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Using a single front-end order-taking system was critical to providing great service by simplifying a process that is often laden with complexity and confusion. “We don’t just offer iPublish AdPortal for self-serve to our community, my entire team-across all markets-is very fluent with the AdPortal platform, and uses it across multiple verticals,” she said. “Now a person in the call center can take any order, for any market, whether for public notices, recruitment, obituaries, real estate, private party, or even retail ads,” said Shannon Hayden, call center director for McClatchy. Public notices were especially important to automate in order to centralize the process at a single call center that can now manage the rules, regulations, schedules and layout/fonts for each market. While some verticals such as obituaries were already at nearly 100% DIY/self-service by funeral directors and private parties, call-center representatives handled the rest of the public notices orders for all 28 markets. This was done in conjunction with McClatchy’s move to centralize all order intake for both print and digital production.
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iPublish enabled McClatchy to convert obituaries, celebrations, public notices, classified private party, recruitment and soon retail SMB in all 28 markets onto one platform. In addition to DIY, AdPortal is used by the centralized call centers for multiple verticals in all markets. The portal has automated pricing, designing and placing the public notices in print as well as handling the upload for online notices. In less than six months, McClatchy Newspapers converted nearly 40% of public notices to a DIY automated process powered by iPublish Media Solutions.Īfter launching iPublish Media‘s AdPortal Public Notices, all print notices are now being created and purchased using AdPortal’s self-service workflow.