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Effectively Use the Attention You Gain
Karen Grahams
printplace
There are two very difficult things to accomplish with a postcard. The first is the harder to accomplish, but the second is the more important one to be aware of. But because of the difficulties with the first task, people too often fail to understand the significance of the second part.
To elaborate, the first part is getting a person's attention to begin with, while the second is providing them with the information that your postcard needs to.
Postcard printing is by nature meant to be something where you send a quick, easy to understand message directly to a person's home.
But there's the thing to worry about: people can very easily throw your postcard right in the trash. This is the fate of many postcards that don't pass the test. A person picks them up, briefly looks over them, and dumps them right in the trash.
Getting past that first sweep of the eyes is not an easy thing, and only so many postcards are able to pass the test. The better you research the market and the more precise your audience is the greater the odds of getting those postcards looked at a little longer, but don't fool yourself into thinking this is going to be easy.
This stands as the most difficult thing about postcard printing. I'm not trying to dispute that, but it still isn't always the most important part of it. What your postcard has to say is the more important thing, because if you don't provide people with anything of significance, or if your message isn't clear enough, you won't end up getting any kind of sale.
Now that's a shame to actually manage to get someone to take the time to look at your postcard, and you don't end up getting a sale because you didn't provide worthwhile enough information.
Part of this is remaining completely focused. You have to be sure you know exactly what your postcard is trying to say and find the best way to get this message across. Postcards are meant to have simple, straightforward messages. Don't get too complicated or you might end up losing more business then you'll gain.
The best way to ensure you never have to worry about this is by having a very clear, central theme to your postcards. Right from the beginning decide what it is that your postcards are trying to do, and be sure that each postcard clearly contains this message. All it should take is a few seconds for a person to understand what you're trying to say.
If you keep your theme simple and easy to understand, and you make sure that your postcards clearly deliver the point, you'll never have to worry about a weak and difficult message. When you get a person's attention, make sure you use that time as best as you possibly can. You might not get it again so easily.
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Article submitted Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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