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Postcard Ideas and Inspiration for You

Postcards are a marketer’s best friend. Even in this day and age, with all the other channels you have like email, telemarketing, SMS messages and more to reach out to customers, prospects, and donors … postcards still reign supreme. Because they work.

But you need them to stand out to do their job, and you want them to look professional because they are a reflection of you and your organization. So, as part of the Big Box of Awesomeness project, we included some of our very best examples of postcard printing for you, including some unique custom printing options available to you through our Made 4 Me Custom Quote service. These postcards below are among the 8 international printing excellence awards we’ve won for Best Postcard Printing in the past two years.

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Postcard Ideas and Inspiration for You . . .

Several of these postcards are part of the 48HourPrint.com “How Did They Do That?” series for graphic designers and print buyers. If you are interested in trying any of these techniques for your next project, get a Made 4 Me Custom Quote.

“Designers Are Meant to Be Loved”
6 x 11 Postcard – How Did They Do That? educational series
Printed 5/4 – CMYK + Spot PMS 877 Silver Metallic and overall matte coating on one side, and CMYK (4 color) on the back; printed on thick 14 pt cover stock.
“Dazzle Your Audience”
6 x 11 Postcard – How Did They Do That? educational series
Printed 6/4 – CMYK + Spot PMS 8223 Metallic + Spot Gloss (every other feather) and overall matte coating on one side and full color on the back; printed on thick 14 pt cover stock.
“40 Affordable Fundraising Tools”
6 x 11 Postcard – with detachable “keepsake” ruler
Printed 4/4 with overall UV coating front on 14 pt cover and a custom perforation that creates a detachable keepsake ruler. We did a smaller 6 x 9 handout version of this for another project.
“Embrace Your Inner Print Geek”
6 x 11 Postcard – How Did They Do That? educational series
Printed 5/4 – CMYK + Spot Gloss pattern and overall matte coating on one side and full color on the back. Printed on 14 pt cover stock.
Several other postcards and buckslips printed full color both sides (4/4) in a variety of sizes and coatings.

By the way, did you might notice a trend in the list above? Our marketing geeks are in LOVE with the 6 x 11 postcard, can you tell? (They do stand out in the mailbox.)

Related Resources You Might Like: You can get 14 sizes of postcards at 48HourPrint.com – and yes, you can get Mailing Services too. Our free online design tool also has hundreds of awesome (free) postcard templates that might give you some great ideas.