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News - - Page 29
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, […]
9
Jun
Our-Hometown will be hosting another Virtual Conference next Friday, June 19th, beginning at 12PM Eastern. This conference will focus on a Digital to Print Publishing workflow made possible by our Reverse Publishing & Multi-Site Publishing tools, as well as our custom Google Docs Add-On. Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson will be joined by Margaret Norris, publisher of The Garden City News, The Jericho News Journal, The Syosset Advance, The Bethpage Newsgram and The Mid-Island Times, […]
9
Jun
Our-Hometown hosted another Virtual Conference this past Friday, featuring speakers Alison Kase of Rockaway’s The Wave and Kristen Weaver of the Wilson County News, who joined Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson to discuss how newspapers have been able to help local businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they plan to continue helping now that cities across the country are allowing businesses to re-open. Alison and Kristen shared some of the strategies […]
9
Jun
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson recently had the opportunity to speak with Kristen Weaver of the Wilson County News for a Publisher Interview in advance of our June 5th Virtual Conference on Helping Local Businesses from Shutdown to Re-Opening. Matt and Kristen discussed some of the tools used on the Wilson County News website, such as the Business Directory that put the newspaper in a position to help the community throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, as well […]
8
Jun
This week, Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson had the opportunity to chat with Harbor Light News Publisher Charles O’Neill about the publication’s digital product, how they’ve had to adapt in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and their overall experience with Our-Hometown. We’re happy to be able to share what he had to say with the rest of our publishers and readers in the clips below! 1. Adapting to COVID-19 At this […]
1
Jun
One question that our support team gets asked pretty frequently is, “What is a ‘pending’ transaction and what does it mean?” If your publication offers paid subscriptions through your website using the Memberpress plugin included in our service, there is a reasonable likelihood that you’ve seen a Transaction listed as “Pending” at one point or another when browsing through your orders or subscribers. In technical terms, a transaction is “pending” when […]
1
Jun
Earlier this year, Our-Hometown assisted Florida Weekly in creating a statewide COVID-19 Business Updates Directory, which was launched alongside a total re-design of their homepage and nine community-specific magazine websites. Given the timing — during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak — it was critical that the project be completed in a timely fashion so that Florida Weekly could establish themselves as a resource for the community and act as a middle-man for […]
1
Jun
It has been a strange few months, but June has arrived and the official start of Summer is not far behind. As we approach the halfway point in the calendar year, we thought it would be a good time to give an update on the features our customers showed the most interest in way back January when we ran our 2020 New Features Survey. Based on the feedback from this survey, […]
27
May
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that our next Virtual Conference will take place on Friday, June 5th, at 11AM EDT. The conference will focus on different ways that newspapers have helped their communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they plan on continuing to support their communities now that businesses are beginning to re-open. Joining Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson as guest speakers will be Kristen Weaver from the Wilson County News […]
