{"id":2104,"date":"2011-05-31T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2013-03-04T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T21:09:48","slug":"making-booklets-a-starters-guide-to-simple-booklets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/making-booklets-a-starters-guide-to-simple-booklets\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Booklets &#8211; A Starters Guide to Simple Booklets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Pedestal-Diecut-Make-A-Booklet-Program-Covers\/-170137\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4455\" title=\"Corporate Make-A-Booklet Program Covers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/BKR09D-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Corporate Make-A-Booklet Program Covers\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/BKR09D-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/BKR09D-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/BKR09D-245x350.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/BKR09D.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>One effective method of marketing is to get as much information about your products and services into the hands of your customers as possible. Sometimes you only want to concentrate on a single product or service, and others may be better suited as a general overview. Whichever approach you take, one way to deliver this information is by putting together a booklet. While having booklets made can become a major expense, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/make-a-booklet\">making booklets<\/a> in-house can be a very cost effective marketing tool.<\/p>\n<p>When you think of a booklet, you generally think about a small sized book containing perhaps 20 to 30 pages with some type of cardstock cover. But that\u2019s the easy part. Figuring out how to make a booklet can be the hardest part. Fortunately, there are tools out there that make the job not only less confusing, but a breeze.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Cornerstone-Program-Covers\/-157905\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/000037457m-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First you have to keep in mind how a booklet is laid out. Setting up a template to hold the text can be mind numbingly confusing, so finding a template for a booklet can save you a lot of headaches. The good thing is they are available for your favorite word processing and layout programs. You can also use that template to make the covers for your booklet as well. After you\u2019ve laid out the text and printed it, and printed the covers, you\u2019ve accomplished most of the task. With those parts out of the way, the next challenge becomes making booklets to fit the size you want.<\/p>\n<p>That is accomplished with a paper cutter. You can either use a standard office paper cutter which is capable of dealing with small volumes, or if you need larger numbers of booklets, you can send them out to a printing company to have them cut to size. By cutting them in the middle of an 8 \u00bd x 11 page you can get 8 booklet pages out of one sheet of paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/SmartBind-Plastic-Comb-Binding-System\/-144050\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"SmartBind Plastic Comb Binding System\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/000047078m-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>And binding them is the last step of the process. Again, you can use a printing company to bind them there are <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Binding Machine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Binding-Systems\" target=\"_blank\">binding\u00a0machines<\/a> available that will work quite well for small volumes of booklets. Not only will this save you money, but customizing booklets becomes a simple process because you do not have\u00a0to rely on the printing company to handle the process.<\/p>\n<p>Booklets can be very handy marketing devices to show clients a bit more detail about products and services that brochures simply won\u2019t cover. When they\u2019re looking for reasons to buy, booklets can provide those reasons in an economical, and relatively easy to produce way. Take a look at your marketing processes and see if your company can benefit from making booklets for your potential customers so they can be more informed about your offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One effective method of marketing is to get as much information about your products and services into the hands of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing-promotion-techniques"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}