Lisa Messenger takes a punt with $1.5m launch of ‘the Vanity Fair of business magazines’
Today sees the launch of a major new independent business title with the publication of the 100,000 print run Messenger Collective.
The high-end magazine featuring interviews and profiles of players in the business world comes from marketing and book publishing company The Messenger Group. The company is owned by Lisa Messenger who is also editor of the title.
According to Messenger, the majority of distribution will stay within Australia with additional circulation in 10 other countries including the US, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and the UK.
The title – initially bi-monthly – will increase frequency to monthly in 2014. It will be priced at $9.95.
Thanks for the story guys. Loving your work. Looking forward to the feedback. Its a proud proud day launching this baby thats for sure! Its time for a change xx
Good Luck Tracy and the extended Messenger Team!
So excited to have been a part of the team working on this!
Lisa Messenger is an extraordinary woman and Australian entrepreneur who we can all learn from. I am so excited to be getting the first copy of this new publication soon! Go Lisa & Team at the Messenger Group! 🙂 Orsi
Congratulations Lisa & all the Messenger team – well done! Can’t wait to see you at the launch party tonight! And of course am dying to get a copy in my hot little hands!
Good luck Lisa, brave move and I hope it pays off.
I’ll definitely buy the 1st issue.
Did someone say Launch Party?
Congratulations Lisa and the team at Messenger! I am SO excited for this magazine. Love your first cover girl too!
Good luck Lisa & team – exciting times!
Lisa, the website link in your name seems broken. It takes me to a Crazy Domains page.
Good luck Lisa – I’m looking forward to seeing and reading your “New Baby”.
Personally I love seeing moves like this from gutsy business people! I hope it gets the success Lisa and her team deserve! I can’t wait to see the first edition! Good luck!
Good luck, Lisa. Hope it’s a huge success for you!!
Love your work Lisa – looks great
Way to go Lisa! I can’t wait to read it! Is it heading to Canberra…??
You did say it was going to be large Lisa, full points mate!!
good luck Lisa – here’s to an Aussie female media mogul. Will this contain advertorial??
Way to go Lisa (I think we may have worked together at some time). As a magazine editor I love to hear about new magazines coming on to the market. It’s a great industry and needs subscriber and advertiser support. I’ll be looking out for this one.
Congratulations on your launch Lisa. It’s really exciting to see a new magazine in the market and it looks amazing. I’ll be keeping my eye out for it at my newsagent.
Thank you everyone for such beautiful positive comments. I have been absolutely humbled and blown away by the response. Its an exciting time and certainly a time for a big change in the media landscape xx L
Congratulations Lisa, that’s fantastic!
Please let me know if there is anything we can do at ENYA to help you get the word out there! Happy to promote and support.
Great work!
Jeremy
Wow big news Lisa. Love to grab a copy. Looks right up my alley.
Congratulations Lisa! looking forward to getting my hands on a copy. Well done on such a massive achievement. As they say… ‘positive things happen to positive people’, so I am sure it’ll be a huge success! It sounds like it already is 😉 Marlies x Paleo Cafe
Congratulations, Lisa – it’s so good to see this stylish new approach to entrepreneurship – looking forward to seeing my copy in the flesh.
It’s fantastic to see that most people who commented on this story have put their actual name &/or link.
It’s a shame that commenting anonymously seems to go hand in hand with negativity.
God luck Tracy Harris and crew. Looks like a good read. Where can I get a copy?
Congratulations again Lisa, Claire, Tracy et al. I am loving the first issue! I really sense the dawning of a new age of entrepreneurship and I believe your team and this magazine will be amongst the torchbearers ushering in this new age.
“There is a tide in the course of the affairs of men,
Which, when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.”
A big congratulations to you again Lisa, this is a new approach for me and I am interested to learn about this. Got to grab a copy.