Pausing Print of Scottsville Monthly

We love creating Scottsville Monthly for YOU. Telling your stories, sharing your news, and connecting the community is what drives us. We have heard so many positive reactions to the paper, and we know it is something that many of you enjoy deeply.

Unfortunately, at this time, advertising revenues are not where they need to be to cover the expenses of producing the monthly paper. Making a profit is NOT a primary goal of this effort. We do, however, need to at least break even to continue.

Just as we have incredible support from our community, we have a solid base of strong advertisers. We appreciate each of them for continuing to believe in us. As a small re-startup organization, we will need more help internally to build new relationships and get our revenue numbers to a place where we can print Scottsville Monthly. Hopefully, that will occur as soon as April or May. But it will not occur for our planned March edition.

In the meantime, we are doing the following:

• Hiring an Advertising Sales Representative.

This contracted team member will help us build new relationships in Scottsville and beyond and will be paid through commission. If you or someone you know wants to be a part of a great remote team, choose their own hours, and work with people to make something great for the community, send an introductory email to news@scottsvillenews.com.

• Improving our website, scottsvillenews.com.

            As a startup, we’ve focused on the print product as we see that as a core element to connecting with the community- and it’s what has set us apart. People are now familiar with our brand and our story because of that print-first focus. We have always planned to provide a more robust online presence at some point, so we will prioritize that now. In the coming months, we will use our site for more updated news and calendar of events.

Thank you to our supportive community, our readers, our advertisers, our partners, and our hardworking team. We hope to be back in print soon!