Creating an Ad for Display on the Stirling MILL Ad website

Creating an Ad for the Community ad platform

General Workflow

Scenarios

Someone wants to post an ad on our site!

• We should have a means for people to submit required data to post an ad on the site
• Fields to be included:
• Name
• Ad title
• Ad body
• Ad pictures (multiple)
• Links?
• We should notify them when we receive the ad and let them know we are reviewing it and that they will receive a response when when we approve, disapprove or respond

We want to approve an ad that someone has submitted to us

• We receive an ad post request
• Need an email to designate OR have it posted to a designated Google Chat channel
• We need docs to explain how to moderate an ad and
• Determine approval status
• Respond to the poster (provide a template, perhaps?)

Questions/Todos

• Picking a google chat channel and email to use as the central means of communicating with ad posters
• How to allow posters to manage their own ad (can they create, update, delete?)
• Document how to create an ad for the community
• Doc how to moderate an ad / respond to a poster

James’ notes from discussion with Chris Gooderham August/September 2023

Community Ad Hosting

Potential applicant: what data are we collecting?

Similar to Teacher Listing

Categories

Service

Buy/Sell

Music Specific

Community Supporters (terminology...?)

(reference Promo Ads acknowledging donors, contributors and their business, service club, or whatever. Also ads (paid) to promote our Partner Public Libraries

• Support our Community
• Our Community supports the Stirling MILL

Time/Duration:

• Per month (minimum 1 month unit)
• Multiple months
• Rolling Window

Payment:

How do we want to be paid?

• e-Transfer
• Credit card
• Payment Processor - Helcim
• Payment links and buy button on the page?
• Sent invoices?