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BlankSlate Adds DC Blog “Prince of Petworth” to Growing Customer List

by BlankSlate on 10/25/11

 

BlankSlate announced today at the Street Fight Summit in NYC that is has signed Prince of Petworth to its customer list. Prince of Petworth is a blog that has grown to one of DC’s largest. BlankSlate will add its real estate listings marketplace, classifieds, business directory, community calendar, and community forum products to Prince of Petworth turning it from a WordPress blog to a complete local site for the DC area. BlankSlate will also handle ad sales, bringing Prince of Petworth in to BlankSlate’s ad network.

 

BlankSlate’s local technology and sales solution was launched in April 2011 when it signed its first customer, the leading Brooklyn blog Brownstoner. Brownstoner was launched more than seven years ago, and generates more traffic than all of Brooklyn’s local newspapers combined. BlankSlate has grown Brownstoner’s advertiser count to more than 400, with solutions for advertisers starting at only $24.95 per month.

 

Says BlankSlate’s CEO and Founder Kael Goodman: “We’re thrilled at how well Brownstoner has done and we’re sure Prince of Petworth will do just as well. We think our approach of providing the technology and ad sales allows bloggers to do what they love – write and engage with people in the community. We’ll be announcing additional customers soon too.”

 

Says Dan Silverman, Prince of Petworth’s publisher: “I’m super excited to be working with Blankslate.  I’ve already transitioned my advertisers and am looking forward to the site’s new capabilities with the November re-launch.  What started as a hobby five years ago has exceeded all expectations – I can’t wait to see where the next five years takes it with Blankslate as a partner.

 

Times Review Gets Real Estate Site With Help From BlankSlate

by BlankSlate on 4/15/11

 

Times Review Newsgroup, eastern Long Island’s leading news company, has announced a new real estate site that from day one has extensive coverage of the region’s sale and rental listings. Using BlankSlate’s real estate solution, Times Review was able to easily feed listings from the region’s MLS, as well as directly from broker’s sites. The site launches with several thousand of the regions listings and expands Times Review’s relationships with real estate companies from print to the web, offering them access to the region’s online audience.

 

BlankSlate has been working with Times Review for several months, first helping with web strategy, then migrating their CMS to WordPress from a proprietary system, and now adding the BlankSlate real estate solution. At 500,000 monthly pageviews, Times Review already has one of the most trafficked sites in eastern Long Island.

 

From The Suffolk Times:

“We are very excited about offering our readers the ability to easily search local real estate listings and find open houses all in one place,” said Times/Review publisher Andrew Olsen. “The feedback from brokers and readers has been very positive. People love to search real estate listings whether they are in the market to purchase or not.”

 

You can find the new real estate site on all of Times Review’s sites: The Suffolk Times, Riverhead News-Review, North Shore Sun, and Shelter Island Reporter.

 

Suffolk Times New Real Estate Site