How do you start a magazine subscription selling business?
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Here are some steps to starting a magazine:\n\n1. Conceptualize your magazine - what is its editorial voice, what types of information should it have, who should it be for\n2. Determine how large (or small) your target audience - this can help you determine the viability of your idea. You don't want to start a magazine where only you and 2 friends would be interested in\n3. Decide your revenue model - should it be by subscription or should it be by advertising, or both\n4. Write your business plan to help you think through your idea\n5. Gather a team to help you create your magazine (ad sales, layout, editorial team, printing, etc.) and decide whether to outsource or do in-house some of the processes involved.\n6. Raise financing\n7. Start production\n\nI suggest you go through the following resources:\n\nMagazine Publishers of America http://www.magazine.org\nMagazineLaunch.com http://www.magazinelaunch.com\n10 Tips on How to Launch a Magazine http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/articles/2004/11/16/10tips\nThe Surviving Small Press http://www.laughingbear.com/magazine.html\n\nSome books you need to read:\n\n- Launch Your Own Magazine: A Guide For Succeeding in Today's Marketplace by Samir Husni\n- The Magazine: Everything You Need to Know to Make It in the Magazine Business, by Leonard Mogel\n- The Magazine: From Cover to Cover, by Johnson, Sammye; Prijatel, Patricia \n- Career Opportunities in Magazine Publishing by \nMonti, Ralph    \n- Starting and Running a Successful Newsletter or Magazine by Woodard, Cheryl    \n\nHope the above helps\nIsabel Isidro\nFor information on starting a business, visit http://www.powerhomebiz.com
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Check out www.returnonaffiliates.com\nIt is a community all about affiliates.\nI am currentlyrunning a program and that site helped me.\nThere is also a great magazine called Revenue.\nIt is all about the industry.
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My target market would be women 21 to 35.  My cover would feature both celebrities and non-celebrities.  The ideal reader would be focused, career oriented, civicall minded, yet knows how to have fun and relax.\n\nIt would be less fashion and more news.  I'm really into magazines that feature good writing.  Less advice and more proven fact.  Think Vanity Fair meets Glamour.\n\nI would feature some entertainment, but not too gossipy.  I would have a section of fiction that showcases new and undiscovered writers.\n\nThere would be lots of health information.  Not, "how to get summer ready abs" type crap.  I'd feature information about the latest in tests/screenings, etc.\n\nI have all kinds of ideas being that magazine publishing is my chosen field.
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I have no idea, but my advice is that if you want a magazine subscription--get one.  You don't need their help.
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The cheapest way to get a subscription is to fill out the little card in the magazine. These door to door or junk mail (or spam) offers end up costing you alot more, even though they look cheaper. Check the small print--how many months, how often, automatic renewal, cancellation policies, etc. This site spells it out clearly:
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There are a number of excellent resources on the Web on how to start a newsletter publication. Here are some of them:\n\nPublishingBiz.com http://www.publishingbiz.com/html/startups_intro.html\nHow to Start a Magazine http://www.powerhomebiz.com/guide/cases/marilyn.htm\nMagazineLaunch.com http://www.magazinelaunch.com/\nMagazine Publishers of America http://www.magazine.org/FAQ/\nStarting a Newsletter http://www.laughingbear.com/lbn.asp?mode=article&subMode=128_newsletter \nBellaOnline's Starting a Newsletter series http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art20645.asp \n\nHope that the above resources help\nIsabel Isidro\nFor information on starting a business, visit http://www.powerhomebiz.com
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Start an on line magazine. In Outlook Express you can send to a group of people - set up the group once you've identified your readership. Maybe send a few emails explaining what you intend to do to a few friends and ask them to forward to their friends and so on to get a readership. What's the magazine about? You can even put pictures in to an email and everything that will go in to a magazine will go in to an email. You can even give away windows wallpaper and stuff with an on line magazine. The other way of publishing is to have a website. You can contact me for more information about setting up a website. Finance, whatever you do with advertising. You can also publish on Blogspot and Newsvine.
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I suggest you start by reading more about how to start a bookstore business:\n\n- How To Start & Manage A Bookstore Business: A Practical Way To Start Your Own Business by Jerre G. Lewis, Leslie D. Renn\n- FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner -- by Grace Jasmine\n\nStarting a small business takes a lot of courage. But, as they say, courage does not pay the bills. To be successful – to stay in business – you need more than courage. You need a combination of hard work, skill, perseverance, and lots of luck. \n\nSome things you need to consider:\n- "How can I support my family while I build up by business?" \n- "What are my abilities?" \n- "Is there a market for the product or service I have chosen?" \n- "How long will it take this business to reach the financial goal I have?" \n\nYou may want to read the article "How to Start a New Business Successfully" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol51/launch.htm , which lists six steps to launch a new business successfully:\n\n1. Provide a benefit.\n2. Determine the fit with your market.\n3. Right timing is everything\n4. Be ready to support your business\n5. Develop a blueprint for success\n6. Market, market, market\n\nI recommend that you read the following books:\n\n- What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business : Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs \n- Starting From Scratch: How To Start A Business When You Don't Have Money \n- If You're Clueless About Starting Your Own Business and Want to Know More \n- On the Move : How to Succeed and Survive As an Entrepreneur \n- How to Make 1000 Mistakes in Business and Still Succeed
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You have to register it as a newspaper/magazine at the Post Office. You have to watch out for copyright laws and only contain original material. Any copyrighted material used needs to have the owners permission first. \nIf you go to your local library and ask them, they should be able to provide information on how to start up, as would your local evening paper, who would be able to tell you how to get advertising. Either your local Trading Standards office or Citizens Advice Bureau would be able to give advice too.
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Well there are a lot of these magazines around. Obviously they are all going to charge for ad space differently and then they will have different price structures dependong on the size of your ad, placement etc.\n\nUnfortunatley noone here can give you an exact answer - you need to have specifics in mind and approach magazines for quotes.
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I suggest you start by reading more about how to start a bookstore business:\n\n- How To Start & Manage A Bookstore Business: A Practical Way To Start Your Own Business by Jerre G. Lewis, Leslie D. Renn\n- FabJob Guide to Become a Bookstore Owner -- by Grace Jasmine\n\nYou also need to start lining up your suppliers for your bookstore. For starters, create an account with Ingram Books http://www.ingrambook.com/new/booksellers.asp - they are the largest book wholesalers today.\n\nStarting a small business takes a lot of courage. But, as they say, courage does not pay the bills. To be successful – to stay in business – you need more than courage. You need a combination of hard work, skill, perseverance, and lots of luck. \n\nSome things you need to consider:\n- "How can I support my family while I build up by business?" \n- "What are my abilities?" \n- "Is there a market for the product or service I have chosen?" \n- "How long will it take this business to reach the financial goal I have?" \n\nYou may want to read the article "How to Start a New Business Successfully" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol51/launch.htm , which lists six steps to launch a new business successfully:\n\n1. Provide a benefit.\n2. Determine the fit with your market.\n3. Right timing is everything\n4. Be ready to support your business\n5. Develop a blueprint for success\n6. Market, market, market\n\nI recommend that you read the following books:\n\n- What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business : Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs \n- Starting From Scratch: How To Start A Business When You Don't Have Money \n- If You're Clueless About Starting Your Own Business and Want to Know More \n- On the Move : How to Succeed and Survive As an Entrepreneur \n- How to Make 1000 Mistakes in Business and Still Succeed\n\nThere is so much to learn about starting a business that it is hard to put everything here. I suggest that you to check out the following websites and learn from their content:\n\nEntrepreneur http://www.entrepreneur.com\nInc.com http://www.inc.com\nSBA http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/\nPowerHomeBiz.com http://www.powerhomebiz.com
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Save some money or get a loan, buy your own equipment and start selling your own magazine locally. Who knows? Maybe lots of people WILL buy it and then you can expand some more.\n\nAnother idea would be to make your own electronic magzine for sale online. \n\nYou never know, if you don't give it a go!
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You need a copy of either 'Writers Market' (US) or the 'Writers and Artists Yearbook' (UK). They list hundreds of publishers and agents in all fields. When you find one that looks as if they are interested in your kind of book then you need to send them a query letter. A professional approach is very important. There are quite a few sites on the internet that tell you how to write a good query letter (just type in 'query letter' or 'how to write a query letter' into a search engine).\nThere is also 'self publishing' but that means you pay the initial cost of producing the book and have to market it yourself. If you do go down that route you go to a 'bespoke publisher' but choose carefully because the level of service you get varies dramatically, as does the price (I know all about it, I am one).
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You can always hire a PR person to do this for you.\n\nOr you can follow the tips from the article "How to Increase Your Chances to Get Publicity"\n http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol151/publicity.htm \n\nSometimes, all it takes is one interview - and other media people will see you and would want to talk to you as well. \nI have recently interviewed the founder of a new magazine focusing on babies, and the article will be published in WomenHomeBusiness.com . I saw her being interviewed on a local TV channel and contacted her. What she did was to contact a reporter from that TV channel and pitched her story why she started the magazine. She had a wonderful back story and she was able to pitch it well. I got interested in her story and so contacted her to do an in-depth interview.\n\nYou need to be prepared, especially if you are on a time schedule during your travels. Contact the editors beforehand. Prepare your pitch - why you started this magazine (especially if you have such a great personal experience that prompted you to start the magazine). If you had done any previous interviews or if any writeups have been written about you, include that in your pitch. The better the story, the greater your chances to be featured.
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You could try any of the marketing or business publications that distribute their magazine to the Montreal, Canada area, such as the Canadian edition of Marketing Magazine.\n\nhttp://www.marketingmag.ca/\n\nBut before you submit your paper, you'd want to contact their editorial staff to see if the content is acceptable.
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You can find start-up information from the article "Starting a Home Based Photography Business" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol56/photography.htm . The article also cover tips on pricing your services, marketing your business\n\nYou may also want to check the following associations:\n\nAdvertising Photographers of America ( http://www.apanational.com ) American Society of Media Photographers ( http://www.asmp.org ) Professional Photographers of America, Inc. ( http://www.ppa-world.org ) Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (http://www.wppi-online.com)\n\nYou can also read the following books for more indepth information on the topic:\n\nKen Oberrecht. "How to Start a Home-Based Photography Business." 3rd edition. Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2000. \n\nGeza Szurovy. "Profitable Photography: Start and Run a Profitable Business:." New York: TAB Books, 1995.\n\nThe Business of Studio Photography : How to Start and Run a Successful Photography Studio by Edward R. Lilley
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you can join up to the website www.freebizmag.com and get magazines sent to you also.