May is Small Business Month! If you own or run a small biz, you know that promoting your product or service can be challenging. With you in mind, we recently launched several new products, like our expanded Flyer options, the new 8×8 Square format and the redesigned iPad app, to help provide you with creative marketing solutions. From lookbooks to pamphlets to portfolios, the options for small business promotions are endless – so, this month, we want to know, how do you use print or digital publications to promote your small business?
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sending out postcards, holiday cards…posting images on social media.
I use social media to promote my photography website.
The ipad app allows me to get my product to a whole new set of readers, Flyers, printed on both sides allow me to learn where all the bulletin boards are.
I have been making promotional posters and flyers and using website and social networking to allow downloads of these . Just getting into printed postcards in books to invite for workshops and now selling framed photography with unique label info for limited ed prints . I am just about to set up a MagCloud to present these unique prints and labels for display so others can order. All these promotiononals are catch nets for my Health, Growth and Learning Business.
We are retail brand identity consultants and it is an extremely difficult and complex concept to communicate to potential clients. advertising is too expensive and does not give us the format to really explain the benefits. An article in a trade publication while more informative, has to comply with the publications guidelines for editorial content. By leveraging a mag cloud publication, we can include all the detail we feel is important, without limitation, and deliver content rich in information and visuals directly to potential clients.
As a small multi-channel merchant, we look for ways to get our products in front of as many people as possible. We need people to see us on the web, we need them to see us face-to-face, and with the help of Magcloud, they will be able to see our offerings in print from the comfort of their homes.
Let’s face it- printing comes with a lot of upfront costs. We’d never even attempt a catalog if it wasn’t for Magcloud. But since we have the option to print on demand, we are going to use it! I look forward to completing our catalog, and using Magcloud to help us drive more sales.
I print publish a catalog for my high end artisan made pillow line using MagCloud – which allows me to constantly update my custom product line with new imagery in small print runs – and to produce targeted professional print catalogs for specific customers I want to reach out to.
I am a graphic designer. One of my clients is a business consulting group. They wanted to do a “brochure” and have it printed out at Kinkos. I recommended that we create one of the new horizontal Digests. I thought it would brand better with a direct mail piece I had already created. These will be used to hand out at the various workshops and advisory board meetings the hold for their clients in hopes of garnering new clients from board members. http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/394475
I have another client who is a fine art photographer. We have done three books together now. We do a limited edition, hard bound, foil-stamped linen cover version and a MagCloud version. He used the MagCloud versions to fund the hard bound versions.
I use both print media and social media to promote my fine art photography practice based at arisalomon.com. thanks to MagCloud I can send out a fully featured ‘brochure’ to potential partners, curators and gallerists.