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News - - Page 29
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 […]
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 […]
