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I was just wondering if anyone knows the 1st thing about starting a magazine and would be interested in starting one up.
Obviously it would start as a very amateur thing - probably just on the net but it could progress from there. Xbox mag...obviously
Anyone interested? Feedback please
I was just wondering if anyone knows the 1st thing about starting a magazine and would be interested in starting one up.
Obviously it would start as a very amateur thing - probably just on the net but it could progress from there. Xbox mag...obviously
Anyone interested? Feedback please
2. As a magazine - no chance. Absoloutely no chance. The costs are huge.
> I would ditch the mag idea mate. There is absolutely no point in
> trying to compete with the likes of XBox Mag and the such. However
> one thing you could do is start yourself a reviews, hints,
> walkthroughs and cheats site. Once you get people out there
> interested and have the decent material (Which hasn't just been
> copied and pasted from other sites!) then you could always start a
> subscription thing to it or have a volunatry donation thing where
> people who like the site can donate money to help you run it.
Yeah I agree - the actual mag idea isn't too good but if there was enough people it would be possible to start an on-line mag...reviewing games in your own words.
I'd start off small and make a site on something like freewebs. The problem is getting enough support to start off with
Interested?
> To get things like News on games I will trawl the net and other
> magazines looking for info which I can then write in my own words.
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Something tells me you just didn't get the jist of what MJ was saying.
Why not approach it from another angle and hook people to the site with something else that's unique?
I don't know.... if you're artistic, maybe a monthly manga strip about an x-box owner? Ummm. Maybe a unique monthly feature with some personality and humour 'My Live exploits this month' - something like that?
I'd forget about the standard news / reviews / previews garbage. People just visit IGN and the such for that because they're professional writers with direct contacts. Don't bother with heavy facts - just do something different - if it's different AND interesting, people will visit in my opinion.