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There are many advantages to advertising on the Internet. Your business
information is available for a world-wide audience 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. There is no other medium with the ability to cost-effectively
reach both local and distant customers and potential customers.
Advertising on I Love Atlantic City Online puts your message in front of qualified prospects, be they year-round Atlantic County residents or Web surfers looking to visit the area. Many people are drawn to the site because of utility information such as weather reports, community information, employment opportunities, casino information, and vacationing tips. While visiting the site, they will find your message.
I Love Atlantic City Online offers a variety of advertising options making an Internet presence possible for any size business...even a one person home-based enterprise. There are three basic levels of AC Online advertising:
One of the interesting characteristics of Internet advertising is the ability of leveling the playing field. All business are initially equal in the eyes of the viewer. The Web presence of the Cape May Wave is just as impressive as the presence of The Asbury Park Press, even though the Press' circulation is much larger the Wave's.
These are seven subtle advantages to advertising on the I Love Atlantic City Online Web site.
The prices listed below are special introductory offerings and may be
discontinued at any time. The yearly prices assumes the payment of
the full amount at the time of initial listing.
Let's begin with the popular banner ads.
There are three basic types of banner ads:
Placement on a topic page is based upon the chronological order of arrival. Atlantic City and Atlantic County business will take placement precedent over advertisers from other geographic areas such as Long Beach Island. Each page starts with an index of advertisers arranged in alphabetical order. The background color of a banner page is determined by the Web master and periodically changed.
If you desire a more ambitious presence, you can add one or more Web
pages after you have one of the above mentioned ads. This is frequently
called your "home page" or a "Web Site." A Web site is your
dedicated area. You determine, with our help, page layout, graphics,
colors, number of pages,and placement of
graphical material. You will have have links from your ad to one or
more of your Web pages. As a general guideline a Web page is about 60
lines of text, approximately three screen scrolls. A text line
contains about 75 standard sized characters, including blanks
(roughly 15 words.) The base rate for a Web page design and
construction -- 60 lines and 3 graphics -- is in the range of
$200 to $500 depending upon the composition and complexity of the
design. Design and construction
costs of your "home page" is a one time charge.
If your "Web Site" is installed on the I Love Atlantic City Online Web server, there will be a $100 annual charge. If your "Web Site" is installed on your Internet provider's system, you are free to modify the site as you see fit.
Your "Home Page" has a unique, and non-shared, URL (the Uniform Resource Locator, which is the Internet address of a document.) It would take the form:
http://www.ILoveAC.com/your-business-name
As an example, the URL for The Atlantic City Bar & Grill is:
http://www.ILoveAC.com/acbarandgrill
which represents The Atlantic City Bar & Grill.
If you have an Internet account elsewhere, your Web page(s) can usually be installed in your personal account, provided your Internet provider allows home page hosting. If your Web Pages are installed on another system your URL would most likely take the form of:
http://providers-domain-name/~your-account-name
To illustrate, Gotham Graphics has their own Web site and domain name. It is:
http://www.gothamgroup.com
The link to the Gotham Graphics' home page is:
http://www.your-company-name.com
For navigational efficiency the bottom of every page on the site
contains an "Express
Index." The following is the actual ad categories from the
Express Index:
[ Antiques
| Art Galleries
| Artists
| Books & Bookstores
| Casinos ]
[ Community Information
| Computer Items
| Construction ]
[ Entertainment
| Fishing & Boating
| Free Classified Ads
| Gaming ]
[ Gifts & Flowers
| Golf
| Health and Beauty
| Home Improvements & Gardening ]
[ Insurance
| Long Beach Island
| Lodging & Camping
| Mail Order
| Nite Life ]
[ Pets and Vets
| Professional Services
| Real Estate & Rentals ]
[ Recreation & Parks
| Restaurants
| Theater & Music ]
[ Travel
| Sweet Treats
| Top of This Page ]
[ Water Sports
| Weather & Storms
| Yellow Pages
]
You may choose any category you desire for your ad. A pickup may also be placed on the Atlantic City Virtual Tour or on one of the pages of The Atlantic City Insiders site.
You may duplicate the same ad in a different category for an additional $70 for a half year or $100 per year. As an example, a restaurant may have entertainment and choose to display the same ad in the Nite Life Page for an additional $100 per year. A pickup represents a real bargain if you have an extended banner or a billboard. One extended banner costs $375 per year, two costs $750 per year. If you run the same ad in two categories the cost is $475 per year. Billboard duplication is even more dramatic, $1,050 per year for two different billboards, however, only $625 to run the same ad in two different categories.
New Categories will be started if at least two different advertisers are represented. If you choose a category not having the requisite number and advertisers, we will switch your ad free of charge when the required number of advertisers is obtained.
I Love Atlantic City Online Yellow Page Ads,
as the name implies,
are the Internet equivalent of the Yellow Pages in the phone book.
The ads are grouped together in a
topical fashion such as Professional Services, Restaurants and so forth.
We make the determination, with your guidance, of an ad category.
Yellow Page ads are free to anyone having a banner, extended banner, or
billboard. Otherwise Yellow Page ads are $75 per year. These ads
can have four screen line of 75 characters per line. They don't contain
a graphic or logo and off page links an e-mail address or home page.
URLs are not allowed. If an advertiser has a regular ad, their
Yellow Page ad will be in bold, and have a link to their regular ad
as well as an e-mail address.
Custom Web packages are designed to meet your individual needs. You
can produce a periodic newsletter such as the
I Love Atlantic City Online Newsletter.
We'll design a user subscription request form and
maintain your mailing list if you like. You can make sales documents
available on demand via e-mail. This is an exceptionally powerful marketing
feature since it allows user interaction with your Web site. A prospect
enters their e-mail address, selects one or more documents, and a
plain-text document is immediately e-mailed to the requestor. Since the
source document is plain text and resides in your personal Internet
account, you can modified the documents as frequently as your marketing
needs dictate.
In short, let us help you make the Internet work for you, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The following, between the gold bars, are actual ads. Let's
start with a banner ad.
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Absecon, NJ 08201 ~~ E-Mail to pjerome@acy.digex.net (609) 485-0900 ~~ (800) GO-PRIMA Where do you want to cruise today? |
Next an extended banner. Let's build upon Prima Travel's banner.
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Absecon, NJ 08201 ~~ E-Mail to pjerome@acy.digex.net (609) 485-0900 ~~ (800) GO-PRIMA |
Have you ever considered a cruise vacation?
Prima Travel Centre's Cyber Cruise Cafe will fulfill all your cruise needs
to the Caribbean, Europe, Alaska & the South Pacific! We know the Cruise
lines and we want to get to know you so we can design the cruise of your
dreams. Visit the
Prima Travel Web Site for details.
Next is a billboard ad. Since it was placed by our Webmaster, Urb LeJeune, please excuse the crass commercialism! This ad shows the use of an e-mail link as well as several links to external Web pages.
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ISBN 1-883577-57-8 by Urb LeJeune 15 Hunter Dr. Tuckerton, NJ 08087 Phone: (609) 294-0320 E-Mail: Urb@ILoveAC.com |
With all due modesty, I truly believe this is a great book. It uses a take-you-by-the-hand approach to learning about the World Wide Web and constructing your own HTML documents. The author designed and created the I Love Atlantic City Online pages. Urb's Home Page shows what he means when he says, "I'll stand on my head to please you." See the money back guarantee discount offer. To give you an idea of subject coverage, you might want to check out the book's Table of Contents.
There is little point in reproducing a "Home Page" here. You can let your
imagination run wild when designing these pages. Two good examples are
the Merit Marine Web Site and the
VanDyk Real Estate Agency
Web Sites.
The following is an example in the Insurance category,
including a link to the main advertisement and an e-mail link:
The Van Dyk Group
Ohio Ave. and Long Beach Blvd.
Beach Haven Terrace, NJ 08008
(609) 492-1511 ~ (800) 222-0131 ~ E-Mail
VanDyk@intserv.com
| Ad Type | Logo or Graphic |
E-Mail and/or Home Page Link(s) |
Lines | Semi-Annually | Annual |
| Yellow Page | No | Only Advertiser from below |
4 | $50 | $75 |
| Banner | Yes | Yes | 4 | $150 | $250 |
| Extended Banner |
Yes | Yes | 8 | $250 | $375 |
| Billboard | Yes | Yes | 12 | $350 | $525 |
| Banner, Extended Banner, and Billboard get free yellow page listing. | |||||
| Pick up in second category for Banner, Extended Banner, and Billboard $70 per half year, $100 per year. |
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Well, there you have it. If you would like more information about
advertising on I Love Atlantic City Online,
use this form. Phone Urb LeJeune
at 
(609) 294-0320 or
E-Mail Urb at
Urb@ILoveAC.com.
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