As companies plan five year models, user-generated revenues should be part of the mix. AllMenus.com (owned by Dot Menus, Inc.) incorporates a field-tested online ordering services for restaurant and has recently signed up with two major dailies. Here's how the model works and early results. more

In the past year, Valpak.com, owned by Cox Enterprises in Atlanta, has entered the mobile coupon market in force. A pop-up window collects SMS opt-ins from every digital visitor. more

Inn 2010, Freedom Interactive was chosen by Borrell & Associates as one of the "best of the best" newspaper adoptions of mobile technology. But this was not always the case. Doug Bennett, president of Freedom Interactive, says that two years ago Freedom was "in the back of the pack" of newspapers developing digital and mobile products. The sharp decline in revenues in 2008 motivated the company to be more aggressive. This case study outlines their plan and results so far. more

Borrell executives Gordon Borrell, Peter Conti and Colby Atwood ended the 2010 Local Mobile Advertising Conference last week with a slightly fiery “Five things to do next” for those ready to tackle winning the mobile space. We've reprinted their suggestions with permission here. more

When Harvard academic Clark Gilbert helped create the Newspaper Next project, making recommendations on how newspapers should deal with disruptive change, not many media companies took his advice. But in 2009, he left Harvard to take a job as CEO of Deseret Media and put his theories to work. Since then KSL Mobile has become the fourth largest media site in the state and digital revenues have increased 60% year over year. Here's a break down of his strategy. more

As audience attention shifts from computers to mobile devices, advertisers will follow. Brush up on your knowledge with 15 things to know about mobile advertising today, from the Borrell Mobile Advertising Conference. more

Gannett-owned Fort Myers News-Press.com has not just been proactive in building digital revenues; it doubled online revenues in the last year. Their key advantage is a full blown training program including classroom style corporate university. Here are ten key sales force strategies that yielded great results, from Brian Hellman, Digital Advertising Manager, News-press Media Group. more

In the small city (population 100,000) of Odessa, the multi-media sales department of the Freedom-owned newspaper includes product managers who go on sales calls and report to the ad director. The results in 2010 were 60% year-to-year online sales growth which more than offset declines in national print revenues, and sell-through is in the 70% range. Here is how Director of Advertising and Marketing, Stacey Ream runs his departments. more

Selecting a software partner is a complex process - and is often subverted in favor of whomever is the "known quantity." The best choices, however, come from comparing several companies against a variety of criteria. Here is a list of RFP questions for daily deal companies that can simplify the task. more

One of Chron.com's two most successful niches is a non-denominational religion site driven by bloggers and forums: Houston.com. Topics run from the racey (A photo gallery of Famous Ex-Catholics, like Palin) to the cerebral (Can atheists be good?). Besides adding breadth to the moral and ethical debate, the site commands $20 cpm's from an under-served market: Churches who want to communicate to a diverse audience of local believers. more