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Tonight I decided to do some competitive analysis comparing traffic to certain towns and areas in Missouri to the competing newspaper website in the area.
I had done this for a few towns before but this time I did so on a larger scale, I cannot say I looked at every newspaper site but enough where I could spot trends in data enough...
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No surprise here, but it was reported today that newspaper circulations continue to decline and in the latest report they were shown to have accelerated their pace of eyeball loss even faster. The overall drop was 10.6 percent in the April to September period, even when the economy comes back full force these numbers will not be made up. Print is done.
As a geo domain owner and developer this is something I work with customers on and help them understand the marketing implications to them. Although in many cases there may still be a need to use the newspaper for a piece of their marketing, if small businesses does not start to make the move to a combined marketing strategy taking advantage of what they know and what they do not know (online advertising) then they will be left behind and talking about how the Internet is responsible for causing their failure when in reality it was their failure to change the way they market their business to match the times.
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With the hyperlocal/community based approach to news that we have built on Missouri.me we have already started to witness the community involvment we had hoped for start to happen in various towns across the state. In those towns that either community leaders or community networkers have started to post we get additional content...
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