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ChatGPT for Content Generation | Webinar Replay

ChatGPT for Content Generation | Webinar Replay

During Our-Hometown’s recent webinar, participants gained valuable insights and practical knowledge on effectively utilizing ChatGPT, an advanced language model, for content creation. The webinar aimed to showcase the capabilities of ChatGPT in generating high-quality content and provided attendees with tips, strategies, and best practices for leveraging this AI technology in their content generation process. Throughout the webinar, participants deepened their understanding of how to harness the power of ChatGPT to […]

Using your website to supplement your print edition

Using your website to supplement your print edition

When speaking with news publishers about the value of offering a digital alternative to the printed newspaper, we’re often asked how the website can add value to their product. Sure, there are the obvious advantages on the newspaper’s end, such as new streams of revenue from digital subscriptions and online advertisements, but publishers want to know what advantages readers can expect. The key is using your website to supplement your […]

Display Ad Reverse Publishing with a Run Sheet

Display Ad Reverse Publishing with a Run Sheet

Copy Ad File Path Each user will need to set the local path to the folder that holds the Ad image files on your local computer. Instructions for finding and copying the path of your ad PDFs for each platform are below: Save Ad Path Into Your Profile Once you have the file path copied, log into your personal WordPress account (shared accounts will not work). From the WordPress admin […]

SEO Features on the Our-Hometown Web Platform

SEO Features on the Our-Hometown Web Platform

The Our-Hometown web platform utilizes the All in One SEO plug-in to provide a convenient interface to manage many aspects of the search engine optimization for your website. All in One SEO Setup All in One SEO provides a convenient wizard to guide you through the initial setup process, prompting for information about your website, including metadata, contact information, social links, and search appearance. All in One SEO Dashboard Step-by-Step: […]

Don’t forget to upgrade to Google Analytics 4

Don’t forget to upgrade to Google Analytics 4

As technology continues to evolve, it’s important for businesses to stay up-to-date with the latest tools and platforms. In the world of web analytics, this means making the switch from Google Analytics Universal to the new and improved Google Analytics 4. As you may already know, Google Analytics Universal is being phased out and will stop processing new data on July 1st, 2023. This means that it is essential for […]

The Digital Initiative in 2023

The Digital Initiative in 2023

Our-Hometown’s Digital Initiative program launched in 2022, partnering with three State Press Associations and already assisting more than a dozen newspaper publications transition to a digital model that introduces a number of brand new revenue streams unavailable to print-only publications. We’re excited to see the program expand to more states and Press Associations in 2023, continuing our goal of assisting every print newspaper in the country adapt to the ever-evolving […]

10 Ways to Increase Subscription Revenue in 2023

10 Ways to Increase Subscription Revenue in 2023

Although the newspaper industry has changed dramatically in the past several years, we’re still facing many of the same challenges that have plagued publishers for decades. Namely: declining subscriptions. We wanted to help our customers start the new year off on the right foot by offering several simple methods publishers can use to increase subscription revenue in 2023. Below are 10 Ways to Increase Subscription Revenue this year: 1. Combo […]

Will Brumleve – Ford County Chronicle | OHT Publisher Interview

Will Brumleve – Ford County Chronicle | OHT Publisher Interview

In this publisher interview Vera Lemonovich and Tyler Wood of the Our-Hometown team is joined by Will Brumleve of the Ford County Chronicle in Illinois. We hear about the onboarding process, paywall performance and revenue, ad network implementation, and general feedback on features of the new website. A few highlights: Tyler: What did you think of the onboarding process. How do you think that went? Will: The process was just […]

New Gift Subscriptions Add-On for MemberPress available now

New Gift Subscriptions Add-On for MemberPress available now

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 […]

Announcing new SimpleCirc Integration, now in Beta!

Announcing new SimpleCirc Integration, now in Beta!

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 […]

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