Case Study: Magazine Style Publishing For All Types of Businesses
One of my clients had a yearly budget of $30,000 to print and distribute a publication twice a year to more than 700 stores. When I began working with this business, each store got one black and white copy, photocopied. The company wanted a better way to deliver the information. DPS gave them that solution.Problem: How to make stores want to read and implement 150+ pages of merchandising information?
Answer: Give them something easy to read and use ... a magazine.
Implementation: My challenge was set. Working with their internal design team, we mocked up a 80 page version that would house all the information in 150+ page black and white version. We took the fold-out plano grams and turned them into spreads, which would allow store employees to lay the magazine flat while they set the fixtures in the store to match the magazine. We also changed the layout to mimic that of current newsstand magazines. This would allow us to fit more content in a smaller area, which saves on printing costs and made the project much more fun for the designers.
After the mockup was complete, I took the new design to the department managers, who would provide the content for their section. I challenged them to edit their copy to fit the new design. They excelled at this challenge. The new copy was fresh and targeted to their audience, which would later prove to be the key to reducing the number of questions from stores. We then took the new copy and placed it into the new design and had a few thousand printed. After months of work it was time to see if the hard work had paid off.
Result: The new design called for a new printer and after negotiating the printing contract, the cost to produce the new magazine style publication was around $10,000 per printing, which would instead of giving each store one black-and-white copy, it would give them four color copies.
All said and done, the $30,000 yearly budget turned into $20,000 with value added.
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• Editorial content and design
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