Advertising Summary

Target the audience most likely to buy you Hunting and Fishing products or services. iGreatLakes.com and it's websites target the audience you want to reach. We target the millions of Midwestern  hunters, fishermen and women.

You can get started advertising with us for as little as $50.  

Advertising can be bought to target any or all sites on our network.  Price breaks are given for advertising on all sites on our network.

Banner design can be done for an additional fee.   Advertiser input and direction on banner design is important as you know your business best.

Advertisers are free to put links to their homepage in their signature and openly discuss their product or service on our forums.

The traffic our ads are seeing is increasing every year.   Many sponsors have seen the value in this and come back year after year (see our testimonials).   See the graphs below and to the right that detail our ever increasing audience.

Product Reviews are another way to promote your product.  See details at the bottom of this page.

Advertising with iGreatLakes.com

Advertising is available in the form of Banner or Button sized ads.  Below is an example of a Banner ad placement and size:

Below is an example of a Button ad placement and size:

Advertising Rates

Advertising can be bought either on a yearly basis on a flat rate or paid for at a rate of $5 per 1000 banner exposures.   Since our typical banner ad gets in the neighborhood of 8000 exposures per day and our typical button ad gets way over 10,000 exposures per day buying on a yearly basis is usually a much better deal.   Trial purchases of 1/2 year or 1/4 year can be purchased at rates of 65% and 40% of the yearly total respectively.

2008 Rate Card

We offer some of the cheapest targeted advertising on the net.  As previously mentioned, Ads can be bought by 1000 exposures at $5 per 1000 with a minimum buy of $50.  The rate card below shows our yearly rates:

Package Button Ad Rate Banner Ad Rate
Ad over entire iGreatLakes.com
website network (includes all sites listed separately below as well as MichiganTroutStreams.com, and MichiganBucks.com) *except on those sub-forums that have an exclusive advertiser, see below.		 $200 $399
Ad shown on
Michigan-Sportsman.com only*		 $175 $299
Ad shown on
OhioSportsman.com only*		 $25 $100
Ad shown on
IndianaSportsman.com only*		 $25 $100
Ad shown on
WisconsinOutdoorsman.com only*		 N/A $100
Get your ad shown exclusively on a particular forum.   This is in addition to the yearly rate to be in the general rotation on website(s) and can really target your ad towards a particular audience. Email Us Email Us

*Your banner ad is shown in a random rotation on all forums except those forums that have an exclusive advertiser.   Currently there are less than a dozen forums network wide that have an exclusive advertiser.   Email us for details if required.

Banner Requirements

Banners must be 468x64 pixels and no larger than 30k. They can be in gif or jpg formats and may be animated.   Buttons ads must be no larger than 120x120 pixels and can be in gif or jpg formats.  Banner and button design is available for an additional charge. We recommend that you have multiple banners available as click through rates seem to increase with multiple banners per advertiser. 

Payments

Payment can be made directly via paypal to steve@michigan-sportsman.com or by check to:
 
 iGreatLakes.com
 P.O. Box 930291
 Wixom, MI 48393

Traffic Statistics

The exact number of impressions per day  is not guaranteed and not totally predictable with daily and seasonal fluctuations.  Currently our yearly sponsors advertising across the entire iGreatLakes.com network average anywhere from 5000-10,000 impressions per day.   Advertising over our entire iGreatLakes.com network really provides a lot of bang for your 'buck".   Purchased separately a banner ad run on each of our major sites would cost $599.   This can be bought as a package deal across our network for only $399 as shown in the table above.

Below is a report from Google showing the traffic on just the Michigan-Sportsman.com website for a representative month.   We have lots of traffic from people who would be interested in your outdoor related product or service.

Growth

Below are graphs of website usage on Michigan-Sportsman.com for January of 2006 and January of 2007.   Note the increase in usage between the similar periods in consecutive years:


Product Reviews

Product reviews are another way to promote your product.   Reviews of products done on our websites often place on the first or second page of a Google search.   Google "dryfly float boat review", "cuddeback noflash review", or "bowtech guardian review" to see three of our reviews that placed on Google's first page on a recent check.   Products for evaluation or review can be sent to:

iGreatLakes.com
P.O. Box 930291
Wixom, MI 48393

or by arrangement via email to steve@igreatlakes.com


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