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June, 2020 -
29
Jun
Our support team is often asked about the default Archives page that is available on all of our websites, usually by a customer that is unable to find a particular article or by a customer that wonders why the archive dates don’t always correspond with the dates your editions were published. In light of these questions, we thought it would be worthwhile to explain the Archives page and how it works. […]
24
Jun
In the past, we’ve demonstrated How to Create Coupon Codes in Memberpress and discussed how you can then use those coupon codes in an e-mail marketing campaign aimed at enticing former subscribers to resubscribe at a reduced rate with a special promotional offer. We are happy to announce that this entire process has been streamlined and automated with our new Automated Newsletter Coupons feature! This new feature allows you set up a Promotional […]
22
Jun
Our-Hometown will be hosting another session of Office Hours this Friday, June 26th, at 12PM Eastern. During this session, Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson will discuss Newsletter Optimization and introduce attendees to some of the features available in the Newsletter plugin that is included with our service. In addition to an overview of the plugin, Matt will talk about different strategies for growing your newsletter mailing list, how to launch an effective newsletter […]
22
Jun
Our-Hometown’s Virtual Conference on Digital to Print Publishing took place this past Friday, with CEO Matt Larson welcoming Garden City News Publisher Meg Norris as a guest speaker to talk about working from digital to print production using our selection of tools, namely our Reverse Publishing Suite and our Google Docs Add-On. Meg was kind enough to share her experiences with these tools and demonstrate how she typically produces the newspaper, beginning with […]
22
Jun
Our-Hometown has updated our Referral Program to provide more incentive for publishers to spread the word about our service! We know that our collection of features and software can help any publication looking to expand their digital footprint, and we’re confident that any publisher who takes the time to learn what our platform has to offer will agree. Under our new Referral Program, any current customer that refers us to another publication will […]
17
Jun
Managing your digital and print subscriptions is made easy using the MemberPress plugin included with Our-Hometown’s WordPress platform. New subscription orders and renewals are e-mailed to your staff immediately, and an intuitive dashboard makes looking up subscriber records and recent transactions quick and painless. We’ve recently expanded the MemberPress functionality to include an easy-to-configure Automatic Member Report, which will send an e-mail update with a list of new subscribers on a pre-determined […]
15
Jun
Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson recently connected with The Wave Publisher Walter Sanchez, Editor-in-Chief Mark Healey, and Digital Editor Alison Kase for an in-depth interview centered primarily on how they’ve grown their digital product and outreach with the help of Our-Hometown’s services. The discussion ranged from the general importance of offering a digital product to some of the unique reader-engagement programs they’ve been able to offer through their website, including a Curbside Delivery […]
14
Jun
Welcome to the first Virtual Office Hours with the Our Hometown Support team. https://our-hometown.com/join-us-for-office-hours-this-friday-at-1pm/ Watch the full office hour video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLYBdP_qDek See below for highlight links. Top Stories: Recap on our last Virtual Conference – Helping Local Businesses During Shutdown and Reopening Video: https://youtu.be/WLYBdP_qDek?t=40 Blog Post: https://our-hometown.com/virtual-conference-recap-helping-local-businesses-from-shutdown-to-re-opening/ Next Virtual Conference Announcement – Digital to Print Publishing with Meg Norris Video: https://youtu.be/WLYBdP_qDek?t=136 Blog Post: https://our-hometown.com/virtual-conference-digital-to-print-publishing-with-meg-norris/ What are Pending Transactions? Video: […]
10
Jun
A powerful way to expand your newspaper’s reach beyond your community and local readers is to submit your content to news aggregate platforms like Apple News and Google News, who will redistribute it across their networks of users. This can help improve your publication’s search engine rankings and web traffic, which in turn can help increase your advertising revenue. We wrote a post about How to Appear in Google News last summer, […]
9
Jun
Our-Hometown would like to invite you to join us for Office Hours this Friday at 1PM Eastern. Office Hours is a new program we’ll be hosting where CEO Matt Larson (& friends!) will highlight some of our products and features, as well as discuss any topics relevant to the newspaper industry and answer questions from those in attendance. Customers are invited to jump in and ask questions live during the show, […]