If you work in education, you probably create various brochures, prospectuses, newsletters. Like many other educators, you ship your publications to your students and alumni as well as create multiple PDFs.
However, our research shows that more and more schools step away from tradition and choose to digitize their documents. This allows them to promote their schools, communicate with their audience better, and find cost-cutting alternatives to printing.
In order to learn how exactly educators benefit from digital brochures and prospectuses, we conducted a survey among over 40 customers. They told us what goals educators can achieve using online publications, and we singled out three major objectives. Whether you’re new to FlippingBook or you’re a current customer, we hope you’ll find this article useful.
But first, check out our video to learn how you can engage students in active learning by transforming your PDFs into interactive handbooks, magazines, and reports with FlippingBook.
Connect with Your Students Better
We use our publications to keep our college community and our alumni up-to-date with what’s going on at the college.
Most of your target audience are young people: students, their parents, young professionals. They all research schools and educational organizations online, so your brochures and prospectuses should be available on your website and social media.
We like to offer viewers a more interactive format for some of our online documents – not just basic PDFs. Having our publications come to life really encourages audience engagement.
Raise Awareness about Your School
Most of our online programs and brochures are eight or nine pages long with some essential information or program specifics. They help students learn about our institution.
One of the main marketing goals of any educational organization is to raise awareness about their cause. PDFs can’t really contribute to achieving that goal: they can’t be customized, and viewers spend more time loading them than paying attention to any branding elements, e.g. your logo.
Unlike PDFs, digital publications can help you raise awareness about your school or university. They’re accessible via a direct link, so your viewers can share your documents with their friends and colleagues easily, which will boost your traffic. Plus, if you add branding (your logo, link to website, favicon), your publications will be instantly recognizable.
The ability to brand each publication, get the exact colors, personalize it as much as we need to is really great.
Reduce Printing Costs
If you’re an international school, your current and prospective students as well as your alumni probably come from all over the world. PDF versions of your prospectuses are heavy and load slowly, and shipping school magazines to your audience is costly and time-consuming. Dealing with customs can be stressful, too. Even though some of your older alumni prefer printed publications, most of your audience are young school leavers and students who embrace technology.
FlippingBook is great, because my pieces look just as good digitally as they do in print. Some of our readers say they don’t want the hard copy of the magazine anymore. They prefer the digital version.
Emailing a publication link to your students and alumni will save you time and money. You can also embed prospectuses on your website and social media, so that more people could find your content. Plus, if your brochures become outdated, you can always just update them and not waste money on reprinting.
Having FlippingBook means that students can access a prospectus and look at it, and they don’t have to download it directly to the phone. So they can save the data from doing that.
