Do companies still do brochures?

jeztone2

Or has the web wiped that out? 

sev112

They still do, but digital 

hollywoodrox

I miss brochures I really do , the webs ok but you can’t keep or treasure digital in the same way

guitars4you

I still have many brochures from the past - Plus many of the 'magazine style brochures' like the Fender Frontline - Not sure when they stopped these - Peavey use to do a big one in the 80's and 90's called the Monitor

Noticed that many football clubs no longer offer a print programme

scrumhalf

Mark Knopfler's remark that he could still remember what the pages of a Fender catalogue smelt like seems never to be repeated.

I'm fairly sure that sniffing a computer monitor cannot compare. 

sawyer

Used to love picking up PRS catalogues at guitar shows. Beautifully produced

p90fool

I used to pore over Schecter brochures in the early 80s wishing I could afford to put together my dream guitar to replace my scruffy 63 Strat!

I still have a soft spot for 'proper' Schecter guitars, even though some of the ones I played were heavy, dead sounding lumps. 

Stevepage

I used to collect Jackson and Ibanez catalogues in the late 90s till around 2005. Spent many a night dreaming about owning most of the stuff in them, not quite to same dribbling over your keyboard at the online catalog 

Bigsby

People are so busy looking at their phones they don't have time to look where they're going, let alone look at brochures...

It surprises me that some companies go to the expense of producing digital brochures, rather than just driving traffic to their websites. I guess, perhaps, these are companies that do still use printed versions at trade shows. Does anyone actually download a digital brochure? 

ElectricXII

My student son has spent this week delivering BT phone books in our town. The only people who seem to really want them are the over 70s. The demand for brochures is probably from a similar demographic, and therefore a minority,

bertie

got some late 70s/early 80s  Ibanez and Aria ones somewhere.......................  got the Steve Miller three coil pickup and the Paul Stanley Iceman in it.................... oh and the  Bob Weir Artist

guitars4you

ElectricXII said:

My student son has spent this week delivering BT phone books in our town. The only people who seem to really want them are the over 70s. The demand for brochures is probably from a similar demographic, and therefore a minority,

Don't think I even get a phone book - If we do I've not seen it for years - When did the Yellow Pages finish in print 

Funkfingers

Stevepage said:

not quite the same, dribbling over your keyboard at the online catalog 

Good enough for some MPs!

ElectricXII

guitars4you said:

ElectricXII said:

My student son has spent this week delivering BT phone books in our town. The only people who seem to really want them are the over 70s. The demand for brochures is probably from a similar demographic, and therefore a minority,

Don't think I even get a phone book - If we do I've not seen it for years - When did the Yellow Pages finish in print 

The Phone Book and Yellow Pages are combined now, and can fit through a letterbox. So many people are ex-directory that the books are pretty thin.

SlopeSoarer

ElectricXII said:

My student son has spent this week delivering BT phone books in our town. The only people who seem to really want them are the over 70s. The demand for brochures is probably from a similar demographic, and therefore a minority,

I disagree, I'm only in my sixties and still love trying to rip a phone book in half!

Jetfire

Stevepage said:

I used to collect Jackson and Ibanez catalogues in the late 90s till around 2005. Spent many a night dreaming about owning most of the stuff in them, not quite to same dribbling over your keyboard at the online catalog 

I have a few from the late 2000s so between us we prob have an alright collection

sev112

ElectricXII said:

guitars4you said:

ElectricXII said:

My student son has spent this week delivering BT phone books in our town. The only people who seem to really want them are the over 70s. The demand for brochures is probably from a similar demographic, and therefore a minority,

Don't think I even get a phone book - If we do I've not seen it for years - When did the Yellow Pages finish in print 

The Phone Book and Yellow Pages are combined now, and can fit through a letterbox. So many people are ex-directory that the books are pretty thin.

I can understand that for phone book, but Yellow Pages would be a godsend. Using google etc to find a local plumber is crap, because Wokingham Plumbers just gets you any crap plumber anywhere in the country or even world 

guitarjack66

Maybe if you go rooting around the privets and hedgerows you will find one. Oh sorry,wrong type of 'brochure.'

Kittyfrisk

guitarjack66 said:

Maybe if you go rooting around the privets and hedgerows you will find one. Oh sorry,wrong type of 'brochure.'

The internet pretty much put paid to that particular windfall despicable porn litter a while back.

rossi

I had quite a few brochures from Fender ,Hofner ,Gretsch .Gibson ,Selmer and treasured Harley Davidson brochures in the 60's and when I went on holiday one year my Grannie chucked them all out .Still crying .

57Deluxe

Bell Music catelogues were King! - all now available via the dedicated FB. I have 2 from the 70s which I grabbed in person from the shop...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/345084965591129/?multi_permalinks=3276521495780780&notif_id=1653683325486620&notif_t=group_announcement&ref=notif