Advertising and Sponsorship Opportunities

Why Choose CoastalBoating.net?

CoastalBoating.net is the northeast region's premiere boating website, attracting large numbers of unique visitors each month. These visitors are actively seeking out information about boating destinations, products, and services. In fact, the number of page views per customer shows that when they come to visit, our viewers tend to stay a while, giving your ad multiple views and exposing your message for prolonged periods. Your ability to target an interested, affluent, and active community of boaters repeatedly when they are making decisions makes CoastalBoating.net an indispensable communications tool in your marketing mix.

Whether you are marketing to the boaters, or to affluent coastal residents, then we offer you to be a part of a community they choose to visit, not one that is thrust upon them. The people visiting CoastalBoating.net are your customer base.

Your Opportunities

There are several ways to connect to your customers on CoastalBoating.net. The site is organized into six main categories: Homeport, Racing, Cruising, Resources, Features and Events. Each category has subsections with hundreds of ideas for all boaters, all indexed and easily accessible. We update our content on a daily basis rather than waiting for a monthly edition like static print. This ensures our pick-up and listing high on the hierarchy of top search engines.

We offer multiple options for advertising or sponsorship. You can place a banner ad or button on the home page or you can sponsor an entire section. Within a section you can sponsor individual pages with a zone ad or text link.

We offer a number of different banner and button size/location options as shown in the table below. Each of our banner locations is exclusively available to only one advertiser per month; that means every visitor to the page will see your ad. Likewise, we offer only 10 button slots per page, with each large button option occupying two of these.

Your Own Webpage – For Free

Both the button and banner ads come with a free web page on CoastalBoating.net, which you can edit or update at any time and as often as you like. Page edits are done through a password protected website. Your personal page also has a hidden visitor counter, which you can access through your secure edit page.

Because of our commitment to our sponsors, we ask for a minimum 6-month advertising commitment for a home-page banner and 3-month minimum on section pages. All other pages can accept monthly insertion commitments. Please remember that all banner and button space allocations are done on a strict first come, first served basis.

Outside the Box Thinking

You can also place text links or ‘Zone ads’ in or beside articles that relate to your products or services. Custom opportunities such as topical content specifically tailored for a sponsor, co-branded content, or micro-sites will be considered on an individual request basis. Pick a content topic you know is near and dear to the hearts of your audience, and we'll build a package to attract significant qualified traffic.

To discuss advertising and promotional opportunities, please email us with your question or proposal to info @ coastalboating.net.

Standard ad units and rates

Ad Type	Description	Location	Cost
Banner Ad*	Standard full size banner 468 pixels wide x 60 pixels high	home page	$700/month
		major section	$500/month
Standard Button*	Standard size button, suitable for logo or teaser 120 pixels wide x 60 pixels high	home page	$300/month
		major section	$150/month
Large Button*	Double size button, suitable for message delivery 120 pixels wide x 120 pixels high	home page	$450/month
		major section	$250/month
Page sponsor or Zone Ad**	Maximum file size: gif/jpeg 14K, flash 18k, 3 loops maximum if animated 120 wide x 240 pixels high max.	special position boxed within editorial	$450/year
Text link**	Supply URL of page you wish to link from.		$175/year
Gear and Gizmos page**	Coming soon: just send us your info! Hot link to your website Thumbnail image of product & description Free listing and description of your product if we test it.		$275/year

* Rates are per month
**Rates are per year

Notes, Comments, Guidelines, and Other Stuff:

• Ad units are run for the duration of a full calendar month (starting on the first of the month) for billing purposes.
• Frequency discounts and multiple insertion specials available. Please contact us for details.
• Standard 15% agency commissions are allowed with package purchases.

General requirements:

• Formats accepted: GIF, animated GIF, JPEG, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Flash.
• Ad units must be designed with a minimum 1 pixel border
• Submit banners, buttons and zone ad materials along with the linking URL and order information to info @CoastalBoating.net.

Special offer for first time advertisers:

If you place a banner or button ad, for an additional $50 one time set up fee, we'll list your company on our industry resource links page and provide a bonus "advertiser" page as part of the package.                     

Become a founding sponsor  - Limited Time Offer

Commit to a long-term relationship and get a customized package of benefits to suit your needs, which includes annual rates and discounts, special promotions, first option on new offerings and listing on a perpetual founding sponsor’s page. Get on board before it’s too late!

Contact us today

email: info @CoastalBoating.net

CoastalBoating.net
Division of White Seahorse, Inc.
PO Box 726
Mahwah NJ 07430

White Seahorse retains the right to refuse any advertising and to discontinue running any ad deemed inappropriate. Fees for discontinued ads will be refunded on a pro-rated basis at the discretion of the company less 15% administrative costs.

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