The Cut Magazine Budget

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We print six issues (3 issues per semester). We print 500 copies of each issue at $950 per issue. We print the magazine through CMU printing and we were told that the price may increase for the upcoming Fall 2013 semester, thus there was the $20 price increase in printing costs per issue. We also want to note that our magazine is distributed around campus in all of the academic buildings and even in the greater Pittsburgh area (coffee shops, music venues, etc)

You have never actually done 6 before. You have always done 4. Please appeal if you do have bigger plans for next year

We've been working very hard on The Cut ever since I took on the role as Assistant Editor my sophomore year at CMU. However, we've also had the same banner and pins from my freshman year and have no bought any advertising materials since then. The person that formed this magazine used a lot of money from her parents to pay for things and even left the magazine in debt. Since she has graduated the Editor-in-Chief before me has worked hard to keep us on budget and as you can see from our records, all of our money has went strictly towards printing. If we were able to get more money we can help spread the word about our organization better throughout CMU. We've been working closely with Pittsburgh musicians and as much credit as we get in the Pittsburgh community, there are still many people on the CMU campus that don't even know we exist. We would use these funds towards banners/flyers, stickers, pins/buttons to help promote events and the magazine and help make our impact stronger within the CMU community.

JFC caps club advertising at 100

As the records can show all of our money goes towards printing, but with a little extra money it'd be nice to pay for refreshments for at least two general body meetings, with $35 for each meeting to go towards pizza/drinks. Our members have been extremely dedicated so it'd be nice to show our appreciation in another way than just saying 'thanks'. Also, we all know that having pizza at a meeting really does encourage more people to attend a meeting, and thus possibly encourage them to get further involved in the magazine. We're not saying pizza is going to make a huge impact, but let's face it, who doesn't love some refreshments at a meeting?! Basically we want to make our presence stronger and we want to start building our name and keep The Cut alive throughout the CMU campus, and that means encouraging more people to get involved with our organization.

We charge $10 per person and there is an expected number of at least 50 members to return to the magazine this next year. We feel that $10 is a reasonable price as our members not only gain magazine experience and interpersonal experience amongst members, but we feel that the money is reversed when they get into a concert for free or attend a show for free by in turn providing coverage for the magazine.

cover the cost for printing

Last year we did a concert at The Frame Gallery, like we do every spring semester. We previously charged $3 and expected around 70 people. More people ended up attending than expected so to further increase Revenue we thought we could increase ticket sales and also add a second concert for the fall semester. Thus there would be two Cut Unplugged concerts, with a ticket price of $5 with expected attendance of 100 students. Furthermore we want to collaborate with other organizations like WRCT and AB Concerts on shows and just helping to get our presence out there at CMU related events. With the combined effort on our part to have more events on campus and to collaborate with other organizations we feel that we can reach this goal of producing more Revenue for these events.

This revenue never appeared in your account last year. You guys are either magicians or far better accountants than anyone on the JFC. If you do put this money into your account next year, we'll call it unexpected

We will produce t-shirts with the Production costs of $150 (buy packs of plain white t-shirts (3 for $10) and have one of our organization members do screen printing for us. Then we will sell the t-shirts for $10 each with the anticipated sale of at least 40 shirts. We subtract the initial production costs and thus came up with this Revenue price. The shirts are mainly bought by organization members, but giving if we could advertise more we are willing to produce more and sell them openly to the student body at our events, for tabling, or even as a bigger fundraising project.

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We will hold a bake sale or two either at the concert events or just tabling around campus. We don't expect much revenue from this, but we also want to make an effort to bring in as much money as we can for the organization.

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