If you’ve stumbled across this site , you’ve no doubt been able to figure it out. It’s a citizen journalism site, with a built-in advertising component. In fact, it has quite a few built-in advertising components. We’re rolling our own Adsense-like ads here, and providing a directory service AND blogs for businesses.The goal is to fund the site (and make a profit) by giving small, local businesses an entryway onto the Internet.
The word “synergy” is overused in the online world, but this time it applies. We’re selling advertising space AND we’re giving businesses something TO advertise. AND we’re nurturing citizen journalism sites that can publish the ads.
And we’re not going to be stingy. Any central Illinois blog or Internet site publisher can get paid to publish our clients’ ads. The “affiliate” payout is 75 percent of all incoming revenue.
But as I write this, we are not quite ready to go. Check back in a few days.
Until then, feel free to click on some links. Contact us if you are interested in anything we’re offering.
