Recent Posts

TACT-ful Email Marketing Basics for Digital Publishers icon

TACT-ful Email Marketing Basics for Digital Publishers

July 01, 2019

Email Marketing Basics. Yup, email still matters. When you’re creating an amazing digital publication, it’s easy to put all your resources and energy into your magazine, newspaper, catalog or whatever…

Publisher of the Month: Grumpy Magazine icon

Publisher of the Month: Grumpy Magazine

July 01, 2019

We’re happy to introduce our Publisher of the Month, Grumpy Magazine! Grumpy is a quarterly publication, founded and edited by Jasmine Perrier, featuring the creative minds of entertainment and fashion….

Speak Up: Spotlighting Student Journalism icon

Speak Up: Spotlighting Student Journalism

July 01, 2019

“Media literacy is essential training for all students in today’s media world. Years ago it was farming; today it is digital.  All students need digital skills. It is how we…

Get the Look: Designing a Marketable Lookbook icon

Get the Look: Designing a Marketable Lookbook

July 01, 2019

Digital Lookbooks We’ve talked about catalog design for different types of businesses, but for fashion brands in particular — whether it’s a major fashion house or small independent designer—  these…

Redefining the Work vs. Play Balance icon

Redefining the Work vs. Play Balance

July 01, 2019

Work vs. Play Balance From busy work days to hectic hustles, it can be challenging to find the right balance between work vs play in our daily routines. Today, we’ve…

On the Record: 8 Fashion Zines to Keep Your Eye On icon

On the Record: 8 Fashion Zines to Keep Your Eye On

July 01, 2019

A guest post by Isabella Urbina, BA Fashion Journalism student Academy of Art University’s Fashion Journalism students practice capturing zeitgeist by publishing concept zines. It’s said that experience is the…

How to Work from Home— And Actually Get Things Done icon

How to Work from Home— And Actually Get Things Done

July 01, 2019

A guest post by Kaitlyn Kirby, Founder and Editor in Chief of Mini Magazine, our Publisher of the Month. In the beginning before work from home was full time, I used…

Publisher of the Month: Mini Magazine icon

Publisher of the Month: Mini Magazine

July 01, 2019

With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, we’re happy to announce Mini Magazine as our Publisher of the Month. Mini Magazine, founded and edited by Kaitlyn Kirby, is an award winning modern…

Social Media: Quality vs. Quantity icon

Social Media: Quality vs. Quantity

July 01, 2019

Social media is the perfect platform to give your publication more exposure, expand upon your editorial stories and increase engagement and publication viewership. But, contrary to popular belief, you don’t…

Introducing Issuu Articles for Today’s Content Creators and Brands icon

Introducing Issuu Articles for Today’s Content Creators and Brands

July 01, 2019

Issuu Articles are short-form, mobile-optimized content for today’s content creators and brands. We’re taking the digital publishing experience to the next level with a new free feature to publish and promote your work.

Defining Your Brand as a Solo Business icon

Defining Your Brand as a Solo Business

July 01, 2019

Solo Business Branding  Defining your brand can get a little trickier when you’re a one-person operation. Sometimes it’s difficult to separate your personal brand from the brand you’re creating. Just…

Analytics to Track as a Publisher icon

Analytics to Track as a Publisher

July 01, 2019

Analytics to Track When it comes to generating revenue, one of the most important things you can back yourself up with is statistics. Getting quantifiable data on how your content…

Local Magazines – A Hidden Gem icon

Local Magazines – A Hidden Gem

July 01, 2019

Local Magazines – A Hidden Gem… There are endless amounts of local publications in the world–– be it newspapers, brochures, magazines–– that provide those in that area with upcoming events, regional recipes,…

Tips for Pricing Your Magazine icon

Tips for Pricing Your Magazine

July 01, 2019

Sell Magazines Online with Issuu… If you want to sell a digital magazine, Issuu makes it simple. But when independent creators are looking to sell their publications, the idea of…

Tutorial: Optimize Your Magazine for Mobile icon

Tutorial: Optimize Your Magazine for Mobile

July 01, 2019

Increase your viewership through mobile optimized Issuu Stories. Ready to optimize your digital magazine for mobile? Now with Issuu Stories, you have the ability to share on-the-go content with readers…

Covers to Covet: Choosing an Eye Catching Cover icon

Covers to Covet: Choosing an Eye Catching Cover

July 01, 2019

“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is a nice concept, but in the magazine and publishing world this is certainly not the case. Your magazine’s cover is the first…

Publisher Promotion Checklist icon

Publisher Promotion Checklist

July 01, 2019

The Publisher Promotion Checklist Ready to start promoting your publication? Here is a handy publisher promotion checklist to help you follow tried-and-true tips for successfully selling your content on Issuu….

4 Tips for Working as a Small Team icon

4 Tips for Working as a Small Team

July 01, 2019

Now more than ever small teams and small businesses are flourishing and garnering great success. It isn’t always the huge corporate companies that people are flocking to, it’s the small…

How to Focus Your Brand Voice icon

How to Focus Your Brand Voice

July 01, 2019

How to Focus Your Brand Voice Have you found yourself struggling to nail down your brand lately? Or maybe you’re questioning whether or not your publication is becoming everything you…

Publisher of the Month: Photographize Magazine icon

Publisher of the Month: Photographize Magazine

July 01, 2019

We’re happy to introduce our September Publisher of the Month, Photographize Magazine. Photographize is an independent publication dedicated to all forms of art and mediums. Capturing the true beauty of…

Creation vs. Curation – When to Recycle Content icon

Creation vs. Curation – When to Recycle Content

July 01, 2019

Is it ever ok to recycle content? Let’s face it – constantly creating new content can be demanding, and may sometimes seem impossible. With issues like writer’s block and imminent…

5 Fabulous Fashion Publications icon

5 Fabulous Fashion Publications

July 01, 2019

Digital fashion magazines: Discover hot trends off the runway Not everyone can make it to the front rows of fashion week’s highly anticipated RTW shows. But you can, however, discover…

How Marketers are Using Issuu icon

How Marketers are Using Issuu

July 01, 2019

Issuu is a perfect platform for creatives of all kinds to share their work, whether it’s to showcase portfolios, bring local magazines to a global audience, share lookbooks and catalogues…

Ideas for October 2018 Content Calendars icon

Ideas for October 2018 Content Calendars

July 01, 2019

Start your content calendar for October 2018  Although September feels like it has just begun, it’s important for content creators to begin thinking ahead to their October 2018 content calendar….

Tips for Planning Your Content Calendar icon

Tips for Planning Your Content Calendar

July 01, 2019

As an independent creator, it’s important to stay organized. When it comes to organizing content, however, it’s easy to hit a wall. It might feel like there’s so much content…

6 Publishing Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Brand icon

6 Publishing Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Brand

July 01, 2019

You’ve put so much hard work into your publication – making sure the design, layout, photography and writing are all the best they can be, and getting it together on…

Beyond the Pages: Magazine Events icon

Beyond the Pages: Magazine Events

July 01, 2019

Magazine Events: A How To Event marketing is the perfect strategy to grow your readership, increase your audience loyalty and market your latest publication. The magazine and social world has…

5 Movies & TV Shows for Magazine/Publishing Lovers icon

5 Movies & TV Shows for Magazine/Publishing Lovers

July 01, 2019

Whether you’re working in publishing or aspiring to break into the magazine world, seeing the ups and downs of a publishing career in movies and TV can be utterly inspirational….

Quick Tips to Optimize Your Issuu Profile icon

Quick Tips to Optimize Your Issuu Profile

July 01, 2019

Grow your follower base and increase your readership with these simple SEO Tips to optimize your Issuu Profile. Want to get your work seen by an even larger audience? Follow…

Bringing Your Brand to Life icon

Bringing Your Brand to Life

July 01, 2019

A guest post by Publisher of the Month, P. Allen Smith. Bringing Your Brand to Life Building a brand was not my intention when my career began. I had a…

Ideas for November 2018 Content Calendars icon

Ideas for November 2018 Content Calendars

July 01, 2019

Start your November 2018 content calendar That’s right! It’s time to start thinking ahead to your November 2018 content calendar. As we start to dive into the holiday season, it’s…

How to Create a Digital Holiday Catalog icon

How to Create a Digital Holiday Catalog

July 01, 2019

Create a Digital Holiday Catalog – Create Digital Catalog for the…

5 Tips to Transform Your Content icon

5 Tips to Transform Your Content

July 01, 2019

A guest post from November Publisher of the Month Purely Elizabeth.  5 Tips to Transform Your Content on Your Digital Publication Creating content is one of the most essential things…

Publisher of the Month: Purely Elizabeth icon

Publisher of the Month: Purely Elizabeth

July 01, 2019

We’re happy to introduce our November Publisher of the Month, Purely Elizabeth.  Purely Elizabeth is an organic food company committed to providing the best gluten-free, vegan, and non-GMO products possible. Purely…

Expanding Beyond Your Niche Audience icon

Expanding Beyond Your Niche Audience

July 01, 2019

Expanding Beyond Your Niche Audience What is a Niche Audience? A niche audience is a subgroup of a company’s main targeted audience. This specific audience is a selective group of…

Publisher of the Month: Happiful Magazine icon

Publisher of the Month: Happiful Magazine

July 01, 2019

January 2019 Publisher of the Month: Happiful Magazine To kick off the New Year we’re happy to introduce our January 2019 Publisher of the Month, Happiful Magazine. A publication dedicated…

5 Quick Tips to Cleaner Editorial Design icon

5 Quick Tips to Cleaner Editorial Design

July 01, 2019

Clean Editorial Design Tips Designing a crisp, clean and well edited publication can often seem like a daunting task. Everyone wants to fill the pages of their beloved publication with…

Quick Tips to Gain More Followers on Issuu icon

Quick Tips to Gain More Followers on Issuu

July 01, 2019

Gain more Issuu followers with these quick tips Looking to build up your Issuu following? Use these simple tricks to gain more followers on Issuu. These are simple changes to…

Fit & Fabulous: Free Digital Wellness Magazines icon

Fit & Fabulous: Free Digital Wellness Magazines

July 01, 2019

Fit & Fabulous: Free Digital Wellness Magazines It’s that time of year again. We’re all trying to keep our New Years Resolutions to take better care of our bodies–– and…

Turn Your Brand into a Content Marketing Machine with Issuu icon

Turn Your Brand into a Content Marketing Machine with Issuu

July 01, 2019

What kind of content can marketers share on Issuu? Share Original Content on Issuu for Your Consumers Share original branded content on Issuu for your consumers. This could be in…

How Digital Publishing Empowers Independent Creators icon

How Digital Publishing Empowers Independent Creators

July 01, 2019

Publish and Distribute Independently with Issuu Issuu provides a host of solutions for independent creators who are looking to publish digitally. From digital sales, to mobile-optimized content, to fully immersive…

Ideas for March 2019 Content Calendars icon

Ideas for March 2019 Content Calendars

July 01, 2019

March 2019 Content Calendars Let March be the month of marketing madness. Start planning your March content calendars today so that you can reach your marketing goals and reap the…

Free Digital Wedding Magazines to Inspire You icon

Free Digital Wedding Magazines to Inspire You

July 01, 2019

Free Digital Wedding Magazines to Inspire You Whether you’re planning for your big day, a lucky maid of honor or simply in need of some pure love + beauty —…

How to Self Publish a Magazine icon

How to Self Publish a Magazine

July 01, 2019

How to Self Publish a Magazine with Issuu Creating and self publishing a magazine can seem like a huge feat, but with Issuu, the ability to self publish a magazine…

Legally Innovative: How Anna Lozynski Elevated Her Business with Digital Publishing on Issuu icon

Legally Innovative: How Anna Lozynski Elevated Her Business with Digital Publishing on Issuu

July 01, 2019

How ‘Legally Innovative’ author Anna Lozynski used Issuu Digital Sales to Sell Ebooks Anna Lozynski is an executive general counsel and author. She believes that legal innovation is invigorating, change…

12 Tips to Increase Ebook Sales icon

12 Tips to Increase Ebook Sales

July 01, 2019

You’ve got your Ebook… Boost Ebook Sales with Issuu

Magazine Advertising: Can Beggars Be Choosers? icon

Magazine Advertising: Can Beggars Be Choosers?

July 01, 2019

When it comes to magazine advertising, publishers face the dreaded question: Can…

What is Evergreen Content? icon

What is Evergreen Content?

July 01, 2019

Marketing Definitions: What is Evergreen Content? You’ve probably heard the term…

Issuu Spotlight: Adore Home Magazine icon

Issuu Spotlight: Adore Home Magazine

July 01, 2019

We’re spotlighting Adore Home Magazine, an Australia-based interior design magazine.

Publisher of the Month: Sweet Paul icon

Publisher of the Month: Sweet Paul

July 01, 2019

We’re happy to introduce Publisher of the Month, Sweet Paul Magazine. Filled with food, crafts, lifestyle, and travel, Sweet Paul Magazine is “chasing the sweet things in life!"

Copywriting Tips for Social Media icon

Copywriting Tips for Social Media

July 01, 2019

Easy Copywriting Tips for Social Media Copywriting for social media…