Constitutional Law

Getting the Daily Phoenix Off the Ground

By Aleksandra Chojnacka

The conference in Boston was a significant milestone for us. It allowed us to finally confirm funding, which provided us with legitimacy. Not to mention opened the door for some publicity. After the conference we received a few phone calls about interviews for local news sources such as Good Morning Arizona. Very exciting!

RIght now we are concentrating on getting a product out there by September. Our original date was December but a meeting with our advisors convinced us that it might be too late and we should have SOMETHING out by September. The pressure is on...

We are currently working with our programmer to release a website (optimized for mobile) which will provide information per light rail stop (i.e. services, businesses, events, and promotions). We are still working on figuring out when to roll out each feature.

The next step is to conduct some market research with both users and advertisers (local businesses around the light rail). We'll be working on conducting those over the next few weeks. They will be conversations about what each constituent would like to see, what their needs are, etc. I think they will provide a lot of insight!

We're also in the process of building partnerships. We had lunch with the president of Phoenix Magazine this week to discuss potential synergies. Right now we're disucssing advertising opportunities for both the magazine and for us if we partner...we have some other ideas up our sleeve but its too soon to discuss.

Coming up on our next post: Our interview with Good Morning Arizona and our meeting with Phoenix Downtown Voices!

Full post as published by MediaShift Idea Lab on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).