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Title: Total Off Road
Post by: muddymart on February 05, 2007, 19:58:57: After my newsagent's assistant keeps selling my copy of TOR that she keeps under the counter for me has informed she will no longer be ordering it,

Where do you lads in wakefied get yours from?

as ive tried WHSMITHS and all the popular shops.
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: generation-x on February 05, 2007, 20:10:38: y dont you subscribe to it get it cheaper that way too and usually a couple of dayz before the shops sell it

simon
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Wolfie on February 05, 2007, 20:11:53: I subscribe (http://www.magazine-group.co.uk/magazine-group/categories/motoring/page_2/3048/total-off-road.thtml?hx=categories). It's not the easiest to get hold of anywhere.

Regards

Wolfie
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Bishops Finger on February 05, 2007, 22:01:52: Subscribe....if you want to support it that is :twisted:
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Mudlark on February 05, 2007, 22:42:11: It annoys me that newsagents don't get the copies in especially as they are on a SOR bet it's one of the McColl group you were getting it from
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Mudlark on February 05, 2007, 22:45:42: Quote from: "Bishops Finger"
Subscribe....if you want to support it that is :twisted:

One of the problems I see with subscribing is the fact that the mag never gets in the shops for people to find it to subscribe to it
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: andyhubbard on February 06, 2007, 09:30:06: I have one shop only that stock TOR locally and that's an independant shop,he is also the only guy that sells one of my radio mags. I used to subscribe to LRO and as you say get it a few days earlier but then noticed my local SPAR got it on the shelf the same day i got it through the letterbox.
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Wolfie on February 06, 2007, 09:48:49: Quote from: "Mudlark"
One of the problems I see with subscribing is the fact that the mag never gets in the shops for people to find it to subscribe to it

Well, you could try the link that I posted earler in the thread :lol:

Regards

Wolfie
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Mudlark on February 06, 2007, 11:35:23: Quote from: "Wolfie"
Quote from: "Mudlark"
One of the problems I see with subscribing is the fact that the mag never gets in the shops for people to find it to subscribe to it

Well, you could try the link that I posted earler in the thread :lol:

Regards

Wolfie

Yes anyone on this forum can do that and I've posted the link before but what about the guy in the street that's just bought a 4x4 and wants to get it muddy?

OK for Landy owners I guess but for non landy owners? in a shop nothing

I bought my first copy of TOR 150 miles away from where I live and never saw it in the following year in the local shops the second copy came from the same shop a year later!

This is what I mean

To sell something you have to advertise it by showing it and with Tor it's not being done
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: ne jones on February 06, 2007, 12:24:39: Theres a subscription offer for TOR @ the moment.

6 issues delivered for Ã‚Â£9, not bad is it.
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Wolfie on February 06, 2007, 13:44:12: Quote from: "Mudlark"
To sell something you have to advertise it by showing it and with Tor it's not being done

The problem is, probably, at least partly due to it being published by a relatively small company which doesn't yet have the distribution deals that the likes of IMAP have. In fact i seem to recall Shazana mentioning as much when I met her a couple of years back.

I'm sure that they would love to have the magazine in every shop.

Perhaps once Waterways World gets it's website up and running properly, as the new editor is planning, they can go on to get a web presence for TOR.

Regards

Wolfie
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Eeyore on February 06, 2007, 14:37:31: Did you know in order to get a magazine onto the shelves of WH Smiths, you need to bung them a significant one-off quantity of cash (seriously), then demonstrate you can hit the sales figures, only to have your title on sale or return anyway.

If this is one of the big retailers, you can bet that others are equally 'detrimental' to the smaller magazines (and knowing people who are launching a mag currently, it's not an uncommon practice). This is per title as well, not per publishing house!

TOR is still a small circulation mag, but how do you get out in the public arena without paying off all the big retailers / suppliers? I don't know the answer, but a good web presence and word-of-mouth are likely to be a good start.

Cheers
8)
Eeyore
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: TimM on February 06, 2007, 16:37:33: TOR subscriptions will be being sold at the British Indoor 4x4 show at Donnington on the 18th as TOR sponsor it :wink:

www.britishindoor4x4show.com
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: jiffyman on February 06, 2007, 16:42:27: Just subscribed!

I can't find it anywhere either!!
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Bishops Finger on February 06, 2007, 16:50:11: You should have seen the fun when Jeep World went national...... :shock: :evil:
Title: Total Off Road
Post by: Pete on February 06, 2007, 18:58:06: News agent opposite Wakefield bus station stocks T O R.
Failing that the BP garage on Bradford road East Ardsley, or the post office East Ardsley both stock it.
Pete.