Day Seventy Six - Seventy Eight - Wednesday 4th - Friday 6th April
Its now Friday morning and we are getting ready for Donny Show.
We took delivery of the magazines yesterday and they look absolutely fantastic, its an overwhelming experience seeing all the hard work printed into a real publication. The whole week has been crazy, we have not stopped running around and organising everything for the show.
Our marquee looks fantastic, thanks to Mini Marquees we have a 6ft x 6ft hexagonal display with banners all printed with the new magazine graphics. We have also had some T Shirts printed for us all to wear.
This week has been a massive turning point for us, we have had a few doorways opened and have been sending more quotes our for advertising packages, we have not closed any huge deals yet but there are alot of people interested and it’s only a matter of time. Two companies are hopefully signing up for twelve months on the front page soon and there are alot more potentials out there.
This weekend is going to be HUGE, I just hope we don’t run out of magazines. We have had to keep some back to send out to clients and those that are interested in advertising in the next issue. We have meetings organised for next week that will hopefully result in further backing enabling us to print more copies and have more pages.
I’m gonna leave the blog now, and will update you on Monday, we should have some good news and have spoken to alot of companies and generated a massive hype amongst the car enthusiasts of the UK. Fingers crossed.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
The magazine looks pretty good from what I can see. We [DM Magazine] just finished up our fourth issue this past week. It is definitely a lot of hard work. Any chance I can get a copy of your mag in the event that you have some left over after the Donny show this weekend? I’d be interested to see how it actually turned out and what kinds of things you guys are covering over there. It’s awesome to see you guys growing like you are. Congrats on the office move and on storming ahead into the future with Maxxd.
April 6th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Dave/Olly,
I am so proud of you both. You’ve worked really hard on this and to see you pull it off as well as you have is amazing.
I’m really chuffed for you both.
Well done!
Oh, I finally read the mag this morning and it rocks!
April 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for the comments, its nice to see it in the flesh, it was a mad weekend for us all. We have copies left so will have to get one to you Mike.
Lets hope this is the start of a long future for Maxxd Magazine, it can only get better (we hope)
April 11th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I am confident the magazine will go from strength to strength. We have learnt a lot from this first
edition. Communication is key - here’s to the next one!