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Don't miss out on using a great startup marketing tool for your magazine launch.  If you're starting a magazine, you can build a database of interested readers by adding an email newsletter sign-up form tool to your magazine's pre-launch website.

Unless you nail these six design points, your magazine launch could turn into a fizzle.

The only way to convert a magazine idea into a real magazine is through design. At every turn, the more your publication looks like it's established rather than merely a pipe dream, the better your chance of publishing success. Before you approach your first investor, advertiser, or subscriber, make your concept tangible. It will demonstrate a personal commitment to the project, and just as important convey your nebulous idea far better than any verbal presentation alone.
 

An important step in the magazine planning process is the development of a business and marketing plan. Here are some popular information & company resources related to creating a magazine business plan.

Without the right readers, your editors are writing stories that no one will read.  Your advertisers are promoting products that no one will buy.  And you are publishing a magazine that is doomed to failure.

One question I get often from visitors to the Laughing Bear web site is how much to charge for a magazine subscription. Let me note that these people are asking about the subscription rate for a popular magazine, not a literary or trade magazine. A popular magazine is one that could appeal to a large portion of the population. A literary magazine has a very small and specific niche circulation and a trade magazine has distribution limited to people within a certain profession.

This FAQ addresses the following questions:
I. The What and Why of Media Publicity
II. How to Get Media Publicity
III. Publicity Resources

Everyone keeps their radio tuned to station WIIFM - What's In It For Me. This fact and its implications hold a valuable secret for multiplying publicity opportunities

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