Start, Maintain, & Monetize an Online Magazine on a Budget

This is a course about online magazine creation – a.k.a. website-based magazines. This is the best way to figure out if you want to expand to other magazine platforms, such as print and digital.

Welcome to ‘Start, Maintain, & Monetize an Online Magazine on a Budget’. Maybe you might want to consider turning your blog into a magazine style or starting from scratch and creating a brand new magazine with you as the Editor in Chief but you will also learn how to be your own marketer, sales team, operations manager, and overall editorial director, and overall publisher!

This course assumes you have a little familiarity with WordPress and Tumblr.

EXTRA TEMPLATES ARE WORTH MORE THAN THE PRICE OF THIS COURSE! YOU'LL GET A TEMPLATE OF:

• editorial calendar

• contributors wanted letter

• contributor's welcome letter, guidelines

• release/agreement form (EXAMPLES ONLY - MUST SEEK PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ADVICE FOR CONTRACTS, ETC. I AM NOT A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL.)

• media kit.

Extras:

I will give you a list of the backend plug-ins I use on my WordPress magazine site. Plus, I will tell you about 2 additional tools that I use.

I am excited that you chose this course to be part of your journey. You will learn how to create and maintain an online magazine on a budget. I will provide the steps to create your online magazine and by the end of the course you will be up and running. You will learn plenty of information in this course so hope you are ready to take it all in.

You will have the outline for your content for a whole year by the end of the course.  Also, you will know how to seek out talented contributors and how many words you should have for each type of article/post. These are but a few things.

An online magazine is a great medium to use because it utilizes an attractive and organized layout that attracts readers and mirrors the familiar layout of a print/digital magazine.

This course is meant to be a guide to help simplify the process for you, eliminate hours of research on your end, and to give you a place to start and overall view of the process. You must do your own comparisons and research when you are ultimately deciding what tools to choose but this will help you in saving time and effort!  Your ultimate journey will be your own and by the time you are done with the course you will have turned your idea to reality. This course is designed to help you turn your idea into a functional online magazine and turn this overwhelming process to a simple step by step process.

The magazine industry has gone through a smorgasbord of changes in just the past decade. Traditional print magazines are leveraging the online platform and some have done away with print all together. New magazines are emerging that are embracing the online magazine format right off the bat. With an online magazine you can build an audience or community that gravitates towards your niche.

The mission of this course is to cover a range of steps that will help guide you along the way as you create your magazine. We want to make your life simpler so you can focus on creating a magazine and maintain it with as much ease as possible on a budget. Let’s face it; you don’t have the luxury of spending thousands of dollars to hire people to get the different jobs done AND you don't have time to research every little detail. You need someone to tell you where to look and what to do. Don’t worry. It is possible to create a quality online magazine with a fantastic and appealing look with the back-end tools necessary to sustain it.

This course is for the online magazine only. Later on, I will create a course that shows you how to incorporate print and digital. But nowadays, online is where it's at so this is where you need to start.

The magazine industry welcomes new magazines as it keeps the industry thriving. So join the fun! The magazine industry needs new budding talent and captivating magazines to keep it flourishing in the face of all the naysayers that think the era of the magazine is dead. A magazine has a certain familiar and organized structure with curated content that is a picked specifically for a certain demographic.

New magazines continue to pop up and many recent ones have been major successes. You can do it, too.