Please share your flyers and pamphlets

GregCavi

GregCavi

Pinnacle Detailing Owner
Hello everyone. I am getting ready to do a door to door campaign in a city I will be moving to in a couple months. I have ordered new shirts with my new logo and I am wanting to get some really professional pamphlets made up. I am asking you guys to see if you have any ideas for me. I plan on taking your ideas and creating a pamphlet of my own. I will trade a detail for the cost of the work done on them.

Thanks!

Greg
 
These aren't the ones I used, but I designed them. A friend showed me what he was going to use and I told him that they didn't make him look like a professional at all. So I designed these in Photoshop and printed them on double sided matte paper. They worked out pretty well I thought.

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Im liking those as well. If i printed a 1000 menus with my # then i wouldn't need a business card,for me anyways.
 
You can do it in any program. You just have to know how large your paper is and then create your columns in thirds. I end up needing to print it a few times before I know I have the thirds set up right. I'd love to find a faster way of doing it myself too...
 
Jngrbrdman said:
You can do it in any program. You just have to know how large your paper is and then create your columns in thirds. I end up needing to print it a few times before I know I have the thirds set up right. I'd love to find a faster way of doing it myself too...
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Have you ever used Adobe PageMaker or InDesign? Both are a little bit more powerful than Publisher, and give you integration with some photoshop design elements you may want to use. :D
 
I threw in the towel and am having anthony do it! Maybe as it gets further along he may post some pics!

Greg
 
Shiny Lil Detlr said:
Have you ever used Adobe PageMaker or InDesign? Both are a little bit more powerful than Publisher, and give you integration with some photoshop design elements you may want to use. :D
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The last time I used PageMaker was 15 years ago in High School when I was on the yearbook staff. I didn't realize it was still in use. Fortunately I don't do a lot of brochure designing. I do mainly logos, business cards, and websites. PageMaker isn't much help in that regard.
 
Jngrbrdman said:
The last time I used PageMaker was 15 years ago in High School when I was on the yearbook staff. I didn't realize it was still in use. Fortunately I don't do a lot of brochure designing. I do mainly logos, business cards, and websites. PageMaker isn't much help in that regard.
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Yep, sure is. Actually InDesign took the place of PageMaker, but it is essentially the same program. Suprisingly, even Quark XPress is still in use, too!
 
GregCavi said:
I am wanting to get some really professional pamphlets made up. I am asking you guys to see if you have any ideas for me. I plan on taking your ideas and creating a pamphlet of my own. Thanks! Greg
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Going by the subject of your post “Please share your flyers and pamphlets”, for what it’s worth, looking at it from the consumer viewpoint, I would not be inclined to patronize a business that uses flyers. Somehow, for me, it just seems cheap.

Now on the other hand, I WOULD check into “Immaculate Detailing” business because of the tri-fold design “brochure/pamphlet”.


Jngrbrdman said:
These aren't the ones I used, but I designed them. A friend showed me what he was going to use and I told him that they didn't make him look like a professional at all. So I designed these in Photoshop and printed them on double sided matte paper. They worked out pretty well I thought.
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Nice job Jngrbrdman. It hits all he bases from getting the attention of the consumer, explaining your services, explaining your qualifications, products, and sample photos. It gives the impression of quality. It also gives the impression that if the business shows attention to detail in their pamphlet, then the business will show attention to detail in their product/service.

Just my 2 cents worth.
 
These are my brochures and business cards.

The brochures are heavy stock, tri-fold and very glossy. The business card is 3x4, heavy stock with a glossy front.

I did all the copy, purchased the images and a friend did all the design work in Adobe Illustrator. I was looking to achieve a classic, understated, 1930's theme keeping away from the common, flashy, new Corvette / Porsche pic type brochures and cards. All of my clients are "old" - 50's on up and respond to this marketing.

The colors look off in the pics. The red is more of a burnt red color (not fire engine) and the body is in a light silver with white and black accents. The fonts are Park Avenue and Myriad Roman

I got it all done at http://www.greatfxbusinesscards.com/ The contact name is Chris. GREAT guy and a big car buff. I found him by chance after contacting and speaking with a few other vendors. Excellent guy to work with

Hope this gives you an idea about layout and content. I blocked out all my contact info. If I violated a rule, please let me know and I'll make an adjustment or remove the post.
 

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"All of my clients are "old" - 50's on up and respond to this marketing" Spilchy

Ouch! Hey watch it buddy. Ya kinda hittin close to home there. I am 47. haha
 
belcherm58 said:
"All of my clients are "old" - 50's on up and respond to this marketing" Spilchy

Ouch! Hey watch it buddy. Ya kinda hittin close to home there. I am 47. haha
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LOL, that's why I put "old" in quotes. After all, my folks are 64 and 62 so I have to be careful!
 
Five Star said:
pamphlets are nice if your sitting at a doctors office.

if your going door to door, get some custom doorhangers made up
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If it's legal in your area to hang up material on people's private property (instead of mailing one through the post office which is legal).

Personally, I don't answer fliers like that stuffed in my mailbox, hanging on my door or rolled up in a tube and stuck in the porch railing handle. It's rather tacky in my opinion and a nuisance to receive something that 99.8% of the time, I don't want. I'll leave that to chimney sweepers and chinese take out joints.

When some one calls me and schedules a detail (word of mouth referral or my pamphlet / card), I leave a couple with them and they hand them off to other interested people. I also keep some in the car and give them out. Also at my local train station and banks, there is an area where businesses can leave their pamphlet advertising. Routinely, people ask me for my pamphlets to hand to out.

It's a way to advertise my weekend warrior business in a controlled, effective and sophisticated manner (I consider my flier to be superior to the few that float around my town).
 
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