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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Amazing going to last another subscription?
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 08:56:49 GMT
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- Harv R Laser (Harv@cup.portal.com) wrote:
-
- : Well it all comes down to ads, ads, ads, as it always does when
- : a magazine shrinks or goes away (unless its publisher kills it off
- : on purpose, as IDG did with Amiga World, the jerks...)
-
- : If AC could get enough ad pages then they could bulk up the
- : magazine back to 100+ pages. Just whip out any 2-3-4 year old
- : issue and compare with the latest ones. What's the difference?
- : More ads. A LOT more ads. And lots of ads are the key to a
- : magazine's survival. Not newsstand sales. Not subscriptions.
- : Ads are where the money is.
-
- : Now what I don't understand is why Amiga mags have never gone after
- : general interest advertising. What would be wrong with opening AC
- : and seeing ads for Marlboro or Budweiser or Chevy or hell even
- : the Franklin Mint :) as long as such ads brought in a lot more
- : revenue (which I'm sure they would) and thus would expand the mag.
-
- They definitly need to increase the number of ads in their mag but they
- need to keep the ads computer related. I personally don't want to open an
- Amiga mag and see cig. ads, we can do without them.
-
- There are plenty of products that would fall within the Amiga's relm;
- hard drives, cdroms, memory, printers, monitors, stereo & video equipment,
- etc. I've yet to see ads in US Amiga mags for discount hard drive and
- memory dealers. What AC could do is give a number of companies a free
- trial ad for one month to see what response there is. They could reserve
- a page or two a month for trial ads. I'm sure there are plenty of
- computer related companies that would take out ads in AC if they knew
- about it and knew that no one is really marketing to Amiga users. AC
- doesn't even have a classified ad section. All AC has to do to find
- companies is open a Computer Shopper.
-
-
- : I mean, no one goes into spasms when they buy Stereo Review or
- : Pop. Science or Car & Driver, which are filled with general interest
- : ads. And these mags are 10+ pages monthly, and you can usually
- : subscribe to them for a year for about $10-$12.
-
- : I've always wondered why general interest product ads have
- : never appeared in any Amiga magazines. Shrug.
-
- I've always wondered the same thing, except about general computer
- interest ads in them.
-
-
- Chris Hall
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