I've been finding it helpful with clients and members to divide the kinds of revenue available - and their assets - into two buckets: Those driven by traffic and those driven by sales.

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As 2011 draws to a close, attention tends to focus in around concrete plans and budgets. Here are three larger questions that are harder to tackle mid-year, when budgets and plans have already been …

David Castello, COO of Castello Cities Internet, Inc., spoke at the nascent GeoDomain Publishers conference about the future of city.com sites. This interview fleshes out his own plans to build out Nashville.com and his thoughts on partnerships with local media.

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Here are four worksheets you can use to calculate your sites current banner ad sales and revenue potential, explained step by step. The were contributed by the Digital Media director for Southern Community Newspapers, with one extra by LMI staff. Every local media selling banner ads should be using these charts.
Here is a list of proven ideas that create high-conversion headlines, and samples of actual headlines with response rates. Use these samples to create high-conversion banner ads that build data collection programs via opt-ins for email, SMS or Facebook likes.
A simple idea for a combining fun and training at a sales meeting or at the end of a training session is to create a jeopardy style game show, in which the winning teams gets Friday off or $25 gift certificates to Starbucks or TraderJoe's. Here is how to set one up in seconds, with sample digital questions.
Sales of a a package of pure digital products and services rolled out this summer at Morris Communications-owned Jacksonville.com. This report looks at the four components of the SoLoMo package; marketing materials; sales strategies; critical vendors and customer support. The program generated immediate interested and about 100 sales across three markets in the first months.
There are still opportunities for local media sites to own travel-based revenue streams, especially given their key advantage: Unique local content. The biggest key is choosing the right third party technology partner and strategy for your market. LMI interviewed a number of sites with travel products business models and available partners for this summary.
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Here's how The Nashville Tennessean created an inhouse agency that billed $2.6 million in 2011, 50% of which was its own media products. Included are personnel issues, required vendors and recommendations for these, and lessons learned. more …
These top recommendations for 2012 in large part came from seminars and conversations at American Press Institute's December 2012 media seminar. They flow from two basic revenue generators: Traffic and direct sales, and include several of the key "to do" take ways from media executives who attended. Referred vendors are included. more …
Back to basics means a healthy sales department that can "block and tackle" to increase digital revenues. Here are 15 basic steps from Robert Granfeldt, VP Digital Media, Southern Community Newspapers, based in Georgia, who recently executed an 85% year over year gain in 2011. Included are four worksheets to calculate a relaistic assessment of your site sales - and sales reps contributions - plus metrics for pricing your site that show its full … more …
Once a deal program is up and running, new best practices for increasing deal revenues are emerging, that involve only a minimum amount of in data-mining and extra mailings. Here are four initiatives that leverage deal assets to obtain even more revenues, with copies of promotional materials. more …