Tag: multiplatform publishing

What is better on a weekend morning in spring than to make brunch? You can open the windows wide and let the warm breeze of daybreak invigorate your home. Finches,  

We Like Sewing—a site just over a year old, serving sewing and quilting enthusiasts—tops 275,000 active email names, largely built with an aggressive Email Exchange program. “You don’t have to rent  

The joy of growing a kitchen garden in your yard is imagining the delicious recipes and meals you’ll create using your home-grown herbs and vegetables. Do you know what gets  

When you read the special GreenPrints Collection Healing Gardens: Engaging stories to boost, heal & soothe your soul today, you get soothing stories that will pull at your heart strings! The  

February may be the shortest month, but sometimes it feels like winter will never end. But this is no time to be glum: each day’s a little longer now, and  

Bill Dugan, our editor and publisher, and I were lucky enough to attend MANTS in Baltimore, MD earlier this month. What a great time we had! If you are in  

Welcome to an exciting new edition of Food Gardening Magazine! This, friends, is the time gardeners dream of! I imagine that might sound strange, given that it’s February and many  

A Freedom Garden by any other name would be just as productive, but it’s the intent behind the growing that makes a Freedom Garden special. If you enjoy growing your  

When you read the special GreenPrints Collection Animals in the Garden: Funny stories to entertain & amuse you today, you get entertaining stories that are guaranteed to tickle your funny  

“The days of renting or buying email lists are over. Email exchanges with aligned partners is the quickest, easiest, and cheapest way to grow your audience.” In less than two years  

It’s that time of year when things are still cool enough that we need to layer up, but we can hear spring calling not too far away. This is a  

Gardening romance? Is there really such a thing? Sure there is—and thank God! When you read the special GreenPrints Collection Gardening Romance: Stories of love, hope & laughter today, you get  

The darker days of winter are slowly receding behind us, and many of us are looking forward to the warmer days of spring and summer. While there’s something to enjoy  

You could say a new year is just a matter of turning over a page on the calendar. But here at Mequoda Systems we think that’s a lot more exciting  

We Like Sewing has released their December 2022 issue helping you to bring the bright beauty of the moon down to earth, ring in the holidays with cheerful decorations, and  

Mequoda Publishing Network, publisher of GreenPrints Magazine, has released their Winter 2022-23 issue featuring delightful, heartwarming gardening stories, poetry, quotations, and original art. The Winter issue of GreenPrints Magazine features 15  

GreenPrints transforms from a print-only magazine to a vibrant multiplatform system with expanded content and continued focus on quality and subscriber engagement. GreenPrints, owned and operated by Mequoda Systems LLC, has  

Please check out our newly relaunched website, to see all the details about what Mequoda Publishing Network has been doing lately. And please notice our new tag line: “Ideas, Inspiration  

Well, it’s been a great run from our early days of digital publishing—but now is the time for Mequoda to change. Yes, we’re still a service provider to our existing clients  

In previous weeks, we've talked about how using the MBTI can impact the development of your multiplatform publishing team. We've also discussed how different personality types can work better  

A multi-platform website enables a publisher to create dynamic content on multiple platforms. Some of these platforms might be online streaming through a membership library of training videos, or it  

When it comes to launching a digital magazine, there's no single FAQ online that can answer all your questions. What type of digital magazine should you build? How should you  

Contrary to what you've probably been thinking, the ultimate digital magazine is built in a browser, not an app. That's why web magazines are skyrocketing to success because users are  

A magazine subscription website model is set up to sell subscriptions for a related print or digital magazine and to provide access to back issues and other premium content. For the  

The scenario plays over and over again: A publisher invests the time and money to build a multiplatform publishing website, only to wonder why they're not generating as much subscription  

Ten years ago, apps and responsive website design weren't even on the radar of a webmaster, and website analytics weren't nearly as dynamic as they are today. Websites back then  

Do you want to know how to start a magazine? In her book How Not to Start a Magazine, B. Ann Bell says the number one way new magazines fail is  

If you’re experienced in online copywriting, you know that “you” is generally considered to be one of the most effective copywriting power words, ranking right up there with free, new  

The web lets publishers create a wide variety of products more affordably than ever. That is good news, but it carries a downside: we aren't experts in creating every digital  

If you've considered starting an online magazine, or are a legacy print magazine considering going digital, you've asked this question: How do online magazines generate revenue? And the answer is  

It’s amazing to look back to just a year or so ago, when digital magazines were still something of a novelty. Today, it’s a given that print publishers will soon  

As you know, having an online portal for your information is essential for growth. Using the web to publish and distribute content and not just serve as an extension of  

Digital magazine publishing software is important; which option are you using? Publishers have been trying digital magazine publishing software during the last few years in hopes of creating the best digital  

Isn't most content online an advertorial these days? With so much conversion architecture built into websites, aren't we always trying to convert visitors into subscribers, or get them to click  

Audience development personnel have a very specific, and incredibly important job, within an organization. Writing an audience development job description and then finding the right audience development staff can mean  

The steps to facilitating an effective roundtable discussion with roundtable discussion questions Have you ever run a roundtable discussion? Throughout my years in publishing, I’ve taken part in countless roundtables. During some,  

Multiplatform publishers can generate revenue from users, from sponsors, or both. Consumer-focused portals that are sponsorship-based ask users to pay – not with money, but with time and information. They  

While the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) began as a tool for self-discovery, it has become a widely used tool for building high performance teams in organizations. It provides users with  

In-person, live events can be a fun and profitable revenue stream for any multiplatform publishing company. When passionate people are committed to a topic, they want to go to the  

Some people accuse me of being an academic wonk. At Mequoda we're often forced to make up our own lingo because you can't pioneer an industry to the digital shores  

There's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all content management system. The best CMS for a magazine should be built with a publisher in mind. After all, you have a different  

Back in 2006 I read an article comparing the fidelity and convenience of watching a movie on an iPod, a home theater, or in a state-of-the-art movie theater. The author  

The latest publishing trend isn’t just about magazine publishing in general. It’s a digital publishing trend: Launching digital-only magazines without legacy print publications behind them. Mequoda has a client who is  

It’s been reported that the average email users spends at average of 51 seconds on each email newsletter they read. If this average pertains to your market, you need to  

We started this year with the launch of Food Gardening Network, a digital magazine publishing system that is built to follow all of our best practices, conduct additional testing, and  

Multiplatform publishing is the cornerstone of what we do at Mequoda. If you can create one content product, you can create many content products. If you've been following along with  

Back in the 1990s, many publishers distributed their controlled-circulation or free magazine as a download from their website or something they would send out as an attachment to an email.  

Some of your customers will want one of your products, and others will want more. But how many will buy the first and never return, and how can you generate  

Publishers are embracing digital magazines because users are. And it’s true for B2C and B2B, as well as pure paid subscription, controlled circulation, or both. These publishers are taking advantage  

When we talk about multiplatform publishing, some publishers think we're talking about the difference between laptops, desktops and tablets. But those are simply the devices we deliver content through. We're talking