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At the Brainerd Dispatch and Echo Publishing, our mission is to provide businesses in and around the lakes area effective marketing solutions with our vast array of print and digital media products, and knowledgeable media consultants to help them make the most of their budget.

In following our mission statement, the Brainerd Dispatch and Echo Publishing (DE Media) examines each individual account and designs an ideal marketing plan to promote business growth and increase customer reach.

DE Media, working as a partner with area businesses, can offer both traditional advertising along with the latest technology advances. Our combined print and digital marketing options help us connect with almost everyone in the lakes area on a weekly, daily and hourly basis.

With DE Media, you’re covered when it comes to traditional print advertising as the Dispatch reaches 25,000 readers every day while the Echo Publishing weekly publications – the Lake Country Echo and the Pine River Journal – reach more than 12,000 readers each week. Our three newspapers continue to be a primary source for news and information in the lakes area.

Print advertising is also effective with DE Media’s free distribution products as the Echoland-Piper Shopper has a weekly average reach of 21,000 homes from Baxter to Walker while the Neighbors Shopper reaches more than 7,500 non-Dispatch subscribers in the Brainerd/Baxter area and communities to the south.

DE Media maintains its status as an online leader in the lakes area as brainerddispatch. com has more than 215,000 unique visitors per month while pineandlakes.com averages 22,000 monthly visitors. Brainerddispatch.com also averages 1.6 million page views per month while pineandlakes.com averages 145,000.

A mobile app can bring our products right to your smart phone or IPad to provide an electronic marketing platform. We also offer consulting services that combine all of our online and print products. Contact us and so we can be marketing partners in 2013.

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WEEKEND EDITION

SPORTS:

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Fired up!

Racing fuel pours out of Luigi Novelli Top Fuel Dragster Friday night just before the car caught fire while making a run at the Lucas Oil Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.

Novelli was unhurt in the incident. For more photos go to spotted. brainerddispatch.com.

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finalists

By MIKE O’ROURKE mike.orourke@brainerddispatch.com

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iting the absence of a “wow” reaction, the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport Commission Friday rejected the two airport manager finalists it interviewed this month.

The two candidates were Neil A. Ralston of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Willard Turner of El Centro, Calif.

“Neither of them wowed me enough to make an offer at this point,” Brainerd Fire Chief Kevin Stunek, a member of the commission’s airport manager search committee, said.

Howard Pihlaja, a retired pilot and a member of the search committee, concurred, stating both candidates had shortcomings.

“I would not feel comfortable recommending either of those candidates,” he said.

The commission voted unanimously to inform the two finalists they would not be offered a job. Brainerd City Council member Kevin Goedker, an airport commission member, was not at Friday’s meeting.

Commission members thanked the search committee for its recommendation and for its work.

Commissioner Don Jacobson said he was looking for a strong leader and he “didn’t see that in either one.”

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By RENEE RICHARDSON renee.richardson@brainerddispatch.com

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federal lawsuit regarding voting rights, which named the state and Crow Wing County as defendants, was dismissed Friday.

Federal Judge Donovan Frank dismissed the challenge to sameday registration from two conservative groups and seven individuals who contended ineligible voters cast ballots in 2008 and 2010, the Associated Press reported, drawing from a Minnesota Public Radio report.

The AP reported Frank’s ruling found no federal laws were broken and the groups failed to unearth misconduct or fully pursue their case in state courts. The plaintiffs filed an appeal Friday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Crow Wing County Attorney Don Ryan and Auditor-Treasurer Laureen Borden, representatives of Ramsey County, Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, were all named in the lawsuit.

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By JESSI PIERCE tan’s summers “It has been so much jessi.pierce @brainerddispatch.com are filled with fun,” said Hansen, who taking a dip into any of set out to raise $12,400 the state’s 10,000 lakes. and achieved more than With all the options available, odds are $11,000 of it through her summer swim. people happen across a different lake or two “I’m actually really sad it’s coming to an throughout the warm months, but it’s rare end. We had so many people and so much support through this all. that number would reach 50.

Not for YMCA aquatics coordinator, Jane “It’s truly been a really fun adventure.”

Hansen. She can cross off 50 of them in 50 A mission she set out on June 29 to comdays. memorate the Brainerd Lakes YMCA’s 50th Hansen completed her goal of swimming anniversary, Hansen was joined by her friend 50 lakes in 50 days on Friday, hitting the wa- and YMCA member, Margaret Schaefer, who ter at Whipple Beach at 5:30 p.m., in an ef- kayaked alongside her rain or shine. fort to raise money for the YMCA’s aquatics See SWIMMER, Page 14A

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October 11, 2012

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counties were named as having people cast ballots in the 2010 general election who were not eligible to vote. Four people, who had their voting rights eliminated with their guardianships, voted in the 2010 election in Crow Wing County.

The lawsuit was filed by Minnesota Voters Alliance, Minnesota Freedom Council, Sondra Erickson, Montgomery Jensen, Ron Kaus, Jodi Lyn Nelson, Sharon Stene as guardian and friend for her son James Stene, Richard M. Smisson and Kathleen M. Olson.

“We disagree with the opinion,” said Andy Cilek, Minnesota Voters Alliance president, said Friday afternoon, adding the federal venue was the proper place for the issue not the state courts.

“It’s our view the judge failed to address our constitutional arguments. We filed for an appeal, a notice of appeal, this afternoon. ... This is a federal court decision so we disagree with the court.”

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NISSWA: She's involved

Christopher Eugene Wheeler

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Years

Pearl Probasco

earl Probasco rarely slept.

Neighbors could see her lights well into the night. No wonder. Her work continued long after her duties in the dairy barn were done.

Probasco was born Aug. 18, 1912, seven miles south of Hillman, about 40 miles from Brainerd. Her family reports she was the first white child born in Mt. Morris Township. Her parents, Peter and Emily Markusen, were second generation Norwegians from Wisconsin.

As a girl, Probasco worked on the farm, did household chores, cooked, chopped wood, hunted, trapped and, when she could fit it in, went to school. Born with a well-developed work ethic, as a young woman she was already working a cross-cut saw better than any man, according to her father. She married Joy Probasco on June 15, 1932, and they raised four children — Peter, Cleo, Jay and Wayne.

Her husband was a school teacher while she had the major role at the farm. It was work she relished.

At 99, with just hours to go to reach the 100th birthday, Probasco rested in a chair in her Bethany Good Samaritan apartment. As a reporter thanked her for donating time for an interview, she smiled and shrugged away the See 100 YEARS, Page 11A

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SPORTS: A Patriot upset page 18

PEQUOT LAKES CITY COUNCIL

Brown water incidents to be monitored over winter If problem persis ts,

The Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office announce d the release of a Level 3 sex offender to Lake Edward Township on Thursday, Oct. 11.

A community notification meeting was held Tuesday, Oct. 9, Nisswa Communi at the ty Center.

Christoph er Eugene Wheeler, 39, was scheduled to be released Thursday from the Departme Corrections. He was nt of to move to the 25000 block of Mud Lake Road in rural Nisswa.

According to the sheriff’s office report, Wheeler has a history of sexual conduct with juvenile female victims between ages 10-15.

He known to his victims, was and force and threats were used to gain complianc e.

Wheeler is 5 feet 5 inches tall with brown hair and brown eyes.

The sheriff’s office said the offender is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed on him by the court.

This notification was not intended to increase fear in the community.

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By RENEE RICHARDSON renee.richardson@brainerddispatch.com

Celebrating

city will take action; utility billing credit offered

by NaNcy Vogt

Family Fun Run

Lisa Martini, an Eagle View Elementa and her daughter s, Maci, 8, and Kelsi,ry School physical education teacher, approached the 6, along with 2K finish line of the second annual Quinn Trottier, 7, at right, Saturday, Oct. 6.

For photos at spotted.p more photos and results, see Patriot Family Fun Run on pages 12 and 17. ineandlakes.com.

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Lake Country Echo two weeks in August.

Editor City clerk Sandy Taking a wait-andPeine approach, the Pequot see said some people are underLakes standing; City others are irate Council agreed and upset. Many are buying Tuesday, Oct. 2, to monitor bottled the city’s recurring water. problem “I think it’s a goodwill with brown water over winter before taking the gesture,” Peine said. “These any people have possible action. been putting up with a lot.”

As a goodwill gesture to The council realized residents who have the city billing water and sewer, the credit doesn’t solve council the problem. agreed to offer them It’s believed that percent utility billing a 50 concredit struction for September. at Pequot School and high water Lakes “Obviously the usage should do something city in the city this summer led Mike Loven, public ,” said to the appearance of brown, works rusty supervisor. “My recommen water. The city flushed - hydrants, dation is at least 50 percent seemed but brown water of the water and to resurge every charges for a month. sewer seven days.

Some It showed up again people are being after asked to an industrial run their water for an firefighter park fire where extended period.” s used a lot of water from a hydrant.

The utility billing credit The would mean a one-time years cause: In the 40 $30-$40 savings for about have that the city didn’t 340 customers, or a water treatment plant, an esti- iron mated $22,960 city and manganese matericost.

City staff have received al that is natural in the environment coated 150 brown water complaint s the distributio the pipes in since mid-August, n system, and when started keeping track. they high water use has caused That that material doesn’t include complaint to break loose s and float in received in July and the water main. the first See WATER, Page 6A

Despite drizzle, fire danger rem ains high in are Residents urged a to be careful Photo by NaNcy Vogt

by NaNcy Vogt

Lake Country Echo Editor

Temperatures have cooled, skies have clouded and last week’s winds have died down, but the area wildfire danger remains high.

“Other than the fact that it has cooled down it hasn’t changed much because we haven’t had any measurable rain since October,” said Mark the first of area DNR fire programMortensen, forester.

“The last time we had signifi-

cant rain was Sept.

21, when had not quite one-tenth of an inch in Brainerd,” he said.

“We had anything significan haven’t to a quarter inch since t or close Sept. 7.”

What the area needs, Mortensen said, is a good, extended rain to alleviate dry conditions . Light rain is fine, as long as it lasts a couple of hours to penetrate the ground

Circulation: Brainerd Dispatch Daily Circulation averages 12,000 Brainerd Dispatch Sunday Circulation averages 17,000 Lake Country Echo Weekly Circulation averages 3,630 Pine River Journal Weekly Circulation averages 1,500 Echoland-Piper Shopper Weekly Circulation averages 21,000

“We still could have some serious fire conditions if we have the cover and soak in. right conditions,” Mortensen said.

A short, hard rain Residents are still that comes to being urged down so fast that take precautions, it and limitasurfaces won’t help just runs off tions are in place on campfires and dampen fire danger. open burning in Crow Wing, Cass and other 41 other Until the area gets counties. that needed rain, the wind, sun “We want people and ity can still combine low humid- what the regulation to be aware of s are and abide to fuel fires, even with cooler temperatu by them,” Mortensen said. res and gray days.

Campfires are allowed, but rules require that they be no more

than three feet in diameter and height, and five feet around the campfire of space cleared of all combustib must be le materials.

“Absolutely make is dead cold before sure that fire you leave,” Mortensen said, telling that even if they don’t residents see smoke or flames, they must ensure embers and ashes are cold.

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Tony Wenzel of Randall writes: “Here is a recent photo of a Green Head coming in for a landing, after the snow and bitter cold.” Do you have a recent scenic picture that shows the beauty of the lakes area? Send it to neighbors@brainerddispatch.com for possible publication in the Neighbors section. Be sure to include your name, where you are from, a brief description of the photo and when and where it was taken.

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Little Falls gains a new Eagle Scout

ITTLE FALLS — Andrew Borash, of Boy Scout Troop 51, recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout.

Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America — a feat that has been accomplished by only 42 young men in Troop 51’s 77-year history.

Borash is the 14-year-old son of Brenda and Jason Borash of Little Falls and is currently in eighth grade at Mary of Lourdes Middle School.

Borash became a Cub Scout in September 2005 as a Tiger Cub, continuing through the ranks as a Bobcat, Wolf, Bear and Webelo.

In May of 2010, at age 11, Andrew crossed over into the Boy Scout program to re-activate Troop 51 along with several other Scouts. Andrew has served in multiple leadership positions including patrol leader, historian, senior patrol leader and his current position of quartermaster. He was inducted into the Order of the Arrow this fall.

Scouting officials said becoming an Eagle Scout is a long and arduous process, requiring the Scout to earn a minimum of 21 merit badges, demonstrate strong Scout spirit, leadership and a dedication to service. The Eagle Scout candidate must also design,

manage and carry out a community service project. For his project, Borash originally planned on cleaning and edging around veterans’ footstones in three local cemeteries (Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Family, and Holy Trinity).

After visiting the sites, he decided that he wanted to do all of the footstones in each cemetery. He also committed to cleaning the concrete rows for the headstones and raise any sunken footstones to their original height.

Borash’s family, friends and fellow Scouts from Troop 51 and Troop 33 were recruited to help him with this project. After the first weekend of work, when it became evident that it would take more time than planned to finish the project, Borash didn’t give up. He even celebrated his 14th birthday with a cake in Holy Family cemetery while working.

After three weeks of hard work in the steamy July and August weather, a total of 1,255 footstones were cleaned, edged and raised. Twenty-five concrete rows were also edged and cleaned. A total of 680 1/2 hours were spent working on this service project.

Borash thanked all of the family, friends and Scouts who helped him with his Eagle Scout project.

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Andrew Borash recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He is the 14-year\nold son of Brenda and Jason Borash of Little Falls.

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Highest fund-raisers win a fishing trip with Al; second highest go fishing with Walleye Dan; third go with Ron Lindner. Many great rods and reels, fishing trips and other great merchandise prizes will be awarded. Many new friendships will also be made!

Teen Challenge thanks all donors for their 100-percent tax deductible support.

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The group meets at 11 a.m. for lunch on the first Monday of the month at Bonanza and the third Monday of the month at the Nisswa Legion Club. They also get together for other events, such as going to a performance, picnic, card parties or whatever event meets their fancy.

They’re open to anything the group wants to do. They’re each other’s support system, but in a more friendly, social way.

The Widowed Friends Club has been around since 1991, when it was sponsored by AARP. Then The Center in Brainerd began sponsoring the group, but today it’s on its own and is not sponsored by any other group. Members pay a $4 membership fee.

Dorothy Balken, Motley, president of the Widowed Friends Club, said there are approximately 46 members, who are age 50 or older, with the average age in the 70s. Balken said the group’s mission is to share stories with each other and to “get people out of the house.”

Balken said she lost her husband of almost 53 years in 2009 and after three years, she needed something.

“I needed a reason to get out and meet people,” said Balken.

“My family was close, but I was looking for more, sharing stories with others like me.”

Mary Graves of Nisswa, the group’s secretary, joined three years ago because she was lonesome after her husband of nearly 39 years passed away. Graves has a large family, who is supportive, but she felt like something was still missing. She saw an ad about a meeting for the Widowed Friends Club and thought she’d try it out.

“The people are so nice and I met a wonderful friend, companion, my best friend,” said Graves. “I’m not lonely anymore.”

Graves said before she joined the club, she tried a support group at her church, but said, “It was just too depressing.”

Pam Stenberg of Baxter, a member at-large, joined after her husband died in 2001, after 57 years of marriage.

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“I sat at home and felt sorry for myself,” said Lysdahl. “I decided to start life again and saw an advertisement about the club and came to a meeting. I felt uncomfortable, but it turned out to be the best blessing of all. When you lose a loved one and grieve, it’s nice to have others to talk to. I had to get out.”

Lysdahl said since 1995, 14 people have gotten married through the club.

“If you need a friend you’ll find one here,” said Balken. “There are many shared friendships here.”

Stenberg said people can come join and if they don’t want to play cards, they don’t have too. Stenberg said if they just want to sit and visit that is more than OK. “We have a good group here,” said Graves.

Anyone interested in joining the club can stop by and visit at one of the monthly meetings or contact Antonia Blanksma, the club’s correspondent at 825-0960.

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The Center’s wood carving group Oct. 2 learned the process from the expert, Bruce Gilbert, who recently became a Nisswa resident and is a longtime member of ToyMakers, a non-profit group that makes simple wooden toys for sick and needy chilthe pages of the Brainerd Dispatch dren. All the toys are designed to be safe and conApp Store. version. Get it now at iTunes tain no nails, screws or staples. The toys also use child-safe paint and have rounded corners.

The wood carving group is enlisting volunteers to be part of the new group called The Center’s ToyMakers to help make the wooden toys.

Gilbert was approached by a Lakewood Evangelical Free Church member about helping The Center with starting a ToyMakers’ group. Gilbert was happy to share his knowledge with the wood carvers so they can help the sick and needy children. Gilbert has been part of the ToyMakers group in Florida since 1999. Gilbert said the Florida group donates between 1,500 to 2,000 toys four times a year to children’s hospital, Ronald McDonald houses and other local agencies. He said the Brainerd group will be able to make the toys for their local nonprofit organizations that they see fit that will help children involved in trauma.

“This organization began when a man and his wife had their daughter in the children’s hospital and there were no toys,” said Gilbert. “They made toys and brought it to the hospital and started the non-profit.”

All the materials and money are donated to ToyMakers and they also looks for scraps to use for the toys.

Gilbert brought his toy patterns to The Center for the wood carving group to make their own patterns.

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alice Bollum works on drawing out a pattern for one of the wooden toys she’ll be making at the center in Brainerd.

rocking horse and even a doll.

He also donated scraps of wood and wheels to the Brainerd group to give them a head start on their project.

George Sommerfeld of Brainerd, a member of the wood carving group at The Center, said, “I think this is a good thing.

I hope we can get enough people to do this. There is always a need for kids to have toys.

“These toys should be pretty simple to make. I do a lot of wood working.”

Dick Carlson of Nisswa said, “This is a good idea and it gives the ones who don’t know how to carve, something else to do outside the group. There will be a lot of sanding, painting, gluing and cutting.”

Ron Kulla of Baxter has been do wood carving for five years is looking forward to making the simple wooden toys for needy children.

“This is a good deal,” said Kulla.

Bonnie Mattraw of Lake Shore and Alice Bollum of Brainerd also are members of the wood carving group and look forward to the project. Mattraw said that she

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merly known as the Lakes Area Senior Activity Center, will do.

Members of the center’s wood carving group are starting a new group to help make wooden toys for needy children.

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makes wooden toys when she spends her winters in Arizona. Bollum said she likes to carve and does a lot of animals and wooden spoons. Bollum said she doesn’t like the finishing part of the product, but joked that she’ll talk someone else to finish her toys.

Bollum said, “This is a great idea. We donate a lot at our church, especially sending stuff overseas.

The Center’s ToyMakers will meet at 9 a.m.

Tuesdays in the wood shop on the fourth floor of the center.

DeAnn Barry, executive director of the senior center, said “I hope there is a lot of interest in this new group. It’s great to see the wood carving group take on another community project. This is a great way for us to give back to the kids in the community.”

Those interested in joining the group can contact Barry at the center at 829-9345. Barry said the toys would be donated to organizations in the Brainerd lakes area. Barry said they also are looking for donations of wood scraps, Minwax varnish, lead-free paint, paint brushes and money to purchase wooden wheels and other needed items.

Bruce Gilbert, who recently became a Nisswa resident and is a longtime member of toyMakers, a non-profit group that makes simple wooden toys for sick and needy children is helping a Brainerd group get started in making the toys.

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Failure to meet these requests will not constitute cause for adjustment, refund or rerun of the advertisement, unless a positioning surcharge has been paid.

will see on the final piece. This is due to the fact that your profiles may not match our profiles during final output causing the colors to shift to try to match our profiles.

• All fonts must be embedded.

• OPI cannot be used.

• Any images used in your original document should be at a minimum resolution of 200 dpi.

• All PDF’s created from software that supports layers and live transparencies (i.e. Adobe CS Suite, Quark, etc.) must have all layers and live transparencies flattened within the final PDF delivered to us. If this is not done we can not guarantee your transparency settings will match ours during the digital work flow. This could potentially create undesired effects in the final output of your ad.

• PDFwriter is not acceptable for creating a PDF for print production.

At our discretion we may occasionally choose to work with PDF’s created from Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher, or other office applications as best we can, but can not guarantee final output. They are designed for Desktop Publishing not Print Production and typically are missing important capabilities for producing CMYK color, correct font embedding, etc.

• We also will accept native files which must include all supporting fonts and graphics. Please call ahead to be sure we have compatible versions of software to open and work with the files.

• Any copy not sent as a digital file will be converted digitally (scanned) and will probably suffer a loss of quality in the conversion.

• If you have concerns or questions regarding any of the above please feel free to call.

Specs For Sending Ads Our preferred ad delivery format is PDF Version 1.3 (Acrobat 4 Standard).

• All spot colors, RGB, etc. should be converted to CMYK prior to final PDF creation.

• Due to the nature of the newsprint printing process rich black or black made up of CMYK should not be used.

• Type that is overprinted should be no smaller than 5pt, type that is knocking out of more than one color should be no smaller than 8pt.

• When using type at the minimum sizes take into account the fonts you are using as some script and thin bodied type may still be too thin at these sizes.

• Do not use ICC or embedded color profiling as there could be a potential color shift from what you see on your screen versus what you

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Ad Strategy

A subset of your Marketing Plan, Ad Strategy is identifying the different ad options you have and how you can use them effectively.

Audience

An Audience is a way to separate your consumer base into different categories that you can identify, target and track. Audience is important to identify when planning your marketing and evaluating your marketing’s effectiveness.

Behavioral Targeting

By tracking an individual’s activity online, search engines and other programs are able to assign particular behaviors, that when displayed, trigger ad delivery that is relevant to that individual based on those actions.

Blitz

A Campaign is a planned marketing effort that includes a predetermined goal, measurable progress, and clear messages. The campaign itself should have fairly clear start and end parameters to ensure that the measurable tracking is accurate.

Circulation

In print circulation, or reach of the subscribed users, is usually separated into weekday and weekend categories. For weekly newspapers there is just the one category.

Column Inch

In print advertising the size of an ad is determined by its column inches. A column inch is the width of one column and one inch in height.

A Blitz is a short marketing campaign that is focused on accomplishing, or promoting, a particular product or event. For example: if you have a sale coming, you may consider a blitz to create top of mind awareness for potential customers.

CPC (Cost per Click)

Brand, Branding

CPM (Cost per Mille)

Your Brand is what consumers identify you as.

Your Brand is a vital part of any marketing that you do and care should be taken to maintain your Brand integrity.

Budget

Refers to not only your dollar investment, but also your time. While some time can be offset by increasing dollars (outsourcing ad design for example) time should certainly be considered.

Bundle

Bundling is simply packaging multiple types of marketing into one campaign or strategy using the same message. Bundling your print and online is a standard option that ensures you are maximizing your reach.

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This is a comparison you can use to determine the value (subjective) of each click your ad receives- for example: if you have 10 clicks and it cost you $100 then your CPC is $10. See also PPC

Cost per Mille, or Cost per Thousand, is used to calculate the cost of impressions. Basically, for every 1,000 times your ad is shown (impressions) it will cost you a set amount. For example: if a certain online ad size has a CPM of $10, it will cost you $10 for every 1,000 times your ad is shown.

Demographic

Similar to Audience, Demographics refer to the specific identifiers that make up an audience.

Examples of some demographics: gender, age range, income level, family, etc.

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Fragmentation

This occurs when traits of your audience change and cause new groups, or sub-groups, to be formed. It is important to keep track of fragmentation in order to maintain your marketing’s effectiveness.

Goals

Your marketing plan needs to have well defined, realistic goals. If you don’t have these it will be difficult to measure the actual effectiveness of any marketing you do. For example: I want to drive traffic vs. I want to increase unique users by 5%.

Impressions

An Impression refers to each time an ad is displayed. For example: if you had 100 impressions, that means your ad was shown 100 times.

PPC (Pay per Click)

An ad model where instead of paying for a guaranteed number of impressions, you instead bid on each available impression and then are billed based on that.

SOV (Share of Voice)

Share of Voice guarantees the frequency of your ad compared to other ads in that same category, either by size of ad, or section. An SOV campaign emphasizes the overall percentage of views rather than a set number of impressions. For example: an SOV campaign would be a purchase of 50% of total estimated impressions; whereas a CPM campaign would be based more on budget and available impressions.

Target Marketing

Identifying unique audiences and marketing to them directly is called Target Marketing. This is an ideal way of marketing, as it will help reach existing, new and potential customers. Target marketing can be accomplished in a number of ways, from audience knowledge to specialized programs that can assist you in identifying your audiences.

TOM (Top of Mind Awareness)

ROP (Run of Press)

Run of Press simply means that a print ad can be placed anyplace that is convenient for the printer.

Top of Mind refers to the idea that your brand/ product/company is the first thing a potential customer thinks of when they have a relevant need. For example: TOM is accomplished when someone remembers your ad for financial planning as they are thinking, or speaking with others about retirement plans.

ROS (Run of Site)

Tracking

Run of Site is similar to ROP except it refers to online advertising. Run of Site simply means the ad runs in rotation in a certain size across the entire website.

Social Media

Social Media is made up of any series of networks that consumers use to interact with each other. Social Media is a way that business can interact with their customers to create more personal interaction.

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Throughout your marketing campaign you need to establish progress by tracking your results. To do this effectively, your tracking methods need to have easily defined, objective goals that you can quantify.

Unique User

Unique User refers to the number of different devices that have accessed a website. Typically identified by IP address, unique user information is useful for identifying audiences and device access.