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May 1, 2024
11:42 PM
Free Press Groups
Are you part of a club, team, charity, school, congregation, social, civic, or similar group?
Does your community know who you are? Make your organization's voice heard! Have your own Directory listing. And Write your own news stories!
Open doors in your community to build a relationship with your organization. Promote your activities, expand your networks, and increase local participation. Share your group's purpose, your news, your story with local like-minded supporters!
The Free Press Group plan
If you are a group manager with a Free Press Group plan then you have two publishing tools available for $6.54/mo. Using the Community News you can build a thriving base of local community support.
Self-publishing
Write and manage your group's Directory Listing and update it at your leisure. Have a new project to announce? Use your Directory listing. Have scores to publish? Post an article in the Community News!
1. Publish your Directory and its features, advantages, and benefits to your local Community News. Update your listing as you see fit.
2. Publish news and stories about your group or club in the Community News on a regular basis. Stay top-of-mind with your audience.
Convenience
Avoid the doom scrolling of other platforms. Be discovered more easily with our in-page search bar in the Community News.
Community
Invite people to join you as Free Press Members, a free plan for your supporters to actively join in your news and events.
Growth
The Free Press Group plan offers your organization an affordable method to amplify the public relations effectiveness of your club, team, charity, school, congregation, social, civic, or similar group.
For example, you can post business updates, congregation announcements, or sports scores that you want readers and supporters to know about. And you can do it as often as you need to.
You could be talking about... well, anything!
You could be sharing your stories, your team's scores, your announcements, your community events, your workplace events, your social group reports, your business news, your congregations' celebrations, and more in your own self-published free press local news magazine.
Club, team, charity, school, congregation, social, civic, or similar group managers can maintain their Directory listing and use the Community News to write human interest stories about their programs and people.
How do I start my own Free Press Group plan?
1. With your Free Press Group plan purchased, you will be able to log in and go to your Members Area.
Create your Account
2. Your purchase and account are managed by a familiar multistep confirmation process managed by Wix ecommerce which provides the back office for The Rubicon Free Press. Follow the instructions carefully to ensure success.
Welcome to the Member Area
3. Complete your Profile and any other relevant information that will assist your supporters to find and join you.
Make your first Directory listing
4. Use the Free Press Groups submission form and list your club, team, charity, or similar organization in the Community News.
Once submitted, your listing will appear in the same format as the above screenshot in the Community News.
Congratulations! You've posted your first of many updates to your dynamic directory listing.
Anybody reading the Community News can search for your group using the Search bar at the top of the section.
Make your first Community News story
5. Make your first post in Community News by simply repeating the same fields in the Got News? form that is found in the Members Area.
Become a citizen journalist and help build a free press capable of thriving in our post-modern state. And know that in helping us, we’ll be helping you to reach an audience that’s grown dissatisfied with existing in echo chambers.