Archive for 'Advertising'

NPPA Business Blitz

NPPA Business Blitz

Posted on 16. Nov, 2011 by .

Tweet   Last month, I attended the National Press Photographers Association’s NPPA Business Blitz at San Jose State University. The NPPA offers many resources for professional photographers, educators and students. The Business Blitz series is just one of several courses offered throughout the year. At this year’s Bay Area workshop, John Harrington discussed specifics about pricing photo [...]

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Journalism organization uses social media to fundraise

Journalism organization uses social media to fundraise

Posted on 19. Sep, 2011 by .

Tweet Following is an article I solicited from Youth Journalism International.  After Jackie Majeurus “friended” me on Facebook, I noticed how successful YJI is at raising funds via social media.  – Michelle Harmon   By Steve Collins WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Youth Journalism International exists because the web makes it possible for a small public [...]

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We’ve Posted Our “Guide to Moving Online”

We’ve Posted Our “Guide to Moving Online”

Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by .

Tweet After more than 300 posts to the site, we decided it was time to compile some of them into a guide to help advisers and staffs with their journeys online. So, we created a “Guide to Moving Online.” You will find everything from Planning and Social Media to Comment and Publicity advice. The committee [...]

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22 Sites Share Online and Broadcast Advertising Rates

22 Sites Share Online and Broadcast Advertising Rates

Posted on 05. Apr, 2011 by .

Tweet We had a great response from a survey we posted in early March concerning online advertising. 22 schools responded to our call for data. The survey asked everything from online ad rates and sizes to broadcast ad rates and some general site traffic data. Instead of analyzing the data for you all and pulling [...]

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How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: Increasing Pageviews

How I’m surviving my first year as adviser: Increasing Pageviews

Posted on 13. Feb, 2011 by .

Tweet This week, the website I advise, Niles West News, received its 100,000th pageview. Considering our site went live less than five months ago, I am pretty proud. This was a huge milestone for my staff–and I think they now realize that people are actually reading/viewing their work! Our principal is even throwing us a [...]

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Keep it simple when creating web ad rates

Keep it simple when creating web ad rates

Posted on 17. Sep, 2010 by .

Tweet Looking for what to charge for your ads on the web? There is no real set standard at this point in scholastic journalism. With all that schools are doing to make the move online and get a site up and running, my advice is to keep the advertising side of things pretty simple. Most [...]

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What to Charge for Ads on Your Site

What to Charge for Ads on Your Site

Posted on 06. Aug, 2010 by .

Tweet This post on blogher.com gives good advice on figuring out how much ads on your site should cost. Two tips: Find out what blogs similar to yours are charging. Find other sites, even other school news sites, with similar traffic as yours.  Here’s a comparison from compete.com for two good sites — The A-Blast [...]

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Advertising online, part 2: Web ads and pricing strategies

Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by .

Tweet Part 1 of this mini-series focused on a system for getting ads on to your Web site. This part will address pricing for those ads. Keep in mind that there are tons of variations regarding ad pricing structure. This article will show you what we do at the HiLite. Got a better idea? I’d [...]

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Advertising online, part 1: Getting ads on the web

Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by .

Tweet I get this question a lot: How do you handle advertising on the Web? It’s a good question with a pretty complicated answer. Therefore, I’m breaking this topic into two sections. Part 1 (this part) deals with the actual nuts and bolts of getting an ad online. Part 2 will cover pricing questions. So [...]

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