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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Postcards for business

Sending out postcards lands your advertisements right at your prospective client's doorsteps. They can pick it up with their regular mail and sort it out over a cup of coffee. Folded postcards are even better. They combine the strength of both the traditional greeting card and postcard. It is folded like the greeting card, but it treated like the postcard. Y ou can mail folded postcards with or without an occasion as is sometimes required of greeting cards.

Direct mail postcards

Direct mail postcards can definitely be grouped into the category of advertising on the cheap but at the same time are also very effective. With all of the various marketing channels that are available today some find it hard to believe that direct mail marketing still remains a champion, but it does, especially in the form of postcards. There is something about a postcard that intrigues a person into reading at least the first few lines which is why those lines need to be the bait that entices them to continue reading. Direct mail is also very advantageous in cost.

Postcard history

It wasn't until the year 1901 that the United States Government allowed the use of the words "Post Card" to be printed on the undivided back of cards that were privately printed. This lead to what was known as the divided back card. England allowed this to be done in 1902, France then followed in 1904 and Germany in 1905. The United States finally allowed the divided back card in 1907. These changes began what is known as the "Golden Age" of postcards. Between 1907 and 1915 divided backs were being done almost over the whole world.

Postcard printing project

You can start your postcard printing project by planning on your design and layout. You can use your book cover as your main illustration and you can apply it everywhere in your postcard. Your postcard printing copy, on the other hand, can have an excerpt from your book. Or you can also put the details of an upcoming appearance or event like a book launching.

CONCLUSION

Postcard serves as your mini billboard. It stands and serves as your representative in contacting people. They are tools that are perfectly used for advertisements, business reply, coupon cards, invitations and greeting cards. With the postcards you are able to make your business known globally and thus making a successful communication among people around the globe.