Three and Out in Niche Magazines
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Getting past the flashpoint for indie magazines is a critical achievement. Everywhere these days we see talk of niche magazines having a viable future in print. From Garden & Gun's secret niche sauce to continued optimism in city and regional...
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Century-old Advice Still Rings True
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Some 100-year-old guidance on print advertising strategy that’s still timely today. Imagine you own a business owner in 1916, a hundred years ago. No banner ads, no websites, no social media…just good old print advertising was your way to connect...
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How to Defy the Odds and Attract Print Advertisers
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Publishers need to understand that it’s ultimately the readers you attract that compels a brand to invest in your print ads. The success of Garden & Gun has a lot to teach us.  As we reported earlier this month, the...
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Why Catalogs? Because They Work
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Want to boost your e-commerce revenues by 163%? Try a print catalog. The formula is ridiculously simple. Send a catalog, get more sales. It worked for Penney’s last year, and it’s working for other companies too. It’s not just for...
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Is Your Ad Strategy Scientifically Sound?
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Advertisers take note: Your target’s brain is hard wire to receive that message in print, more than digital. That’s the science behind the hype. Print geeks everywhere are feeling vindicated for their love of paper, after years are digital proponents...
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An Ounce of Ad-Free Prevention
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Taking a page from brand magazines, the Rodale publication continues its pioneering ways. We’ve seen them already. . . magazines without advertising. They typically belong to the new wave of brand journalism and lifestyle enablers that have chosen to publish...
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Print-Based News Outlets Rule on Facebook
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Why are print-based media outlets leading the pack on Facebook, instead of digital-born/digital-only sources? With the continual decline in newspaper subscriptions, one would think that a print brand’s audience on social media channels would tank, as well. Not so, according...
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I’ll See Your E-Book and Raise You Two Real Books
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For Millennials, maybe the constant use of a screen has made the experience of reading a printed book an enjoyable oddity. Or is there more to it? Back when e-books were surging in popularity, intense hand-wringing by a cadre of...
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Top Ad Exec on Why Print is Hard…and Worth It
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When top industry figures start talking about print in these kinds of terms, you know the resurgence is real. “In a busy, crowded world, [print] is a moment of silence, stillness and communion of ideas between viewer and artist.” This...
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Garden & Gun and the Secret Niche Sauce
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Embracing their niche, the magazine’s tight editorial focus is proving irresistible to advertisers; print ad pages are up 6% from 2014. “When Charleston, S.C., attorney J. Edward Bell III invested in Garden & Gun magazine in February 2010, he knew...
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