And reach a high-end, influential audience too…

Are you an advertiser trying to find the most economical way to reach that dream demographic audience? Are you a political candidate trying to build name recognition without having to spend a fortune on road side signs? Are you with a non-profit organization trying to raise the profile of your group and the issues you support and gain new members?

With newspaper circulations in free-fall and more people turning to the Web for news and information, blog advertising is becoming THE WAY to go!

Are you a political candidate running for local office and trying to build name recognition? Are you spending a fortune on roadside signs, newspaper ads, TV ads or even telemarketers?

Data now shows that more and more, that is a waste of time and money. You want to be seen on the hottest blogs around. And there is no doubt this independent news site is being read by the most influential members of communities not only in Alabama, but all over the country and the world.

The Locust Fork News-Journal is one of the fastest and most tasteful news sites anywhere online covering politics, science, nature and the environment, media news and views and more. This is not just some little opinion blog or home to a bunch of activist rantings and ravings.

Weblogs were designed to be an alternative to the mainstream, corporate news media. With a quarter century of real journalism education and experience behind us, we challenge any blogger or newspaper anywhere for results. We break news and write with flair.

Data shows that readers of blogs are hyper-influentials. According to a 2007 blog reader survey, these are hyper-engaged online — 68 percent spend five or more hours a week reading blogs, 21 percent have their own blogs and 61 percent leave comments on blogs, the modern equivalent of the letter to the editor.

And they’re hyper-engaged offline as well. Ninety percent voted in 2006, 81 percent have written or called an elected official and 70 percent have donated online in the last six months to a cause or campaign, while 78 percent have college degrees and 53 percent make more than $75,000 a year.

For many companies and candidates in the American South, making the transition to the Web from traditional media advertising lags behind the rest of the country. But the day is coming soon when the transition will take place.

If you want to help get this trend going, and just don’t understand how it all works, get in touch with us and we will help you.

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Use this unique combination of a news and blog interface to reach an affluent, tech-savvy audience who more and more are turning to FREE online news sites to keep up with the news on politics and government, business and labor, science, nature and the environment, media news and views and more.

If you are a local business or political candidate, and don’t understand how this works, get in touch and we will even build your Website and show you how to raise money online too.

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So if you have considered helping out before, but have so far just procrastinated that decision, now is the time to act! We need your help to continue providing the coverage you have come to enjoy — and to ramp up our coverage to greater heights! We have only just begun to explore the possibilities!

If all of this interests you but sounds like jibber jabber, please e-mail editor and publisher Glynn Wilson at fast2write@charter.net, or call 205-960-3639.