How to Create a Magazine

Episode 139: How to Create a Magazine

Welcome to episode one-thirty-nine of the Cocktails & Content Creation Podcast! For this episode, we’re chatting with Alessandra Pollina, founder of Quotable Media Co., about content creation for magazines.

In our one-hundred-and-thirty-ninth episode you’ll learn:

• What may inspire you to create a magazine
• The steps you can take to create a magazine from that initial idea to printed and shipped
• What tasks and staff/contractors our guest uses for production
• The design programs she uses to layout the magazine and why you don’t need fancy software to get started
• How to brainstorm what types of topics and niche your magazine can focus on
• The costs involved in creating a magazine
• How she balances the magazine and her own PR clients
• Some tips to get started now!

About our Guest:

Alessandra Pollina is the founder of Quotable Media Co., a PR and media agency that works to elevate women-led brands and produces Quotable: A Female Entrepreneur Podcast and Quotable Magazine. She also hosts PR workshops and educational programs for small business owners and runs the Female Founders of Boston networking group. Alessandra sits on the board of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women (Mass NOW) and was awarded the 40 Under 40 by Boston Business Journal in 2022. She's based in Boston, where she lives with her husband and 8-year-old son. Find her at quotablemediaco.com.

Thanks for Listening!

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Links & Resources:

• Quotable Media Co.
• @quotablemediaco on Instagram
• Quotable Media Co. on Facebook
• @quotablemediaco on Twitter
• Alessandra Pollina on LinkedIn
• @IAmAlessandraPollina on Threads
• Female Millennial Entrepreneurs Boston Networking Group
• Quotable: A Female Millennial Entrepreneur Podcast

Until next time, cheers to your next cocktail and happy content creating!

Kate & Jessie

Hosts of “The Cocktails and Content Creation Podcast”