03 May 09 Community Director tutorials to launch this month.
In the next few weeks, we will be posting a group of brief tutorials that will demonstrate site functionality, including the director admin area, to all new Community Directors. These tutorials will replace the weekly Community Director conference call/web demonstration. However, community directors can still request a live training by emailing info@ourlocalpages.com .
To join the presentation:
- receive the date and time of the live training via email in response to your request.
- Go to www.yuuguu.com/share , enter the PIN 287654.
- Call 641-715-3701 PIN 287654
Tags: conference call, presentation
15 Apr 09 Daily client webinars begin.
Starting on April 21st, we will host a client webinar to go over the benefits of our Spotlight Page web service. Paul Griffin, director of marketing for OurLocalPages.com, will host the daily webinar every weekday from 2pm-2:30pm EST.
Participation in the webinars requires:
1) Pre-register online
2) Go to www.yuuguu.com/share , enter the PIN 195494.
3) Call 641-715-3701 PIN 195494.
*** Current Special - Free annual advertising. ***
Attend the webinar and receive a free, 12-month, feature ad for your business.
07 Apr 09 OurLocalPages.com offers complimentary Spotlight Page web service to non-profits.
Beginning April 1st, OurLocalPages.com is offering complimentary Spotlight Pages to 501(c)3 organizations. “One of the many ways Non-profits support local communities is by educating and informing local residents on important issues and serivce opportunities. With our Spotlight Page web service, we hope to support their communication efforts by providing them a easy way to share events, notices, pictures, video, while building a list of followers online. We are excited about sharing this web service with the community.” says Carl Stacy, founder of OurLocalPages.com
Tags: non-protifts, spotlight page
04 Mar 09 Commissions to be paid out semimonthly
Beginning on March 16th, commissions will be paid out semi-monthly. Commissions processed on the 1st of each month will be for sales made in the previous month’s 1st-15th period and commissions processed on the 16th of each month will be for sales made in the previous month’s 16th-31st period. Payments will be sent via PayPal.com. Directors must have a completed profile which includes a EIN or SSN that will be used for year end 1099s.
Tags: commissions, directors
14 Jan 09 OurLocalPages Gear is here!
Whether you are a Local Operator, sponsor, or just a die hard fan, we have designed some shirts, hats, and supplies just for you.
13 Jan 09 Spotlight pages increase value for local business sponsors.
This week, we are launching Sponsor Spotlight pages. Local business and organizations will have the opportunity to have a unique web page on their OurLocalPages.com town’s website where they can “spotlight” their business, publish coupons, and build a opt-in customer email list. The page will have the following features:
- Business name and logo
- Business address and contact information
- Business hours
- Link to their website
- Mailing list feature where users can subscribe to their email list.
- Coupons list and application where they can login and publish/distribute their coupons.
Local Operators will now be able to build their advertiser base more effectively by offering local business 3 annual sponsorship options.
- An annual Business Spotlight page
- An annual Spotlight page w/feature ad
- An annual Spotlight page w/ banner ad
Tags: advertisers, local operators, spotlight page
02 Jan 09 OurLocalPages.com beta release launches.
OurLocalPages.com officially launches over 33,000 online towns with a worldwide site ranking in the top 400,000 sites worldwide.
Tags: rankings
29 Dec 08 OurLocalPages.com beta launch countdown…
The countdown has begun. We will offically launch in 3 days! Congratulations to the State Operators who have joined us at such an early stage. You have been hard at work developing your states’ online towns. We look forward to working with you throughout 2009 to improve the functionality of all the OurLocalPages.com online towns.
30 Nov 08 Online advertising may benefit in reaction to the downturn.
An October 2008 survey by MaretingProfs, of 600 US marketers, found that 60% planned to increase their spending on online advertising in reaction to the downturn.
What is behind the bullish projections for online ad spending, especially when most traditional media are taking the financial equivalent of body blows?” The seven reasons are as follows:
1. The Internet is inherently more measurable and accountable than are traditional channels.
2. The Internet allows for better, more-granular targeting than do other forms of media. That reduces media waste and can save marketing dollars.
3. The Internet is interactive, thereby allowing for a higher degree of engagement with consumer and business prospects and customers.
4. Particularly among younger consumers, the Internet is accounting for a larger and larger share of total media time; numerous studies demonstrate that teens, millennials and other younger cohorts are spending more time online per week than they are watching television.
5. The Internet plays into the consumer-in-control movement and therefore provides new opportunities for marketers to be a part of their conversations about interests, attitudes, shopping plans and even brands.
6. New Web 2.0 phenomena such as blogs, social networks and Twitter provide marketers with the potential to gain rich insights into consumer behavior and attitudes (the Internet is like a perpetual focus group on steroids).
7. The Internet, unlike any other medium or channel, allows marketers to reach prospects throughout the entire consumer buying cycle, from initial awareness through pre-information-gathering to sales and post-sale feedback and support.
21 Nov 08 OurLocalPages.com launches 32,000 local media portals.
Dynamic Town-based media portals provide a mash-up of news, videos, pictures, jobs, and events relevant to your community.
Charlottesville, VA (PRWEB) November 23, 2008 — It’s a Local Thing… That is the mantra coming from OurLocalPages.com, the newest creation of the Virginia-based web development firm, CS3 Solutions LLC. OurLocalPages.com powers over 32,000 town-based media portals that serve up relevant news, videos, pictures, jobs, events, and classifieds allowing local residents to interact with each other through user-generated media.
Why local media portals? “It’s all about community.” says Carl Stacy, president of CS3 Solutions. “Many small to mid-sized towns in the US still don’t have a local portal to call their own. Your town may be small, but relevant information is out there, it just may take some time to find. By aggregating that information into a single destination and providing ways for residents to interact with that information not only gives the community a focused online media outlet, but an open community publishing platform as well. With the proliferation ofRSS feeds and application programming interfaces, we began to see ways to build local, useful interactive communities that provide real value for both the end-user and local businesses.”
According to eMarketer, local and national businesses advertising in local markets will spend $7.8 billion in 2011. “We are offering free, open, online communities to small towns nationwide while also providing a business opportunity for the growing “work from home” workforce.” says Carl Stacy. “The way ad-space is sold onOurLocalPages.com is very community oriented as well.”
Ad-space is sold through independent Local Operators. OurlocalPages.com Local Operators are independent marketing reps, entrepreneurs, organizations or local businesses who sponsor their town’s portal in exchange for exclusive rights to market the ad-space. The Local Operator network is being developed byOurLocalPages.com State Operators. The State Operator-ship is a franchise-like opportunity available to 50 people/businesses nationwide, one per state. State Operator positions will be filled throughout 2009. Learn more about the State Operator opportunity here: http://www.ourlocalpages.com/info.cfm.
OurLocalPages.com beta will be officially launched on Jan 1st, 2009, but has already seen rapid growth in small to mid-sized towns nationwide.
Website: www.OurLocalPages.com
For additional media information, please contact:
Carl Stacy
CS3 Solutions LLC
434-987-0353
www.cs3solutions.com
Tags: press releases
