Get Connected Magazines is a Free monthly Community Magazine business that is rapidly expanding all over the UK. In each Local Publication there's Local News, Local Jobs, Community Info, and Advertising from Local Businesses.
Get Connected Magazines started in April 2011 by young, 24 year old Entrepeneur Andrew Anderson, from Hucknall, Nottingham, UK.
Andrew decided to start the business after working for another Local Magazine in Notitngham as Sales Manager. He was ordered to get advertising (to make a revenue for the free publication) from anywhere, and Andrew didn't agree with this. He believed that the Local Magazine should only have Advertising from businesses that served the area the magazine was for.
Andrew left the Magazine and found a new job in Events Managment. He used his skills he has from being a Scout Leader and organising Scouting Events, to organise events for Community Centres ran by Nottingham City Council. This was only a temperary 6 month contract.
After leaving that job, he decided he was going to do what nobody (to his knowledge) has done before, and that was to start a medium sized business, with no capital and no investment, meaning no expendature.
This was to be a significant turning point in Andrew's life. He came up with the idea of running his own Community Magazine Business. Instead of following what other magazines were doing, i.e. - Expanding very slowly, Andrew came up with a concept that could be used to start nemerous Magazines all at the same time, meaning 2-2million+ magazines could all be created all at the same time.
Andrew in a statement said "Im not going to give away any secrets on how the concept of my business works, for fear that competetors would quickly realise how this was done and copy me. And that simply is just not good for my business".
Andrew is Currently developing a number of magazines all over England and Wales, and is looking at the possibility of using his unique concept to start magazines across Europe.