Staten Buzz Blog - News Websites About Staten Island NYC

Email Address

Editorial, Sales and Support - mwood [at] statenbuzz.nyc

Notices & Events - events [at] statenbuzz.nyc

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Choosing the right email box will make sure you end up with the right person / section of the site as we add staff.

One Of The Leading Staten Island Blogs

Staten Buzz .nyc started development on the concept in 2018 and opened the test of the first version of the Staten Island blog in March of 2018 as a sub section of Gotham Buzz. 

Throughout 2018 the company refined the Staten Island blog concept and business model by talking to residents and merchants in Staten Island neighborhoods.  During this time the company also had a lot of site configuration, design and debugging issues to address. In August 2019, the company transitioned the site to its current design, and began operating one of Staten Island's first full scale blogs as Staten Buzz .nyc.

Two Missions: Promote NYC / Help Shopkeepers

The Staten Buzz .nyc's missions are two fold: 1) to make it as easy as possible for residents and non-residents to learn more about and find things on Staten Island and 2) to help the businesses serving Staten Island reach the local community more effectively via web as a part of their sales, service and marketing efforts.

#1. Promoting Staten Island As An Increasingly Diverse Cultural Mecca

With respect to the first mission, the goal is to help publicize Staten Island's eclectic mix of cultural events - ranging from modern art & sculpture, to pop culture, music, farmers markets, street fairs, ethnic festivals, traditional ethnic events, as well as modern dance and theater. We believe we can help enhance Staten Island's cultural understanding by increasing residents' awareness, attendance and support of all the diverse cultural events surrounding them.

We help by providing a monthly events calendar and including maps showing the locations of the events and organizations that sponsor them. We also include transit directions, contact information and links to relevant stories when we have them, as well as information about surrounding restaurants and shops. As an aside we also provide daily weather, horoscopes, news and sports.

#2. Help Shopkeepers Develop Audience Awareness & Interest

With respect to the second mission, our goal is to help shopkeepers attract local residents and workers to their stores and restaurants by increasing their awareness of what's available on Staten Island by expanding local shops' web presences. The Staten Buzz helps local shopkeepers by providing a web presence through which local shopkeepers can deliver their messages quickly, conveniently and inexpensively via the internet. Shopkeepers can increase audience awareness of about their merchandise and services, provide store maps and contact information, and make announcements about new or clearance inventory, special events and sales.

The web may also be used to strengthen shopkeeper's relationships and understanding of their customers through increased communication with them. This would involve the use of forums, site mail and email.

Staten Island Blogs: Staten Buzz Delivers Value

The Most Cost Effective Way To Reach A Large, Fast Growing, Local Audience

The Staten Buzz audience is different than most of the existing media in the Staten Island market today. The Staten Buzz attracts some of the audience who use other Staten Island websites, as well as some of the audience using Staten Island newspapers. While the Staten Buzz attracts a wide variety of online Staten Island residents, many of our viewers have an above average education and above average incomes. The Staten Buzz's advertisers messages are displayed in a relevant local content environment that includes carefully written stories and numerous photographs of Staten Island cultural events, local organizations, as well as neighborhood restaurants and shops. The people who work, play, eat and shop within the city of New York will find stories and information relevant to them online at one of the borough's most popular and fastest growing blogs.

The Staten Buzz is unique in being able to offer web presences at competitive monthly rates. This service enables local shopkeepers to expand their presence on the internet through one of the fastest growing online audiences on Staten Island.

Efficient Cost Structure / Company Staff / Financing

The Staten Buzz has one of the leanest new media cost structures in the market. We currently have a full time staff of one and a contract staff that varies up to five. The staff size increases and decreases depending on business need which enables us to keep our prices competitive and provide our clients with great value for the money.  We periodically use contract personnel including a web programmer, an illustrator, a database manager, a sales person and a photographer / reporter.  The publisher, who is the only full time staff member, has the skills not just to manage all of the jobs above - but also to do them. He also manages the technical aspects of the site.

The company carries no debt and has been financed by the publisher with the help of some family money.

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Publisher's Background & Experience

The following is intended to provide a bit of information about the background and experience of the Staten Buzz publisher to provide perspective on who he is and what skills and experience he brings to the business. As noted above, the Staten Buzz expects to become one of the leading blogs about Staten Island.

Cultural Background

Both of the publisher's parents were educated in the liberal arts. His father was a newspaper publisher, who also worked a second job as a professor at a private liberal arts college. Hence art, theater, music, museums, history and travel were always a part of his life. He studied art and theater from an historical perspective in college. He spent two years abroad on the five major continents learning about other cultures - all of which are well represented in the Manhattan population today. He was the chairperson of a young patron's music group at Lincoln Center NYC in the 1990's. One could say that it was through these experiences that the idea of the Staten Buzz as a cultural and tourist web magazine was "a long time in the making".

Education / Newspaper Experience

The publisher grew up in small town Wisconsin, the son and grandson of small town newspaper publishers.  He studied history in college, and marketing and finance in graduate business school, obtaining both his BA and MBA from the University of Chicago.  He worked for his father's newspaper for a couple of years in between college and graduate school. It is through the eyes of a newspaperman, that he continues to view web content today.

Media Pricing / Television Experience

After business school he worked for CBS television where he priced commercial time and analyzed television station technology investments.  Google and other search engines currently use pricing models which are very similar to the models used to price television commercial air time. Hence his experience in television commercial spot pricing is relevant to helping clients buy search time today. Analyzing media technology investments provided him with his first real experience of evaluating investments in technology as a competitive advantage.

Marketing / Promotion Experience

From CBS he moved onto Lever Brothers [aka Unilever], which at the time was the largest consumer packaged goods marketer in the world.  There he managed advertising and promotional campaigns for mega million dollar brands like Surf detergent, All detergent, Sunlight dishwashing liquid and Dove dishwashing liquid. Unilever provided him with world-class, hands-on marketing experience.

During his time there, he had an award winning advertising campaign significantly revised because he had found, through research, that the advertising story left no lasting brand message in the mind of the audience. Thus millions of dollars had previously been wasted because the prior managers had been buying airtime for an advertising campaign that didn't provide the company any return on its advertising investment via consumer awareness or response. The relevance today is that he has experience helping clients find messages that will resonate with their targeted audience.

Web Technology / Management Experience

Over the course of the 15 years prior to starting the first buzz, Queens Buzz, the publisher worked for Dun & Bradstreet, the largest information provider in the world. He was a founder in an internet start up called The Second Opinion in the 1990's, and he worked on technology projects at OSI Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading biotechs in the nation. All of these experiences enhanced and evolved his understanding of how to use and manage computer and sofware technology, thus preparing him to envision, design, configure and manage the the first buzz website, Queens Buzz.

Staten Island Blogs - Websites About Staten Island / SI

Work on the Staten Buzz blog began in 2018 when we started traveling the borough of Staten Island to figure out how to go about building a blog about Staten Island. That same year we started posting content on the Gotham Buzz abouit Staten Island in its own section. And over the past couple of years we have continually refined the website and its content, so we could begin providing both the audience and our advertisers with an enhanced web experience. The Staten Buzz is expected to become one of the more influential blogs about Staten Island life with a growing audience and advertising base. In August of 2019, we partitioned off the Staten Island-centric content into a website for the borough of Staten Island - www.statenbuzz.nyc.

Even after only a year and a half since its conception, it still seems like the Staten Buzz has only just begun. Thank you for spending the time to read about the Staten Buzz website.

August 21, 2019