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I've never been a big magazine reader, but I started getting a magazine called Fast Company, and have been able to pull some really kick ass ideas from the articles. Some have started to pay, and some are going to be part of long-term strategy.

Also, Inc. magazine has yielded some REALLY good fruits. Some people actually talk about their advertising methods in the articles. It's fucking GREAT!

So, I've been looking for others like these 2. If you know of any, post them here please.
 


Bought a subscription to Inc and Fast a few weeks back from Magazines.com (so I'll probably end up waiting weeks til the subscription starts). I used to have subscriptions, but they've since elapsed - Those are two of the few magazines I actually find it worth to subscribe to.
 
Fast Company rocks. Been a subscriber of them and Wired since day 1. I love the $4.99/yr deals they send me all the time.

Those are the only mags of that nature I read. Actually, they are the ONLY magazines I read... :-)
 
Business 2.0 is good too, it is more about high tech stuff..It introduce me to buy/sell domain name back in 2005. If i didn't read that article, i won't be here today ;D
 
Was good. It was probably my second favorite magazine, but apparently it is no longer being published. The October issue was the last one. :(

sampunk said:
Business 2.0 is good too, it is more about high tech stuff..It introduce me to buy/sell domain name back in 2005. If i didn't read that article, i won't be here today ;D
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Fortune Small Business is good for the how to ideas. There is also a smaller magazine I used to get, Millionaire Blueprints. The first few issues were awesome, but the last ones devolved into MLM self-promotion bullshit and I got pissed off and stopped subscribing. With the exception of that, the articles are top notch.

Right now I am a big fan of Conde Nast Portfolio & Harvard Business Review. Portfolio is new, I think just the most recent issue is only the third. Both are more for the big picture stuff.
 
CorrectAD said:
I've never been a big magazine reader, but I started getting a magazine called Fast Company, and have been able to pull some really kick ass ideas from the articles. Some have started to pay, and some are going to be part of long-term strategy.

Also, Inc. magazine has yielded some REALLY good fruits. Some people actually talk about their advertising methods in the articles. It's fucking GREAT!
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Was it in the last issue?

As for magazines, Business 2.0 was best. Depends on your taste of course.

It was geared toward the young generation of entrepreneurs, the ones that take a simple idea and try it over night, most often using the leverage of the internet. I like their no-bullshit style. And they were riding the cutting edge of the wave.

Unfortunately, Time Inc. decided to close it. Most of the writers found gigs in fortune and whoever had subscriptions will get fortune instead. So I think fortune will have a small section with B2.0 style content.

Fortune sucks, IMHO, unless you are (or you think you are) in the age of retirement. All they talk about is hedge funds and retirement plans. Too boring even for poo-time.

Inc and Fast Company are nice. But i preferred B2.0, but since this baby is gone, I'll have another look at those two.

Business week is not bad, they have one AMAZING article once in a while. And decent ones on regular basis.

For your AM folks, I read this magazine called revenue or something. It was pretty nice. It was really online-marketing related. With a narrow focus.


Now... if you managed to get a free upgrade to business class for your transatlantic flight with your suave foreign accent, then The Economist, is the magazine to have.... they key is so much to read it, but make sure other people SEE you reading it :rasta: Especially that hot Sweed sitting accross the isle.



HH
 
Wired kicks ass. Just subscribed to Inc. and Fast Company per this thread. Also read The Fortean Times, GQ, Details, Windows IT Pro, and tons of online mags. They're where 90% of my business ideas come from, so the ROI of having $200 in yearly subscriptions, is through the roof.
 
Yeah Business 2.0 was the best. It was really what got me into domaining and AM a couple of years back. Didn't know they got shitcanned though :(

I've checked out FastCompany on the newsstand a few times. Some interesting stuff in there. Perhaps I'll get myself a few "sample" issues (before I order a subscription) from another free magazine place: Usenet ;)
 
Wow... usenet... the good ol' day.

When you could get a hard-on from ASCII boobs

So "last century"

HH
 
I have a subscription to MillionaireBlueprints as well. But I think I read in another forum, that the original creator recently passed, and his daughter is now running it. That may be why it seems a little more spammy than before.
 
aff_tim said:
Harvard Business Review is full of amazing information.
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Thanks for the tip, just went and signed up for it.

Does anybody else order subscriptions and select the "bill me later" option?

I was able to do it for Fast, Inc., and HBR. I'll get that check out to them asap...
 
Wired is all hype.

I have been disappointed every time I bought an issue.
(Also because they charge an arm and a leg over here for that magazine)

Although it should be a good info about what to sell to the IT crowd, as 80 FUCKING PERCENT of the damn magazine are adspace.

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HBR and The Economist Kick Ass. They are the only ones I read from cover to cover along with Mens Health and Esquire.
 
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