Before I give you the details on what the magazine is about, I’d just like to take a few seconds to thank a couple of people that have left comments, offered help or who have gave me encouragement via this blog over the last month or so.
A special thanks goes to Andrew at Bangkok Bugle (you’ve been a real gent!), Martin at Truepot, Duncan at Phuket Review, Sip at Cheap Thai Travel, Tajim and Denis at Cigar Inspector
Okay, now onto the Mag details!
The magazine that myself and 6 others have been working on for the last 2 months is called Juice Mag – Juice Mag is a Men’s lifestyle mag with no censorship, aimed at non-savvy male internet users based in the UK.
Instead of going into the features that are already on the mag, go and have a nose around for yourself :) Although we are only launching the mag with a few features,I thought it would be best to just get something out there that we can start promoting rather than waiting forever, we have a lot more features in the pipeline.
Here are some of the projects that we have already started working on which will hopefully make an appearance on Juice Mag over the next few weeks:
- Allowing anyone to have their own blog on our domain- i.e – myeggnoodles.juicemag.co.uk
- An amature model database – Females can add a profile and receive feedback from our users, along with a chance to win some cool prizes.
- Product reviews – Gadgets, toys, web sites etc. etc.
- All 670 models will have their own individual blogs up-dated on a daily basis
- Interviews – Both textual and video
- Juicy Lucy – Our in-house sex expert!
- A dating vertical
- Juice TV -I’m sooo excited about this project, but will keep the seal closed for now!
- Facebook Applications
- A huge project for the Premiership football season!
- Additional articles (Tens of Thousands) from our in-house writers and niche experts
- A Store – Selling swag, stickers and that sort of thing
- Live coverage of UK and worldwide events guy are interested in
If you have not commented on this blog before (with over 400 daily uniques and a 60% return rate, there’s a lot of you that don’t!) I ask you to break the routine, head over to Juice Mag and leave your valuable feedback here. I REALLY appreciate feedback, good or bad – it ’s the only thing that I can use to actively improve the business/mag. Also, I’d love to hear feedback from my regular commenter’s as well :)
*We haven’t tested the site in all the browsers yet, but after a 12 hour day (It’s 9pm and were all still at the office) it’s time to get our whistles wet!
Bit disappointed you couldn’t think beyond porn as the site’s core. I assume you hold the copyright or are licensed to use all those model photos. I imagine SI and others might be interested in seeking some compensation. Just a hint.
Personally I wouldn’t call it porn – yes the mag does have a sexy side that is aimed at adults but there’s no sex on the mag, and there never will be.
As for the images, we are in talks with a couple of companies now to buy gain permission/licenses – I’ll be writing up on this process in a week or so.
JUICY LUCY! hahaha
Juice TV sounds interesting, from the screen shot it looks good. I’ll take a look today and email you with some feedback.
We were having troubles deciding on Juicy Lucy or Dr. Melons :) But I’m now glad we went for Lucy…
Chris,
Just had a gander at your new mag – excellent work man! Looking forward to watching it grow.
Many thanks!
Man, this mag is the bollox I have to say. I really like the model collection – great images- and the guide to pulling birds. Keep up the good work!!
Thanks Liam, much appreciated!
Dude – you’re advertising for just legal phone sex and have tits and ass everywhere. You must have a strange definition of porn. Call it soft porn – it’s still porn. I have no problem with porn on the internet – view it or don’t – it’s your choice – but you shouldn’t tart up being an internet pornographer as something more respectable.
In regards to porn, I was referring to the content, not the advertising. As for running the ad’s – I don’t see any problems with it – The services that a company wants to promote on our site fits in with the demographics of our users. As for the mag being “respectable” due to the ad’s, that’s an argument that could go on for days…
At the end of the day I didn’t have much choice to run the ad’s or not, not that I have a problem with it. As a start up, cash flow is tight and the opportunity to get up-front payment for a magazine that hasn’t even launched, was to good to turn down.
One thing is for sure – I won’t receive as much exposure due to the ads, so it could come and bite me in the bum in a few months. Valuating risks is all part of the fun with starting new businesses :)
Thanks for voicing your opinions though, I do want to learn how others view the mag and it’s content.
Woman in there underwear is porn? I must have a really strange definition of the word then.
Chris
Well, the site looks good from the screenshot but i guess there is still lot more space for improvement. Making the color scheme more vibrant by using some bright colors could have made site more attractive.
Thanks for mentioning my name but the URL you have mentioned with my name is wrong.
Regards
I fixed the link :)
We did play around with the colour scheme a lot, and had a difficult decision deciding whether to use Orange for the logo/links but decided against it in the end. Something as simple as the colour scheme takes far longer than most people realise!
The porn ads are NSFW. My boss will kill me if he sees me looking at the site.
That’s because you should be working hahaha :)
Chris,
Thanks for the mention. I feel bad now by saying I just feel new magazine is lacking some sparkle. I hope you’ll take this in the way it’s intended – constructive criticism.
You’re aiming at the same sector as MonkeyMag (www.monkeymag.co.uk) and I am sure you’ll agree you’re not in that league yet. Hell, with 250,000+ unique readers every week it will take time for anyone to get to those sorts of levels.
The design of your site is good (although I can’t help thinking it’s just a blog with ambition right now) and the content is good too. What is lacking is something to grab the readers attention. I know you’ve got big plans for this magazine and more will happen in time.
Just one more thing. If you haven’t already I think you should make sure you’re not infringing any trademarks or copyrights with the name. There’s already a Juice Magazine in the US. Even if they’re not publishing in the UK they might still have registered the trademark.
Let me know anytime you need any help, advice or assistance.
Very best of luck … Andrew.
great job on the juice magazine launch, would like to work with you on future magazine ideas!