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Brainworks' ClassSmart™
Classified Advertising Software

Upselling and Increased Efficiency Yields Higher Classified Advertising Profits

Through a single database, Brainworks manages all of your advertising: display, classified and preprints, as well as billing, accounts receivable, contracts, layout, pagination, marketing, sales force automation and web/palm integration. Brainworks Classified is a component of this unified solution, or may be implemented as an independent classified advertising system and integrated with other third-party billing, layout, and pagination solutions.

Making Classifieds More Profitable
Increase efficiencies while increasing sales volume. Salespeople prosper from powerful tools, which help them market and sell more ads. Billing and accounting departments benefit from increased efficiency and accountability. The result: A better bottom line for your newspaper.

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Efficient Ad Order Entry Cuts Costs
Enter and manage ads with a minimum of keystrokes. Customizable entry screens, a visual calendar, and a rich WYSIWYG ad composition environment are just the beginning. Intelligent rating and upselling logic, a full audit trail, and highly visual, powerful, and effective composition tools make ad taking fast, easy, and profitable.

Maximize Revenues with Upselling
Brainworks will tell you when an ad is missing revenue-increasing components such as logos, photos, borders, blind boxes, and cross-sells. You are alerted immediately, along with suggested upsell options and pricing. Even the most sophisticated upsell rules are deployed with ease, maximizing the value of every ad.

Unsurpassed Rating Capabilities
If you can think it, Brainworks can rate it. With Brainworks unique "Visual Logic" rates designer, definition of even the most complex rates is easy, clean, and highly visual in nature. Even the most demanding rating rules are easily assimilated and controlled. Brainworks takes the guesswork out of selecting the appropriate rate codes.

Control Credit with Ease
You can define credit rules and terms system-wide and by advertiser. Brainworks' unified advertising and billing solution tracks payment terms and credit limits in real time. Orders that fail credit are automatically routed to the credit workflow queue for processing.

Sell Across Multiple Products or an Entire Enterprise
Quickly and easily schedule ads that include cross-sells and package buys. Revenue allocation is automatic and instantaneous. Reporting and tracking may be done by product, by newspaper site, or across an entire multi-site publishing enterprise.

Minimize Training Time
Brainworks computer based training brings new employees up to speed quickly and easily, so they may begin taking ads in minutes. Online, context sensitive help and videos are only a mouse click away.

Versatile, Powerful Contract Management
Track bulk, frequency, insert, earned, and dollar volume commitments in any combination. Brainworks contracts may be specific to one publication and product type, or may combine multiple publications and product types into a single contract. Effortlessly generate compliance and violation reports. Calculate and select short rates/rebates. Advertisers may track compliance via the Brainworks web based customer service center.

Build Your Markets with Powerful Sales and Marketing Tools
Use Brainworks Integrated Marketing and Sales Force Automation modules to build new business and nurture your existing commercial classified customer base. The Brainworks Unified Advertising System utilizes a common database for advertisers and prospects, and imports from outside prospecting sources such as Dun & Bradstreet Marketplaceª, Equifax, or infoUSA. Powerful email, fax, mail, and telemarketing campaigns are defined and deployed. Highly effective contact management tools are delivered to sales reps at their desktop, palmtop, or across the web.

Reporting - Get What YouWant, When You Want It!
In seconds, easily define and generate any advertising report: detailed, summary, or comparative. Quickly select the elements to include, indicate your sorting and filtering preferences, and your report appears instantly on the screen. Report on classified and display advertising together or separately. Report by salesperson, territory, division, publication, edition, section, date, ad type, advertiser, SIC code, day of week, promotion, or any user definable elements.

A Proven Track Record of Delivering Cutting Edge Technology
Since Brainworks released the industry's first Windows based advertising system over a decade ago, the company has continued a tradition of leveraging the most effective and current technologies. The corporate mission is maximizing the profitability and productivity of newspapers.

Brainworks - The Platform for Today and Tomorrow
Brainworks ROP Pagination is a cross platform solution. You have the freedom to choose either PC or Macintosh workstations. Operates on Microsoft Windows 2000¨, and Sun-Solarisª servers. Database options include SQL Serverª, and Oracle¨. One system can support multiple users in a single location, or multiple users spread over a broad geographical area using a Wide Area Network.

At Brainworks, Customer Satisfaction Is Paramount
The technical team provides outstanding 24x7 support, is highly responsive to the needs of the industry, and is proactive in leveraging technologies to keep Brainworks customers ahead of the times.

Profit from Brainworks
Find out more about how Brainworks software can make your newspaper more profitable. Online and onsite demonstrations are available upon request.
 

" We're extremely happy with Brainworks Classified. Our ad-takers just love it. The system is very fast, which makes our people more productive. The diversity of the upselling has really enabled us to increase the profitability of our classified advertising department. "

-Mace Pavelek, Advertising Director
Butler Eagle, Butler PA



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John Barry explains how Brainworks' in-context prompts and cues generates revenue by maximizing the value of every ad for both the advertiser and the newspaper.
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John describes the numerous ways that Brainworks' classifed can increase revenue on almost every order utilizing its integrated upselling and cross-selling tools.
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Cross platform - Fully Windows™ and Macintosh based
Scalable to any size newspaper
Operates either as part of Brainworks Unified Advertising and Billing Solution, or integrates with other billing/production systems
Dynamic credit checking
Multiple phone numbers, addresses, and customer types
Tear sheet, proof, invoice, and affidavit addresses
Credit card validation and approval
Up-sell prompts
Up-sell pricing
Graphics browser for logos
Unmatched WYSIWYG display
Bookmarking of ads and customers
Ad history
Account history
Ad audit trail
Multi product ad booking
Automatic blind box numbers
Rating structure with unlimited flexibility
Calendar for ad scheduling
Fax capability
Zoning
Subscriber information
Memo invoicing
Rating rules cross reference rates, discounts, premiums, color charges, material charges and typographical charges
Visual WYSIWYG logic-flow rate designer, makes the design and updating of rates clear, accurate, and straight forward
Supports standard and flat rating
Rating definition supports more than 200 different criteria
Discounts based on ad size, day of week, day of year, color, page count, insertion count, multiple product count, multiple zone count, insert number, page position, number of products, special promotions, one-off discounts, subscriber status, standby status, and pickup status
Material charges based on proof charge, tearsheet charge, affidavit charge, memo invoice charge, extra invoice charge, early kill charge, plus any user definable charges
Typographical charges based on rule charge, border charge, color text charge, screening charge, reverse charge, URL charge, email charge, attributed text charge, and centered line charge
Classification prompts
Dynamic display of customer credit and amount due
Credit checking of ad text phone number
Multiple publication selection
Cost per insert
Common and user saved queries
Print any list produced by query
Customer and user defaults
Automated system maintenance
Security - customized permissions by user
Tools to speed ad creation
Ad-hoc report generator - you get what you want, when you want it
User definable reports - detailed, summary, comparative
Store report definitions for later use
Graphing/ charting
Operates over LAN or WAN
Workstations may be MAC, PC, Unix
Installation/ training/ support
Data conversion from your previous system
24x7 support
Platforms: Windows/NT®, Microsoft SQL™, Oracle®, Unix™
 
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