Music to their ears. Direct Stock Market, a Web-based financial marketplace, has launched "Edge on Wall Street," a nationally syndicated business talk radio show covering emerging growth companies. The hour-long show airs Monday through Friday at 6 a.m. (Pacific time) in 12 markets across the country.
Fire off email pitches to executive producer/show host John DeBevoise ([email protected]) in the form of an executive summary. Be sure to include "the five elements of a successful business: the idea, the plan, the people, the execution and the money," says DeBevoise. "Sell it to me on a napkin, the traditional venture capital way."
The show seeks to nail interviews with entrepreneurs, financial experts, professional investors, analysts and CEOs at emerging companies. If you've got dish on an IPO, you're golden. (310/395-5213; www.edgeonwallstreet.com)
Grooming tips. Last week, Wings media kicked off its first issue of For the Groom, a magazine survival guide to help altar-bound men endure the angst of ring-buying, in-law appeasing, honeymoon-planning and other wedding details. The publishers are banking on the idea that clueless guys will welcome the extra planning help - or at least that their fiancees will buy it. (www.forthegroom.com)
There's a Revolution brewing. British publisher Haymarket hopes to conquer new territory by launching its two year-old emarketing magazine, Revolution, in the U.S. as a monthly (with Web site in tow). Look for the title to hit newsstands during the first week of March.
Founding editor Stovin Hayter says the new trade book will focus on marketing in the digital economy via the Internet, interactive TV, wireless networks, touch-screen kiosks and other new media. The targeted readership includes managers, directors and veeps in charge of interactive/ecommerce departments at big companies - and of course their entourages of agency denizens.
Don't bother pitching product announcements or technical diatribes. Statistics, sales figures and demographic research are more likely to get ink.
Pitch feature ideas to Hayter at [email protected]. Send timely material to news editor Emily Booth at [email protected]. The Web site, www.revolutionmagazine.com, will debut with the magazine. (212/251-2399)
No more bad hair days. H&S Media has launched teenStyle magazine and a companion Web site, www.teenstylemag.com, targeting girls ages 12-18 with hair, beauty and fashion advice from celebrities. The magazine's editorial direction gelled in response to an online survey of 500 girls who ranked hair and beauty as top concerns. Pitch stories (for both Web and print) to Paulina Brooks at 800/210-0334, x402.