eBook Design: Visual Content Marketing Is Now
With such a heavy focus on visuals, the formatting and design of eBooks is an essential part of the process and one that can make or break the asset’s effectiveness as a marketing tool. Brafton’s eBook formatting and design services are geared toward ease of use for clients, providing a wide range of options, including both the creation of original eBooks and the layout design of already-existing copy.
Various teams, composed of industry-focused writers, content marketing strategists, project managers and graphic designers, work together to provide customized content marketing collateral designed with conversion rate optimization in mind.
Our end-to-end eBook process is patented to optimize the creation, distribution, promotion and conversion potential of this powerful content marketing asset.
Success Stories
Brafton Helps Concentric Turn Random Acts of Marketing into a Scalable Content Strategy
“I’ve worked with a lot of other content marketing companies and have had mixed success. With Brafton it’s been really good because it just continues to get better over time.”
– Kevin Jaquith, Director of Demand Generation at Concentric
Brafton Helps Rapidly Growing Swift SMS Gateway Build Out Its Content Program
“We continue to work with the Brafton team because of the quality of output and ease of working with them.”
– Brian Johnson, President & CEO, Swift SMS Gateway Inc.
Hundreds of Leads (and Counting) for MoEngage
“The team works very efficiently and is very flexible. I like their PM tool — it makes it easy to access the content library and see the status at a glance.”
– Nikki Kyriakopoulos Senior Marketing Programs Manager at MoEngage
The Value of eBooks
Your eBook format, cover design and publishing process helps define your company’s brand image, thought leadership and creativity. These assets are incredibly multifunctional — they can be used to:
- Nurture mid-funnel prospects via email.
- Capture key contact information through a form fill on your website.
- Enhance blog posts by embedding visual eBook CTAs.
- Encourage social sharing due to stellar design and thought-provoking commentary on industry trends and predictions.
While designing an asset for eBook readers, it’s also valuable to consider the full range of your audience. eBooks satisfy the content preference of many consumers, from the visual-first learner to the research-heavy reader. Because each page features insightful takeaways, eBooks can be either short or long form, with the interior layout formatted to highlight key points for easy scannability and accessibility.
À la Carte eBook Formatting Service
If you already have some copy that you want to format into an eBook, you can leverage Brafton services à la carte. From proofreading and editing to design and even eBook launch, Brafton can help bring your material to life — no matter where you’re at in the eBook production process. We can even help convert a print book, white paper or long-form research report into a digestible, digital eBook.
Brafton’s à la carte eBook formatting service is designed to provide you with a sophisticated eBook that’s reader-friendly and shows your brand in a polished, professional light using the copy you already have. Just send over your existing content or eBook manuscript in a Microsoft Word document, Google Doc or other text format, and our designers will get to work on the formatting.
Whether the eBook copy is created by our writing team or in-house, gifted graphic designers are on hand to apply industry best practices, incorporate specific design preferences and implement existing brand guidelines, including company colors and logos. Your assigned designer collaborates directly with you to align on and recommend the best layout and eBook file format.
eBook Design From Scratch
If you’re seeking a brand new, customized eBook, your Brafton creative team will work with you from start to finish. They’ll help you:
- Generate an appropriate topic.
- Outline the text.
- Interview subject matter experts to gain additional context and information.
- Research authoritative industry sources.
- Author high-quality copy designed to inform and engage your target audience.
Every Brafton eBook is customized with specific commercial goals in mind, with client feedback and preferences incorporated into the text every step of the way. Once the copy is approved, the eBook is brought to life by your dedicated graphic designer.
eBook Design Process
Working alongside your dedicated content writer, Brafton graphic designers are involved in the eBook production process from the start — before the writing or designing even begins.
Equipped with the eBook outline, your designer will examine the assets to gain a better sense of the specific topic, following up with the creative team and client with any questions. From there, they conduct research for branding and graphic design purposes.
Oftentimes, designers will present clients with various templates and themes for their eBooks based on the topic, associated keywords and any appropriate imagery. Your existing visual branding is taken into account, and any relevant collateral is collected for inspiration and to ensure consistency.
Brafton graphic designers also consider how the eBook will fit into your current content marketing strategy, as well as how it will complement and support any existing collateral. The goal is to maintain brand consistency while providing a custom-built and effective content marketing asset. Existing imagery from client-provided material as well as specific color schemes and fonts often provide the initial foundation of the eBook.
Throughout this process, we also consider the future state of your eBook across various channels, such as your eBook conversion goals for email and eBook formats for each publishing platform, such as social media.
After themes and art styles are determined, your graphic designer works to establish a general layout for the eBook. This includes considerations such as cover design, tables of contents and other basic presentation and interior formatting factors. Using cutting-edge design software, Brafton’s creative team is also able to include interactive digital elements within the eBook to increase engagement and assist with asset navigation.
Once the eBook is fully laid out, complete with finished fonts, colors, illustrations, photographs and interactive design components, it is provided to the client for final approval. All feedback and any last-minute editing requests are incorporated into the eBook to create the final product within our chosen formatting tool, Adobe InDesign.
eBook Design Best Practices
From cover design to contact page, effective eBooks are created with content marketing best practices in mind. During the formatting and design process, the Brafton creative team works to ensure proven guidelines are followed, including using minimal text on each page and ensuring the visual design of the eBook supports both your storytelling and commercial objectives.
Writers and designers collaborate to balance insightful, impactful text with imagery and appealing design elements. While client-provided graphic design elements can be implemented easily, designers strive to create custom, one-of-a-kind imagery to better establish thought leadership on the part of the client. These take the form of unique eBook cover designs, illustrations, icons, charts, graphs or other layout design options. Various art styles are available, from more illustrative arrangements to photo-realistic compositions. Your creative team will work to offer a variety of options based on client preferences and audience appeal.
Once completed and approved, Brafton content marketing strategists assist with eBook publishing. Our experts will help you determine which channels to publish on, and in what file format. After we upload the eBook files, we can begin promoting the asset using customized eBook calls to action to maximize conversions.
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