Our Advertising and Web Services

Advertising Categories on Sheville

We have streamlined our categories to make it easy for you to understand what you are getting. We have:

• Banner ads (a large graphic that clicks to your site). These ads "move around" among the different pages at Sheville, and provide a visually interesting and attention-getting introduction to your services. $450-$600.
• Sidebar ads (a text statement that clicks to your site). These ads appear at the right as one of six listings. They also move around between pages, and appear in a different order each time. $125.
• Shop Locally Directory ads. The Shop Locally Directory is organized by the type of business. This allows potential customers to find you easily by category. They don't have to sort through a lot of business names in order to find you. $75 and up.
• Featured Links. If you have a business that you think would benefit best from being seen on only one of our content pages, then you can get a Featured Links listing. $50.
• The Sheville Mall. Do you have a farm, a book to sell, or some other product that you would like our readers to buy? Join us in the Mall. We have feature sections for real estate, farms and artists - visual and performing, and writers. $40 - $75.
• Website development, enhancement, and modification. We can help you set up a web site, change it, or draw more traffic to it. $50 per hour, and package rates.
• Announcements. Do you have an event or feature that you want to publicize? You can place an announcement for up to two months on one of our regular content pages. $25

Non-profits: e-mail info@sheville.org to see if you are eligible for a discount on your rates.

How Affordable is Affordable?

At Sheville.org®, our job is simple. We merely have to stay in tune with Western North Carolina, our advertisers, our readers, and the web in general! And guess what? Because these days, everybody's pinched -  there's a huge temptation among businesses to cut advertising because times are tough. But how smart is that? Put this another way: you know that every day, more people are relying on the web to give them information, even about their local area. Do you find out what the cheapest gas prices are by driving around, or by going to NorthCarolinaGasPrices.com? Do you find a phone number by finding your phone book, or by googling? So what makes you think your customers are any different?

Why Web Marketing Works

How can Sheville help your Web Marketing?

How does Our Pricing Work?

To keep our advertising affordable, we have broken our fees into two parts: set-up, and listing. You can minimize or eliminate the set-up fees by submitting exactly the components of the ad or announcement that we request. For example, almost all of our advertising includes a picture. If you can send the picture as a .jpg or .png in exactly the size we specify, with all the information we generally list (things like company name, description, phone number, web site, etc., we will waive the set-up fee. Our measure? If it takes two e-mail exchanges or less to get the job done, there's no set-up fee. But if you need us to work with you, then we charge $50 per hour in quarter-hour increments for the set-up fee. This also applies to changes made after the ad has been listed.

This split between set-up and listing means that once the ad is up, you are getting an extremely affordable advertising rate for the number of readers you will be reaching.

And remember: once you order an ad from us, please be sure to proof-read our work! And this especially means clicking on the link to your site!

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