City Magazines: Best Doctors, Best Lawyers, Best of the City, Best Restaurants, Best Dentists

You talked. We listened. We have been asking city magazine publishers the following questions:
  • What is your process for compiling and publishing "best" lists? 
  • What would you like to change or improve?
Here's what you told us:

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We want to automate our voting and vote tallying, so that it's less manual, less time consuming, and more accurate.
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We want to secure our voting and tallying so that it's harder for people to cheat.
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We want to administer voting in such a way that we increase participation, because we know increased participation leads to higher community investment.
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We want to automate our follow up (verification of winners' information) so that it's less manual, less time consuming, and more accurate.
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We want to automate the way we post our winners to our Web site, so this process is less manual, less time consuming, and more accurate.
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We want to automate the process of flowing the winning results into a format that is convenient for our production team, to save time and effort wherever possible.
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We want to enhance our online presentation of winners, so that our online presentation leads to more SEO benefit, more page views, a more appealing experience for our site visitors, and a more interactive experience for our site visitors.
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We want to monetize our online presentation of winners in a way that does not threaten our print revenue in any way. We want to maximize our revenue from the online presentation without competing with print advertising.
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We want to provide additional sales leads for our sales team. We want to utilize any missed opportunities to increase print advertising sales.


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