A success

After what felt like years, we finally finished our magazine. We did a magazine directed at college and university students entitled P.S. Magazine. It was a humorous lifestyle magazine that had articles such "How to get out of exams" and "Dealing with a schmuck professor."

Our cover photo, big thanks to Michael Tanasychuk for posing in the near-nude

My article "A guide to getting out of exams"

But after writing, editing, and laying out the magazine, we had our finished project. Now we had to promote it in a trade show. Our booth was set up alike a birthday party with streams and balloons, in the magazine colours; blue and yellow. The table cloth was yellow which made it stand out from some of the other table who had modest colours.

We started the fair off by giving away free pizza and root beer, in exchange for people to fill in a ballot with their name and email. This way we could see who came to our booth. We gave away all the pizza in half and our. That means we had 32 people come through our booth in half an hour. That's one per minute.


 After that we brought out a big wheel that you could spin to win prizes. The prizes were college themed like "Date Night" which was two passes for bowling, "Free Dinner" which was Kraft Dinner, "Study Motivator" which was candy, "Job Interview Survival Kit" which was a hair product, "Post Exam Relaxation" which was candles. Thanks to my group members for getting such awesome prizes! As the trade show wore on we ended up pulling out jello shooters and then P.S. cupcakes. This all was a great  success. The result? We haven't tallied it up yet, but the ballot box was full!

It was a success for five reasons:

1) People could interact with our booth
2) People weren't just interested in free food or prizes, the image on the front of the magazine caught their attention and they wanted to know more.
3)People had no problem filling in a ballot and now we know how many people came to our booth.(Well we will when we count the ballots)

4)People were invited to check off if they wanted a PDF of the magazine sent to them and plenty did.
 5) We got some positive feedback from patrons of the booth who loved the magazine.

***I had photos on my BlackBerry but they got erased sadly.

All in all it was a successful trade show and a nice payoff for the final step in the magazine project.