Start your own magazine!
Posted on 03. Apr, 2010 by Cat in Resources
I LOVE Print on Demand – I love how it has completely democratised the whole publishing process. No longer do we have to wait for a book deal – we can now go ahead and be sold on Amazon through createspace or in bookshops with lulu.
Now there is a service especially for producing and distributing magazines called MagCloud.
The magazines are printed on a “80# matte text stock that is FSC-certified and 50% recycled — 10% post consumer waste and 40% pre-consumer waste.” You supply an 8.5″x11″ original and they trim it down to a final size of 8.25″x10.75″. You can have any number of pages between 4 and 60 (and it must be a multiple of 4).
Here is an example magazine put together by the University of Arizona’s Dream|Reality Print Project:
All you need to do is upload a formatted PDF. MagCloud charge 20 cents a page and then you can put your own markup – they sell directly to your audience and mail it to them and send you your markup directly. Too easy!
Unfortunately, they have yet to work out a subscription service but they are working on it!
Quotable
Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by Cat in Inspiration
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Don’t understimate knowledge, it’s one of the most important sources of power.
Creative Use of Old Technology
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Cat in Just For Fun
Have a closer look at these sheep…
(Image Source: Dannyman)
Surprise Kitty
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by Cat in Just For Fun
For some Saturday dose of cuteness, here’s a kitty in some packing peanuts – the funniest bit is actually at the end, after the credits.
Quotable
Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by Cat in Inspiration
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph!
~ Unknown
It’s very easy to dismiss something because we tried it and it have the result we wanted. This happens a lot in marketing. Say it’s letter dropping – isn’t it easy to letter drop 50 or 100 letters and when nothing comes of it, just write it off?
Often things don’t work not because the idea was bad but because the execution was poor and the effort was half hearted. And you’ll find in marketing, the main source of success comes from consistency.
I like this quote because it’s a reminder that often its just some extra committed work that can really make the difference between having a superb result or none at all.
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