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Richard M. Anderson
CEO, VillageSoup, Inc.
91 Camden Street, Suite 401
Rockland, ME 04841
richard@villagesoup.com
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About VillageSoup Common
VillageSoup Common is a member organization open to established news organizations and entrepreneurs seeking to address the critical issues of increased content integration, user participation and advertiser revenue in traditional weekly-newspaper markets.
VillageSoup Common provides members an exclusive license to the world-wide, VillageSoup brand. Members receive hosting and support services for a highly integrated and proven software platform. And most importantly, VillageSoup Common is an association in which members collaborate, sharing best practices and conceiving new products to better serve individuals, businesses and organizations in the communities they serve.
The industry leading VillageSoup business model transforms media companies from suppliers of content they control to hosts of content provided by community members. With VillageSoup, they seamlessly host content from the company's professional journalists, every-day individuals, for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations. Each of these contributors are given unfettered access to adding news, information, opinions, goods and services to the community site.
As a result, using the VillageSoup brand, platform and business model, Community News companies become Community Host companies serving as the community newsstand, grange hall and Main Street in metropolitan neighborhoods, suburban tracts and rural enclaves throughout the world.
VillageSoup Common membership allows legacy news organizations to leverage their long-term community role. Both legacy organizations and start-up ventures use their VillageSoup Common membership to capitalize on the strength of the world-wide,VillageSoup brand, benefit from the power of combined wisdom and profit from the efficiency of shared technology and staff.
VillageSoup Common members retain ownership of their own enterprises, they maintain control over their legacy brand, they generate exciting new revenue opportunities, allowing them to continue to provide exclusively-local content, the distinction that gives them sustainability in an increasingly challenging media marketplace.