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Our new Wine Guide is packed with tips and advice on choosing and serving wine, from how to pair it with foods to information about the best way — and specific temperatures — to store and serve wines. It’s beautifully designed to help you sell to upscale advertisers.

You can download a complete sample section here.

The media is available in InDesign pages, ready-to-print PDFs, text and photos so you can re-arrange it for your market. It includes seven pages of content, plus tab and broadsheet covers.

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Millions of people enjoy skiing in the winter, which means it’s big business for resorts and ski shops across the country. If you’re looking for content to help your ski-related advertisers target this lucrative market, our new Ski Guide special section can help.

You can download a complete sample section here.

The media is available in InDesign pages, ready-to-print PDFs, text and photos so you can re-arrange it for your market. It includes seven pages of content, plus tab and broadsheet covers.

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From recipes to home improvement tips, this section is all about how to enjoy and fix up your home this autumn. It includes seven pages of content, plus tab and broadsheet covers.

The pages are built in InDesign, and we also include the PDFs, text and photos so you can customize it for your market. Pages are designed to fit a full tab page or the top half of a broadsheet.

You can download a complete sample section here.

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School is almost back in session, which makes it a great time to help back-to-school advertisers with topical content.

Back to School 2012 from Green Shoot Media is a mini-section that gives advice to parents and students about how to make the transition back to school. It has study tips, advice for picking clothes for the first day of school, and lots more!

It includes four pages of content plus tab and broadsheet covers. You can download a complete sample section here.

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As the weather heats up, homeowners everywhere are looking for ways to both relax and add value to their homes. This section — “Home & Garden – Summer 2012” — is about how to make home improvements and enjoy your time in the sun.

NOTE: This is the first section we’ve built from scratch in Adobe InDesign. It includes the InDesign documents that can be opened in CS4, CS5 and CS6, but it does not include the Quark documents like our previous sections.

It includes seven pages of content plus tab and broadsheet covers. You can download a complete sample section here.

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People everywhere are going to be watching the 2012 Olympics, talking about them and sharing the emotions of winning and losing with their favorite athletes.

This section from Green Shoot Media previews the London 2012 games, which start July 27. It’s all about the history, spectacle and pageantry of the Olympics themselves — including information on the Olympic venues, the lesser-known sports, what to expect in the opening ceremonies, and great moments in Olympic history.

It includes 11 pages of content plus tab and broadsheet covers. You can download a complete sample section here.

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Released in time for Earth Day 2012, Go Green is our newest section about protecting the planet. It focuses on living a green lifestyle, with stories on everything from green investing to reusable shopping bags.

It includes seven pages of content plus tab and broadsheet covers. You can download a complete sample section here.

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Home & Garden 2012 has eight pages of content, including the cover, and is pre-designed to be used as a full tab page or the top half of a broadsheet. Topics include trends in gardening, landscaping, home renovations, kitchen and bath design, and more!

It’s the perfect section to help your seasonal retail advertisers in the spring and summer.

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Our “How to Guide” copy collection includes a whopping 227 stories, all of which are re-written for 2014.

You can get the entire package for one low price, giving you the tools you need to expand your sales efforts to all types of new advertisers.

Better yet, once you order our How To Guide we can also write custom “how to” stories for just $30 each, which means you can target every type of business in your market — no matter how obscure!

Topics include how to choose doctors and other professionals to septic companies and farm trailers. It’s designed to help you sell to niche advertisers with stories specifically about their industry.

227 TOPICS INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE:

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“How to Choose an ATV”

“How to Choose a Title Company”

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Our newest bridal section explains the latest trends in weddings for this year, from colors to fashion and food.

Brides 2012 is all about what’s hot — from Victorian dresses to the “goodnight station” — all in a fully-designed package that will make it easy on your staff.

You can download a complete sample section here.

This section includes seven pages of content, plus tab and broadsheet covers. We include the high-resolution PDF files, text, photos and Quark 4.0 pages (which can be opened in InDesign).

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November is National Sleep Comfort Month, which makes it the perfect time to help your readers shop for a new mattress.

To mark the occasion, Green Shoot Media has created three pages about why it’s important to buy a quality sleep system. They’re designed to help boost your retail ad sales and give useful tips for shoppers at the same time.

You can see a low-res PDF of all three pages here.

Feel free to print them out and show them to your local mattress stores to see if they’d like to buy some ads.

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Our new Fall Home & Garden section is all about getting ready for the holidays and hunkering down for a long winter. With a focus on families and home improvement, this section targets a wide range of potential advertisers, from home and garden centers to insulation contractors and landscapers.

It comes with eight pages of content, plus tab and broadsheet covers, all pre-designed with high-resolution photos. Pages are in both PDF and Quark 6.5 for Mac formats, and they’re designed to be used as a tab page or the top half of a broadsheet. You can download low-resolution sample pages below.

Topics include:

• Five ideas for fall fun with kids
• Getting a head start on your spring landscaping
• Planting and picking pansies
• Setting a Thanksgiving centerpiece
• Removing “popcorn” ceiling texture
• Sealing your air ducts to save money
• How to winterize your home

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Local Deals is our online application that extends newspaper classifieds into social media and mobile devices.

Here’s how it works:

1. You send us a digital feed of your classified ads.

2. We post your ads in our Local Deals application on Facebook. See it here. Users can “like” the ads, share them with their friends, post them to their own Facebook wall, and e-mail them to other people.

3. A message is automatically posted to your newspaper’s Facebook and Twitter accounts saying you just added “new deals.” Readers can click a link to see your ads.

4. We automatically create a version of your classifieds that’s formatted for mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad and Blackberry. Look at it on your cell phone here.

FAQs

BUSINESS
How do I make money from this?
However you like! You could upsell your classified customers for each ad posted (“For an extra $2.99, we’ll put your ad on social media and mobile phones.”) You could make it a forced buy for all your classifieds. Or you could offer it at no cost as an added benefit for your classified customers, helping you keep your classifieds on the leading edge of technology so you sell more ads over time. It’s entirely up to you.

What are the ad rates?
You set the rates on your own. You pay us a flat fee for the service, and you can charge your classified customers whatever price you think is right. You know your market.

Does Green Shoot Media get a cut of the ad revenue?
Nope. Our customers keep 100% of the revenue they generate.

Is this something that could compete with newspapers?
No. There’s already one Craigslist, and it’s doing perfectly fine on its own.
When you sign up for Local Deals, part of the agreement is for Green Shoot Media to not sell or accept third-party classifieds for the site. The only classifieds that appear are the ones that are directly posted by you, our customers. In fact, your newspaper’s contact information is at the top of every page so readers will know to contact you to buy ads.

SOFTWARE
How do I enter the ads?
Ads are sent to us via a digital feed, typically in XML format (although we’ve gotten others to work, too). E-mail a sample of your feed to sales@greenshootmedia.com, and we’ll talk with our developers to see if we can make it work.

How do our readers find the ads?
There are several ways. When someone interacts with your ads in Facebook, other people will see it in their friends’ Facebook stream. They could also find the ads by seeing the messages in your Twitter and Facebook page feeds. And one of the best ways is to post a link to your Facebook ads on your newspaper’s homepage. Newspapers that do a good job promoting Local Deals with house ads and Web site links will have the best results.

Home & Garden, a new section for 2011, has eight pages of content, including the cover, and is pre-designed to be used as a full tab page or the top half of a broadsheet. Topics include decorating kids’ rooms, picking paint colors, cooking freezer meals, growing tomatoes in small spaces, and more.

It’s the perfect section to help your seasonal retail advertisers in the spring and summer.

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Green Earth 2011 is all about steps people can take to keep the planet healthy. It’s designed to please advertisers and readers alike with stories on:

• Reducing your carbon footprint
• Creating less trash
• Marketing your business
• Making your yard more eco-friendly
• Teaching kids about the environment

Considering how many companies want to market themselves as being “green,” it’s a great section for driving new revenue this year.

If you don’t need another special section, consider running it as a series over seven days. You can run our pre-designed content on the top half of the page and run sponsor ads on the bottom half.

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If you want a new way to target specific advertisers this spring and summer, Green Shoot Media has created a special section that can help. Called the “Summer Fun Guide,” it’s all about how families can have a blast this summer, including shopping tips for boats, RVs, ATVs, motorcycles, barbecue grills, fishing and camping equipment, backyard pools, and more.

This could be a great opportunity in a lot of markets, especially for those advertisers who want to try something new this year.

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Local businesses keep their profit in town where it helps the economy; they pay taxes to support local services; they provide jobs for local people; and small-business owners are often the backbone of the community, filling leadership roles and volunteering to help worthy causes.

But do your readers know this?

To help spread the word about the “shop local” movement – and drive sales at your paper at the same time – Green Shoot Media created our Shop Local special section. It’s all about why spending your money locally is better for the community and better for shoppers.

You can save time, money and gas by shopping in town. You’re keeping your downtown alive, getting more personalized service and helping your friends and neighbors in the community. Our special section explains all this and more.

ADD LOCAL PHOTOS

We designed this section using eye-catching photography that will work for any newspaper. But if you really want to spice up the section, you can add photos of local business owners in your city, putting familiar faces behind the “shop local” logic.

You could draw a box on top of our existing photos and replace it with your own local images. It should be easy for your graphics department to do.

Like all our sections, Shop Local is designed to fit either a full tabloid page or the top half of a broadsheet. It’s seven pages of content, plus tab and broadsheet covers.

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