Updated September 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team
Most brochures are rewritten because the writing started too early. Before a sentence is worth drafting, three things have to be settled: what single job the piece is hired to do, who is holding it and when, and how many panels there are — because the panel count sets a hard word budget that no amount of good copy can exceed. This page covers that sequence, the panel-by-panel structure that works, realistic word counts by format, the print details that ruin otherwise good pieces, and a proofing checklist worth running before anything goes near a printer.
The short answerDecide the one job first — leave-behind, mailer, counter piece or event handout are different documents. Name one reader and the moment they are holding it. Fix the format before writing, because a tri-fold gives you roughly six panels and about 450 words at the ceiling. Then write panel by panel: cover promise, the problem in their words, what you do, one checkable proof, the awkward objection, and one action with everything needed to take it. Cut the draft by a third. Proof on paper, never from a screen.
Step one: decide the one job
Answer first: a brochure that tries to introduce the company, explain five services, establish credibility and generate enquiries does none of them. Pick one job and let the piece be worse at everything else, because that is the only way it is good at anything.
The four common jobs, and why they produce different documents
| Job | Reader’s state | What it must do | What it can skip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales leave-behind | Just met you | Reinforce what was discussed | Explaining who you are |
| Direct mailer | Cold, standing over a bin | Earn three seconds | Depth of any kind |
| Counter piece | Already in your premises | Answer the question they came with | Persuasion |
| Event handout | Sixty other handouts today | Be memorable and findable later | Detail |
| Capability booklet | Evaluating you formally | Withstand scrutiny | Brevity |
| Product spec sheet | Comparing options | Be accurate and complete | Story |
The conclusion: a leave-behind can assume a conversation happened; a cold mailer cannot assume anything at all. Using one piece for both means writing for the harder case and boring the easier one, which is why most businesses eventually need two.
Step two: name the reader and the moment
Answer first: write to one person in one situation. ‘Small business owners’ is a segment, not a reader. ‘A practice manager who has just been handed this at a stand, with a coffee in the other hand’ is a reader, and it tells you the type size, the sentence length and how much you can assume.
The three questions that define the moment
- Where are they physically? Standing, sitting, at a desk, in a queue. This decides how much they can read.
- What do they already know? Nothing, your name only, or the whole conversation you just had. This decides where the copy starts.
- What will they do with it in ten seconds? Pocket it, bin it, hand it to someone else. This decides what has to be on the cover.
What to include in a brochure, and what to leave out
Answer first: a cover promise, the problem in the reader’s words, a plain description of what you do, one checkable proof, the awkward objection answered, and one action with everything needed to take it. Leave out the founding date, the mission statement, the second and third calls to action, and every adjective that would survive deletion unnoticed.
Why the cover carries most of the risk
Answer first: the cover decides whether the rest is read at all, and most covers spend that attention on a logo. The logo can be small. The promise cannot.
Step three: fix the format before you write
Answer first: panel count sets the word budget, and the word budget is much smaller than people expect. A six-panel tri-fold tops out around 450 words if it is to stay comfortable at arm’s length — roughly 75 words a panel, which is a short paragraph.
| Format | Panels or pages | Comfortable words | Typical unit cost | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-fold | 6 panels | 250 – 450 | Lowest | Mailers, counter pieces |
| Bi-fold | 4 panels | 300 – 550 | Low | Leave-behinds |
| Gate-fold | 6 panels | 250 – 450 | Medium | A reveal on the inside spread |
| Single sheet, two sides | 2 sides | 150 – 400 | Lowest | Spec sheets, event handouts |
| 8-page booklet | 8 pages | 800 – 1,400 | Medium | Considered purchases |
| 12-page booklet | 12 pages | 1,400 – 2,200 | Higher | Capability documents |
| 16-page booklet | 16 pages | 2,000 – 3,000 | Highest | Needs a contents page |
Why the ceiling is not the target
A tri-fold at 250 words usually outperforms the same piece at 450. The reader decides in about three seconds whether to engage, and density is the fastest way to lose that decision. Write to the ceiling, then cut to two thirds of it.
Step four: the panel-by-panel structure that works
Panel one — the cover
A promise or a question, in the reader’s language, large enough to read across a table. The logo belongs here but not first. If the cover only says who you are, it has spent the reader’s attention describing you rather than earning the unfold.
Panel two — the problem, in their words
Say the thing they would say. Not ‘operational inefficiency’ but ‘the same job gets quoted twice’. Recognition is what makes someone keep reading; abstraction is what makes them stop.
Panel three — what you actually do
Plainly, without the category name. ‘We answer your phone when you cannot’ rather than ‘telephony solutions’. If a sentence could appear in a competitor’s brochure unchanged, it is not doing work.
Panel four — one checkable proof
A named client with permission, a figure you can substantiate, a certification with its number, or a length of time in business. One is enough and it must be real — an unverifiable claim on a printed page is permanent in a way a webpage is not.
Panel five — the awkward objection
Answer the thing they are actually thinking, usually price, disruption or lock-in. A brochure that answers the uncomfortable question reads as confident; one that avoids it reads as a brochure.
Panel six — one action, fully equipped
One action, not five. Phone number, website, hours, address, and whatever else is needed to act without asking a further question. If there is an offer, put an expiry on it — without one, there is no reason to act today, and today is all the attention you get.
Step five: cut it by a third
Answer first: the first draft is always over budget for the space, and cutting improves it reliably. Remove the company history, the second and third calls to action, every adjective that is not doing work, and any sentence that survives the deletion test — if removing it changes nothing, it was decoration.
What to cut first, in order
- Company history and founding date, unless longevity is the actual proof.
- Every call to action except one.
- Adjectives: leading, innovative, premier, bespoke, world-class.
- Any sentence explaining what a category is, if the reader already knows.
- Mission statements, without exception.
- The second case example. One specific beats two vague.
- Anything you would not say out loud to a customer’s face.
Print details that ruin otherwise good pieces
| Detail | What goes wrong | The fix |
|---|---|---|
| Bleed | A white sliver along a trimmed edge | 3mm bleed on every edge that runs off |
| Color space | Screen greens and oranges print dull | Supply CMYK, and ask for a proof |
| Image resolution | Photos look soft on paper | 300dpi at final printed size, not web images |
| Fold placement | Text falls into the fold | Get the printer’s template before designing |
| Type size | Unreadable for older readers | 10pt minimum body, 12pt if the audience is older |
| Paper weight | Feels like a flyer | 100lb text or heavier for anything considered |
| Finish | Glare under strip lighting | Matte for reading, gloss for photography |
Get the printer’s template first
Every printer supplies a template with fold positions and safe margins. Designing without it and discovering a headline sits across a fold is a full redesign, and it happens constantly.
Proofing: the step people compress
Why reading aloud finds what spellcheck cannot
Answer first: spellcheck catches misspellings, not wrong words, and a brochure’s typical errors are wrong words — a correct spelling in the wrong place, a number transposed, an old price. Reading aloud, on paper, catches all three.
Dial the number, open the URL, scan the code
Every one of those three has failed in print. A wrong digit in a phone number makes the whole run worthless, and it is the cheapest thing on this page to check.
A realistic schedule
The compressible weeks are design and print. The two that are not are deciding the job and proofing — which are, reliably, the two people squeeze when a date moves.
Questions people ask about writing a brochure
How long should a brochure be?
Shorter than the format allows. A six-panel tri-fold tops out near 450 words and usually reads better at 250. Length is a ceiling set by the format, never a target.
What goes on the front of a brochure?
A promise or a question in the reader’s language, large enough to read across a table, with the logo present but not leading. The cover’s job is to earn the unfold, and describing yourself does not earn it.
How many calls to action should there be?
One, repeated. Five competing actions produce none, because choosing is work and the reader has not agreed to do any work yet.
Should I include prices?
Include them if they are stable and if price is the objection. Printed prices are a commitment for the life of the print run, so a range or a starting-from figure is usually the workable compromise.
Do I need photographs?
Real ones, of real people and real work, or none. Stock photographs of anonymous people in offices read as generic within a second and actively reduce credibility.
What is the biggest mistake?
Opening with the company’s history. It is the section the writer finds easiest and the reader finds least useful, and it consumes the panel that had to earn attention.
Should the brochure match the website?
In voice and visual identity, yes. In content, no — a brochure is read in a single sitting with no navigation, so it needs a beginning and an end that a website page does not.
How do I write a brochure for a service rather than a product?
Lead with the problem rather than the deliverable, because services are bought to remove a problem and products are bought for what they are. Then make the intangible checkable with a named proof.
Who should proof it?
Someone who did not write it, on paper, reading aloud. The writer’s eye repairs their own errors automatically, which is why writers cannot proof their own work reliably.
How many should I print?
Fewer than feels efficient, for a first run. The per-unit price falls with volume and the cost of being wrong rises with it, and you will want changes after the first fifty conversations.
What paper weight should I use?
100lb text or heavier for anything meant to feel considered; lighter is fine for high-volume mailers where cost dominates. Weight is the first thing a reader registers and they register it before reading a word.
Should there be a QR code?
Only if it goes somewhere specific and useful — a booking page, a video, a form. A QR code to the homepage adds a step and removes a reason.
A one-page summary of how to write a brochure
If you take one thing from this page: how to write a brochure is a sequencing problem, not a writing problem. People ask how do you write a brochure and start drafting sentences, when the answer is that writing a brochure begins three decisions earlier — job, reader, format — and the sentences follow almost mechanically once those are settled.
| Stage | Decision | Output | Commonest failure |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Job | What single thing is this hired to do? | One sentence | Trying to do four jobs |
| 2. Reader | Who is holding it, where, knowing what? | One person named | A segment instead of a person |
| 3. Format | Panels or pages, and the fold | A word budget | Writing before this is fixed |
| 4. Copy | Panel by panel, in their words | A first draft | Opening with company history |
| 5. Cut | Remove a third | A working draft | Cutting the wrong third |
| 6. Design | To the printer’s template | Artwork | Text falling into a fold |
| 7. Proof | On paper, aloud, by someone else | Sign-off | Proofing from a screen |
| 8. Print | Short first run | Delivered stock | Ordering 10,000 of a first draft |
| Panel | Say this | Delete this |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | A promise or a question in their words | ‘Welcome to’ and a large logo |
| Problem | The sentence they would say themselves | Abstract category language |
| What you do | Plain description without the category name | Anything a competitor could print unchanged |
| Proof | One named, checkable specific | Three vague claims |
| Objection | The awkward question, answered | Silence on price or disruption |
| Action | One action with everything needed | Five competing next steps |
| Anywhere | A caption under every image | Mission statements |
Related reading
If the brochure is part of something larger: what agency work costs, what a marketing agency actually does, corporate video production and branding pricing.
Updated August 2026. Word budgets and paper weights on this page are practical working ranges from commercial print, stated as ranges rather than as standards — confirm panel dimensions and fold positions against your own printer’s template, which will differ slightly between presses.
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Writing a brochure when you have never written one before
Answer first: the honest short version of how to write brochure copy is that you decide the single action you want the reader to take, then cut everything that does not move them toward it. Most first drafts fail because they try to say everything the organization knows.
Start with the action, not the company
Brochure how to write questions almost always start at the wrong end — with what to say about yourself. Start instead with what you want to happen after the reader puts it down: a call, a visit, a form, a conversation. Every panel then either serves that or is cut.
Write the panels out of order
The cover is the hardest panel and the worst one to start with. Draft the inside spread first, where the substance sits, then the back panel with the action, then write the cover last once you know what the brochure actually says.
Read it aloud before it goes to design
Writing brochure copy that reads well silently and badly aloud is extremely common, and design will not fix it. Anything you stumble over reading it out is a sentence a reader will stumble over too.
- Decide the one action before writing a word
- Draft the inside spread first, the cover last
- Cut every sentence that does not serve the action
- Read the whole thing aloud, twice
- Give the designer final copy, not a draft
- Check the action appears on the back panel and the cover
Marketing craft talks from the people who publish the platforms
Publicly available sessions from Google Ads, Think with Google, Ad Age, HubSpot, Ahrefs and Neil Patel on messaging, audience and measurement — background for anyone deciding what a printed piece should say. None of these are ours; each is credited to its channel by name and upload date, every identifier was verified live before publication, and each tile loads its player only when clicked.
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- Incompetech
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- TikTok: creating videos
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- TikTok for small business
- Instagram: Reels help
- YouTube: Shorts best practice
- How YouTube recommends
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- Hootsuite blog
- Social Media Examiner
- Marketing Week
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- USPS — Every Door Direct Mail
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- FTC — advertising and marketing guidance
- Section508.gov — accessible content
- W3C — WCAG 2.1 quick reference
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