We appreciate your interest in House Hound Magazine, the premier home improvement resource for homeowners and home improvement companies alike.
Your interest in our publication is well founded. Recent trends in the home improvement industry have created a USUS$320 billion opportunity for you to be successful with your own local edition of House Hound Home Improvement Magazine.
If you are an enterprising, motivated, sales-oriented individual, you've come to the right place. Through our innovative Independent Publisher Program, House Hound provides you a unique opportunity to bring this specialized home improvement resource to your own community, and reap all the professional and financial rewards that come with a successful career in Publishing.
- Publishing experience not needed...
- Sales experience a must...
- Entrepreneurial spirit required...
About House Hound Magazine
House Hound is a high-quality, full-color magazine that partners with local home improvement, building, home repair, remodeling, interior design, and real estate companies to reach a targeted market in areas with a minimum of 50,000 households. And it's FREE to consumers.
House Hound's format is easy to read, and the magazine is filled with inspiring home improvement articles plus custom-designed advertisements from the best local home-related companies. Kitchens, Baths, Counters & Cabinets, Doors, Enclosures & Additions, Landscaping, etc... all the best in local home improvement can be found in House Hound Home Improvement magazine.
Your Business Opportunity
House Hound's Independent Publisher (IP) Program
House Hound's superior design and quality content has already established it as the premier local home improvement resource. The Independent Publisher (IP) Program now offers enterprising, motivated, success-oriented individuals an opportunity to establish a House Hound Magazine in their own market and achieve the professional and financial goals they've set for themselves.
Unlike other business opportunities,
Independent Publishers of
House Hound Magazine:- Capitalize on the fastest growing market in the country.
- Work with other business owners and professionals on a daily basis.
- Have no inventory and little overhead costs to incur.
- Attain rewards not available with other business opportunities.
Highlights of the Independent Publisher Program:
We handle the "technical" part. The IP Program is a complete turnkey system that requires no previous publishing background.
We get you started right. Our trademark process, "Publishing Your Own House Hound Magazine," is the framework for your 3-day home office training program.
We work hard for your success. Before an IP location is established, a complete demographic review of the selected market is conducted to ensure peak performance and success for the new venture.
You focus on the rewarding part - bringing in new advertisers. The IP program's continually renewable licensing agreement provides you with back-office support for each issue of your local House Hound Home Improvement Magazine.
We support your growth each and every day. House Hound Publishers provides each IP with demographic analysis, market development, operations and administration training, prospecting and sales training, ongoing production and technical support, and all the tools necessary for quickly developing your local House Hound Magazine into a successful market leader.
Multiple markets provide multiple opportunities for you. Geographic zones are designed to give IPs the opportunity to establish additional House Hound Magazine editions in adjacent markets.
Next Steps to Success
Opportunities like this are rare. House Hound Magazine will establish a limited number of new Independent Publishers during 2008. Imagine yourself as the owner of the most successful local home improvement magazines in the country. Don't wait. Someone will establish a new House Hound Magazine in your local market. It should be you!
WHAT TO DO NOW!
Ask Yourself these Questions:
1. Do I want to own and operate my own publishing business in a US$320 billion market that is out pacing all others and shows no signs of slowing?
2. Do I have a sales background, or do I demonstrate a strong sales aptitude that would enable me to secure advertisers?
3. Am I willing to commit my talents and energies to owning and operating my own publishing business and to reaping all its professional and financial rewards?
4. Do I have previous experience running a business, or do I have the necessary skills in areas such as sales, administration, and accounting?
5. Do I have available working capital to produce my first issue of House Hound Magazine?
If you answered "yes" to the above questions, House Hound is the opportunity you've been searching for.
