Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily create powerful graphic designs and persuasive writing for marketing materials, branding, advertising and sales promotions
This award-winning book is loaded with samples and eye-popping tips to show entrepreneurs and non-designers how to create eye-catching graphics and compelling content for business cards, postcards, flyers, websites and book covers. Whether you're a small business owner, student or administrative assistant, you will learn what makes a good logo, how to pick harmonious colors, how to employ good branding techniques, how to create organized and attractive layouts and slide presentations and much more.

It has:
• Over 200 full-color illustrations
• Nearly 200 hyperlinks that help you find subjects fast
• Details appreciated by people with tight deadlines
• Hundreds of techniques to reinforce your strategies
• Tips for writing persuasive copy that "hooks" customers

The book is organized in 11 sections:
· Good Marketing Requires Good Design
· Make Visual Elements Memorable
· Writing Persuasive Content and Making it Flow
· The Best Typography for Design and Readability
· Laying Out Your Pages with Style
· Design Solutions for Specific Projects
· Working with Digital Imagery
· The Role of Color in Your Design
· Getting Graphics Files Ready to Print
· Answers to Your Printing Questions
· Resources

Reviews:

"Rarely does a graphic designer come along who has mastered marketing principles as well as proven design concepts.

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal reveals everything you need to know about creating printed materials—from brochures to books. You'll discover easy, proven techniques to turn marketing pieces into eye-catching, persuasive sales tools . . . without a degree in commercial art!

Let this design pro lead you through these colorful, informative and valuable pages. This is a 'must' read for anyone who creates printed materials. It will be your constant reference.

Karen has hit the nail on the head with Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal."

-- Dan Poynter, ParaPublishing, author of the best-selling book, The Self-Publishing Manual
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Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily create powerful graphic designs and persuasive writing for marketing materials, branding, advertising and sales promotions
This award-winning book is loaded with samples and eye-popping tips to show entrepreneurs and non-designers how to create eye-catching graphics and compelling content for business cards, postcards, flyers, websites and book covers. Whether you're a small business owner, student or administrative assistant, you will learn what makes a good logo, how to pick harmonious colors, how to employ good branding techniques, how to create organized and attractive layouts and slide presentations and much more.

It has:
• Over 200 full-color illustrations
• Nearly 200 hyperlinks that help you find subjects fast
• Details appreciated by people with tight deadlines
• Hundreds of techniques to reinforce your strategies
• Tips for writing persuasive copy that "hooks" customers

The book is organized in 11 sections:
· Good Marketing Requires Good Design
· Make Visual Elements Memorable
· Writing Persuasive Content and Making it Flow
· The Best Typography for Design and Readability
· Laying Out Your Pages with Style
· Design Solutions for Specific Projects
· Working with Digital Imagery
· The Role of Color in Your Design
· Getting Graphics Files Ready to Print
· Answers to Your Printing Questions
· Resources

Reviews:

"Rarely does a graphic designer come along who has mastered marketing principles as well as proven design concepts.

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal reveals everything you need to know about creating printed materials—from brochures to books. You'll discover easy, proven techniques to turn marketing pieces into eye-catching, persuasive sales tools . . . without a degree in commercial art!

Let this design pro lead you through these colorful, informative and valuable pages. This is a 'must' read for anyone who creates printed materials. It will be your constant reference.

Karen has hit the nail on the head with Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal."

-- Dan Poynter, ParaPublishing, author of the best-selling book, The Self-Publishing Manual
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Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily create powerful graphic designs and persuasive writing for marketing materials, branding, advertising and sales promotions

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily create powerful graphic designs and persuasive writing for marketing materials, branding, advertising and sales promotions

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily create powerful graphic designs and persuasive writing for marketing materials, branding, advertising and sales promotions

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily create powerful graphic designs and persuasive writing for marketing materials, branding, advertising and sales promotions

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Overview

This award-winning book is loaded with samples and eye-popping tips to show entrepreneurs and non-designers how to create eye-catching graphics and compelling content for business cards, postcards, flyers, websites and book covers. Whether you're a small business owner, student or administrative assistant, you will learn what makes a good logo, how to pick harmonious colors, how to employ good branding techniques, how to create organized and attractive layouts and slide presentations and much more.

It has:
• Over 200 full-color illustrations
• Nearly 200 hyperlinks that help you find subjects fast
• Details appreciated by people with tight deadlines
• Hundreds of techniques to reinforce your strategies
• Tips for writing persuasive copy that "hooks" customers

The book is organized in 11 sections:
· Good Marketing Requires Good Design
· Make Visual Elements Memorable
· Writing Persuasive Content and Making it Flow
· The Best Typography for Design and Readability
· Laying Out Your Pages with Style
· Design Solutions for Specific Projects
· Working with Digital Imagery
· The Role of Color in Your Design
· Getting Graphics Files Ready to Print
· Answers to Your Printing Questions
· Resources

Reviews:

"Rarely does a graphic designer come along who has mastered marketing principles as well as proven design concepts.

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal reveals everything you need to know about creating printed materials—from brochures to books. You'll discover easy, proven techniques to turn marketing pieces into eye-catching, persuasive sales tools . . . without a degree in commercial art!

Let this design pro lead you through these colorful, informative and valuable pages. This is a 'must' read for anyone who creates printed materials. It will be your constant reference.

Karen has hit the nail on the head with Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal."

-- Dan Poynter, ParaPublishing, author of the best-selling book, The Self-Publishing Manual

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780978537104
Publisher: MacGraphics Services
Publication date: 11/27/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Karen Saunders founded MacGraphics Services in 1990 to help business owners present themselves and their services professionally through well-branded graphics. Her firm designs ads, logos, one-sheets, book covers and interiors, corporate identity pieces, audio and video packaging, websites and much more. Karen's team has designed the covers of 35 books that have become best-sellers or won awards, including the 2005 Writer's Digest "Grand Prize" winner for the best self-published book in America.
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