Being featured on the magazine cover for a variety of magazines still plays an essential role in defining and sustaining a media brand that will capture the public’s attention through marketing. The cover feature is a concept that is ingrained into our lives as it will always have a place that reflects something about the culture, we live in. The cover feature is a powerful message for the readers. Paying directly through advertising or paying indirectly through tens of thousands of dollars on PR, Marketing, Promotion, and etc… it does cost money to pay our people to do the work!

     Each magazine companies have their own methods…The typical cost is from $0 to $20,000 depending on the publication is local, national, or international, the professionalism, reach, target market, the size of your Ad, cover, or inside feature. You can spend as much as $500,000 to buy the inside front cover of some national magazines! Advertising in another magazine with national distribution will be expensive even if you are only advertising in the local sections. Influential People Magazine is an International Marketing Magazine company that will help you to advertise yourself, as you can see, we do charge less than national magazines. There will be people who go the great distance to spread the word of your existence to others.

     Our publisher of Influential People Magazine and News used to work for Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Fashion Faces, and several other magazine companies, (where our professionalism comes) in her experience she has noticed Vogue (back then) charged close to over $7,500 for the feature package as they hire photographers, writers, editors, and etc… The same is similar to Cosmopolitan magazine however they also had a different method. Both magazines had their writer/editors write the stories, sometimes the stories do not come out accurately. With Influential People Magazine, the featured people have the choice to have their own article they want to feature in the magazine and they own their own rights to it as well. This helps with the accuracy of featured people’s stories and plus the reader will know it comes from the featured person and gives them a chance to know the featured person more before they decide if they want to use your product or services. 

     The biggest thing is that with Vogue and Cosmopolitan, we still love them and all the co-workers there. However, their methods are 80 to 90% Ads, you may have noticed it, every page is full of Ads and you come to the point of asking yourself “where is the article I want to read? There’s so much clutter of Ads!”  That is one of the reasons why we wanted to reduce the clutter for our eyes and our readers. 

     Our main purpose is to have more positive educational articles to bring out our featured people with approximately 20 to 30% Ads in the Influential People magazine and on our website (where most of the traffic is.) As each person who is featured will have their own Ad along with their article as of promoting them at the same time giving more exposure and to help our readers/subscribers to know who they are and to learn.  Therefore this does become like an advertisement in a warm marketing way and it helps to reduce the clutter of Ads for the eyes and mind while the cover & back pages advertise themselves.

     We feature only people who are making an enduring impact on people’s lives around the world. We wanted our magazine to be educationally based on ‘How to, Did you know, Steps to, Tips to, educational or stories of their trials to success.” With their article of choice, they want to feature. Then we give the cover feature people a full-page Ad inside and back cover. We give our featured people value and deliver your value to our readers. 

     This is another reason why it cost to be featured on our cover package as we do pay our people, editor, designers, layouts, Ad designers, our company time, marketers (organic, media, social media, and websites) as it does cost money to pay them for the work they do for you and us. And plus, we do the work of marketing organically, virtually, website, and on social media along with our Joint Ventures. Our method is not like other magazines that give free cover features, where there is little value, we create a win-win environment for all the people we feature and build close relationships with others as well.

     There are some magazines out there that offer the free cover feature, from what we have learned, the reason why they were offering free for you to in exchange to bring in more readers and exposure for their magazine since it could be new or lack of readers or low exposure, or (a fine line) offer free in exchange of bringing in $10k a year worth of business services or products to their business, or it is a local magazine that you find in grocery stores or pharmacies., Normally most magazines companies would not include your contact information’s, website, social media, any other kind of backlinks to your pages or none at all and most are a few times a year publications, and/or some don’t have value in their magazine or some just plainly lie to make them look bigger.

• Send articles in MS Word or PDF document. .doc or .pdf file to Influential People Magazine in an attachment, do not embed it in the email.
• All articles/stories/contents must be professionally edited for grammatical errors BEFORE submission.
• Send unpublished images in High Resolution (300DPI) uploaded to Dropbox email address: influentialpeoplemagazine@gmail.com (Please adjust image size to no larger than 5MB)
• Or can send to our email Influential People Magazine, in an attachment, please do not embed it in the email.
• The 300DPI and all colors should be processed in cyan, magenta, yellow, black. NO PANTONE OR SPOT COLORS
• Images must be in .jpg or .png file.
• For email: (Subject line) IPM Submission.  Please include Your Name (First & last) and Email (for us to contact you.)
• All articles/content, credits, bio, interviews must be in .doc or .pdf file, no zip files.
• No nudes and seductive imagery will be considered for publication.
• Please DO NOT SUMMIT ZIP FILE FOR PREVIEW. – Submission rejection
• No email file above 15MB. Do NOT embed images in the email. – Submission rejected. Send as an attachment.
• Consider various distances, outfits, poses and setting for layout purposes.
• Submission should show – off your whole team’s best work- photographer, make up artist, hair stylist, and etc… If any.
• Send team credit information- Website link to their business, name, job title, and profile picture. Affiliate links are ok if they are short.
• Prepare all team credits & photographer’s permission required (Submission acceptance form) when approved, no embedded credit on images will be accepted.
• Please, no press release article.  As your article would lead people wanting to know more about you.
• Due to a large number of monthly submissions our team does its best to review submissions and reply in a timely manner

If you would like us to edit your article, our editor can help you with a minimal fee. Contact us at:  Influential People magazine with “Would like article edited” in the subject line. Then we will connect you to our editor.

We are accepting more contributing articles and images on and about, featuring you or someone. Please include your website and/or social media links to your business or that someone’s business. (Please do not send articles about selling yourself or products. If you want to advertise yourself or your business or products, you can refer to our link “advertise with us.)

Please follow the rules as shown above for guideline submission.

Requirement what we will need from you:

• An Article The article can be on “How to’s” or “Tips to” or “Did you know” or “Steps to’s”…  or your educational story or inspirational story or life learning lesson story or your personal story the journey of trials to your success to where you are making an enduring impact on people lives.   (your story behind the rise, the inspiration, where you got your drive and determination) or…story of people who are invisible hero who is making an enduring impact on people’s lives. (Please No press release)
• NO Press Release story, because your article will make people want to know more about you and they will find you with your backlinks.
  
• Any articles based on (See below “Article List”)
• Can be unlimited words & characters up to 1.5 pages long with font size 9 text.
  
• All articles must be professionally edited before submission. This helps us with our time to get the magazine published on time and save more time for our editors.
  
• Profile picture (send at least 5 for us to review and choose for the cover & profile), – All in 300dpi resolution, no lower than 175 resolutions.
• Short mini-bio of you- for our readers to know who you are and what you do.
• Backlink – to your website & social media links we are featuring, This will give you more exposure to your business or book or program as well.
• Any pictures you would like to feature up to 3 to 5 can be placed, (send at least 5 to 10 for us to pick which one we chose to feature) depending on the space left.
  
• Your mini short Ad with backlinks to your page.
• Any information you would like to place on your ad.
• All pictures must be in 300dpi resolution.
• We can not accept photos of selfies (we say no to duck-lips) from your cell phone or snapshot camera OR submit your images through Facebook or Instagram or messaging apps since it compresses images to fit their format, yes, even Facebook, the dpi resolution is very low range from 32 to 96; which means all the pixels are blurry. Images submitted to us must be high quality for publication these should be 300dpi resolutions. Most Professional Photographers know how to do this.
• Up to 2 pages of text.
• Due by the 15th of each month. (The latest is the 20th)
• Lastly…since we will be helping you to give exposure for you and your business, we would love to have you help to share the magazine link and screenshot of your article with others as we do marketing and etc… for you, while you are helping us as well. We will send you a copy of a tear sheet and the link to the magazine for you to share once the magazine is published.
• We are excited to get your name(s) and work exposed through our network! Please include your current social media (Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook) information.

***All we ask for is to help us back by driving people from your social media to our magazine link. We will send you the link and screenshots when the magazines are published online.***

All payments are due at the time of the order through our PayPal.

Disclaimer: Submitting your work does not guarantee your work will be featured in the magazine.
Written content is also accepted for content. If you are a journalist or blogger or other, we are happy to consider your contribution interviews, tips & tricks, event plus travel. We can and will include your website or business contact information links in the magazine for your contribution to help to give you more exposure for your business.

We are not responsible for hard copies of the issues(s) you are contributing to. The Influential People Magazine publication is a platform for you to show and tell about your team’s creative concepts and showcase your talent/skills by creating exposure for you and your business. Tearsheets are available upon request. (Normally we do send you a copy once the magazine is published, in case, you can email us.) Send a request to Influential People Magazine  (Subject line) TEARSHEET REQUEST, Issue month, volume number, and your name.         

The submission form will be sent for completion of all approved submissions for notification, permission, and networking/promotional purposes.

Article Information on what we look for to feature in our Magazine:

Influential People Magazine:  Inspirational stories of People who are making an enduring impact on people lives relating to Self-help, Education, Business, Leadership, Wealth, Financial, Invisible Heroes, Motivational, Sales, Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Training, Fashion, Modeling, Health, Lifestyle, Medical, Entertainment, Celebrities, Public speaking, Coaching, Training, Success methods, Media, and the like…

• Articles can be on:  Any topic on “How to” …or “Did you know” … or “Tips to” … or “Steps to” …or… your educational story… or …your journey of trials to success to where you are making an enduring impact on people lives  (your story behind the rise, the inspiration, where you got your drive and determination), or…story of people who are an invisible hero who is making an enduring impact on people lives.
  
• Please follow our Submission Guideline/Requirement for your article to be accepted.  Submission Guideline