Define Magazine Update from Co-Founder Michael Tao

by Michael Tao in Blog on October 18th, 2010

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I wanted to take this time to talk about the direction Define Magazine is taking and what the future has in store.

Define Magazine is a free online magazine. To be successful in this space, you need to find a voice and make it an extension of yourself. As an entrepreneur, you always want to see your service/product do really well. We’ve always received a decent number of visitors but nothing to brag about.

We’ve sat down, brainstormed and came up with ideas to make Define relevant.

Our format is changing and it will be for the better. I thought back to when Erin and I came up with Define Magazine. We wanted to inspire and affect our readers in a positive way. Erin and I would like to continue working toward these goals and we believe we have the right set of writers to do so.

Our writers are not only terrific people but they are my friends. Anyone who helps me, I always try to take care of them and make sure they are happy. A new goal of mine is to be able to compensate these amazing people. It will be a challenge but I believe if we all push together, we can achieve greatness.

New things you will find on here:

Featured Article

If you are pretty big deal within the community, let’s spend some time together and share your awesomeness with the everyone. Vancity Buzz was our first one.

Follow Friday

We wrote this down during the summer but we’ve been neglecting it until we found the right writers. It should be self explanatory but if it isn’t, we thought it would be fun to interview a person a week and ask them fun questions. Elim did our first one and she featured Midwest Couture.

I felt owed everyone an explanation of what happened to Define Magazine. We fell off the chart. We attempted to make a comeback but we were too slow at processing the articles. We weren’t consistent but we’ve been working internally on improving our procedures. One thing to know, we don’t give up! If we screw up, I’ll be the first to admit we messed up. But just know that we will work towards perfection.

Thanks for taking the time to to read this!