Sheridan Magazine Services: Solutions

Because many of our customers have sought our help in improving the way they work, we continue to invest aggressively in identifying and even creating solutions to the challenges you face. Our guiding mission is to provide the highest level of service for our clients, and we have both staff and services in place to make that happen.

Interested in energizing online advertising, increasing revenue and brand awareness, and enhancing the readership experience? Sheridan Dynamic Editions™ is a full-featured online solution that performs a number of interactive functions, including TOC article links, advertisement links, embedded video and audio, flash animation, drop-down menus, subscription management, iPhone and Kindle compatibility, search engine optimization, and detailed analytics. See a sample here.

With postal increases for periodicals having hit 12 to 15 percent since the USPS rate case took effect in May 2007, publishers and printers alike have been scrambling for ways to lessen the impact. Fortunately, this rate case also offers more work-sharing opportunities and incentives than ever before. (Learn more ...)

teamWORKS — Sheridan Magazine Services' digital asset management solution — lets you streamline digital production and collaborate with colleagues in remote locations. (Learn more ...)

EFI Proteus®, a software application created to permit editors, art directors, production managers and others to collaborate on the assembly of a magazine, helps you track position requests, manage color placement and accommodate the last-minute changes every publisher struggles with. The end result is a digital “map” that takes into account insert positions, color imposition and ad/edit ratios. (Learn more ...)

Need help maintaining your subscriber database, managing renewal campaigns, navigating the circulation audit process or improving your subscriber profile? Learn more about our comprehensive circulation fulfillment service.

Need help organizing your job before it arrives at our doors? Over the years, we've developed a number of tools specifically to address production methods for the short-run magazine market. (More ...)

Get the answers you need by going right to the source. Gerald Byrne and Craig Leggere, both with digital prepress backgrounds, provide technical training and coaching on our digital workflow, as well as on a wide variety of publishing software applications. See some of their tips here. And Rebecca Hoeckele, a former managing editor for an association publication, is available to consult with clients on scheduling issues and editorial and production workflow concerns.

We’ve long offered our clients complimentary technical and publishing seminars. Our trainers have presented at a number of publishing-industry conferences, addressing a variety of topics. All of our workshops and seminars are available on demand, at your site or ours. (Learn more ...)