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Today, we add a new feature to the advertising lineup.

I hope you've noticed a new small "button," or promotional box, on our website (currently just on the main home page, www.arktimes.com) that says "Arkanas Times coupons."

Click it and you'll be taken to pages of valuable coupons from local businesses. If one of them sounds good to you, you merely "clip" it, or print it for use at the business of your choice. We hope you'll find it useful. $10 off a dinner for two, a 15 percent wine discount, 25 percent off drycleaning, free grill accessories with a grill purchase, $2 off dinnner theater tickets, to name a few -- they sound useful to me. But I am, of course, biased.

On the jump, you'll find a news release about the partnership that has started this new service. In short, it localizes a growing national Internet coupon business. Check it out.

NEWS RELEASE

LITTLE ROCK, AR—Analog Analytics and the Arkansas Times announced a new partnership today aimed at helping local businesses expand their online revenues. Using innovative technology that makes web coupons easy for news sites to host—and even easier for customers to virtually “clip” with their printers, phones, and other devices—Analog hopes to bring new levels of profitability and exposure to the Times and Little Rock-area merchants.

The partnership is the latest in a string of successful ventures for the company, which has already convinced other local news sites nationwide to implement its unique online coupon services.

“For the most part, local papers are in the same bind as larger national papers—they’ve created websites with tons of great content, but they need to better promote the sites’ advertising potential to local businesses,” said Kenneth Kalb, Analog’s CEO. “So we’ve created an entirely new revenue stream publishers and advertisers can tap into, one that will attract anyone who uses the newspaper’s site because it offers something valuable.”

The partnership with the Times is groundbreaking because it gives area businesses a potentially huge local web audience that they would not otherwise be able to reach. Analog will offer a full range of services to both the paper and its clients, from designing attractive coupons to ensuring they reach the right readers through industry-first software solutions. Together, Kalb and Times publisher Alan Leveritt hope to help local businesses tap into the growing number of consumers hungry for money-saving deals in an uncertain economic climate.

The evidence for this large new audience is more than anecdotal. According to industry monitor Inmar Inc., online coupon use grew by 140% last year alone for larger manufacturers. Given the new Analog/Times partnership, local advertisers now have ample reason to believe that they can achieve similar revenue growth in central Arkansas.

ABOUT ANALOG ANALYTICS
Based in Southern California, Analog Analytics offers the nation’s first massively scalable digital coupon solution for local online advertising. The company is headed by Kenneth Kalb, an award-winning entrepreneur with a track record of transforming small tech firms into highly profitable “Fast 500” members. For more information, please visit www.analoganalytics.com

Comments

Great idea but I'm having problems finding the coupons somehow. Give me a general clue where to look... top, bottom, left, right?

Posted by: Country Boy | July 1, 2009 01:11 PM

You have to go to the Arkansas Times Home page, not the Blog page. You'll see the word COUPONS on the right. Look for green lettering.

Arky

Posted by: Arky | July 1, 2009 01:14 PM

Thanks! I see it now. Don't know how I missed the Home Page part.

Posted by: Country Boy | July 1, 2009 01:42 PM

I give up. Your web person should design puzzles. There is some obvious talent there.

ARK. BLOG: It's now on blog page as well as home page. Right there up near the top of the right-hand of the three columns of the page. Arkansas Times Coupons with a little jiggling white arrow. Click on it.

Posted by: bugeyedlittlefreak | July 1, 2009 04:19 PM

I SEE IT!!!

Posted by: bugeyedlittlefreak | July 1, 2009 07:06 PM

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