Advertise your business on the Go..

It's easy, measurable, inexpensive and it just plain works

There are so many reasons to be advertising on the web, and GoCampbellRiver.com is the advertising venue of choice for Campbell River. 

Just a few benefits of internet advertising: 

• Dramatically increased visibility
• Explosive growth
• A targeted audience
• 24/7 accessibility in a platform where they know they can find you
• Expanded information about your business
• Versatility
• Interactivity.

Get on the Go Now!!

All of this at a highly competitive price.  

Introductory Advertising Specials
Mechanical Specifications
Contact Us
Our Market
Why Internet Marketing
Our Competitive Advantage
What we are doing to promote GoCampbellRiver.com

We are on the Go.   Are you?

Introductory Advertising Specials

Bronze Package           Free

Sample Listing

Silver Package         $168.00 per year +5% GST

• A thumbnail picture of your choice (you supply 100 x 100 pixels)
• Fifty words of descriptive text, 225 characters (you supply)
• Address Linked to Google Maps   ***NEW***
• Linked Email address
• Linked Website address

Sample Listing

Gold Package           $408.00 per year + 5% GST

• Your company name
• Address
• Phone, Fax, Cell, and 1 - 800 number(s)
• Linked Email address
• Linked Website address
• PLUS a thumbnail picture of your choice (you supply 100 x 100 pixels)
• Fifty words (225 characters) of descriptive text      
• PLUS ONE box ad in the side bar of the category of your choice, you may supply the box ad or we can produce it for you for $95.00 per original design.  You own the artwork.    

Sample Listing

Platinum Package       $548.00 per year + 5% GST

• Your Company name
• Address
• Phone, Fax, Cell and 1 - 800 number(s)
• Linked Email address
• Linked Website address
• PLUS a thumbnail picture of your choice (you supply 100 x 100 pixels)
• Fifty words (225 characters) of descriptive text
• PLUS TWO box ad in the side bar of the category of your choice, you may supply the box ad or we can produce it for you for $95.00 per original design.  You own the artwork.

Sample Listing

Sample Box Ad

Additional Silver Listings                  $98.00 per year + 5% GST

Additional Box Ads:                          $140.00 per year + 5% GST

MECHANICAL SPECIFICATIONS for ads:

Our Market

We have identified our market into three main categories: Local, Regional and Global.

Local, Regional and Global

Campbell River has an estimated 13,000 web connections within the city and Regional District and an estimated 28,000 users: in most cases these connections support multi-devise users such as palm pilots, telephones, televisions and other hand held devises.  The average British Columbian is engaged in internet activity for 45 hours a month with 84.3% of the population having dedicated access to the web.

These numbers equate to a total of internet activity topping up at 1,260,000 hours a month in the Campbell River region alone or 52,500 days every month. 

Stats Canada reports that in December of 2011 there were 28 million internet users in Canada, representing a wide majority of the population. Compare that to 2006 when Stats Canada's report reflected internet use at 16.8 million people. That number has almost doubled in 5 years. 

As a matter of fact Canada is ranked 17th overall in the world on Internet penetration, and second in bandwidth, considering our small population and the fact that there are 184 countries world wide with access, we are ranked amongst the highest in the world.

That is a heck of a lot of internet activity.

Seven out of ten product purchase decisions are made on the internet first. 

This does not mean that everyone is buying everything on the net, but you can bet they are researching the product first, and if they cannot find you and they can find your competition.  WHO LOSES?

For an in depth view of what is happening to the worlds communications check this video out.

It has never been as clear as it is today that the internet is the wave of the future. 

Not having an internet presence today is like writing a best seller, putting it on the library shelf and not having it represented in the index, you will be lucky if anyone finds you.  GoCampbellRiver.com is the local index.

Why Internet Marketing Works

With an ever increasing number of businesses using the internet to conduct  business on a daily basis, business related internet activity is on the rise.
 
The Cost of Development

Construction of a website has decreased dramatically. 

Six years ago a basic web presence would cost $2000 to $3000, today there are numerous, free and easy to use on-line design programs that guarantee reasonable results for less than a quarter of the cost, and if you are a little program savvy you may accomplish a decent internet presence for as little as the cost of the hosting of your domain name. 

The user interface for templates such as joomla, websiteworks, drupal and wordpress have evolved to become user friendly and specialty ad-on programs and e-commerce programs are now a fraction of the cost of what they were just a few years ago.
 
Control over Content

With the advent of content management systems it is easier than ever for any business or organization to maintain complete control over the content of their website and make their own changes on a daily basis, whereas before companies were reliant on the webmasters to make the changes at a prohibitive cost.  This fact directly affects the cost of the site administration and gives the business owner ownership to the content of their site.
 
Increased User Understanding

Awareness of the process of the internet has evolved from the reality that managers and owners themselves are utilizing the internet more to conduct their business.
 
Access to the Internet

With the experience of hand held devises and wireless connections,  it is becoming more prevalent for all walks of people to be gaining access to the internet from any location; day or night. 

An interesting statistic is that the largest demographic user of the internet in Canada is over the age of 65, maybe they are texting each other.
 
A Green Economy

Fuel  costs continue to rise and with them all other related commodities.  We as a society are becoming more conscientious of the green economy, and the internet is about the greenest economy out there. 

Traditional forms of advertising and its related distribution methods, are now considered by most to be wasteful and environmentally unsound.  Considering the high cost of these traditional types of advertising, having your ad being tossed in the recycle bin or used to line the bird cage, makes you reconsider where your money is being spent. 

The internet is changing the way we communicate and advertising is no different.  Online Advertising vs Traditional Advertising.
 
Targeted Marketing

When advertising on the web, your focus on the marketplace is specifically targeted, for example; with paper publications you produce 15,000 copies at a cost of $2.00 per copy and you are lucky if 1% of that marketplace actually sees your ad, with programs in place such as www.GoCampbellRiver.com, every customer that accesses your website is qualified and is specifically interested in your product.  There is also the added advantage of the user revisiting that website whenever they choose; 24/7 - 365 days a year, from almost any location.

In addition your ad; which clicks through to your website can offer volumes of information on your product or service, further qualifying your market.

In Conclusion

Advertising on the internet is VASTLY SUPERIOR for accessing your target market, and it is less expensive in every sense.  With GoCampbellRiver.com a beginner business marketing campaign can reach a targeted market for as little as $168.00 per year.  This equates to $14.00 per month. 

An expanded campaign could cost less than $50.00 a month and you cannot go wrong with that.  This campaign targets a specific market with a host of information on your business on a regular basis with the business owner having complete control of the content of their message on a day to day basis.

GoCampbellRiver's Competitive Advantage

Price Points

When compared to other venues, our research has shown that advertising with GoCampbellRiver.com is relatively inexpensive.  We have managed to keep our prices reasonable in comparison to other web directories by being local and not supporting the massive infrastructures these directories carry.  Feel free to compare.

Volume of Content

What we are doing to promote GoCampbellRiver.com

External Links

One of the most important and on-going initiatives we have is encouraging external links to value based websites, within and outside of the community.  We have successfully achieved this with at least 50 websites on different subjects and will continue to grow additional links as opportunity allows.


Community

We have been participating in many community related activities to gain a local market share.  Many people are already saying I heard of you here or I heard of you there.  Our local initiatives will also be ongoing, with specific campaigns in the works.