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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

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I buy dead magazines.” I buy dead magazines. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. People read magazines for a reason and it’s a combination of focused content and beautiful images.

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Robb Report's Bill Curtis On Why Podcasting Is The Next Media Frontier

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We have published 74 different magazine titles over the last 30 years. To a content provider, that's something you have to pay attention to. We get to take what we love best, which is create uniquely entertaining and authoritative, informative content, and put that in a medium people are actually enjoying and receptive to.

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Demand Media Launches Long Form Article Effort

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content. The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Best Alternatives to the Amazon Affiliate Program

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Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. Top Publications: BuzzFeed News, Vox, New York Magazine. but Skimlinks also works with a portfolio of smaller bloggers and content sites.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. It’s the new magazine. The larger real estate also makes content discovery different. People forgot that Fred also wrote “Web Second.”

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