochure. I reader must know if he or she is getting some freebies, discounts, an travel opportunity or simply some information that is valuable. If the benefits are obvious within 5-10 seconds, you should be able to hook readers easily to read your brochure. This can be done true interesting and targeted headlines that tell you what you get after reading or it can also be done by enticing people about something important later on. If possible try it out, but don’t forget to determine if the benefits to the reader are obvious within a few seconds. If it is yes, then you have done a good job. If not, then you will have some work to do in your brochure design layout.

• Does the overall brochure design stand out among the rest? – Lastly, you should always ask yourself if your brochure design can stand out among the rest . Are your brochures just the same as any old color brochure in the market, or are they made of new materials with interesting configurations. If your brochure is easily spottable and understandable from a group of other brochures in racks, then you have got the jackpot in brochure printing by being more competitive than the rest. So always try to ask and see if your design stands out among the rest.

Great! Now what are you waiting for? Look at your covers for brochure printing and see if you can apply the answers you got in this article. If all your answers are in the affirmative, then you have a great color brochure out there. If not, then you will need to find someone good that can help you. Good Luck!

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