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Promoting a Customized Wedding Shoe Business

Nikki Sabato asked:

Wedding shoes are an important element of the bride’s wedding day ensemble. Wedding shoes will be used by the bride for the ceremony and majority of the reception.  Apart from aesthetics, shoes should be an exact fit. They should be comfortable. This is the reason why brides often prefer having their wedding shoes custom made. Custom made wedding shoes have the advantage of a steady market. Brides also have the freedom to customize the fit, style, color, fabric or style. When custom-made wedding shoe business owners don’t have resources to spend on high-impact advertising, small print promotional materials can be just as effective. Below is a list of print materials that can be used to promote custom-made wedding shoes.

Brochures-Brochures are direct and informative materials. They are handy and easy to distribute around a locality or target market area. Brochures can feature concise information including names, codes, prices, photo images, and color availabilities. Brochure pages today can be printed in full color using four color printers. Wholesale printing is possible using offset printers. Brochures come in standard or customized sizes starting at 5.5×5.5 to 26×12 inches.

Flyers-Flyers are fast and easy mediums to introduce a new product or service. Flyers are effective when spreading word about new shoe promos, marked-down on services or styles, and special rates for entourage orders. Flyers’ standard or custom sizes start at 5.5×4 to 26×12 inches. Business owners can choose from a standard set of design templates or upload their own designs on online printing services’ websites.

Catalogs-Catalogs are comprehensive promotional and sales books helpful to customers during visits to the store or place of business. Just as brochures carry the name, code, color and style of each shoe, catalogs can display shoe styles and sizes according to occasion, theme or motif. Catalogs can be printed at reasonable rates. Standard or custom sizes can be specified starting at 8.5×5.5, 8.5×11 to 12×12 inches.

It’s advisable to research and compare prices on local printing service rates and packages. A local printer offers the advantage of proximity and ease of coordination. For even more convenience, online printers enable print orders online through their website or by calling a toll free number. Uprinting for example, is an online printing company also listed on Yelp, LinkedIn and Wikipedia.