Title: Selling Food in Your Catalog Word Count: 434 Summary: Catalogs are perhaps one of the ways to market your food business. When designed and printed effectively, catalogs can be a big investment for your business. Keywords: catalog, printing, design, color Article Body: Fabulous news: There are a lot of food choices in the market today. Not so fab news: Not watching what you eat could cost you your perfect slim figure and your health. Everybody loves eating. It is one of the basic necessities for survival. Our body needs energy to be able for us to perform our activities. But not eating the right kind of foods can be unhealthy to our body. Have you ever wondered why it is that today, in spite of advancements in technology, in spite of having more experienced and educated doctors, nutritionists, therapists and diet experts, people are more sick that ever? Were people always this sickly? Could it be what we are eating? Yes, perhaps it is because of the foods that people eat today. After all, you are what you eat. Aside from health considerations, people are more and more concerned of what they eat because they want to be slim and sexy. People are much pickier these days. Before paying for something from the department store they would spend at least a few hours trying to read the nutritional contents on the box. That is why it has become more and more difficult for food companies to market their products. But food is one of the most enduring products to sell. Thus, if you are able to create an effective advertising material chances are you will not have a problem attracting your potential customers. Catalogs are perhaps one of the ways to market your food business. When designed and printed effectively, catalogs can be a big investment for your business. So before choosing a printer to do the job for you make sure they can accommodate the number of pages you need to print in your catalog. Make sure to also check the layout and alignment of the text and graphics. Likewise, consider how and where your catalogs will be distributed when choosing the paper stock for the front and back cover as well as the inside pages. However, creating the right food catalog can be very tricky. Photographing foods can be really difficult. You are shooting an unstyled, non-engineered product so if shot at the wrong angle the picture can look unappetizing instead of yummy. If you are unsure how to go about with your catalog it may be a good idea to hire a good food stylist. A good food stylist will know how to change those gloomy lumps of food into works of art. They may be expensive, but worth every penny in the form of higher sales and profit for your food business.