From time to time you may be approached by other companies who claim to offer a service similar to Guide Book Publishing. They will make claims that they have copied our services and will do what we do. We take it as a compliment that they seek to copy us, but in reality rarely, if ever, will they provide you with our full-service program. If you should decide to compare their services to ours, we ask you to use the following checklist to compare the "Original" Guide Book & Directory service to whatever else is being offered to you.
Quality of Graphic Design
Multi-colored cover design
Custom designed cover
Degreed Graphic Designers on staff
Cover design and/or color changeable each year
Cover type fonts match the headline type fonts
Wide selection of cover paper stocks available made from recycled paper
Inside Guide Section is in a consistent, easy to read format
A guarantee of 20 typeset pages in the Guide Section
Directory Section can include the entire family
Directory Section uses large 10 point type for easy reading. (This is at least 25% larger print than any other directories we have seen.)
The church receives for proof the book's layout and cover design
Art cuts can be included in Guide Section
Church staff photos can be put into Guide Section
Distribution of the Books
Direct mailed to every member's home
Company pays to mail all the books to every church family
Church controls who gets the book
Envelope is custom designed to match the cover design of the book
Extra copies of books provided for distribution throughout the year
Company uses own commercial bulk permit on envelope
Advertisers...The people who make it all possible
Graphic designers lay out the ad to customer's specifications
Thousands of type fonts available
Price discounts available for multiple book advertisers
Price discounts available for larger ads
To assure exposure, ads are distributed throughout directory section
Index of Advertisers in the front of the book
Advertisers receive guaranteed distribution to every church family through direct mail
