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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: JSMC on November 21, 2015, 08:39:05 pm

Title: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: JSMC on November 21, 2015, 08:39:05 pm
i want to be ordering leaflets soon but need to get them designed.
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: Smudger on November 21, 2015, 08:58:14 pm
Go to people per hour

You can get anything designed professionally for around £25 - well worth it

Darran
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: JSMC on November 21, 2015, 09:03:28 pm
god i can use fiveer.com forgot all about that site.
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: duncan h on November 21, 2015, 09:55:08 pm
god i can use fiveer.com forgot all about that site.
Had a bad time with them. They used templates off the web and didn't do anything else. They credited me the £5 back, but only in the fiver account. I wont use them again
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: p1w1 on November 22, 2015, 07:59:39 am
Adobe Illustrator,  use places like fiveer and of course all your going to get are ready made templates what else would you expect
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: JSMC on November 22, 2015, 08:06:44 am
Dont require anything magical lol. Leaflet two sided with company details

Name
Phone numbers
Website

Picture

Services offered

Other side will just be upvc before n after pics with contact details again.
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: p1w1 on November 22, 2015, 01:22:38 pm
Then fiveer should be good enough  ;D the problem with doing them yourself if your not sure what your doing is getting the bleed etc right for printing it's not hard and most printers provide the page template but if you get it wrong then you've wasted your money.
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: Jon_Phelps on November 22, 2015, 05:34:02 pm
I'd give photoshop a bash.... i did all my website, leaflet and payment slip artwork on it.  simple enough to learn and online tutorials on youtube for just about everything you could think of designing
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: ascjim on November 22, 2015, 05:38:52 pm
god i can use fiveer.com forgot all about that site.
Had a bad time with them. They used templates off the web and didn't do anything else. They credited me the £5 back, but only in the fiver account. I wont use them again

What do you expect for £5?
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: Walter Mitty on November 23, 2015, 06:00:44 pm
I just use MS Publisher.  Single-colour, double-sided printing (my laser printer has duplex built in) and guillotine them for A5 sized leaflets.  I'm no designer but they look reasonable.
That way might not be good for very large quantities but I probably average a distribution of maybe 100-200 a week because I usually only distribute them near where I'm working and when I can be arsed.
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: duncan h on November 23, 2015, 06:23:29 pm
god i can use fiveer.com forgot all about that site.
Had a bad time with them. They used templates off the web and didn't do anything else. They credited me the £5 back, but only in the fiver account. I wont use them again

What do you expect for £5?
I would expect more than copy and paste. It was on googles first page
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: p1w1 on November 23, 2015, 06:40:55 pm
god i can use fiveer.com forgot all about that site.
Had a bad time with them. They used templates off the web and didn't do anything else. They credited me the £5 back, but only in the fiver account. I wont use them again

What do you expect for £5?
I would expect more than copy and paste. It was on googles first page
I'm sure they spent time changing your contact details etc. (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1448304043_grin[1].gif)
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: JSMC on November 23, 2015, 09:48:54 pm
i may just lift a leaflet from google and change it lol
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: Plankton on November 24, 2015, 04:46:34 pm
I just use MS Publisher.  Single-colour, double-sided printing (my laser printer has duplex built in) and guillotine them for A5 sized leaflets.  I'm no designer but they look reasonable.
That way might not be good for very large quantities but I probably average a distribution of maybe 100-200 a week because I usually only distribute them near where I'm working and when I can be arsed.
What paper are you using.
Title: Re: designing leaflets what program you all use?
Post by: Walter Mitty on November 25, 2015, 05:19:44 pm
2-up on A4 sized.
I only use standard quality paper most of the time, but if I'm putting them through posher letter boxes, I print on something a bit nicer.
If printing large quantities, it's probably cheaper to have a printing company do it.  For the small amount I put out, it's hardly worth it.
I wrote 100-200 a week in my earlier post.  On reflection, it's probably rather less.  I may even stop doing it when I've used them up because, at that low level, canvassing is less effort.  It's handy for winter though because I'm not keen on knocking in the dark - it can spook some people a bit.