Mission Statement for Entertaini

Our goal is to report, print and distribute insightful and informative articles referencing all disciplines of the performing arts, in an effort to instruct, inspire and entertain theater patrons and participants in the North Alabama Region.

Help us to build our circulation/distribution! Ask for Entertaining Huntsville at your favorite magazine or bookstore!

We are all about entertainment, in North Alabama and Huntsville in particular. We are all about what is going on, what you can see on a given weekend on local and area stages. We are all about you being involved and informed. We are all about past, present and future. We are all about promotion of the performing arts.

Theatre in every aspect: ballet, opera, plays, musicals, chorus, tour shows and more. A record of who we are and what we accomplished. We also, when possible, include high school productions!

Reasonable advertising rates for all and a target audience that is wanting to read about theater and to reach those supporters with their business offerings. Ads begin for as little as $85.

Your advertising dollar will go the furthest when you are able to reach the audience who are seeking the performing arts as entertainment. With the "turn page" edition still active on the Internet after our current issue is released, your ad is now linked to your web site, so extra visitors are fed directly to your web site address. Your advertising dollars go further. EH promises to reach that audience with its calendar, full color ad displays circulation plan and entertaining as well as informative articles. We reach approximately 3,000 readers every month!

Please, remember the success of any venture is only guaranteed by your support and involvement. EHM needs your constant support in the way of advertising as well as purchasing copies of it. Once the magazine is published, remember your ad still maintains visibility and accessibility in the form of our on-line turn page site! Your ad is now linked back to your venue's web site! Click here!

Entertaining Huntsville is seeking a part time Advertising Executive, good commission. Leads supplied. Contact us today: entertaininghuntsville@mail.com For Ad rates/article submissions please email oldriddle@prodigyh.net

Target distributors for Entertaining Huntsville, ask for your copy at the following locations:

July 2010 issue is here! Stop by 1214 Meridian Street for your copy or call us 536-3117. Won't you join us?

Entertaining Huntsville Magazine

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Questions? Here are a few we answered recently:

How often is it to come out?

Monthly or at least 10 issues a year has also been discussed.

And how reasonable do you mean it to cost?

All ads are full color. Business card size ads $85, 1/4 page $150, 1/2 page $300, full page $600. Inside front, back cover and inside back cover are $750.

Is it a free magazine?

It can be free but the suggested retail is $3. We anticipate it being a free magazine with the venue asking for a $3.00 per copy donation. Venue keeps any revenue they receive from the sale of the magazine.

Would we just be giving or selling them out at performances of all the participants only?

Participants receive free magazines in exchange for their ads: For $750 you get 150 magazines free. For a $600 you get 100 magazines to sell or give away. For 1/2 page, you get 50, for 1/4 page you get 25. Organizations can then recoup part of the cost of their ads or spread good will by giving them away. Some copies will be supplied to the big hotels for guests requesting info on perfomances free of charge (hopefull they will also have an ad in the magazine). This first printing will experience lots of give away copies, as you have to have samples for people to get excited about. Advertising participants also will receive in depth articles and extras for their advertising dollar. You can't loose!

Is it it's own non-profit based magazine to promote entertainment offerings of other non-profit groups, or is someone drawing a salary?

Renaissance Theatre a 501(c)3 and several of its volunteer base is behind this magazine 100 percent. The managing editor Arecia Jones who is responsible for all the graphics/layout will receive a small occasional salary. There is no payment for articles at this point, down the road, not sure. Printing costs will absorb much of the gross income of the magazine.

It'd be a much better sell if it were as cheap as possible and done through volunteers as a collaboration of all contributing to the cost of its production.

Well, basically that is what we are doing, using volunteers to help put the articles together. With the small 1000 to 2000 copies we are going to launch the magazine with (hopefully to expand with circulation demand) the cost of printing them is almost $3 a copy for the quality we want. This will change as the magazine grows in size, but the ads have to pay for that growth. We have an underwriter to cover this first printing of 1000, then we are on our own. The potential of this magazine’s growth is good, as names and pictures of many individuals associated with the performing arts will appear within the pages and they will want them as keep sakes. The printing is the biggest cost of any magazine (other than salaries) and other than the layout/managing editor I've already mentioned, there are no other persons receiving any pay at this point.

Serving: All Huntsville and North Alabama high schools are invited to participate, UAH, Whole Backstage, Ars Nova, Fantasy Children's Theatre, Ballet Huntsville, Theatre Huntsville, HCCA, Fantasy, Merrimack Hall, Broadway Theatre League, Burritt Museum on the Mountain, Huntsville Symphony, Lincoln Mill Dye House Theatre, Lowe Mill Flying Monkey Crash Boom Bang Theatre, Princess Theatre Decatur, Huntsville Community Chorus, all forms of the performing arts.