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Cofran's Texas . . .
Hill Country Portal

Email: info@hillcountryportal.comWeb: www.HillCountryPortal.com

A Powerful Information Database & Gateway Service for the Texas Hill Country

ADVERTISING SERVICES & PRICING

What you pay and what you get, spelled out clearly, right here.

WHY ADVERTISE ON THE PORTAL?

This Portal is a Powerful Gateway to a Massive Database on the Hill Country. It is organized by County, City and Topic (Tourism, Parks, Art, etc.). Plus practical, powerful, on-line tools and web links. At the user's your fingertips, 24/7. All for free.

The Portal has a growing web traffic volume. Local users, business users & trip planners all depend on the Portal for their Hill Country Information.
We measure our traffic volume with web stats software.

We have high search engine Page Rankings by page type (not just our home page).
This provides great exposure to a huge volume of on-line visitors. This is a wonderful opportunity for your advertising to be seen on Portal.

Your message is targetable to specific Portal pages, using with multiple messages.
You can hot link directly to your web site and email addresses.

Your message can include graphics, text, links, colors, and animations of your choice, with no limitations.

We have Enhanced Listings and Display Ad Placement Options:

Left, Center, Right, or Imbedded (in your listing)

You can have page selections to match your target prospects:

Home Page, City/County Page, or Subject/Topic Page

We can rotate your ad to a new ad to match your seasonal or theme changes.

We assist with advertising strategy, pricing & layout.

So, . . . why advertise on the Portal????

Funnel traffic to your web site, your email, your phone, your door.

FREE BASIC PORTAL LISTINGS:

Each Texas Hill Country business, non-profit organization and government organization may have one
free, "Basic" Listing, which includes your business name, one phone number, business street address, and web site address, which will be shown on one Portal city directory page. Home based and non-store front businesses are also welcome to take advantage of this free listing service.

To submit your listing request, just email your information to us using the same format as you see in the other listings. Click: info@HillCountryPortal.com to email your listing information to the Portal.

LISTING ENHANCEMENTS:

An inexpensive advertising option is to use: "Expanded text plus color & images".

Examples: images (ex:

), size, colors, additional descriptive words, FONTS, Effects, bolding, links, etc.

Advanced features for listing enhancements are charged as follows.

Each "Enhancement" costs $1 per month: each enhancement item placed in bold or color; each tag line; each additional phone number; each additional address; each additional line of text (approximately 100 characters including spaces and marks); each email address; each web link; each map link. Examples:

Discounts: Baker's Dozen Enhancements Package = $10/mo per package of 12 of the $1 enhancements.

Each Digital Image costs $5 per month: Each digital image; and Each image clickable to a larger size is another image. Note: digital images (logo/photo/other) will be placed at approximately 1 square inch, and must be supplied in .jpg format & be less than 100kb after compression.

PLACEMENT OF LISTING IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES OR PAGES: Each placement (of the identical listing) after the first placement is priced at 50% off the first listing. If different wording or features are desired in subsequent placement categories, these listings are priced at 50% of what the new listing charge would have been in that category.

DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENTS:

Another very effective option is to place traditional Display Ads (see examples on throughout the Portal, from plain to very sophisticated). This method can include images and a hot link to your web site.

Pricing is per column inch (as displayed on a 1024 x 768 pixel screen, measured vertically in that column) in the "Sponsored Ads" section in the left and right vertical panels and bottom of the center panel. See the many live ads on our home page.

This service provides 24/7/365 worldwide display of your advertisement! We can customize the size, shape, appearance and placement location for your ad. It can include text digital images and hot links to your email or web addresses.

Portal Home Page: Left Panel: $20/mo; Right Panel: $30/mo; Wide Center Panel: $40/mo

Subject Page:Left Panel: $15/mo; Right Panel: $20/mo; Wide Center Panel: $30/mo

City/County Page: Left Panel: $10/mo; Right Panel: $15/mo; Wide Center Panel: $20/mo

After the first ad, subsequent ads on the same or other page are discounted at 20% from the first ad. This applies to the same or different ads.

ON-LINE FLYERS & DISCOUNT COUPONS: $5/mo per page. These are linked, printable micro-pages (graphic image, PDF image, Word document, or html web code).

UPDATES: No labor charge on initial set-up and for corrections to basic listings where you did not supply the information. Subsequent corrections/changes to information you submitted are priced at $20/session when submitted by email, and $40/session when submitted by phone or fax. But, don't hesitate to call to discuss if you are not clear about your needs or options.

MINI-WEB SITE: $10/mo for first page, and $5/mo per additional page. This feature provides the lister with a unique web page and address hosted underneath this high profile Portal web site. Price includes one free basic web link enhancement from your listing. One "mini-page" is defined as one standard display screen set at 1024x768 pixels.

See demonstration "Mini-Web" sites at: Portal Mini-Webs (these are one page, sub-web sites).

FULL WEB SITE: You can have your own private domain/URL name, and a hosted account with web pages and content designed on a custom basis reflecting the style, objectives, and features you desire in your own web site. Contact us for free consultation and a quote for design, set-up, ISP hosting and site maintenance services. We also provide services for existing sites, including format/content/feature updating, operational tweaking, and index/search optimization.

EMAIL ACCOUNT: $5/mo per email address. This feature allows you to have an email address with the Portal root name. Example: your.name@HillCountryPortal.com. Includes free email link enhancement from your listing.

PAYMENT: Full payment for a year is required in advance. We accept checks and credit/debit cards via PayPal.

Using PayPal, simply send payment amount agreed upon to the PayPal account titled: georgecofran@cofran.com

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