None. With Cyber News Online, you don’t need any special Internet or IT skills. We will design your web site (online publication) for you, or work with your existing team, and ensure that all the technical bases are covered, leaving you to concentrate on your message and content.

We already have a website, can we use that?

Certainly. If you have a good design and content, you can use that as the basis for your news online site.

How long will it take to get online?

As long as it takes to design and build the site.We recommend that you allow one month. It can be done more quickly, or it can take longer. Its up to you. Once the site is established, you will want to upload a a couple of test editions, then you can go for the big launch.

We already have an online edition, but it is limited in its scope/design?

Don’t worry. The beautry of Cyber News Online is that it makes it very easy to produce a regular, full online edition. We can work with whatever you have to upgrade your online presence – without wasting any previous investment.

We use an obscure publishing system for our print edition?

No problem, Cyber News Online will convert the source into web ready content.

We don’t have a print edition, but we want to start producing an online edition?

No problem. Write your articles in any format (eg, MS Word) and Cyber News Online takes care of the rest.

Can we use the website for other information, as well as news?

Of course, as well as delivering your publication seamlessly, the website can provide any other news and information about your company and people – or absolutely anything else.

The per-edition workload

What special skills do we need on a daily basis?

None. With Cyber News Online, you don’t need any special Internet or IT skills. The systen has a standard Microsoft Windows TM interface which means that it is familiar and easy to use. It comes with tutorials, manuals and online help. And it takes care of the techie stuff transparently, behind the scenes. We take care of the web server, online database, and other dynamic features (24 hours a day) so that you can concentrate on your core competence.

How easy is it to include photos and illustrations?

Very easy. Save the photos on you hard disk as, say JPEG files, insert them in your stories, and use the arrow keys to position them.

How long does it take to produce an online edition?

Our experience is that after a few day’s practice, it will take about 30 minutes to produce an online edition.

Circulation and Revenue

Won’t an online edition take away readers from my print edition?

On the contrary, an online edition will probably increase readership/circulation of the print edition. See next Q&A.

How can an online edition help increase circulation of my print edition?

We have found that an online edition raises awareness of, and interest in, the print edition. Your news and information becomes available to a wider audience, especially readers who have moved out of your news stand area. And the online suscription module makes it easier for readers to buy and manage suscriptions to the print edition.

Even if an online edition will boost circulation, I don’t like the idea of giving away my news for free

In this case, we suggest that you make your headlines freely available, but charge for viewing some or all of the articles. You can take payment online on a case by case basis, or allow readers to suscribe to all articles for a given time period, perhaps monthly or annually.

How will having an online edition boost revenue?

An online edition opens up opportunities for numerous new sources of revenue, including the following:

New subscriptions to the print edition
Paid access to online news and information
Display advertising
Classified advertising
Births, marriages, obituaries
Other personals
A wider audience for other sales and promotions