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| sewgirlie |
Posted - Nov 27 2007 : 4:54:00 PM
I just got a card in the mail today for the upcoming new magazine by MJF!! It will be 6 issues a year for 14.95! I already sent the card back ordering the subscription!! Imagine 6 times a year!!?? Between that, Hallmark mag and Victoria, there is a lot of relaxing and homey reading!! It looks like the first issue is ready to go. I wonder when it will be sent out?? |
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| chessie |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 11:08:01 AM
Brenda, have done. If you do not receive email from karen england circlekengland@msn.com let me know and i'll try again. Thank you so much, Karen
Farmgirl # eightysomething...i think...just did it and i haven't had time to get settled in...
www.edgehillherbfarm.com "where the name is bigger than the farm, but no one seems to mind" |
| Brenda M |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 08:42:21 AM
If you are still waiting for a card in the mail, please email your name and address and the names and addresses of anyone you want to receive a card to brenda@maryjanesfarm.org. I will put you on the list to receive a card. It is my understanding our partner only did a random sample mailing and I believe they are done for now, so if you have not received anything by now your address was probably not part of the random sample.
I look forward to hearing from you. Have a GREAT day!! |
| Dixie_Amazon |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 03:04:57 AM
I got mine Saturday.
Dennise with 2 n's
Farmgirl Sister #47 **~~** Country girl raised in the city. |
| Beach Girl |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 8:19:02 PM
It seems that living 30 miles out to sea on a sandbar always puts us at the bottom of the list. Maybe if I keep my fingers crossed and my apron on I'll get one too! 
Vanessa |
| Farmtopia |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 5:20:02 PM
LOL...well, Miss Mary Jane, you might as well send all of your members cards, you'll be assured of magazine publishing and impress the partners, methinks! :)
~*~Dream all you dreamers~*~
www.bigtownfarmer.com
www.pumpkinpatchparlor.etsy.com |
| LauraH |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 5:15:46 PM
This is so great! I pray for a card too!!
I would sign up asap!!
Laura |
| Terre |
Posted - Dec 15 2007 : 06:14:30 AM
I'd like a card too! I've been gone awhile, but glad to see everyone here has been so busy as usual :)
Be true in heart. |
| bohemiangel |
Posted - Dec 12 2007 : 3:58:12 PM
YAY, I just am still getting caught up on what all I missed while MIA and I send Brenda a request and I want to get my auntie a subscription. She is the true quilter in the family! I should post some of her work. I'm so excited. Gosh
**~~Farmgirl Sister #60~~**
"... to thine ownself be true."
http://liggygirl.blogspot.com/
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| sewgirlie |
Posted - Nov 30 2007 : 2:07:06 PM
I am only missing the premier issue too. Maybe one of these days I will get my hands on one to check out! Cannot wait to get my subscription in the mail for the new issue!! |
| Dixie_Amazon |
Posted - Nov 30 2007 : 03:05:02 AM
Thank You! 
Dennise
Country girl raised in the city. |
| celebrate2727 |
Posted - Nov 29 2007 : 12:54:26 PM
I can't believe it! A giant WOOOHOOO and all that. I have recently let many of my subscriptions go and now get my magazines second hand from my MIL (saving every penny counts these days) BUT and I say that very loudly, I must, must, must have my MaryJanesFarm magazine. So halleluiah, I can get it now as sson as it comes out. I am sad that I am only missing the premier issue though.
Brenda- be ready for all the requests! And MaryJane and Carol, you two outdo yourselves, we too will hold our breath!
blessings
beth
I Can
beth@maryjanesfarm.org
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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| MaryJane |
Posted - Nov 29 2007 : 12:22:42 PM
Alrighty then! Send us your name and address (PO Boxes are okay) and you'll get an offer in the mail. It may not be the fancy deluxe "claim card" mailer that went out but nevertheless, you'll be able to get in on the MaryJanesFarm Magazine "Send No Money Now!" offer. Send to: brenda@maryjanesfarm.org
MaryJane
Look for my new book, "MaryJane's Stitching Room," in bookstores now. Coming next in 2008: "MaryJane's Outpost Guidebook - for Cultivating Your Inner Wild." |
| sewgirlie |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 5:41:05 PM
I plan on ordering at least 4 subscriptions myself. I have a few friends and family members who would adore the peace and comfort of this magazine. |
| Alee |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 10:27:43 AM
Oh I am so happy to see the one and only magazine that I read coming out more often! I am so excited!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora!
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 09:57:11 AM
This is all very good news!! I will be looking for a card. Don't want to miss a single issue.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| NotQuiteJuneCleaver |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 09:28:58 AM
Well, MJ you know you have my support in whatever way I can help. I am so happy for you! And Carol and all! You deserve the very best as you give the very best! I will not only be subscribing but I have a list of those who will be getting a gift subscription from me. Cant wait to see the first issue!
AKA TheSoapMaven who lost nearly 700 posts by changing my name! :(
http://www.thesoapmaven.com http://www.notquitejunecleaver.com
There is immeasurable value in what I do. I won't ever believe otherwise. |
| amyartgirl |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 07:37:43 AM
I would love to find it here in the Columbus area vs getting a subscription, I know that you do save money doing the cards, but I do like getting it at my local store (due to my past experiences of having stuff lost in the mail, etc from a couple of places). I have gone to every Barnes & Noble and Borders in town and I cannot find it. I may do the subscription route anyhow, probably better that way....and I know that through MJF we are all taken care of
Farmgirl Sister #21
http://artfulheart.blogspot.com
http://farmgirltales.blogspot.com |
| Mountain Girl |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 07:28:53 AM
I want a card too, please : ) or be on the mailing list. Can't wait to get the magazine! JoAnn |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 07:24:29 AM
Oh, cool! I do hope I will get a card so I can send it back and help the cause. :)
Karin
Wherever you go, there you are.
www.madrekarin.blogspot.com |
| mima |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 06:51:01 AM
I love you MJ!!! I'll try pushing the magazine subscriptions on everyone I know!!!I also work at a huge grocery store chain! I'll request that we carry it! We live in a relatively rural community-I know people here would LOVE it!
Oh BTW!!!! On Thanksgiving All the gals that came wore one of my vintage aprons! This included the young girl who is weekend anchor on the local CBS news here and another girl who is the weather girl /reporter from the NBC affiate here.(friends of my dd who is a producer and sometime reporter)To see these young "up and comers" in aprons was just too cute!
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 05:35:40 AM
Oh this is great. I love my MaryJane magazines. They make excellent gifts and a great way to introduce others to everything we love.
www.torismimi.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 27 2007 : 9:44:52 PM
I hope I get one too...sounds like a great Christmas gift for several on my list!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Nov 27 2007 : 8:40:14 PM
cool! I hope I get a card cause I will definetly send it in!
Felt and Fabric Crafts
www.willowartist.etsy.com
www.willowtreecreek.com
BLOG
www.willowtreecreek.wordpress.com |
| MaryJane |
Posted - Nov 27 2007 : 8:12:03 PM
Those of you who’ve received one of the MaryJanesFarm Magazine direct mail pieces are obviously on a mail list used by Belvoir, the publisher that’s doing our “Free Issue Invitation” and “$19.95 for the first year” promotion.
I saw the mailers “in the flesh” for the first time yesterday. There are six different versions that we had plenty of input on, although some of the language used is part of a formula the pros swear by--things like, “that’s a savings of $9.99!” I was making my case against such language, saying something like, “Everyone knows that’s $10, why talk down to people, why walk away from all those pennies” when Carol pipes up and says, “Gosh, if I stop to think about it, when I buy something for $9.99, I find myself telling a girlfriend, ‘I paid only $9 dollars for it.’” I lost that argument then and there. Well, not entirely, I think they changed it to “that’s a savings of almost $10!” But the mailers are BEEEEEEUTEFUL!!!!--lots of photos and great text. Makes ME want to subscribe! I am just so very pleased and proud of Carol and HAPPY to have found the gentlemen at Belvoir. (When I went out to dinner with them in Ohio, they asked for permission to take their suit coats off at the dinner table!!) True gentlemen.
So these six different versions containing postcards that you send back in for either a trial issue or a one-year subscription are the first part of the test. Essentially, they’re testing to see which MAILER gets the best response--so these batches are small and go out to a select mail list that I didn’t have any input on. (I know nothing about mail lists--never bought one, never sold one.) Once they decide which mailer did the best (my husband picked out his favorite), they’ll print thousands and thousands of them. That’s when I start holding my breath until mid-January. Carol quit exhaling two weeks ago.
If it works (lots of people sending the postcards back in), then we’ll have ourselves a top-notch financial partner. In other words, we get to create magazines until the cows come home, 4 the first year, 6 every year thereafter like clockwork--my dream come true. I’d rather create than worry. Carol and I will maintain creative control, our Contents page stays right up front, all the stuff you’ve come to love like HomeSafeHome, Keeping in Touch, Farm Life, Every Woman Has a Story, Newsroom, and more will remain. We’ll have maybe 4-5 “catalog” pages but we had already cut way back on those in our last two issues anyway. It’ll have ads but Belvoir had me go through all my favorite magazines and tear out the ads I’d never accept and then earmark the ads I would. These days there are so many awesome crafting and fabric businesses, organic food companies, green investment funds, etc., that what I call conscious GREEN ads are abundant these days and even downright useful and informative. Such companies were few and far in between when I launched my magazine in 2001. Actually, we’re thinking we can perhaps pull off just ONE underwriter for maybe the first or first few issues exactly the way I stated I would (if I could) in my Premiere Issue. And so.
This week, Carol and I are trying to polish off a 30-page prototype they’ll use to begin showing people everywhere what we can do and who we farmgirls are. Mumof3 is in it and Frannie and JPBluesky and Princess Mater and Libbie and the farmgirls in Idaho City and …SEND IN THOSE POSTCARDS IF YOU GET ONE!
And for those of you who have paid subscriptions with us, don’t worry, those will be fully honored once we get on track.
Keep your fingers crossed.
MaryJane
P.S. I will call Belvoir tomorrow and see if there's some way to get you on one of their mail lists. Hmmmm.
Look for my new book, "MaryJane's Stitching Room," in bookstores now. Coming next in 2008: "MaryJane's Outpost Guidebook - for Cultivating Your Inner Wild." |
| miss wilma |
Posted - Nov 27 2007 : 7:33:32 PM
I WANT A CARD PLUS SOME FOR THE OTHER GIRLS AROUND HERE MISS wilma
I am a farm girl married to a sewing machine
http://misswilma.blogspot.com/ |
