If you are looking for a way to start your own small business, or just a simple way that you can start making some money, you may want to consider starting your own mini magazine. There are many simple ways to make money out there, but this offers you a way that you can have fun and get to know your community better while still making some extra money on the side. While starting a magazine may sound a bit daunting, this is actually a process that is fairly simple for you to get started.
First of all, you will need to have some writers for your new mini magazine. There are various place online, such as Elance.com and other freelance websites where you can find some great writers to provide you with excellent content for your new magazine. Choose a general theme for the mini magazine, one which you think will go over well in your area, and then turn the writers loose. There are many writers out there that would be glad to work with you for a modest fee. If you are a great writer, you can even write some of the magazine content yourself and make even more money off of the magazine.
The next thing you need to do is to go out into your community and start trying to get advertisements from local businesses for your mini magazine. You can sell the advertising space for as little or as much as you want, but you want to make sure that what you sell will cover the price of the writing and still leave you with a nice profit after all the costs. You can divide up the pages and sell both small advertisements and larger advertisements, depending on how much the business is willing to pay. Many businesses already have their own advertisements ready, so all you will have to do is put the ad in your magazine.
Once you have all the writing content and you have sold all your ad space, then you are ready to have your mini magazine printed. You will want to take it to a printer to have it printed up. It is probably good to start up with about a thousand and see how quickly you can give these away. In the future you may want to have even more printed if the magazines seem to be a hit.
If you find that your mini magazine is very successful, you will want to continue producing it each month, as long as you are making money on it. After you find success in your own town, you may even want to branch out and start doing the same thing in other towns nearby. Get a few of these mini magazines running each month, and you can have a substantial income coming in without doing a great deal of work yourself.
