Heritage Internet Publishing
Rt. 1, Stoddard, WI 54658
Voice: 608-457-2734 or 888-255-7726. Fax 608-782-5768
EMAIL Adsales@greatriver.com
Advertise on the Internet's Most
Visited
Mississippi River Travel Magazine
The Mississippi River Home Page at http://greatriver.com
Because the People Who Visit Our Site are Looking for Yours!
Table
of Contents:
It's Easy to Advertise with greatriver.com!
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- Introduction
- Our Clients Comment
- Benefits of Advertising on greatriver.com
- Travel Directory (Click to visit their sites).
- Mississippi River Home Page Links
- Sample Rate Card
- Who uses our site? Why do they visit? Check out Comments from Readers and MORE Comments!
- Want to Talk with a live person? Call Toll Free, 888-255-7726!
Our Readers write:
"greatriver.com is a wonderful site. I like the fact that your sponsors always have some of the most interesting sites on the internet. Thanks to all the time you put into your site I have found sites that I would otherwise have never known about. It is much appreciated!" --Laura Emerson, Biloxi, MS
Advertising on the Mississippi River Home Page at http://greatriver.com puts your travel services or business in front of upscale travelers from around the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at the exact moment they decide to look to their computer for Mississippi River travel information.
The Mississippi River Home Page offered by river author, Pat Middleton, is the largest Mississippi River travel guide and magazine on the internet. Pat Middleton is the author of four Mississippi River travel books and a frequent guest lecturer on her craft and the Mississippi River as a travel destination. greatriver.com is a valuable CONTENT site, not just a list of "favorite links" or business listings. Visitors are attracted to the site by newspaper & magazine recommendations (most recently the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, USA Today, and, soon, The New York Times magazine), search engines, and referrals from other readers.
Visitors to the site find magazine-quality feature stories (Treasure Hunting along the Mississippi, Mastodons & Armadillos, The Clam Lady of American Rivers--and more!). They will also find a Directory of Travel Services, Viewer Forums (Birding, Travel Tips, Stump the Riverlorian and Comments) complete weather, dozens of river links, and tasteful ads for businesses just like yours!
It may interest you to know: Page Requests at greatriver.com now number 27,000 to 38,000 per month and growing. Each of those pages carries the ad of one of our sponsors. 80% of readers who sign our guest book "find the ads helpful." The readers are about equally divided between resident "river buffs" interested in things to do/places to visit, and potential visitors from around the entire nation and the world. Average age is 41-61, average income is 55,000-75,000.
The average web site "clickthrough rate" on the Internet is 75:1 to 250:1. In other words, one person of every 250 may actually click through to the advertiser's site. According to independent ratings, click-through on related content sites on the Mississippi River Home Page is as high as 1 for every 20 visitors. Shouldn't your Mississippi River travel service be advertised on the Mississippi River Home Page?
Regardless of the size of your budget, you can prepare an effective sales program - and make your presence on the internet a successful reality.
Sample Rate Card: We are currently offering several levels of participation! Options include your own unique internet address on greatriver.com OR your OWN domain name site with a link to the readership of greatriver.com!
1. An exclusive banner Ad on the Table of Contents Page - $250/month
2. A two-to-three-page "Home Page" for your business - $35/month. Includes
"Banner Ad" and Travel Directory Listing with live link to your home page.
3. Your OWN DOMAIN name site with linkage to greatriver.com - $60/month.
4. Want to "test the waters" at an absolute minimum price? LIST your business or
service on the greatriver.com Travel
Directory for just $120/year.
Looking for commercial quality Internet Presence and programming? Heritage Internet
Publishing is teamed with some of the most experienced programmers and presence providers
in the country. Let us give you a quote. Professional design and programming of your web
site at $55/hour.
We specialize in helping to make your internet presence WORK
for you.
Don't Let This Opportunity Pass You By - Call Today!
Heritage Internet Presence Providers, Rt. 1, Stoddard, WI 54658 Voice:
888-255-7726
Fax 608-782-5768 or EMAIL Sales@greatriver.com
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Business Owners! Put your product and services on the Internet today with the Mississippi River "supersite!"
The Mississippi River Home Page is actively recruiting sponsors and products to advertise within the many pages of Mississippi River Content at the Mississippi River Home Page. If you do business in the river valley we have 27,000+ viewers a month who are looking for YOU.
The Mississippi River Home Page at http://www.greatriver.com/ offers viewers over 100 pages of Mississippi River travel features and river valley information from nationally recognized river author, Pat Middleton. The site currently draws 27,000+ viewers per month--1100 to 1400 viewers per day. Every one of these visitors is interested in more information about what to see and do along the Mississippi River.
For $35/month, you can post your own home page with several links from the content of the Mississippi River site to your own page. You do not need to have a computer, internet access or programming knowledge to have your own unique internet address and home page established by Heritage Press.
Content is what draws repeat viewers to the internet, and Heritage Press currently offers a Mississippi River "Supersite" that is hard to resist. We can offer you several options for establishing your presence on the internet--from an $12/month Travel Directory listing to a corporate presence for $250-plus per month.
What we propose to you, however, that yourcompany place your brochure with the Mississippi River Home Page. Yourcompany will have a Banner Ad with a link to your home page (brochure) which rotates throughout the content pages of greatriver.com. A hypertext link from the Banner will take the viewer directly to your own unique 8 1/2 x 11 inch home page which can contain photos, schedules, price lists --whatever you care to present. In addition yourcompany is highlighted and linked from the Classified page.
Space for the home page, your Banner Ad, and a minimum of two links costs only $35/month, payable six months in advance.
We will set up your home page with your content for a one-time charge of $55/hour. (Approximately 2 1/2 hours per page.) You can make changes at any time, charged at $55/hour and billed monthly.
Your company benefits from:
- a direct link from the Mississippi River "supersite" sponsored by Heritage Press and nationally recognized river author, Pat Middleton.
- the third-party endorsement of a nationally recognized river author.
- your own unique address on the web which you can include on all your letterhead, business cards, fliers, envelopes, etc. You might consider: www.greatriver.com/yourcompany
- national media exposure generated for the Mississippi River Home Page (news releases, radio talk shows, email referrals, search engine listings) generated for the Mississippi River Home Page.
- exposure and referrals generated by other related businesses which are also promoting this site in promotional literature.
- two color scans of photos or logos on your home page. Also an EMAIL drop and complimentary hypertext links (optional) to other sites as you desire.
- display of your product or service 24 hours a day, seven days a week to an upper-income audience specifically interested in Mississippi River travel and recreation.
- you receive a hard copy, in color, of your web page and Banner Ad.
- expandable format. Heritage Press offers experienced web design and marketing services as your company expands its reach into the internet market.
Terms and Pricing:
Sample Rate Card: We are currently offering several levels of participation! Options include your own unique internet address on greatriver.com OR your OWN domain name site with a link to the readership of greatriver.com!
1. An exclusive link from the Entry page - $250/month
2. A two-to-three-page "Home Page" for your business - $42/month. Includes
"Banner Ad" and Travel Directory Listing with live link to your home page.
3. Your OWN DOMAIN name site with linkage to greatriver.com - $60/month.
4. Do you already have your own domain name but you feel that you have opened shop in the
middle of a desert? Then link to greatriver.com -- $30/month.
5. Want to "test the waters" at an absolute minimum price? LIST your business or
service on the
greatriver.com Directory for
just $120/year.
Call now to advertise your Mississippi River travel business or services with the premier Mississippi River Travel Site on the Internet, greatriver.com
Phone Toll-Free 888-255-7726
Client Comments:
"We need to tell you that we were pretty skeptical when we first put our brochure up on greatriver.com--but we are believers now. Our houseboat rentals have definitely increased since we put up our internet site." --Mary Wetterling, Great River Cruises
"Back when we put up our page, nobody was on the internet, now everyone is! THANKS for all your help, Pat!" --Jim Jenkins, Trempealeau Hotel
"I'm very happy with the feedback we get from our web site. Thanks!" --Ken Schindler, Trempealeau Marina
"I'm bringing you another customer this year! You are more than fair, and that's why I keep doing business with you. Thanks!" --Kathy Jorstad, La Crosse Queen
"I just thought I would let you know a customer just made a reservation and said he found our site on the web. He said he thought the page is well laid out and he found us from the Trempealeau Travel Insight Feature. Other customers have also said they saw us on the web. The page looks nice so the impression of our motel is also nice. We are making a good first impression from the way our web page is designed." -- Dave Waraxa, Pleasant Knoll Motel
"I appreciate your very professional attention to detail." -- Mike Lawton, the River Agency.
"I enjoy working with you. You communicate difficult concepts very well, very succinctly. You are very good at what you do." --Barbara, thehighground.org
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