1 Year Anniversary !!!!!!!

Kono Magazine is coming up on its one year anniversary.   It will be out biggest issue to date with at 225,000 Magazines.   This is double the size of our last issue.  Kono partnered up with Dreamworks on this issue to promote their blockbuster summer movie "Kung-fu Panda".   The martial arts schools are very excited as this movie will surely get all the gets excited to take martial arts.   So we are helping the schools take advantage of the "Kung-fu Panda" craze by buying the Kung-Fu Panda issue in bulk to be able to hand out to the kids at the movie theater.  

It's crazy.  We are having schools order over 1000 mags to make sure they do not run out as they are going to hand them out like candy at movie theaters,schools,malls and special events.  We even started printing a VIP pass for the martial arts schools for a free lesson in this issue so all they have to do is put their sticker of their address on it.   

Its been a great year:

1. Kono is now the largest martial arts magazine in the country by de-throwning Blackbelt that has been around for over 30 years.
2. Kono is one of the fastest growing kids magazines in the country.
3. We will break even in the first year that usually takes the average mag 3-5 years.
4. Kono has launched our own comic/animated series www.sushiadventures.com
5. Touted as the best marketing tool the martial industry can use to get kids involved in martial arts since "Karate Kid" and "Ninja Turtles" from indusrty leaders like Bill Clark whose organization orders 35,000 magazines a month.

Thank you everybody that help KONO have a great first year.  We are very excite for what we have in the pipeline for 2008.