WINNING AWARDS IS JUST GREAT

Winning awards is the icing on the cake for any journalist or publisher. It means other people recognise the good work you've been doing. 

Yesterday one of "my" magazines - Property Report South East Asia - was named 'Property Magazine of the Year' by a leading trade magazine in Singapore. The accolade - from Marketing magazine - is a reward for everyone involved in the publication. What's especially pleasing is the fact that we beat magazines produced by far larger publishers with far larger resources. 

In 2004 I was part of the team which won the U.K. Newspaper Society's 'Weekly Newspaper of the Year'. The positive coverage we got from that award - and the spin offs - were great. The challenge on the back of this latest award is to generate some positive PR coverage and turn this achievement into revenue.