Flicking through the pre launch  website it appears that the owners have migrated from Southern Spain

Could be same outfit u never know

Im alright jack pull the ladder up a great way to run yor life,   If this guy Olive Press thinks hell get enough 300e full page adds to pay for you 2 sit down and read a 1/2 sized mag foc then jolly good, if the mags so good and the demand for sticky buns and a good read are so obvious why dont the free loaders,,,,,, write to the editor with a 1000,s signatures and pleadge a euro an issue

There isn't the demand from our community to have a glossy colour mag paid for by the limited people who want or need to reach our wallets at 300e a page a pop !
I said b4 and say again the day of limited publication free to the unwashed, is a non starter, ask Debs what I was proposing for a free web based mag full page.......20 euros not 360 euros......how many people need to visit  One Hose.io to recoup 300e a month..... a big handful, just one by my route enough said.

Caalunya Life failed because most English based adverts never paid a single penny  Low Lifes yes ! if not why did they go under  simply because the advertising they took and never ever ever  paid for.>>>>Not a single euro of there blasted promised bill, they failed as a business and CL failed. So has Olive Press added the mustard not really................ dont pay your bill and we reserve the right to publish your default.....try pay up front Mr Business Man if your earning it pay for it !

How many new companies will advertise with the OP who are still trading from CL fame.


Sorry for the rant u get what u pay for ! I wish Olive Press 100 % success give 3 months free press but get the cash up front mate or 1.2.3 years down the road its UB40 time...........says  WoO

Nigel  (TF) I agree with u....... put it on my plate and Ill lick it up ,..... ask for comitment and the rooms empty.

I dont care who this post offends   Nigel has asked for contributors to his forum, I voluterred who else did. Only those probaly with services they have to sell which is OK by Me no input no gain. The communist route hasnt got 2 Spain yet sorry 

Debs u loved CL but why has it gone ?

How does spell check work on this forum Nobrot ?

The word on the street is that a newspaper in english (i presume with contents of local interest) is planned for the Tortosa area.
Do not know the full details but will keep an eye out & report back.
ebrorob

Well said William and Sue,

I have been watching this thread about Catalunya Life magazine for a while.
I'm sure Felicity and Rob  (the owners of the mag) wont mind me putting you in the picture a little bit.

I used to sell advertising space for the magazine over 3 years ago, with my Spanish friend. This meant that we could approach both English and Spanish speaking companies to buy the advertising space.

We were paid commission on the sales, and repeat business. The magazine doubled in size from around 24 pages to 40 something in a matter of 4 months.............

Then we hit a huge problem.

Obviously the only way for my friend and I to earn money was to sell more advertising space, no problem for us, but Felicity then had to compile the forth coming magazine, she had nightmare battles with the printing company about quality control and spelling mistakes, and here we go......people promised to write articles and then let her down in the end, she had to cover a huge area collecting payments for the next months advertising because a "direct from the bank payment system" was never set up properly by Lawyers, the distribution system got larger and larger.............i can go on and on.

I do know that Felicity pumped in many thousands of euros of her own money, because she had so much confidence in the magazine, and I also know that she is owed much more than that from people and companies who advertised and never paid for it......................you know who you are!!!!!!

The magazine finally folded, pardon the pun, when shock horror, people were expected to pay a euro towards the cost of printing their precious, cant live without it magazine, and guess what................they didn't want to pay!

My friend and I left the magazine over 2 years ago, but always kept in touch with Felicity, I email her occasionally now, but you know how it is when you have such a busy life with kids, visitors, work etc, people just dont have the time.

Hey William, dont know about you mate, posting late at night because you've had a few. I sometimes write on here extremely late at night, purely because it's the only bl00dy time i get to myself,.......................LOL.....................strange how people think sometimes hey?

Good luck to the new magazine, I am sure they will need it.

I'm sure I will get some flack for the next comment but it is definitely true!

Maybe if Brits in general could be a little more like the Yanks, in regard to a failure or success story.
Americans love a success story and wish you all the luck, and really seem to get off on it....................Brits seem to jump on a story of failure with doom and gloom, and of course everybody can disect it and say where they went wrong with expert opinions.

Hope this is a respectable time to post on a Good Friday, had some wine with lunch though.............rare treat, cos I'm usually working.

Happy Easter to everyone.

 

Hey Wills

Spell checker,wots one ov those?
Try a good old dictionary, even in this day and age, of PC technology!
Maybe you should give your ideas a go! You ll never know unless you do.
I ll bring the first issue of Olive Press ,to the book swap club and some sticky buns too
Come on guys, lets all be friends!

My two pence worth:

I founded and ran a weekly freesheet tabloid to the townships of the Western Cape in South Africa a decade ago. I have been there and done that. I have to be honest and admit that the only reason it was a success and still runs today, is because it was politically correct. (The unique selling point)
99% of 'free sheets' will probably fail no matter how loyal its fans are or how hard the owners work. It is pure economics at the end of the day - UNLESS of course it is a charity situation.

In today's era of information overload from multiple sources it is even harder to hope advertisers can support a free magazine, unless that magazine has an extremely unique selling point (or suppporter base) and an extremely tough accounting regimen.

That is not even taking into account the 'big boy' publishers who own many of the printing presses and distribution logistics anyway.

The sad part about all this is that real people do get hurt and lots of money and pride can get lost, so lets spare a thought for them.

My opinion is that to start a freesheet nowadays, you are either very brave or a bit uninformed or.. you know something we don't!

Good luck to OP! 

Just to add to Sues post.
I bought 'Catalonia Today'. At the local tobacconist. Apparently, it s the first Catalan newspaper, written in English.
Its published weekly in Barcelona and costs 2 Euros.
Sorry  Sue, if this is the newspaper ,you were refering to.
At first glance, I haven t read it all yet, it looks good!