How to Start Your Own Newspaper with only your home PC and little or no startup cash

How to Start Your Own Newspaper with only your home PC and little or no startup cash
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Once upon a time, it took loads of heavy, expensive equipment to publish newspapers. Now it's as easy as can be, utlizing your own PC and the printing services offered at most large daily newspapers. You can create your own weekly community newspaper OR specialty newspaper and boost your income while working from home. I DID IT!
.Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions.Things You'll Need:
•A Good Home PC and lots of drive.
•Average typing ability.
Step 1
Look at your community. What type of newspaper is needed? Is there a region, or a community that doesn't get great coverage in the local papers? Is there a growing tourist industry and the need for a specialty paper to target that area? There are tons of possibilities. Do some research. A good community paper that sticks to one area and group of people can become extremely well accepted.

Step 2
Using your computer and printer, create a dummy page/pages to be used to go out and pitch your new product to potential advertisers. You will need this advertising base (including some pre-sold ads) to fund your first print job. Go to businesses and sell advertising and even individuals who may want to utilize your classified ads. I will give resources at the end of the article which give you more detail on creating a dummy page and what program to use in your PC.

Step 3
Locate a local printer; usually it will be your local, large, daily newspaper. Ask them for a quote on your first issue. Have a general idea of how many pages. This is called WEB PRINTING (nothing to do with internet!) It is a type of printing which produces large, newspaper sized pages. You will also decide upon what size newspaper, whether tabloid or full size (broadsheet).

Step 4
Go out and find interesting people and places...write articles for your first issue. Feature stories about real life people and their hobbies or unique lives will always sell papers. Cover local sporting events, school functions, even put in kids birthday party news, etc. In the future, these 'homey' type papers will remain viable while larger national and international newspapers will continue to decline due to the internet. There is a certain respect that goes with being an editor of a newspaper, and you will find that doors will be open to you. People will come to you with stories they think should be written and local governmental decisions that need to be covered.

Step 5
Put together your first paper and have it printed. You will have to decide what type of delivery you're going to have, such as mail subscriptions and/or sales racks. Home delivery is still an option also. There are many other things to learn, which I direct you to under "resources" at the bottom of this page. But suffice it to say that you can do it! You don't have to have a degree in journalism, just a love of creating and writing. You can utilize friends and family to help sell advertising and you don't have to quit your job...at least in the beginning. It depends on how large you want to grow your paper.

Step 6
There are many benefits and much reward to this career. I have simplified the steps in order to stress that you can do it without start-up money if you already have a good computer and printer. Please see the resource at the bottom of this page to get started on the most exciting project of your life!
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