Across the globe, this was definitely another challenging year for business. Budgets are tight and more than likely the money you've set aside to advertise your business creates its own challenges. You have two choices, spend your money on an expensive advertisement campaign or spend your money wisely with banner placement at target niche websites focused on content management and website development. We, of course, hope you consider CMS Report as part of your winning ad strategy.
Our sponsors are winners in our yearbook. These are the folks that help CMSReport.com pay for the bills we receive from our hosing company and internet service provider. Sponsorship also funds the purchase of any software or hardware needed to support this site. Without sponsorship, niche sites like this one simply wouldn't be able to run debt free.
CMS Report continues to provide great content on a wide variety of content management related topics. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site through BuySellAds. For those times that we have sold out on our banner space, BuySellAds does offer sponsors the ability to put themselves on a waiting list to advertise on our site when space becomes available.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Sitecore - Sitecore Web Content Management System (CMS) software helps you create and keep up-to-date dynamic, full featured websites of all types. See the whitepaper.
Contegro - Opening the door to bigger business opportunities.See just how hassle-free Contegro really is.
Accrisoft - Accrisoft creates complete, hosted software products that include everything web development companies need to take control of their businesses. Check out their flagship products...Freedom CMS and Endeavor CRM.
Jahia - Jahia is "the next generation of Web Content Management". Create and assemble web initiatives in a breeze with zero code composition.
Contensis - Discover Contensis. The latest innovations in web-based content management technology allows you to empower your staff and engage your audience.
JomSocial - JomSocial is a Joomla-based platform for building social networks and community websites with collaboration tools, Facebook-like features and more.
Sourcecoast: JBFConnect by Sourcecoast. Joomla plus Facebook - Simplifying social integration for your Joomla! site.
StackIdeas - EasyBlog is a user friendly, extensive and powerful blog component for Joomla!
Telerik - Sitefinity CMS is an ASP.NET CMS that just may provide you "The Best in User Experience for your Website".
Nothing spooky about these sponsors
While this is the time for trick-or-treat, most businesses and web developers I know don't want to be distracted by those knocking at their door that may or may not the real deal. This is one of the reasons I've always been selective on which companies I allow to become sponsors here at CMS Report. For Halloween, I'll allow my son to dress up as Darth Maul, but if you're selling me products you better be dressed up in quality services and quality products.
Our sponsors are the visitor at your door, ready to have a serious adult conversation about meeting your content management needs. Acquia, Sitecore, Contegro, Accrisoft, Jahia, Contensis, JomSocial, Sourcecoast, Stackideas, and Telerik...all amazing companies that I think you should take a look at.
CMS Report continues to provide great content on a wide variety of content management related topics. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site through BuySellAds. For those times that we have sold out on our banner space, BuySellAds does offer sponsors the ability to put themselves on a waiting list to advertise on our site.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia's Drupal Gardens - Building Drupal websites just got easier with Acquia and Drupal Gardens. Launch a product, promote an event, engage a community - You can create socially smart websites and microsites that accelerate your business with Drupal Gardens.
Sitecore - Sitecore Web Content Management System (CMS) software helps you create and keep up-to-date dynamic, full featured websites of all types. See the whitepaper.
Contegro - Opening the door to bigger business opportunities.See just how hassle-free Contegro really is.
Accrisoft - Accrisoft creates complete, hosted software products that include everything web development companies need to take control of their businesses. Check out their flagship products...Freedom CMS and Endeavor CRM.
Jahia - Jahia is "the next generation of Web Content Management". Create and assemble web initiatives in a breeze with zero code composition.
Contensis - Discover Contensis. The latest innovations in web-based content management technology allows you to empower your staff and engage your audience.
JomSocial - JomSocial is a Joomla-based platform for building social networks and community websites with collaboration tools, Facebook-like features and more.
Sourcecoast: JBFConnect by Sourcecoast. Joomla plus Facebook - Simplifying social integration for your Joomla! site.
StackIdeas - EasyBlog is a user friendly, extensive and powerful blog component for Joomla!
Telerik - Sitefinity CMS is an ASP.NET CMS that just may provide you "The Best in User Experience for your Website".
CMS Report's August Sponsors Are Special
Acquia, Sitecore, Contegro, Jahia, Contensis, Sourcecoast, Stackideas...you are all amazing companies to sponsor us during the month of August. CMS Report is going to turn it up a few notches in the weeks ahead and whether you're a reader or a sponsor...I think you're going to really like the changes that are about to take place here at this site.
A thank you for CMS Report's July Sponsors
Our July sponsors deserve a round of applause. Sites such as ours often see a lighter traffic traffic to our sites during the summer months. Our sponsors know this well, yet have been more than willing to stick it out and cheer us on during the Dog Days of Summer.
A big thanks to CMS Report's Sponsors
CMS Report continues to provide what we think is great content on a wide variety of content management topics. Historically, we've had a very low turnover rate with our sponsors and we appreciate their loyalty here at CMSReport.com. Sponsorship helps us pay the bills we receive from our host provider and internet service provider. Sponsorship also funds the purchase of any software or hardware needed to support this site.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space for this site through BuySellAds and Google. This past week we introduced a new 300x250 Medium Rectangle spot and once it is sold we'll make sure it is placed on almost every page of our site. For the periods of time that we have sold out our banner space, BuySellAds does offer sponsors the ability to put themselves on a waiting list to advertise on our site.
You will want to note that we're in the middle of upgrading our site and trying out a new layout. We recognize that sponsors do not always like to see such fluid changes when advertising on sites. However, if you're a sponsor looking for an audience that does like to see their content management systems evolve and willing to try out new products then you came to the right place. While our audience may be small (40,000 impressions) our CPC is high (0.45) which helps you know that the content management crowd visits here often.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia's Drupal Gardens - Building Drupal websites just got easier with Acquia and Drupal Gardens. Launch a product, promote an event, engage a community - You can create socially smart websites and microsites that accelerate your business with Drupal Gardens.
Sitecore - Sitecore Web Content Management System (CMS) software helps you create and keep up-to-date dynamic, full featured websites of all types. See the whitepaper.
Jahia - Jahia is "the next generation of Web Content Management". Create and assemble web initiatives in a breeze with zero code composition.
Contensis - Discover Contensis. The latest innovations in web-based content management technology allows you to empower your staff and engage your audience.
Sourcecoast: JBFConnect by Sourcecoast. Joomla plus Facebook - Simplifying social integration for your Joomla! site.
Squarespace: Squarespace makes software that helps you manage your online life. Squarespace is a fully hosted, completely managed environment for creating and maintaining a website, blog or portfolio.
StackIdeas - EasyBlog is a user friendly, extensive and powerful blog component for Joomla!
Significant revenue growth seen with SilverStripe CMS
Wellington technology company SilverStripe has recorded its best company growth in its 10 year history, in contrast to the tough global economic conditions that have adversely affected much of the IT industry. SilverStripe recorded 190% revenue growth between 2007 and 2009, ranking SilverStripe the 37th fastest growing business in New Zealand as calculated by Deloitte for their 2009 New Zealand Fast 50 awards.
SilverStripe CEO Brian Calhoun explains that the company growth reflects the belief in open source and people: "This is a big deal for us because it shows that the things we believe in; open source, excellent web user experience, and a focus on the humans who use web technology, are all qualities that are appreciated by the business community."
Demand for SilverStripe's services are also represented in physical book sales. In October 2009, a 432 page SilverStripe developer manual was published. This book has sold out on multiple occasions at Amazon.com and ranks in Amazon's top 100 fastest selling website programming books worldwide. The book allows website developers to build complex websites using SilverStripe's open source software, which has been downloaded over 250,000 times.
Sponsors help CMS Report say no to In-Text Advertisement
Here at CMS Report we do not accept cash for product reviews nor do we accept In-Text Advertisement. In-Text Advertisement is the annoying marketing technique used by some sites that produce a pop-up advertisement whenever you let your mouse rollover the contextual link. Besides ethical issues, we just feel these marketing techniques do not provide visitors a good online experience. So instead, we try to choose less intrusive forms of advertisement here at CMSReport.com.
For revenue, we rely on sponsorship and banner advertisement. Our generous sponsors help pay for our servers, software, and additional expenses the comes with hosting CMSReport.com. If you would like to be included as a sponsor of CMSReport.com, please consider taking advantage of the sponsorship opportunities currently available.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
Sitecore - Sitecore provides web content management and portal software for organizations to create compelling website experiences. Sitecore enables stakeholders to rapidly implement a successful online business strategy, and measure and manage that ongoing website success.
SkyBlueCanvas - SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS is an open source, free content management system written in php and built specifically for small web sites. SkyBlueCanvas is custom-built for those instances when more robust systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are too much horsepower.
StormWeb - StormWeb is a high-technology web hosting company based in Ontario, Canada.
HostDone - HostDone Inc. offers affordable hosting without loosing the quality of web hosting service and performance.
Wild Apricot - Wild Apricot has been specifically built to store member records and contact lists and link them to your Website and other software tools to automate and streamline administrative tasks for clubs, associations and communities.
Netidnow - NetIDNow provides all the tools you need to make your own website or an ecommerce store quickly and inexpensively.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Artisteer - Artisteer provides Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes. Design WordPress Blogs, professional Joomla! and Drupal templates, and cool Website designs in minutes
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.
Focus on print hurts newspaper sites
Mark Van Pattern has written a piece on PBS's MediaShift titled, "How the Focus on Print Hurts Our Newspaper Site". His story is a common story I hear time after time from those in the newspaper business.
It's definitely no tangled bureaucracy, but even within this simple system you find conflicts holding the website back. The problem is that the different people in that system just have different priorities. As general manager, I want to see both a strong online presence and continued healthy print circulation. In contrast, the managing editor doesn't want to "hurt" the print edition by making the online edition too strong, fearing that it could tempt subscribers to abandon print.
Ultimately, this conflict is what's holding our online edition back. Without a full commitment from the managing editor, the website will never reach its full potential.
The digital age remains to be a dillemna for newspapers. Newspapers either have to ballance their resources between print and online media or put more focus on one over the other. I think it becomes even more difficult for publications when they find a large readership online yet the higher revenue remains on the print side. Although it may take some years, I still say that eventually online media will beat old media. It is just a matter of time.
Freelancing on White Papers
Nice reminder from The Content Wrangler on where the money:
Are you looking to drum up some new business? Want to get more dollars from existing clients? Are you a starving writer?
White paper expert Michael A. Stelzner, author of Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged, provides the following reasons white papers could dramatically increase your writing revenue...[more]
Over the past couple years, I've been asked by a few if I would be willing to write a white paper recommending a content management system. information system, or specific product. For the most part, those opportunities always seem to arrive when I'm busy with other projects so I declined. When I wasn't busy, I was asked to write positively about a product I knew nothing about (I declined) as well as a specific information system which I believed could be better written within the company (the potential client had smarter people than me and they agreed).
Saying Goodbye to Old Media
MySiouxFalls.com is a new and local online news source for the city where I currently reside, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. At first, I was not all that excited about the site and had not plan on mentioning the MySiouxFalls.com site here at CMS Report. We've all seen these sites before, right? In fact, I would say that many of the visitors to this blog likely have designed or participated in building sites similar to MySiouxFalls.com. That's not to say that there are not some things from a content management perspective worth mentioning.
Open source fans likely would have interest in knowing that the site runs Joomla! for it's content management system. Weather buffs who border on the geeky side also might find interest that much of the site's weather graphics are provide by HAMweather. HAMweather provides weather-related products and services (some of it for free) and in my opinion produces some of the best "custom" graphics derived from the National Weather Service's NDFD. While the site's software has caught my attention, for a change it is something else that has caught my attention. After visiting the site a few times and a chain of events, I suddenly realized that sites such as MySiouxFalls, NowPublic, and The Register are slowly changing my habits as a news reader.
