Collectives and zines

Recently I was part of a zine called 'I love my anime boyfriend' and this has developed into a string of ideas of zines we could produce in the future, but we felt if we were going to start making a lot of these zines we would need a name to sell them under. This idea came more developed when two other students wanted there collective business 2 cute 4 U to join Tea house art at conventions where we could sell our zines and meet new artist to work with on our future zine projects. We then went about putting together a meeting at our local tea house where we discussed what we wanted to make under this name and potential collective names. The first name that we took to was Cute cut collective this fused our 2 current names together but we felt that it was to girly and we don't want to put males off our products so we tired to think of a name that was diverse but stood out and was memorable. I like the name Rainy day collective as it is gender neutral but still sounds cute and sounds professional. But before we jump into using a name we need to make sure that this name isn't already in use and we wont get confused with something else.
Once we have a safe defined name we talked about how we would promote our new collective and who it was mainly being aimed at.

  Naming
Coming up with a name was a lot trickier than we thought as this name would be a permanent name. These are a list of name that we considered.

-sugar plum collective

-galaxy pop collective

-shooting star collective

-crystal comet collective
But after doing some extent market research we found that these names were either to feminine or to much of a mouthful. So we went back to the drawing board and in the end decided on a shorter sweeter name of POP collective. I feel this name is suits us and will be memorable, I looked into weather this name was in use but couldn't find anything by this name making it a safe name to work under. We are still constructing a full business plan but have worked out our audience will be teenagers and we will promote and sell publish our work to sell at conventions. Once a full plan is made we sill split the work evenly, we plan on having a large web presence using YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Further if we become popular we plan to sell our zines on an Etsy on-line shop where we will create a stamp with our logo on to stamp any letters or packages we send out. 
  Future zine list
-slimy boy 

-cheltonia

-pearls of the sea

-anime girlfriend zine

-Legends
-Monster girl 

  Current Zine Anime Boyfriend

Our current zine that we just finished is called I love you anime boyfriend, each person was to draw fan art of a character they once liked when younger, many younger girls would understand this and relate and find this zine funny. This is my image I submitted, the image is black and white as these were the specifications of the zine.

 We are currently re making the cover of the zine as we plan to print it in cover in colour and the rest in black and white. Here are current photos of a mock zine.

 Printing prices

This is the cost if we got our prining from Inky Little Finger, they were the cheapest printers we could find. Split between the 4 of us the cost would be £14.67 each and we would sell each zine from £2-£3. Once we have a logo and have re designed the cover we will send this zine to the printers.