More merchants are interested in building a fan base, or linking promotions to their fan page on Facebook. Selling Facebook services is doing very well - from contests, to custom pages, to calenders of posts. But what is the value of a Facebook name and other key statistics to sell these programs? Here are four key stats to use with sources and weaknesses. more

LMI's surveyed members to find best local uses of QR code looks at how radio and television stations to create edgy promotions and build revenues. This report looks at two companies we found with the most experience in this sector, CBS radio in West Palm Beach and Entravision, a group of Hispanic radio and TV Stations, plus one talk show host who uses them onair. The full report also shows numerous visual examples and resources. more

This aggressively structured compensation plan for part-time telesales people is roughly modeled after the one used by Todd Handy, Director New Media, Deseret Digital Media. The concept is to start with an hourly, part-time rate, and then use bonuses to double that that amount, but only if the sales person meets goal. A multiplier is used to scale the percentage of the bonus. more

Deseret Media's KSL.com launched their department in January, 2010. Today the department employs 19 part-time people in telesales people billing $240,000 a month in sales of digital media, with the average sale of just $260. This case study explores products, pitches, hiring practices, compensation, and management. more

One surprising statistic for mobile is that 86% of people are using a mobile device while watching television. That provides a key opportunity for both marketers and broadcast sales teams: A broadcast "call to action" does not have to be a phone call. Here's how to take advantage of consumer behavior. more

Source Media in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, recently deployed a new media agnostic team of four "hunters" and reorganized it's existing team to focus on growing the new accounts. Find out how they did it, and the early results. more

One of the top performing television station interactive departments, according to Borrell & Associates, is Draper Holdings' WBOC in Salisbury. Here are key strategies that led to 59% digital growth in 2010, and 200% this year, including their Facebook strategy, sales structure, and directory play. more

Companies considering operating a separate digital sales team to call on new business, need clear account rules from the get go. This best practice saves management time and sales staff hours power from being distracted by account disputes and issues of unfairness. Here are the "Rules of Engagement" from WBOC that work to build trust between sales team selling digital campaigns to different customers in the same market. 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

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