College Magazine - Questionnaire Results Summary

To make my results a fair test, I asked 30 students ten questions about a college magazine I'm going to create. The first question I asked was what gender each person was, to have an equal balance of males and females, unfortunately females were more willing to answer the questionnaire than males. 

Question 2 was multiple choice, so a person could select more than one topic. The top five topics chosen were Food, Study Resources, Celeb Gossip, Reviews on films + TV and Updates. The other five choices ran in this order, Problem Page, Fashion, Music, Reviews on Technology and finally Sports. I may add some of the lower resulted topics to my magazine but I will use the top five first as they are most popular. 

On Question 3, I allowed space for people to write what colours would appeal to them on the front cover of a magazine. The top five colours chosen were Black, White, Grey/Silver, Blue and Purple. The other five colours chosen ran in this order, Pink, Green, Red, Yellow and Orange. These colours can still be used but due to this survey, I will most likely use the top five colours chosen. 

Question 4, I asked if freebies, discounts and special offers would encourage customers to buy this magazine, all 30 people said yes. This result has proven to me that offers, I.E. Buy one book and get the other free in Waterstones or 50% in Greggs, would appeal to college students. 

In Question 5, I asked what image should be used for the front cover of my college magazine, people (I.E. College Students) would appeal more to the target audience, rather than students work or Technology. Nature was the second most popular choice.

Question 6, How often should the magazine be published was the question, the results proved that monthly issues would have more readers, rather than publishing every two weeks, every half a term, weekly or termly. 

Question 7, asked how much people would be willing to pay for a college magazine. Due to the target audience, 15 people out of 30 said that paying £1 would get more readers than paying £2. 

Question 8, I asked if college students would be willing to read a college magazine, if it included topics which would appeal and interest them. 83% of the 30 people said yes and 17% said no. 

Question 9, asked if students would prefer to read a magazine which was printed on paper or was view-able over the internet. It was a tie between both choices, so either would make the readers happy. 

The final question, asked college students if they would like to contribute towards the magazine, (I.E. Writing articles, taking photographs or setting the format for the magazine) 53% said no, due to too much college work and 47% said yes, as it would be a good experience and another thing to add to their CV.