Online Marketing Should Be Affordable
About Us - Online Community Magazine Turnkey Business SoftwareServices Provided by Online Community Magazines to Owners and Services Provided by Owners to their CommunityOnline Community Magazine Partners Running Their Own Local Online MagazineContact information for Online Community Magazine personnel and Local Community Owners

The Online Community Magazines software can be used as

  1. an audio/video production software

  2. an online community publication

  3. an online business directory

You determine what your community needs the most, and adapt the software to meet that need.

  • As an inexpensive and easy-to-use audio/video, logo and ad production software, you will have absolutely NO COMPETITION. No other software in the world does what our Commercial Creation Center does. You will be combining state-of-the-art technology with personalized customer service to help local businesses and organizations overcome their fear of technology and cross over into successful online marketing.

  • As an online community publication that lets users create and post unlimited articles, audios and videos, you will have NO COMPETITION. Again, we are the only provider of such software.

  • As an online business directory, you can promise
    • front page advertising to every client, since every time they post new content, it rotates to the front page.

    • The business owners' picture, bio and link to their latest post on the Front Page rotating as the Featured Member.

    • Clients can enter unlimited ads in audio, video, text and image formats, not simply a single text and image ad.

    • Their continued participation will increase their Search Engine Rankings, because it is in a format (RSS) that can be syndicated throughout the internet.

    • Anyone can receive their content regularly via email.

    • Again, NO COMPETITION - no business directory offers as much as our software does.

Most offline (and even online communities) are filled with people who know very little, if anything at all, about online marketing and advertising. Now imagine a good portion of those people paying you a monthly or yearly fee to help them continually market themselves online.

Every business in your community NEEDS to be advertising online, since most people use Google to search for business services and products. The problem is that 1) they don't realize it, and 2) they don't know how to do it. Our software gives you the tools necessary to move them into advertising in the 21st Century.

You just need to
  • reach out to them,
  • point out their need, and then
  • provide an affordable solution.

Listen to this simple 15 minute presentation given to a group of offline businesses. Once they understood the problem and the answer, the response rate was very high. We provide you with sales scripts and audio/video presentations to help people understand their need for online advertising, and how our software is THE affordable solution.


Does someone in your community send out a newspaper or magazine that covers local happenings and offers advertising to local businesses?

The magazine or newspaper is usually free because it is advertising supported.

It's a smart idea, as people like to know what's going on in their community, and they'll look at the advertisements as they read the articles, calendar events and classifieds. Not to mention, the owner of the magazine gets immense promotion for their own business while other advertisers foot the bill.

Just a couple of problems from the Advertiser's point of view:

  1. The advertising is normally very expensive.
  2. Once a new issue comes out, the ad ends up in the trash along with the magazine.
  3. Having an ad in a paper periodical doesn't help people find you when they are searching on the internet for assistance.

Running a magazine can also present expensive challenges for the Owner:

  1. You must hire an Editor and Columnists or Reporters.
  2. You must pay for printing and graphics.
  3. You must pay for postage to every household.

But what if you could have a magazine that could do the following?

  • The articles would remain forever on the internet, always searchable
  • Most (if not all) of the content was created by the community and updated on a continual basis
  • Content was not limited to text, but could include audio and video
  • The content could be automatically emailed to subscribers
  • No printing or postage costs
  • No Editorial, Reporting or Columnist costs

With lower overhead costs, you can offer:

  • Advertising any business could afford
  • A full-page Listing (either text & images, or text & images WITH audio/video)
  • Their own website page, and they can purchase a domain name to point directly to that page.
  • An online, searchable presence for every business in your community

With content provided by the community:

  • People would want to visit the site more often to see what people have to say
  • People would want to add content to the site to add their own opinion
  • Community News would be as up-to-date as the individual civic or private organization desired
  • Talent from the community could serve as Internet TV and Internet Radio entertainment

Next, add in some additional features:

  • What if people could subscribe to whatever columns, articles and entertainment they liked, and have the newest information delivered to their computer as soon as it was posted?

  • What if businesses could post their coupons to a single community coupons feed to which people could also subscribe, and have all of the coupons delivered to their computer as soon as they are posted?

  • What if there was a telephone call-in line for a community "Soap Box" (this is the most popular feature in our local newspaper!)? Only instead of translating these calls to text, they were kept in audio format and posted online for an Internet Radio show featuring the opinions and comments from your community members?

  • What if all of the schools, teachers and classes in your community could post homework assignments, class projects, awards and events in one central location?

  • What if your local theaters could post video promos for their upcoming shows?

  • What if local people hosted their own audio or video programs about local people and issues, and these were made available as part of a community Internet TV network

  • What if places of worship could post their messages, lessons and classes in one location in your community?

  • What if every listed business owner rotated as the featured Community Member on the front page of the Directory?

 

Now, imagine making money from this combination

                • Magazine

                • Directory

                • Internet TV Station

                • Internet Radio Station

                • Community Forum

                • Coupon Site

by:

  • Charging only $50 per month per business for an online FULL-PAGE of text and images in the Directory, where they could change the content of their ad whenever they wanted. At this price, it would be affordable for any business in your community. For some businesses, it will mean having their own web page for the first time. It also means unlimited passive income for you.

  • Charging only $50 per month per business to host a FULL-PAGE of Audio/Video which doubles as an Internet TV or Radio Show, where they could post new shows whenever they wanted. The audios and videos can be automatically syndicated to show up on their own web site every time they add something new. Our new Commercial Creation Center will allow anyone, no matter how technologically challenged, to create audios and videos in minutes so they can post them on their magazine page and on their own website.

  • Charging only $10 - $20 per month per business for the ability to post unlimited coupons on the community's only Coupon Site/Feed. Any business could afford $10 per month for that additional advertising. Again, this means more unlimited passive income for you.
    • This type of coupon advertising is more economical than those flyers that we all throw out, PLUS
    • The coupons are again searchable on the internet, giving the business owners more permanent return for their investment

  • Charging only $50 or $100 per month per front page sidebar ad. This would give the businesses front page advertising for much less than they could pay for a magazine or newspaper spot.

  • Charging only $100 or $250 per month for the 2 header ads. Again, this is much more visibility for their advertising dollar.

  • With the ability to put as many ads as you like on the sidebars (we recommend limiting them to 30 ads), this means you can have
    • passive advertising income starting at $1700 per month for thirty (30) $50 sidebar ads and two (2) $100 header ads.
    • Charge $100 per sidebar ad and $250 per header ad, and make $3500 per month.
    • You set these advertising prices so they are right for your community. (Pages in the magazine are recommended to start at $50/month. Recommended yearly rates are $500.)

 

We install your Community Directory / Magazine for you.

 


Your income is only limited by the number of organizations & businesses
in your community
.

You can create a Magazine for your:

  • City or your County

  • College or University

  • Any Community or Organization


We discourage you from paying monies out of your own pocket (unless you are purchasing this as an extension of an existing business, and don't plan on charging contributors).

 

We encourage you to pre-sell columns (text and image web pages), shows (audio/video web pages) and advertising to equal at least half of the the partnership fee before beginning.

 

You can do that by preselling a combination of offers:

  • 10 members to join at $50/month.
  • A Lifetime text and image web page or Coupon Listing for a one-time price of $100.
  • 2 Years of an audio/video web page for $500 (2 years for the price of one).
  • 1 Year of front page sidebar advertising for $500 (averaging only $50 a month).
  • "Grandfathered pricing" to all Charter Members, which means that their price will never go up, as long as they remain in the Magazine.
 

CONSERVATIVE POTENTIAL INCOME:

Simplest Explanation: 100 businesses paying you $50/month = $5,000 a month.

Sell ONLY One (1) Yearly Page per week

1 x $500/yr Web Page = $500/week

monthly income approximately $2,000
Sell ONLY Two (2) NEW Monthly Web Pages per week

2 x $50/month Audio/Video Web Page = $100/week

monthly CUMMULATIVE income approximately $400 the first month,

$800 the second month,

$1200 the third month, etc.

Keep Fifteen (15) Front Page Sidebar Advertisements sold per month
15 x $50/month
$750 per month
Keep the Two (2) Header Advertisements sold per month
2 x $150/month
$300 per month
Total Gross Income
 
starting at $3,450 per month

This doesn't even include the monies you can charge
to create audios and videos for them!

If you double the SideBar ad price to $100, you make an additional $750.
If you charge $250 for Header Ads, you make an additional $200.
If you sell 5 more yearly radio or tv shows a month, you make an additional $1500.


For more information, please contact Penny Haynes at penny@1stpod.com to schedule a time to discuss your Community Directory.

Charter Directories:

  • Cherokee County, GA (AroundCherokeeCounty.com, CherokeeCoupons.com) - Penny Haynes
  • Pittsburgh, PA (PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com) - Joanne Quinn-Smith
  • Lincoln, NE (AroundLancasterCounty.com) - Glenda Hinz & Paula Fehringer
  • Uniquely Dominican (UniquelyDominican.com) - Diane Corriette
  • NEW: Winnipeg NW, Canada (TheWinnipegConnectionNW.com) - Michelle Kapty