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Our Planning Calendar is an interactive workbook designed to help you create a month-by-month promotions plan, so you can reach (and maybe surpass!) your goals. The workbook covers how to track revenue and progress towards annual goals and email database growth.
Key Takeaways
Recurring Revenue
Now more than ever, it’s important to have consistent income all year long. This is one of the most efficient ways to sell. You sell the campaign one time, and you have checks coming in every month – freeing your sales team up to sell other sponsorships.
National Sweepstakes
Second Street is providing six national sweepstakes – FREE – for all of our customers. These campaigns have big prizes, attract a large audience, and are ideal for selling to advertisers looking for a lot of branding, database growth, and lead-gen!
Citywide Ballot
A Citywide ballot (Readers’ Choice, Best Of) is a perfect opportunity to highlight your advertisers and generate great revenue. These campaigns ask your audience to vote for their favorite businesses in a range of industries. Run a citywide ballot campaign to generate huge revenue and audience engagement for both your newspaper and your advertisers.
Lead-Gen Campaigns
Your advertisers need leads. Creating a campaign optimized to deliver quality leads will establish your credibility with an advertiser. When they’re confident in your abilities, they’ll be eager to continue to work with you on future campaigns.
Sponsored Contests
Start by looking at the big initiatives your station already has on your calendar like high school football, Christmas, or even a local hometown celebration. Then, see where you can add in a promotion. Optimize the experience for your sponsors with an email opt-in and lead-generating questions.
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Julie is the Senior Customer Success Manager at Second Street and a former client in local media. Her best advice for driving the most success with your revenue and audience engagement strategy is to include promotions in every business initiative.