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I work alone!
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Started this discussion. Last reply by 6thAveConcepts Jan 28, 2010.

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6thAveConcepts replied to Martin Keane's discussion 'I work alone!'

Get back to work!!!! LOL. Glad to help.

Jan 28, 2010

Martin Keane replied to Martin Keane's discussion 'I work alone!'

Thanks... you break it up nicely. Those are pretty much all what i do - but it's always interesting to see in compartmentalised. Can see things getting simpler of course - but it's exhilerating, just bloody frustrating too!! :)

Jan 28, 2010

6thAveConcepts replied to Martin Keane's discussion 'I work alone!'

Sales is a full-time job in itself. I worked for a coupon advertising company for a while. They put coupons on the back of sales receipts. Small company with the owner who did some sales + 2 part-time designers + 1 full-time sales and 2 part-time…

Jan 26, 2010

Martin Keane replied to Martin Keane's discussion 'I work alone!'

Now that's what I thought. We're an Association, so there's no advertising (or need for revenue as such, thankfully). Most articles are commissioned by me to banks etc. who supply me with there copy. I and research colleague write 10…

Jan 26, 2010

6thAveConcepts replied to Martin Keane's discussion 'I work alone!'

I helped design a monthly 230+ (some months more, some months less) page real estate magazine for a newspaper. Since it was a newspaper we had a nice size staff. Still, for those two weeks each month we all ate, slept and breathed the property…

Jan 26, 2010

I work alone!

Any advice welcome.I edit/produce/write a quarterly 76-page glossy magazine for the finance sector on my own, with 1 external designer. Is this normal?I do have a real job marketing conferences, raising .5m GDP in sponsorship, press relations, complex monthly e-mailouts and proofing 6-monthly research reports for finance sector among others. They I can do - but no-one here seems to understand how many people should/could be employed just manage a great professional magazine. What roles would be…See More

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Martin Keane updated their profile Jan 26, 2010

Martin Keane is now a member of Magazine Publishing | SAM - Starting a Magazine Jan 26, 2010

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