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19
Jan
Social media icons can display across all of your website content allowing visitors to share stories or posts they engage with to their favorite social network or via email links. However you may not want this feature available on some content. The following is a brief walkthrough on how to manage where these icons appear via your admin dashboard. Firstly the social media share icons appear in two main places: […]
30
Nov
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that the new MemberPress Gifting Add-On is now available for customers on our WordPress Publishing Platform, allowing readers to easily purchase and monitor digital Gift Subscriptions for a friend or family member through the website. The MemberPress Gifting Add-On replaces our existing Gift Subscriptions feature, offering a more streamlined and user-friendly approach that includes a direct integration with the MemberPress software. Setting up Gift Subscriptions […]
23
Nov
Publishers using SimpleCirc to manage print subscribers, rejoice! We are happy to announce that we’re currently testing a new integration that allows for automatic updating of customer accounts within SimpleCirc when subscriptions or renewals are purchased through your website. Our engineers have taken advantage of SimpleCirc’s API to send any new orders from MemberPress, with all relevant customer information, directly to SimpleCirc without any manual exporting, importing or copying of […]
16
Nov
From Finances Online’s 51 Key Online Payment Software Statistics You Must Learn: 2022 Data Analysis & Market Share: “This year’s findings from McKinsey’s Digital Payments Consumer Survey revealed a prevailing trend: 4 in 5 Americans used some form of online payment system. The survey also reveals some new online payment method statistics trends, such as cryptocurrency and ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) (Goel et al., 2021).” The Breakdown According to […]
8
Nov
It’s that time of the year again — the season of giving! If you’re looking for some simple options to offer savings to new or existing subscribers this holiday season, Our-Hometown has got you covered! Strap on your Santa boots and spread some holiday cheer with Coupon Codes and other special promotions! Our-Hometown customers have several options for offering savings to their readers, the simplest and most effective being Coupon […]
2
Nov
Our-Hometown’s engineers have released a small update to our Top Stories widget, adding the option to showcase the top performing stories of the past year. Previously, the widget was limited to a more immediate timeframe and only able to display the most popular articles of the past week, two weeks, one month, three months, or six months. Check out an example of the Top Stories widget in action on SignalsAZ […]
14
Oct
This webinar is hosted by Online Media Campus and we hear from Matt Larson, president and CEO of Our Hometown, Inc, on the topic of “Syncing Print with Digital Subscribers.”
11
Oct
Last week, we introduced a special promotion for Audio Articles, announcing that we are waiving the $250 Setup Fee associated with first-time setup for customers who add Audio Articles to their plan for a limited time. While the benefits that Audio Articles offers to readers are clear — hands-free consumption of the news, multi-tasking, handicap accessibility, etc. — we wanted to focus this week’s post on the key benefit that […]
21
Sep
Our-Hometown has released another add-on enhancement to our existing Metered Paywall feature: the Source Based Paywall Meter!
The Source Based Paywall Meter allows you to set up several different sources as referrers, such as social sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, and the like. Each referring source can then have its own custom Paywall Meter with unique settings applied.
14
Sep
Our-Hometown’s engineers are always working behind the scenes to improve the selection of tools we’ve made available to publishers, and this week they’ve released an update to our Metered Paywall that introduces a brand new feature: the ability to use your Metered Paywall as a Subscribe Banner in lieu of an actual countdown meter.
