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Make a Professional Brochure with a Free Brochure Template

A free brochure template may be all your small business or home based business needs to proceed down a whole new advertising avenue. Wouldn’t it be perfect if you could create a brochure to advertise your company products or service? The brochure could be mailed to existing customers and/or prospective customers in the area to generate new business. The good news is that you can produce a professional looking brochure using a free brochure template. These templates may be available on your hard drive. (If it is not available from your hard drive, templates can be found free from many different companies online.)

Why Should You use a Template?

A template gives you a basic layout for the information, pictures, and company logo with the margins already established. This makes producing a brochure quicker and easier especially if you have a small business or home business. A novice can produce a professional brochure without all the additional expense or expertise needed. The templates are fully customizable and can be edited and changed to keep the brochures from being completely cookie cutter. There are photos and artwork that are free to use to produce the brochure, but you can always import your own photos and artwork. A free brochure template is also more convenient because you can produce the brochure at your office (or even the beach) from your own computer and you are not required to go to a specific location to generate the brochure. You may need to go pick up the brochures once they are printed if you have them printed elsewhere, but even that is more convenient and more cost effective that having to send out the whole job.

What formats do the templates come in?

Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Microsoft Publisher, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker, and Adobe InDesign are some of the formats that templates can be downloaded in for the PCs. If you happen to have a MAC, some of the formats you can choose from are Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Word. Of course, there are other formats and with all these formats to choose from, it makes it more likely that the proper software is available by the customer.

Templates come in a variety of styles. They are available in a single sheet unfolded style that can be used as a product sheet, a bi-fold (folded in half), a tri-fold, or letter fold style. A traditional style of brochure can be printed on one of three styles of templates -- bi-fold, tri-fold, and letter-fold. All three styles of templates are all excellent examples of brochures for company advertisement. Which style you choose will be decided by what you are using the brochure for.

Free brochure templates can be used by all businesses to produce professional looking brochures whether the company has one employee or one thousand employees. No matter the size of your company, advertising by the use of brochure is a good idea, but using a free brochure template is even better.