TIDBITS® OF CANADA
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Tidbits originated as a single community newspaper in a small town in Montana in the late 1980’s. A gentleman named Dave Steele discovered the newspaper in 1993, and immediately fell in love with the concept. He purchased the rights, hired the original writer and began publishing his own Tidbits in Billings, Montana. Dave’s readership grew, and with that growth interest began trickling in from outside his town’s borders. People wanted to start up a Tidbits newspaper of their own. Eventually, the small single community paper had grown into a respectable, full-colour tabloid newspaper with coverage across the southern United States.
Tidbits acquired another level of success in 2002. Karl Dabbs and Ken Woodard purchased the rights to the company and moved the head office to Montgomery, Alabama. Since then, Tidbits has grown into a national success with active publications in over 250 markets.
This same growth formula has continued north of the border. In early 2008, Glen Convey of Convey Distribution was on vacation in the States and picked up a Tidbits while having lunch with his family. He brought that same edition back to his offices and showed it to his business partner, Trevor Shields. Both agreed immediately that this was an opportunity needing representation in Canada. Mr. Convey and Mr. Shields formed Recess Media, secured the Canadian rights and Tidbits Canada was born. After months of negotiations and planning with Ken and the US Head Office, we are now proud to make this amazing opportunity available in Canada.
There are other franchise publication opportunities available, but Tidbits has a very important edge over the competition. It has kept true to its unique roots, but has also evolved to meet the needs of a changing market. There are two factors that have elevated the Tidbits formula to the top, and kept publishers both creatively and financially satisfied: Freedom and support.
FREEDOM
Many other publications are restrictive in both content and layout, not allowing the individual franchisee to publish a newspaper that uniquely fits their home community. Other franchise publications have a fixed page count, standard ad size availability, advertiser exclusivity or lack of colour as an option of expression. Due to these limitations, the franchisee has limited his potential client list before he has even printed one issue. With Tidbits, your readers and advertisers will enjoy a full-colour paper, with options for size and placement of their ads. You have the ability to grow your paper from 8 pages to 32, 40 or even more… there is no ceiling. As you acquire more advertisers, you can increase your page count… which will in turn increase your profits! Tidbits supplies you with syndicated columns, comics and puzzles. However, once you satisfy the required amount of Tidbits content, you can use your own content for the remainder, or stick with only supplied articles. The choice is yours.
SUPPORT
Becoming a Tidbits publisher eliminates almost all of those negative influences an independent business owner faces. we focus our involvement on how we can best contribute to your growing business. Training, corporate forums and blogs, phone and e-mail support, website integration; these are only some of the tools we put at your disposal. The corporate blog specifically is a knowledge base where you can search for answers to common questions or problems, and get up to date help from the entire family of over 250 existing publishers. It’s pretty hard to run into something that over 15 years of experience hasn’t found out about already. We put that experience at your fingertips, available to draw upon whenever you might need it.
At Tidbits, we want to help you realize your success. We have fine-tuned our business model constantly, to make sure your newspaper will run as smoothly as possible. These are the benefits you can expect, once you join the Tidbits family:
You will publish an important, well received, professional "good news” newspaper.
- You can rely on yourself to completely run your own newspaper, not having to contract any of the work out, to keep your bottom line as favourable as possible.
- You will become an integral part of your community.
- You will have the ability to always grow your business and your profits.
- You will enjoy the freedom of being able to rely on completely supplied content for your paper, or secure your own.
- You will be able to offer your clients affordable, effective advertising, which they can tailor to their needs.
- You will work hard, but your creativity and devotion will make YOU succeed.
What are you waiting for ? Tidbits enjoys roots that are over 15 years strong with representation in over 250 markets across the United States. We are taking that stability and experience, and adding our own Canadian culture, flair and passion to offer you an improved business opportunity. Please fill out and send in the following questionnaire, and we will respond immediately with an information packet and further contact options.
Tidbits acquired another level of success in 2002. Karl Dabbs and Ken Woodard purchased the rights to the company and moved the head office to Montgomery, Alabama. Since then, Tidbits has grown into a national success with active publications in over 250 markets.
This same growth formula has continued north of the border. In early 2008, Glen Convey of Convey Distribution was on vacation in the States and picked up a Tidbits while having lunch with his family. He brought that same edition back to his offices and showed it to his business partner, Trevor Shields. Both agreed immediately that this was an opportunity needing representation in Canada. Mr. Convey and Mr. Shields formed Recess Media, secured the Canadian rights and Tidbits Canada was born. After months of negotiations and planning with Ken and the US Head Office, we are now proud to make this amazing opportunity available in Canada.
There are other franchise publication opportunities available, but Tidbits has a very important edge over the competition. It has kept true to its unique roots, but has also evolved to meet the needs of a changing market. There are two factors that have elevated the Tidbits formula to the top, and kept publishers both creatively and financially satisfied: Freedom and support.
FREEDOM
Many other publications are restrictive in both content and layout, not allowing the individual franchisee to publish a newspaper that uniquely fits their home community. Other franchise publications have a fixed page count, standard ad size availability, advertiser exclusivity or lack of colour as an option of expression. Due to these limitations, the franchisee has limited his potential client list before he has even printed one issue. With Tidbits, your readers and advertisers will enjoy a full-colour paper, with options for size and placement of their ads. You have the ability to grow your paper from 8 pages to 32, 40 or even more… there is no ceiling. As you acquire more advertisers, you can increase your page count… which will in turn increase your profits! Tidbits supplies you with syndicated columns, comics and puzzles. However, once you satisfy the required amount of Tidbits content, you can use your own content for the remainder, or stick with only supplied articles. The choice is yours.
SUPPORT
Becoming a Tidbits publisher eliminates almost all of those negative influences an independent business owner faces. we focus our involvement on how we can best contribute to your growing business. Training, corporate forums and blogs, phone and e-mail support, website integration; these are only some of the tools we put at your disposal. The corporate blog specifically is a knowledge base where you can search for answers to common questions or problems, and get up to date help from the entire family of over 250 existing publishers. It’s pretty hard to run into something that over 15 years of experience hasn’t found out about already. We put that experience at your fingertips, available to draw upon whenever you might need it.
At Tidbits, we want to help you realize your success. We have fine-tuned our business model constantly, to make sure your newspaper will run as smoothly as possible. These are the benefits you can expect, once you join the Tidbits family:
You will publish an important, well received, professional "good news” newspaper.
- You can rely on yourself to completely run your own newspaper, not having to contract any of the work out, to keep your bottom line as favourable as possible.
- You will become an integral part of your community.
- You will have the ability to always grow your business and your profits.
- You will enjoy the freedom of being able to rely on completely supplied content for your paper, or secure your own.
- You will be able to offer your clients affordable, effective advertising, which they can tailor to their needs.
- You will work hard, but your creativity and devotion will make YOU succeed.
What are you waiting for ? Tidbits enjoys roots that are over 15 years strong with representation in over 250 markets across the United States. We are taking that stability and experience, and adding our own Canadian culture, flair and passion to offer you an improved business opportunity. Please fill out and send in the following questionnaire, and we will respond immediately with an information packet and further contact options.