Fun and Unusual Poster Uses and Ideas

Calendars

Multi-pager calendars can be a hassle to deal with when you’re marking dates several months in advance. Card calendars can be handy, but they’re too small to mark notes on. Solve this dated dilemma with new poster print calendars!

Aside from the practicality factor, printing your own calendars also means you get to design them yourself. No more waiting for the end of the year for those free company calendars. You can add your own photos or text to your custom poster calendars, so you can really feel the New Year’s going to be your year!

Event Invites

Want to make sure the people you send invites to your event really notice your invitation? Hand them custom poster invites! Not only will your great design have an even greater impact with all that real estate, but your guests can hang the prints on their walls before the big event. And they won’t forget the details because it’s all there in big type on your poster prints!

Menus

I’ve seen restaurants use this technique to attract shy customers, and you can use it too. Place menu poster size prints just outside your restaurant to complement your other promotional poster displays. They can also stand alone as promotion prints if you can place enticing photos near some of your featured dishes. Soon enough your customers will be ordering your specials instead of just passing by!

Tips to Save Money in Printing Quality Posters

Take Care of Your Posters

Like they say, an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. The same applies to poster prints. Protect them from possible damage from day one. You can frame them to keep the dust away, keep them away from harsh light or place them at a height children can’t reach.

Print Online

Online printing companies can give you great bargain packages; choose the right one and you’ll be saving lots of time and money. You only have to specify your details, upload your design, and the staff will take care of every step until your order arrives at your front door. And you can get all this without taking one step out of your home!

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Fourth of July Poster Design Ideas

Uncle Sam

Don’t worry. You’re not being unpatriotic when you’re using Uncle Sam for your promo posters. History says his image was first used to sell food, and then support the war effort in 1812. So there’s no reason to be shy about making Uncle Sam say, “I want YOU to get in this deli shop and eat their whopping hot dogs!”

This great American poster boy can also work with motivating people into action inside the house. “I want YOU to throw out the garbage after dinner!” is one creative way to go about your custom poster prints at home, but you can come up with more.

Freedom

Remember the true meaning of the Fourth of July. Just as we became independent from Great Britain, encourage the people who see your posters to think independently.

This works great for businesses too. Tell them to think for themselves, and chances are their first attempt at independent thinking will be to get in your store and buy your stuff.

Everything American

If your business is proudly American-owned and operated, let your customers know through your posters. They’ll be glad to help fellow Americans out on this very patriotic occasion.

And you don’t have to stop there; from the National Anthem and baseball to American flag-themed apparel, mix in symbols of what the Fourth of July stands for on your poster designs. Fireworks can work too, because once you’ve tried out these tips, your Fourth of July design posters will be a blast!

1.    A good poster design can make the difference between a total waste of money and a genius marketing concept. The most important aspect of your poster design is the message. Is the message clear and visible? If you are having a blow out sale and marking your entire inventory down by 50%, you should be sure that this message is visible even from a distance. Many times designers and business owners become preoccupied with the aesthetics of a poster, but this isn’t necessarily important. The primary objective of poster print marketing is to grab peoples’ attention and tell them your message.

2.    Placing your poster in a strategic location is very important to your marketing success. Visibility is the key component to a well placed poster. Be sure that your poster is placed in an area that easily visible in a highly trafficked area. Also, it is important to target the correct audience. For example, if you own a furniture store, it is not advantageous to place your poster at a skateboard park even if there is a large amount of foot traffic in that area. You would have much more success at a fitness center or shopping center where more of your prospective customers would visit.

3.    How many posters should you print? Many people find that poster printers require a minimum of 250 posters; however it is unnecessary to print such a large quantity for a small business. There are online poster printing sites that will process custom orders with no minimum quantities. Try not to blanket your area and become an eyesore to the community. Instead order 25-50 posters and place them where you have permission to do so and the assurance that the posters will be left unmolested.

Poster print marketing is a great way to market a small business in a cost effective way. Follow these 3 tips to successful poster print marketing, but also experiment with your own ideas. Every culture and community responds to different types of marketing and it is important to figure out what works for you and your small business.