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Brainworks' DisplaySmart™
Display Advertising Software

Display Software That Boosts Your Bottom Line

Brainworks provides a unified solution. 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/smartphone integration. Brainworks Display Advertising is a component of this unified solution, or may be implemented as an independent display advertising system and integrated with other third party billing, classified, layout, and pagination solutions.

Making Display Advertising More Profitable
Build efficiencies while increasing sales volume. Reduce the cost of ad order entry with a system that eliminates tedium, adds speed, and improves accuracy. Arm your sales and marketing team with Brainworks Integrated Marketing and Sales Force Automation to launch your sales to a new level. The result: a better bottom line for your newspaper.

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High Performance Ad Order Entry Cuts Costs
Enter and manage ads with a minimum of keystrokes. Fast and accurate order entry is achieved through an intuitive interface. Business rules are deployed automatically by Brainworks. This results in automatic rating, contract selection, and revenue allocation, thereby further increasing speed and ensuring accuracy. Customizable entry screens, a visual calendar, and a powerful rating engine make ad taking easy and profitable.

Unsurpassed Rating Capabilities
If you can think it, Brainworks can rate it. Even the most demanding rating rules are easily assimilated and controlled. Rates and rules are established at the supervisory level. Brainworks then rates ads accordingly, automatically selecting the proper contract, rate code, level, and interaction without additional input from the ad taker. Brainworks Interactive Pricing allows you to define advanced cross-selling rules to automatically pick up discounts, and package pricing during order entry.

Control Credit with Ease
Three tiered credit rules and terms are definable 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 Display Ads 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 division, or across an entire multi-division publishing enterprise.

Versatile and Powerful Contract Management
Track bulk, frequency, insert, 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 Markets with Powerful Sales and Marketing Tools
Use Brainworks Integrated Marketing and Sales Force Automation modules to build new business and nurture your existing 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 Marketplace™, 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, smartphonetop, or across the web.

Reporting - Get What You Want, 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.

Pagination - Fast, Smart, Accurate, and Easy
Brainworks' highly definable, Quark™ centered, rule based ROP pagination processes a typical ROP section in minutes. Brainworks Display Advertising also offers an optional interface to third-party ROP pagination products.

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-Solaris™ servers. Database options include SQL Server™, 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.
 

" Brainworks has reduced our cost of order entry by approximately 50%. "

- David Lyle
Chief Financial Officer
Observer Reporter, Washington, PA



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Fully Windows® based
Scalable to any size newspaper
Operates either as part of Brainworks Unified Advertising and Billing Solution, or integrated with other classified and production systems
Fast, easy to use order entry
Visual calendar scheduling
Powerful inquiry screens and drill-downs
Parent/child relationships
Agency management/reporting
Flexible, powerful rating structure
Automatic pricing of cross-sells, combination packages, and product interactions
Revenue allocation by product and division
Rates and discounts based on ad size, day of week, day of year, color, page, class, section, insertion count, multiple product count, multiple zone count, insert number, special promotions, one-off discounts, pickup status, product interactions, cross-sells
Supports standard and flat rating
Dynamic credit checking
Prepayments targeted to future orders or balances
Three tiered credit control system, definable system wide and by advertiser
Contract management - bulk, frequency, inserts, dollar volume
Online paper checking
Contract short rate/rebate processing
Divisional functionality - supports unlimited products and business divisions
Access from Order Entry to full account details, accounting and ad history
Credit/debit memo and adjustment processing
Credit request queues by sales rep
Coop distribution/ statements/ reports
Tearsheet reporting, printing, faxing, email
Multiple publication selection
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
Detailed access to all advertising history
Reporting - print prior, current, or future periods
Account history
Reporting by Agency/Parent/Child
Web based customer service tools
Multi product ad booking
Calendar for ad scheduling
Fax/Email capability
Zoning
Ganged ads, sig page management
TFN Ads
User defined fields
Customer and User defaults
Automated system maintenance
Security - Customized permissions by user
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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