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Having your company's products or services featured in a magazine or newspaper is an important (and exciting!), part of your marketing process. It is not only a cost effective strategy, but it adds credibility to your company. And, of course, it can boost your sales without you having to spend a penny on advertising.

Your Life! Magazine is an online magazine. We have quickly grown to be distinguished from other "e-zines" by our ability to match the qualities of print magazines. In fact, Your Life! Magazine is the only web magazine that is ranked and included with other major print magazines. We are now among one of the top women's lifestyle magazines for the US, Mexico, and Canada , along with other popular publications such as Elle, Cosmo, Working Mother, and Lifetime Television.

Specifics for consideration by Your Life!

Your Life! caters to an audience of women who are looking for products, services, and information that are of high quality, that are unique yet easily available, and, of course, live up to their claims. This is one reason that most of the products are from emerging designers who have not already over-saturated the market.

Based on that understanding, Your Life! has established the following criteria to be met before considering a merchant's products for feature in the magazine.

- A company must have a web site for readers to immediately visit and view products.
        Considerations in this area include:
                - Quick to load
                - Easy navigation
                - Clean layout
                - A real commercial site (i.e. not a blog, family photo album, etc.)
                - Sites do not, however, have to be hosted on a paid domain.

- Product(s) should be almost immediately viewable when entering your web site. There should be no second-guessing at what you are selling.

- Products should be able to stand alone. They should not have to rely on props to appear attractive.

- Is the owner of a company/site in review also the creator of the product being featured? We will not feature a site that is just site full of affiliate links, or of everyone else's stuff. (There are exceptions, such as when the the collection of products featured are unique or hard to find, and the site ends up being a great resource for shoppers.)

- Samples of a product should be sent to an appropriate editor. It is not possible to review a product without personally seeing it. For example: wine should be send to the Entertaining editor in order for her to review it. (Samples are non-returnable.)

- Timeliness. Products relating to Mother's Day will be featured that month, not around Christmas time. Take that into consideration.