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By Gretchen A. Peck
News organizations are re-engineering online forums and rethinking community engagement.
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Publishing in Editor & Publisher magazine, June 2014
By Gretchen A. Peck
It’s easy to wax nostalgic about newspapers’ heydays, when the selling of ads was as simple as it was to valuate the content, the service, the roles newspapers played in the community. Sales professionals back then need only dangle these carrots to compel an advertiser. It was, indeed, a simpler time.
Things became more dicey as marketing morphed into something far more sophisticated, with buzzwords such as “demographics” and “targeted marketing” representing new lingo, and ad decisions were now inspired by measurements and metrics rather than by the relationships between publisher and advertiser.
Today, technology drives nearly every aspect of the publisher-advertiser-reader relationship, and that’s had some notable influence on not only the kinds of ads that are selling and how they’re being sold, but also on the ad-sales labor market.
Read more at: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/feature/back-to-the-wheelhouse-advertising-sales-in-the-digital-age/
Published by Editor & Publisher magazine, January 2014
Gretchen A. Peck 