How To Create Your Own Promotional Postcards.

Planning on running a promotion this Holiday Season? Don’t forget to advertise it with postcards! You can design and print your own postcards to help get word out about your promotion.

In this example we’re going to use 8UP Postcards to create our promotional postcards. We’ll use the company “Joe’s Giant Doughnuts” for the example.

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Step 1: Download the 8UP Postcard Template

In the Templates box on the product page, click the template you want to download. We’ll be using the Microsoft Publisher template so that all of our postcards will look the same.

Step 2: Open the 8UP Postcard Template

Open the 8UP Postcard Template in Microsoft Publisher (some may have opened automatically).

Step 3: Design Your Promotional Postcards

Time to start designing your postcards! We’ll be using Clip Art but you should try to use your company’s images, logo, and colors. First remove the default flower image from the template.

On page one you’ll create the front of your postcard.

On page two you’ll create your mail merge to bring in your addresses.

Step 4: Time to Print!

There are two ways you can print your 8UP Postcards.

One Side, Then The Other

In this method you print all of the second page of your promotional postcards by setting “Pages:” in the Print menu to “2”. Let it print out all of your mailing list. Once that is done, reload the paper and print the front side of your postcards.

Autoduplexing

The other method you can use is to print your postcards out in multiples of 8 while “Muliptle Copies per sheet” is selected. This will alternate printing eight of page one on a sheet and eight of page two on a sheet.

Always do a Print Preview before you start printing!

Here’s how ours turned out. How did yours turn out?

Find out more about 8UP Postcards!

Original Post Date: 18 October 2012