[Lee Burbidge]

Hi, you may or may not know that we are going to start up a new window cleaning magazine for the UK market with input from our friends in the states (to give you a flavour as to how they do it over there).....

This magazine will be owned by its subscribers, a window cleaning magazine written by window cleaners for window cleaners. Totally independant; our reviews on products will say its rubbish, if it is rubbish and brillent if it is brillent. Reviews based on real field work and input from its subscribers and forums a like, not from the companies selling the products.

The magazine will be free of charge to all window cleaners and have in it, everything you will need to help your business become a success.

I wroet an article in Window Talk called ' What got you into window cleaning?'........ one of the sections in this new bi monthly (online) magazine will be about how we found ourselves in this industry.

We will pay £10.00 to the best one that we publish! You can email me on lburbidgehighshine@yahoo.com or fax my office on 0870 750 1971.

If you do not accept money, then we will be more than happy to donate it to a charity that you hold dear.
Remember this is a magazine for window cleaners by window cleaners. Its you mag! It is going to be a place you can trust.

In this topic on this forum if you want to put the types of things you would like to see in your magazine, that would be cool.... let me know what you want to see in this mag. You are all the editors of this and together we have power.

 

[Neil Gornall]

Excelent stuff Lee, I look forward to the first issue, any idea when that might be?

[Lee Burbidge]

Thank you Neil.

We are getting articles together, we want the bulk of the mag in advance and then leave space for current at the time stuff .... we have not got an offical start date yet, It will take a few months to get everything in place.

What would you like to see in it? its an evolving thing.......

[Tom White]

That sounds really good, Lee, I'll look forward to it.

And if I could suggest, if you've not done so already, to try and have a chat with Philip Hanson who used to be editor for Profeshunal Window Cleaner Magazine.  He works for Ionics/British Window Cleaning Academy, and is a helpful bloke.  He could advise some of the pitfalls I guess.  

I may sharpen my pencil and have a bash at that article too, but it'll include tales of drunken debauchery, women, fast cars, and rubber gloves; be warned!  

PS.  How many words do you want the article in?

[BORBRYCE]

Learn to spell Lee before you publish it. You might be taken more seriously :

[Tom White]

Learn to spell Lee before you publish it. You might be taken more seriously :

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so why don't we try to be positive till we've read the finished article?

Anyway, lots of famous writers couldn't spell for toffee.  Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austin, and John Keats (who couldn't even spell 'purple' properly) all struggled with spooling!

[Lee Burbidge]

That sounds really good, Lee, I'll look forward to it.

And if I could suggest, if you've not done so already, to try and have a chat with Philip Hanson who used to be editor for Profeshunal Window Cleaner Magazine.  He works for Ionics/British Window Cleaning Academy, and is a helpful bloke.  He could advise some of the pitfalls I guess.  

I may sharpen my pencil and have a bash at that article too, but it'll include tales of drunken debauchery, women, fast cars, and rubber gloves; be warned!  

PS.  How many words do you want the article in?

No probs Tosh.... thats way cool.
If Philip wants to contact me thats cool.... there was a little critism over that mag by window cleaners as it turned from a mag to an Ionics brochure. Totally not the way we want to go.
 

[Lee Burbidge]

Learn to spell Lee before you publish it. You might be taken more seriously :

Thanks Ronnie, I admit that I am not a professional and that spelling mistakes is only human. I will not believe how serious this is actually has been taken.

[Lee Burbidge]

Learn to spell Lee before you publish it. You might be taken more seriously :

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so why don't we try to be positive till we've read the finished article?

Anyway, lots of famous writers couldn't spell for toffee.  Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austin, and John Keats (who couldn't even spell 'purple' properly) all struggled with spooling!

Thank you. As you have rightly pointed out, my spelling (which can be fixed by any good spell check) is such a small part of the big idea.

[BORBRYCE]

Ok I will be positive. Lee, I think it is a not too well thought out idea. Magazines are old tat these days. Just look at all the window cleaning forums doing the rounds just now, this is where folk's get all the info and advice they need and more, a lot more, in real time with running commentary on loads of things window cleanery. The web is the future not mags. I think.

[Lee Burbidge]

Ok I will be positive. Lee, I think it is a not too well thought out idea. Magazines are old tat these days. Just look at all the window cleaning forums doing the rounds just now, this is where folk's get all the info and advice they need and more, a lot more, in real time with running commentary on loads of things window cleanery. The web is the future not mags. I think.

The mag is going to be the ultimate web experince..... its not to printed. All will be online.

[BORBRYCE]

Well that makes a big diff. Good idea then. Is it interactive like wat we is doing just now?

[Lee Burbidge]

Thats the plan.......

Im hoping you read something and can instantly hyperlink to stuff, videos etc.....

[BORBRYCE]

Sound familiar though. Anyway, good luck with it all.

[Lee Burbidge]

thank you. So you will be subscribing then.............

[Lee Burbidge]

Great news..... first story in from another forum.

Remember this part of the magazine is about stories of what got you in to the industry.

We will donate his fee to his requested charity SANDS ( Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Charity )

[mci services]

if it is free yes I will subscribe I will also have a bash at that article.

[G Griffin]

PS.  How many words do you want the article in?

I`d say just say a handful, Tosh. You know, about 30,000 or so  .

[Lee Burbidge]

if it is free yes I will subscribe I will also have a bash at that article.

Thank you. another place is starting to submit a lot of stuff....... great stuff guys.

[Lee Burbidge]

PS.  How many words do you want the article in?

I`d say just say a handful, Tosh. You know, about 30,000 or so  .

What ever you feel..... if you want me to email you my article 'how I got into window cleaning' let me know.