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If you own or manage a local business--even one you run from your home--we can help you grow your business. We provide unique, innovative, and affordable ways to target the customers you want to reach.

Take advantage of our marketing expertise and let us showcase your business to thousands of Boone County area residents and visitors. You don't need a Web site to benefit from the vast online market. But if you do have a Web site, we'll drive more customers to your site and to your business.

We have a low-cost way to attract local prospects and customers to your business and to your web site. It's costs a tiny fraction of traditional print or broadcast advertising.

Advertising Opportunities

Our searchable business listings drive viewers to your business and to your web site. They are the most versatile and useful option for the viewer, because they can find your business by searching for your name, one of many business categories that match your business, and by up to 200 keywords that we carefully weave into the description of your business. In addition our premium listing includes two rotating banner ads that are linked to your listing or your web site. We also have block ads available in the center and in both side panels on our home page and each of the interior pages of the site, also linked to your listing or your web site.

Premium Business Listing: Description, banners, photos, & links to your email and website.	Standard Business Listing: Description & links to your email & website.
Basic Business Listing: White page listing only	Banner Ads
Real Estate Listings	Autos For Sale
Contest Sponsorships	Printable Coupons
Block Ads	Help-wanted (Free for local businesses.)
Short-term Block Ads	Restaurant Menus

Advertising Options

There are NO setup fees or basic artwork fees!
We create the banners, block ads, take pictures, and write business descriptions.

Basic Business Listing: Company Name, Address, Phone, and listing in one business category.

Static Center Block Ad: Your logo or text ad featured on the top/center of one of our many pages. Your ad is displayed every time the page is viewed. This is for the business that wants maximum exposure, or wants to sponsor certain themes of content, like schools, churches, real estate, restaurants, automobiles, or be on the Home Page. Contact us for availability.

Static Side Block Ad: Your logo or text ad featured in one of our Spotlight Advertising Blocks. These are high-visibility blocks located to the right and left of the main content of the page. Contact us for availability.

Real Estate Listings: List your real estate properties! Complete description of your properties and up to 7 pictures. Register and Login to submit your properties immediately. Special packages available for Real Brokers and Affiliates.

Auto Sales Listings: Individuals and Dealers, list your auto, RV, motorcycles. Includes complete descriptions and up to 5 pictures. Register and Login to list your autos immediately. Special packages available for Auto Dealers.

FREE Classifieds Ads: Individuals can advertise cars, furniture, bric brac, home for sale by owner, or anything. Register and Login to submit your classified ad.

FREE Local Job Listings: Registerand Loginto submit your company's job openings.

Contact Us to see all that Boone County Connection has to offer it's visitors, ensuring that they return again and again! Your advertising is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, at a fraction of traditional print and broadcast advertising.

Advertising Rates

Ad Type	Month	3 Mo.	Year
Basic Business Listing	n/a	n/a	n/a
Standard Business Listing	$35.00	$105.00	$297
Premium Business Listing	$50.00	$150.00	$497
Business Listing Upgrades:
Bold Upgrade	n/a	$9	$30
Color Highlight	n/a	$9	$30
Attention Grabber Graphic	n/a	$9	$30
Price List	n/a	$3	$100
Restaurant Menu	n/a	$60	$200
Static Center Block Ad - Main Page	n/a	$525	$1,750
Static Center Block Ad - Interior Page	n/a	$450	$1,500
Static Side Block Ad - Main Page	n/a	$300	$995
Static Side Block Ad - Interior Page	n/a	$225	$750
Real Estate Listing	Call	Call	Call
Auto For Sale Listing	Call	Call	Call
Printable Coupon ($15 per coupon/month)	n/a	$45	$150
Classified Ad (Individuals only, No business ads)	Free
Help Wanted Ads for any size business.	Free

How to sign up for a Business Listing, Real Estate Listing, Auto Listing, or Classified. Contact Us now and we'll get you started.

How to purchase banner or block ads and Web pages: Contact Us or call 573-529-0084.

Whether you want to establish your own Web site or increase your existing Web site's traffic, we have a solution for you.

Boone County Connection's searchable Business Directory, high-visibiity rotating banners at the top and bottom of our pages, and spotlight block ads on every page of our site are viewed tens of thousands of times every week, and are available to viewers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 52 weeks a year.

We attract viewers to the Boone County area with top positions in most major search engines and by paid advertising of our site, ensuring that your business gets the best possible exposure. We spend a portion of every advertising dollar promoting the site and driving traffic to your business and to your Web site.

Our Guarantee

We cannot promise that your Ad(s) will make sales.We guarantee that your Ad will be visible to visitors to access 24 hours per day, and that those visitors are looking for information about Boone County, and Boone County only! How they respond to your Ad is based on how effectively you present your information, and how many places you are visible on the site. We will utilize many resources and search engines to promote our web site and business directory.

Remember... Effective marketing is about repetition... People seeing your message over and over and over again! The more places the better! With the low cost of online advertising through Boone County Connection you can afford that needed visibility and repetition!

Boone County Connection has many great things to offer viewers, ensuring that they return again and again! Your advertising is always online, at a fraction of the cost of traditional print and broadcast advertising that has a limited shelf-life. With Boone County Connection you only target viewers looking for Boone County businesses! They're searching for you! With traditional advertising, much of your advertising dollar is spent on newspaper readers and TV viewers who live out of your area and will never visit your business. We target Boone County area business prospects!

Viewers are searching for content

Most searchers are window shoppers. If they don't like what they see in the window, they won't be coming back. Without good content, our site becomes a ghost town with a big "Road Closed" sign in front of it. So with us, content is priority one!

It's the content that drives people to our site. Even if they use a search engine to get here, what good does it do if Google refers a million visitors to our site if they don't find what they're looking for? So Boone County Connection concentrates on good content, so our viwers keep coming back. And keep seeing your ads.

Why Do Internet Viewers search Online?

• Viewers want to pick what they see, not what newspaper editors and TV producers pick for them.
• Online, they can choose what & when they view, not what newspaper editors and TV producers choose for them.
• Viwers are turning to online sources of information and advertising because they can search & select!
• 140 million people in the United States have Internet access in their home. (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce)
• 1st quarter 2004 online retail sales were $15.5 billion, more then 28% greater than 2003. (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce)
• Businesses using the Internet to promote and sell their goods and services have grown 46% faster in the last two years than those that don't. (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce)
• 87% of online users depend on the Internet to access LOCAL INFORMATION. (Source: Digitrends)
• 52.7% of an online business directory users visited a merchant because of what they saw online. (Source: Digitrends)
• 85.5% of users of an online business directory would recommend the site to friends and family. (Source: Harris Interactive)
• 74% of adults are searching online an average of 9 hours a week! (Source: Harris Poll)
• Less than 50% of people in the United States read newspapers daily. (Source: Washington Post)

Why do businesses advertise?

• Businesess advertise to present their message to TV & Internet viewers and newspaper & magazine readers.
• Viewers and readers seek content: news, pictures, information, and advertising.

But . . .

• Viewers are replacing readers and now outnumber them.
• Viewers are turning to online sources for content and advertising.
• Online viewers search and select online sources of content and advertisng -- if and when they want it.
• Online advertising is the only source available to them that fulfills this requirement.

The key is our content

Boone County Connection offers many great things to viewers, ensuring that they return again and again! Your advertising is online around the clock all year long, at a fraction of the cost of traditional print and broadcast advertising, both of which have a limited shelf-life.

Goods and services provided by Boone County Connection, a Div. of RD Group Consultants (Missouri, United States).