[Jim_77]

Exactly Paul!  You can get hold of a copy of adobe photoshop at, ahem, "minimal" cost   This is the professional industry standard, it does everything you need to.  Just set up all your projects in CMYK at 300dpi and bob's your uncle

Once you spend a while using it, you soon get the hang of it.

[Hilton]

Hilton A5 is not a postcard its a leaflet, so you are using a thick leaflet not a postcard (which is A6)

so you are correct that there is plenty of room on A5  but my comments were based on a postcard being half A5 which is A6 (the normal size of a post card)

If its on card its a post card, but I take the point that A6  would be too small and so would the the impact, A5 post card is much much better and the difference on cost is negligible.

You do blanket coverage which obviously works exceptionally well for you on both cost and results, in our area most of those leaflets would end up in the large bins or dumped down alleys, targeting in our situation is far more productive.

[A+CleaningService]

Which software do you use? I am using  publisher at the moment. 

[Daria Taylor]

Which software do you use? I am using  publisher at the moment. 

Best software is an Illustrator, InDesign or Photoshop and even better to have all of them to hand. I mainly use InDesign as it allows to create brochures books leaflets postcards and you can save them as pdf or a picture format. However it cost few bob unless you have other sourses to obtain the  software from and it then requires training but can learn on internet the basics and that will be enough to create a good leaflet.

As regards to thickness of the leaflets, to us it made big difference, first ever leaflets we sent out was thick like a post card only a6 one side full colour, and brought in about 3-5 per 1000 and last once which was cheap and thin hardly brought in 1 per 1000, could well depend on the area distributed to time of year etc, but all i know is we have 15000 left and i dont think they will be going out anywhere other than bin as they waste of time and money. I will never ever buy cheap water thin leaflets again.

dash t

[Robert Watson]

If you want to learn Photoshop I would recommend, Sam's Photoshop in 24 Hours.
It`s really good fun if you get into it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_0_15?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=photoshop+in+24+hours&sprefix=photoshop+in+24

Rab

[Mike Halliday]

Rab which one?  there's about 5 what the difference betreen photoshop 7, CS & CS4

[kinder clean]

I purchased Serif Page Plus 9 ( there may be a newer version now, but 9 has PDF publishing ) think it was under £20.00, very impressed with it.  ( Just google it )

Tried attaching an example I made but it wont upload.

Paul

[specialised]

I've tried postcard size and the problem is its hard to get your message across, a flyer or postcard should be 'salesmanship in print'. A postcard will have enough space to sell 2 ideas ( 1 on each side of the flyer) so if you want to talk about multiple things eg;
 stain removal,
upholstery cleaning,
carpet cleaning
free estimates
100% guarantee
local company...etc...etc...etc

then you don't have enough room and you just end up listing them with bullet points, which is'nt ideal.

also the cost of postcard is double that of a flyer so taking into the account the delivery cost (which will be the same) will postcards  bring in 30% more work, I don't think so

I DO CRAP FLYERS AND CAN GET GOOD DEALS OR POST CARDS AND FLYERS I HAVE DESIGN ON EBAY AND ITS HIGH IMPACT TO CATCH YOUR ATTENTION THEN YOU CAN PUT ALL YOUR INFO TO SELL YOUR COMPANY ON THE BACK OF IT HERE IS THE LINK LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF THE DESIGN


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170429931835&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
 

[fresh]

dont like it

[deep-cleaningukltd]

Specialised.

Are you a c/c then or just promoting your business via this forum?

[specialised]

Specialised.

Are you a c/c then or just promoting your business via this forum?

I own a cleaning company that does a few things including carpet cleaning window cleaning and high pressure cleaning i just secured a national contract for a well known supermarket and will be sub contracting work out in certain areas down south so i will be posting the details when the contract rolls out down south at the moment im doing all the scotland stores then i will be rolling out downsouth in 2 months its weekly work and good money ill be in touch about it

[specialised]

dont like it

everyone is entitled to there own opinion everyone has different tastes and designs can be changed but i have been in carpet cleaning for years and i think its straight to the point high impact and its only basic just now but when people buy it i then personalise and populate it

[Joe H]

If your full stop and comma keys on your computer keyboard do not work I would suggest spending a tenner on a new keyboard.

[specialised]

If your full stop and comma keys on your computer keyboard do not work I would suggest spending a tenner on a new keyboard.

so what its a chat board not an essay what are you a teacher or a carpet cleaner

[Shaun_Ashmore]

specialized you should know us cleaners have short attention span when cleaning, if you want it read keep it looking short as we skip over bits as there's so much to read on here and other forums.

Just a quick tip for you.

Shaun

[Robert Watson]

"Rab which one?  there's about 5 what the difference betreen photoshop 7, CS & CS4"

Just different versions Mike. 7 being the earliest which is fine for the stuff we want to do.
Rab

[Joe H]

If your full stop and comma keys on your computer keyboard do not work I would suggest spending a tenner on a new keyboard.

so what its a chat board not an essay what are you a teacher or a carpet cleaner

If I have to make my own sentences up either I wont bother reading posts (so its a waste of time writing them) or I get the wrong end of the message you trying to get over. Simple really.

[specialised]

If your full stop and comma keys on your computer keyboard do not work I would suggest spending a tenner on a new keyboard.

so what its a chat board not an essay what are you a teacher or a carpet cleaner

If I have to make my own sentences up either I wont bother reading posts (so its a waste of time writing them) or I get the wrong end of the message you trying to get over. Simple really.

not everyone looks that far into a couple of lines of text

[specialised]

just noticed the moderators have edited my listing and put i do crap flyers and made my ebay link to be a penny on ebay how very professional cleanitup so fuch for this being a friendly forum are you just getting the hump because other forums are popping up better than yours

[specialised]

If your full stop and comma keys on your computer keyboard do not work I would suggest spending a tenner on a new keyboard.

so what its a chat board not an essay what are you a teacher or a carpet cleaner

If I have to make my own sentences up either I wont bother reading posts (so its a waste of time writing them) or I get the wrong end of the message you trying to get over. Simple really.

Also joe before you start bringing peoples grammar mistakes up have a think to yourself what if there is something actually wrong with this person im dyslexic hence my bad grammar and spelling!!!