Creating a professional digital publication shouldn’t take hours. With Calaméo, just a few minutes are enough to turn a simple PDF into an interactive and easy-to-share reading experience.
Here’s our quick guide to publishing your brochure in less than 10 minutes.
1. Prepare your PDF
Before publishing your document, make sure your file is ready to be viewed online:
pages in the correct order,
high-quality visuals,
text that is easy to read on mobile,
an optimized file size.
Whether it’s a business brochure, magazine, portfolio, guide, or catalog, every great digital publication starts with a well-prepared PDF.
2. Upload your document to Calaméo
Log in to your account and click on “Publish”.
Simply upload your PDF file: Calaméo automatically converts it into a digital flipbook publication.
In just a few moments, your document comes to life with a smooth interactive viewer accessible on desktop, tablet, and smartphone.
3. Customize your publication
Once your document is published, you can enhance the reading experience with several options:
A new way to personalize your digital publications is here! Certainly, one of the advantages of digital publishing is that it is entirely customizable. With Calaméo, you can personalize your viewer Theme, add your logo, and enrich your content yourself.
And now, we have a comprehensive service for our users to go above and beyond when creating their personalized digital publications: introducing Calaméo Studio!
What is Calaméo Studio?
Calaméo Studio is Calaméo’s creative agency. We provide complete support in the creation of your publications: adapt, modify, personalize your publications thanks to our experts and offer your readers content that reflects your brand!
This new service expands the scope of our solution to save time for our business users on complex and time-consuming projects. Personalize and enrich your magazines, catalogs, brochures, reports, presentations (and more!) thanks to our expertise.
If you want to save time with tailor-made digital publications delivered quickly, plus enjoy responsive support at every step of your project, then Calaméo Studio is the solution for you.
How does it work?
It’s easy: start your journey with Calaméo Studio by getting in touch with our consultants for a customized quote. First, we analyze your project and work with you to create the perfect digital publication. You control how much or how little we adapt your content by choosing from our solutions. You’re only looking for a few light adjustments to your publication? No problem. Or you want full customization of your table of contents, hyperlinks, Theme, videos, etc? Leave it to us! At the end, you’ll have a personalized digital publication that adheres to your company’s brand identity and adds value to your offer.
The services offered
Calaméo Studio offers a suite of solutions to help you upgrade your digital publications, including customizing your:
Hyperlinks: We embed numerous hyperlinks into your digital publications. Redirect readers where you want them to go
Table of contents: We create sophisticated and ergonomic tables of contents. Offer your readers fluid and relevant navigation.
Custom Theme: We fully customize your publications according to your brand’s graphic charter
Multimedia: We insert media into your publication; our Studio will enrich your document according to your needs
Publication creation: Delegate the creation of your document to our Studio experts, from the first brief to your final validation.
… and more!
Get started
Head to the Calaméo Studio website to learn more about the service and contact our team of experts, who will provide you with an entirely personalized offer. From project management to graphic design to tailored support, Calaméo Studio is a life saver for busy professionals. Contact us to make your dream publication a reality!
2023 has been a great year for Calaméo. Not only have we offered you improved account security and the ability to export your statistics in CSV format, thanks to new features introduced this year, but it’s also time to announce the arrival of a major new feature that will change the way you use Calaméo: integrations.
Easy-to-use integrations
Link your favorite applications to your Calaméo account to unlock brand-new features: with integrations, you’ll be able to add many new elements to your Calaméo publications, in the same way you used to add links, to make your content more interactive.
However, the difference with our EDITOR‘s initial options, such as links, is that the integration elements come directly from the applications you’ve linked to your Calaméo account, such as Calendly, Shopify(coming soon) or Embed.ly for example. And all in just a few clicks!
The reason we’re so excited to bring you this new feature is that we know it will enable you to use Calaméo in many new ways, and that it will not only enhance your experience, but that of your readers too.
Generate qualified leads with your Calaméo publications
Integrations are a powerful marketing tool that will enable you to achieve your objectives with ease (lead capture in particular).
capture qualified leads directly from your publication using Mailchimp, Jotform or Google Forms forms
use a trigger to display a mandatory Hubspot or Typeform form when your publication is downloaded to collect information from your readers, with the aim of capturing leads,
display a Calendly appointment calendar to make it easier to book appointments,
integrate products from your Shopify store directly into your publication (coming soon),
and much more!
💡 Learn more about each of the integrations right here.
On the other hand, integrations give you the option of using triggers.
Triggers automatically activate a specific action at a chosen moment. They are added, like a layer, above your publication. On Calaméo, you can choose between three key moments to trigger an action:
when the publication is opened,
downloading,
or when the publication is printed.
These moments are crucial for capturing your audience’s attention and maximizing the impact of your content.
What’s more, you can choose how this trigger element is displayed on screen:
once only,
until the reader completes the action,
or always displayed.
Note that in addition to lead capture triggers, you could, for example, embed a YouTube video as a trigger, with the aim of promoting your products or services, educating or engaging your audience.
Thanks to the new integrations, it will be easier than ever to link your Calaméo and Google Analytics or Matomo accounts, so you can track the performance of your Calaméo publications directly where all your other statistics are already. All the more reason to simplify your reporting!
🔎 Please note:If you have linked your Google Analytics 4 account to your Calaméo account before the integrations, good news, you won’t have to do a thing. Your accounts will be linked automatically via the integration, and there will be no loss of statistics!
Add even more interactive elements
Thanks to the wide range of integrations we offer (and will be offering in the future), you’ll be able to insert a multitude of new rich media into your publications, for an ever more unique and dynamic reading experience.
💡 Find the list of integrations we offer and their possible uses right here.
Conclusion
Integrations are going to revolutionize the way you use Calaméo. We can’t wait to see what you, our extraordinary users, will create with all these new possibilities open to you!
💡Integrations are a new feature reserved for PLATINUM accounts.
Try Calaméo PLATINUM free for 14 days and explore all our advanced features.
