CCR Draft #2

The first and most prominent way that my magazine engages with audiences, is due to the fact that there are multiple different articles with a variety of content within the magazine. This makes the magazine cater towards a range of different people, thus engaging a wider and more diverse audience. Furthermore, the contents page displays the magazine's social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. By doing so, it allows the audience to further engage with the magazine by following the magazine social media sites, which provides a way for them to stay up-to-date with current and future news release by the magazine. For example, the social media sites might alert the audience that has chosen to further engage with the magazine through social media about an upcoming issue that is about to be released. This allows the audience to prepare to purchase the magazine, thus providing a platform to engage with the magazine. Moreover, the magazine's table of contents displays the magazine's website at the bottom of the page. This engages the audience, by allowing them to further explore what the magazine has to offer. For example, the website might include things such as articles included both in and out of the current and past issues, beauty and hair tutorials, or life and fashion tips. Thus creating a more audience engaging setting both while reading the magazine, and if they chose to explore the website. My magazine would be distributed as a real media text, through a local south Florida distribution company. By staying local, I would have a greater advantage than going nationally, since they will be more devoted to magazine from their region, rather than some form all over the country. Therefore increasing the probability that my magazine will be featured in local grocery stores. Moreover, by using a local distribution company to distribute my magazine as a real media text, it will be further exposed to people within the same region, who might recognize someone in the magazine, and prompting them to want to purchase it, and then tell their friends to do so as well. This not only acts as a form of "self advertisement", but also as a "self distribution" technique, through word of mouth.