Expect a rant about subscriptions services separately (looking through existing threads to see if my issues are covered) but the way account vs subscription is handled has to be one of my biggest issues... And while there are big issues that require rethinking workflows - There are a ton of little things
For Example;
A visitor who isn't logged in clicks on a Service Link to buy a subscription.The next thing they are looking at is a rather generic LOGIN screen asking in BIG letters for their USERNAME and PASSWORD... and the reaction is "I don't have a GD username and password, that's why I am trying to spend my money to get one." - My CSRs see it almost every day. Hell when we change something my Directors have the same blasted reaction.

So what LITTLE thing could CHANGE to make this better... Well you know what page sent you to the LOGIN PAGE... If it's someone signing up for service ... Change the order and the formatting of what you display. Present the "IF you haven't created a user account here before, click here!" In BIG LETTERS and FIRST... Then below that do a "If you are adding a subscription to an EXISTING account please provide your username and password (With a little less emphasis.)

Hey Rob, How about an update... I mean right now I have a service for inside gibson county and a service for outside gibson county but no way to veryify if the person signing up meets that criteria or not.

BTW we moved all of our special sections / magazines to issue several years ago. Between townnews' charges for storage and bandwidth and the fact that most of those clients preferred the format  it was a no brainer. 

A few years ago I put some effort into getting users to use the calendar and never could get the other employees out of their silos long enough to buy in.

For example - enhancing web banner advertising with calendar events. Advertising saw the ability for users to create their own events for free as a problem not an opportunity. Likewise our we run a weekly calendar of events as editorial content in the paper. However the people that compile that saw doing the online calendar as "additional work" and the didn't want people submitting events to use the online calendar instead of emailing them. Likewise the people emailing events in were doing a single mass email to multiple outlets (radio, city gov, chamber, etc) and didn't want to do something specific just for us.

Kevin has some great input. Be careful if you are approached with a very vague request, like "Can I license this for commercial use?" without any definition of the project or manner the it can be used. Doing so might end up with the company essentially reselling your work. Also you may want to specify whether the work must used as is or can it be used to create a derivative work.

While Kevin set a floor he won't generally go lower than, keep in mind the way image is going to be used and what impact that may have on your business. Allowing use of your images in some projects may actually drive traffic to your site. An example of this might be a locally produced history book and/or website that uses a few of your photos but includes links to your online photo archive where viewers may order prints. By requiring attribution and specifying the details to be included in the attribution (like links for online use) you may be able to their need into a money maker for you above and beyond any licensing fee.

Thanks Christine... Maybe we can get to the point I can stop referring to the E-Edition as the "hole we pour money into"

Thanks Michael I will look into it. My E-edition accounts for 1/3 of my pageviews so 1 banner ad is still significant.

I love contradictory information:

Ticket #595855 has been updated by Ashley Rogers with the following content:

Hi Mike,

You can add banner ads to your E-edition home page:

http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/omi_online/

But you cannot add them to the e-edition itself.

It is not on a regular blox skin that allows blocks or ads.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

You can go into settings urls and duplicate your url map ... in design/blox the duplicate url map shows up below the default one. You can then edit pages in the duplicate and use the preview function to view them....

(note the preview will show your live url map it will look like ".../main/preview/site/" append the new map name to end like so "/main/preview/site/newmap/-/"

To the best of my knowledge you can't copy a page from one url map to another... so if you have to either make the duplicate the live url map or you after you finalized a page design you would have to make those changes to the live page if you didn't want to change the whole url map.

Hopefully Christine Masters will jump in here and correct me and we'll find out about a whole set of options I wasn't aware of.

Another thought - Essentially the E-Edition is a reading experience free of banner ads, and if you use the live E-Edition and segment, the reader can be free of print ads for the most part. You could offer a tiered service where one price gets you access to regular banner ad driven content and another price gets you that plus e-edition.