Free Magazine Subscriptions or How To Fill Your Inbox and/or Mailbox Every Week
I remember a poem from the E. Joseph Cossman marketing course that quipped something to the effect of, “I’m a very important person… I’ll live on forever… I’m on a mailing list!”
For those who want such a feeling, I have a solution for you. You, of course, have to be in business in the related field but whatever field that is, I recommend getting at least a subscription to it’s relevant trade publication.
This applies to any field, whether it be manufacturing, electrical subcontracting, musical instrument retailer or whatever field you’re in. If you aren’t sure of what trade magazines there are for your chosen profession, check the library for the Standard Rate and Data. It gives the rates for advertising in magazines as well as for TV stations, there are multiple volumes that cover different media but one of them covers trade publications. I think that one is called the business publication advertising source. You could also look up direct marketing list sources with this publication. This tip alone is worth a lot. Feel free to donate via paypal to: quintessentialstudios@gmail.com if you feel you should!
Believe it or not, I did not use the above reference for the following list; I just built it up over the past year by lots of searching and subscribing and referrals.
Here are the magazines (mostly free) that I subscribe to currently:
* Creative Cow Magazine
* Creative Screenwriting <- paid subscription, not free
* Digital Content Producer
* Digital Signage Magazine
* DV (Digital Video)
* DVXUser Monthly
* Event DV <- they are moving to paid subscription and I will not be subscribing to them anymore.
* Home Media Magazine <- this one is overkill, weekly or bi-weekly, I think I’m going to cancel.
* Government Video
* Millimeter
* MovieMaker Magazine
* Post Magazine
* Pro Audio Review
* Streaming Media Magazine
* STUDIO MONTHLY
* TVB Television Broadcast
* TV Technology
* Videography
In addition to the paper mailings, most of the above magazines offer digital subscriptions, so, you can “go green”, if you prefer. They also send you tons of email so you can hear from their advertisers, etc. It’s a lot to go through, but for me there are some tidbits here and there that I DO find interesting and some of them I even tweet about.