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We have re planned our meeting with Ryan Taylor as I (leanne) was really ill. I thought as it be best for the person who organised and knew about the meeting needs to be there. It is now organised for next Wednesday at 12.

Finished!

All the pages are finished and have been checked over for spelling mistakes and missing items. We sent to the printers as a PDF which we did by opening a FTP file. I made a running theme through out the pages with the bottom line and making sure all the right fonts were on the pages. We are very please on how it all worked out and hopeing it all goes well with the printers.

Promotion

Last week I (Holly) did some promotion for the magazine, I volunteer on a local radio station called Cambridge 105. As we promoted the station when we had our interview with Cambridge evening we mention the station, so they gave me 10 minutes air time to explain what we were doing and where people could buy the magazine. I promoted us on their drivetime show as this is when they have their most listeners and they have a mixed audince and age range so we could get different people interested in the magazine. We had some repose back from the listerners and they congratled us for what we were doing. From this we got more followers on Twitter as the Cambridge 105 team and some listners are now following us on Twitter and spreading the word. Hopefully when the magazine is out I will be able to get Amber and Leanne to come in to the studio and talk more about the magazine and we can hopefully bring in a copy so we can put pictures up on the studio's website as well as ours.

Proofreading

Before we sent off our magazine I (Holly) proof read through the whole magazine, what I did was look for any spelling mistakes and any grammar problems. These were the main two things I was looking for. However I did look to see if all the images and text where lined up in the right place and if the adverts where all correct. If I found a problem I would highlight it on a hard copy of the magazine I had and then show leanne who then changed any problems on the Indesgin file. One problem that kept coming up was the font we were using kept taking away letters from words. This was a large issue, however from proofreading magazine we sorted this out. When I had read through it all the small problems were sorted and it was ready to send to the printers. Im glad I overall look it as if we had sent the text to the printer how it was we could of been a big problem. This is one thing I have really learnt from doing the magazine is to check everything more than once and make sure more than one person as overlook it.

Money collecting

We have already made a profit on the magazine without even distributing it yet. Our printers are costing us £500, we have £550 which has come from advertisers, the bake sale and a few small donations. So we have £50 profit already. I have £320 in my bank at the moment which has been payed in by the advertisers either by direct debit or cheque. We are now only waiting for 3 more payments, one from the Cambridge Cookery School, Professional Academy and The Removal Company. We are waiting for a cheque from the Cambridge Cookery School, a direct debit payment from The Professional Academy and cash from The Removal Company as it's Leanne's dads company.

Cambridge Tour Guide

I (Leanne) contacted Cambridge Tour Guide on twitter asking if they put magazines on there website, they asked more about it and I explained what we were and got interested. They left us an email to contact them and I explained more about it all. However I got a weird email back and is not sure now what is going on. Hopeing that they gave us an weird email they will have to put us in.

Online updates

The online pages (facebook and twitter) are slowly getting more likes and followers however its coming up strong with getting the word out and helping us on the way! Facebook is helping us get the word across to friends and people we didnt know about. Twitter is helping us contact people we wouldnt of been able to chat to otherwise.


The numbers are rising in followers and like which is postive out look and when things are written on the pages people retweet and like.