When it comes to making my magazine I will have to ensure that my product will attract the target market is vital. Not taking into consideration of my target audiences interests and opinions could result in them not buying my product. As target audience is extremely important in media I will make sure that I will focus on how my magazine will appeal to my target audience. Here are a few things that are known to make a magazine sell.
What are Audience Pleasures?
They are a set of techniques that a magazine will use to persuade an audience to buy their magazine and to maintain that readership. They are things that people like that make them feel good, how people spend their free time, how something is presented to suit their audience and what the magazine thinks the audience want.
One of these is direct mode of address which is how the magazine speaks to the reader by the use of colloquial language which is language that is personal to you for example slang words. Also personal pronouns which allows the audience to feel as though they have a connection with the magazine, these include 'you're, I, We, Us, You, our. This will allow my magazine to be a bit more personal to my target audience. Also imagery is used that will appeal to the specific audience.
Secondly a lot of magazines give freebies to their audience, firstly this attracts new customers and old. These could be cds, downloads, competitions and even vouchers. Customers love the sense of being given to as they can feel as though they are having the magazine for free as they are paying the price of the free item and getting the magazine free.
They are a good way of giving information to fans of that certain genre. Some information that magazines could give are tour dates, charts and interviews.
I will defiantly use this one humour! I will want my magazine to have a sense of humour as that us what I look for in a magazine and I believe that my target audience will like to see this in a magazine.
'Ritual Pleasure Of Consuming Of Readers' this is when people subscribe to a magazine so they get the magazine every week when it first comes out and they have it even if it is a popular issue and is normally sold out.
Belong for self definition is another point that readers like to follow as they want to talk to people with the same interests and interact with people that enjoy the same hobbies as them. Although people can talk to people on forums it can be dangerous as they might be lying and could lead up to something a lot more serious.
I will like to make people have an opportunity for self definition. This states that people like to define themselves as a person whilst reading the magazine, as it will have things that can make people allow them to have time to find out new things about themselves for example the type of music they listen to and enjoy.
I will defiantly be using these in my magazine as it is official that they make the magazine sell and still keep their readership high.
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