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Feb
Our-Hometown is excited to announce a special Virtual Conference on SEO for Newspaper Publishers set to take place on February 18th at 1PM Eastern time. Joining Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson will be renowned SEO consultant, Michael Cottam. Cottam will lead the discussion and introduce the audience to the basics of Search Engine Optimization before going more in-depth on how Google’s specific algorithms work to rank search results. He’ll […]
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Jan
As we work to finalize some details on our upcoming slate of Virtual Conferences and Webinars, we felt it would be a good opportunity to offer a quick refresher on using the MemberPress software to manage memberships and subscriptions on our platform. More specifically, we’re going to focus on Transactions — the driving force behind managing memberships and granting members access to premium content! Transactions are created any time a customer makes a […]
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Jan
In Australia, a legal battle is being waged as Australian legislators seek to pass a law that would force Google to compensate publishers for the value their content generates for the search engine. More specifically, they’re targeting the excerpts of articles that are displayed in Google’s search results. Google responded this week by threatening to disable the search engine, which is responsible for at least 94% of all internet searches […]
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Jan
Our-Hometown is thrilled to sponsor an upcoming Virtual Conference hosted by Editor and Publisher Magazine on Adopting Automation to Increase Audience & Revenue, taking place on Wednesday, February 10th at 11 a.m. eastern time. Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson will be heading the discussion as a featured panelist, along with two of our favorite guests: Kristen Weaver of the Wilson County News and Guy Roginson of SignalsAZ.com. Mike Blinder, […]
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Jan
We are excited to announce a special partnership with Kevin Slimp of NewspaperAcademy.com that allows any of our customers to attend his upcoming live webinar, Advanced InDesign for Newspaper Designers and Editors, at no cost! Slimp, also known as the News Guru, will be hosting the live webinar on February 5th beginning at 11am EST. His presentation will focus on using the popular Adobe InDesign software to produce print layouts […]
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Jan
Our-Hometown is happy to announce our new Custom Memberpress Export tool, now available to all customers on our platform! The Custom Memberpress Export tool introduces an easy way to generate and export a list of subscribers who meet a criteria that you select, which is fully customizable to include/exclude any information fields that are recorded by our system. You can find this tool under Memberpress -> Automatic Member Reports on your WordPress Dashboard […]
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Jan
Our-Hometown has a lot of great things planned for the year ahead, and we can’t wait to share more information about what we have in store. For now, though, we want to do a little self-reflecting on the past year and make sure we’re focusing on the right things in 2021. We’d love your help in getting some feedback! As a current OHT customer, you’re invited to take our 2020 Customer […]
5
Jan
Our-Hometown is happy to announce the release of a new feature available on our platform: Social Media Autopost! Social Media Autopost allows publishers to automatically share the latest content from their website across various social media platforms using the Blog2social plugin. Social Media Autopost offers another option for quickly distributing your content across the web to your readers and followers, regardless of what platforms they use to consume the news. […]
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Dec
DID YOU KNOW that you can setup automatic monthly payments to Our-Hometown, saving yourself the time and effort of writing a check or calling in your payment over the phone? These automated payments are processed using the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network to transfer funds from one bank account to another. The ACH Network is a highly-secure electronic funds-transfer system, and you’re likely already using ACH transfers if you are paid via direct […]
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Dec
We’re grateful to Iowa Online Media Campus for their invitation to present some creative options for print and online publishers to help increase and retain a solid subscriber base. For 23 years, our publishers have brought us countless ideas and depended on us to provide practical solutions to help them not only manage but also to control the ever-changing world of digital news and online revenue. Matt Larson, president, and […]
