Place Your Ad on FresnoFamily.com!

Here are the ad options available at Fresno Family. Below the fees you will find more detailed information. If you have any questions, please email me.

Click on an option below to see info
PLEASE NOTE: The “click here to pay” options will take you to my other website, MommyChats.com to pay).

Fresno Family Ad Rates:

1.	Free Fresno Family Online Mall Listing*Check directory stats*	FREE!*	Submit Now (Create account first, then post a listing)
2.	Paid Biz Directory Listing	Starting at $2/year. (Additional fees for more features.)	Submit Now (Create account first, then post a listing)
3.	Rotating Button Ad	$10/month	Click here to pay
4.	Rotating Text Ad	$10/month	Click here to pay
5.	Non-Rotating Button Ad	$25/month	Click here to pay
6.	Non-Rotating Text Ad	$25/month	Click here to pay
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*(Default listings are free, extra features cost a small amount depending on what you choose.)

 

Please read the fine print before submitting your biz.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

(PLEASE READ COMPLETELY!)

• Payment via Pay Pal. If you cannot pay with Pay Pal, email me and we can arrange something else.
• When you pay for your ad, you will be signed up for a Pay Pal subscription and it will continue monthly until you cancel it.
  You can cancel your subscription via your Paypal account AT ANY TIME. However, payments are made a month in advance. Once payment for the month is made, there are NO REFUNDS.
• PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL YOUR AD VIA THE AD MANAGER (AD PEEPS) SYSTEM.
  IF YOU WISH TO CANCEL YOUR AD, PLEASE DO SO BY CANCELING YOUR PAYPAL SUBSCRIPTION. If you need help, feel free to email me.
• If you have more than one ad you’d like placed on these pages, please submit them separately.
• After making payment you will be sent an email with a link to set up your new ad account. If you do not get this email, or have difficulties with this step, please email me.
• You can track the effectiveness of your ads or edit the information at any time by logging into your account with your personal login and password.
• Please read the fine print before submitting your biz.
• IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:
  This is a one-woman, homeschooling, work-at-home-mom-made site…Its entirely done on my opinion and experiences and in my time wedged between mothering/homeschooling responsibilities. Anyone who considers doing business with me needs to keep this in mind and realize I’m always on mommy time–which means my KIDS come first, not my business. I do, however, devote a good amount of time and energy into my business. You won’t be disappointed. Thank you for understanding!

Why advertise on Fresno Family?

Here are the past 6mo stats (as of 1/15/12) on Fresno Family:
(Stats from Webalizer)

Here are the overall system statistics across both my sites (I use one program to do ads on both Fresno Family and Mommy Chats, so it averages them), as of 1/15/12*:
(*Starting from April 2008, when the stats were reset due to a switch to a new host server.)

Here is an excellent and interesting online discussion about advertising and click through ratios.
Here’s another article on this topic of click-through rates, as well as info on the importance of your ad graphic.

Some more interesting threads…these are on what kind of ads moms will/won’t click on and why (since moms tend to be the ones shopping for info and products online):

Mothering.com
Amitymama.com
Hippymom.com

 

Here are the past 6mo stats on the Fresno Family Online Mall (as of 1/15/12):

Summary by Month
Month	Page Views	Ad Views	Searches	New Ads
Jan 2012	2942	145	1	1
Dec 2011	5130	295	9	0
Nov 2011	3720	297	7	1
Oct 2011	5869	395	12	0
Sept 2011	6365	339	9	2
Aug 2011	6009	519	12	0

Please read the fine print before submitting your biz.

 

OPTIONS 1 & 2:

Fresno Family Mall Listings–Your cheapest option for advertising on Fresno Family is the Online Mall…

Free Listing	FREE! (Default listings are free, extra features cost a small amount depending on what you choose.)	Submit Now (Create account first, then post a listing)
Paid Listing	Starting at $5/year. (Additional fees for more features.)	Submit Now (Create account first, then post a listing)

OPTION 3:

Rotating Button Ad Info ($10/month)–

• Buttons must be: 125 X125 pixels — 25k max — .gif, .jpg or animated .gif
• Button will be placed in the right sidebar.
• Buttons will be in rotation with other ads. (Ads rotate each time the page is visited or refreshed.)

OPTION 4:

Rotating Text Ad Info ($10/month)–

• This ad appears in the text box in the sidebar and will rotate with other text ads each time the page if visited or refreshed.
• Your wording of this ad is crucial to the success of it, so keep this in mind when creating your ad.
• Please keep your ad brief. A maximum of 350 characters (including spaces–You can use MS Word’s word count feature to count this for you, if you have it.) This will be much more effective than a longer ad.
  A little tip about the wording of your text ads: Do NOT tell them everything in the ad!! If you do, they have no reason to click. You want to have all the details on your website, but just a teaser in your ad. Something intriguing that will make them want to know more and thus will click your ad.

OPTION 5:

Non-Rotating Button Ad Info ($25/month)–

• This is a NON-ROTATING ad, meaning that it is permanent and always shows as long as you are subscribing/paying…it does NOT rotate with other ads.
• Buttons must be: 125 X125 pixels — 25k max — .gif, .jpg or animated .gif
• Button will be placed in the right sidebar.

OPTION 6:

Non-Rotating Text Ad ($25/month)–

• This is a NON-ROTATING ad, meaning that it is permanent and always shows as long as you are subscribing/paying…it does NOT rotate with other ads.
• This ad will appear in the right sidebar.
• Your wording of this ad is crucial to the success of it, so keep this in mind when creating your ad.
• Please keep your ad brief. A maximum of 350 characters (including spaces–You can use MS Word’s word count feature to count this for you, if you have it.) This will be much more effective than a longer ad.
  A little tip about the wording of your text ads: Do NOT tell them everything in the ad!! If you do, they have no reason for them to click. You want to have all the details on your website, but just a teaser in your ad. Something intriguing that will make them want to know more and thus will click your ad.

Please read the fine print before submitting your biz.

Why do l need an online presence?

Good question! The internet is amazing! Most everyone these days are connected and those who aren’t are missing out on a lot. The internet is an inexpensive way to advertise to a LOT more people then could ever be possible with the very expensive tv, radio and print ad fees.

But I’m a local business, why would I want to advertise to the whole world?

You have a point, if you do not offer services to people outside your immediate area, how does the internet benefit you? Simply put, LOCALS ARE ONLINE TOO! And if you are advertising on local sites, you are pretty much guaranteed to get locals stumbling upon your info! And THAT can bring you business! Plus, if you don’t have an after-hours voice mail message on your business line explaining things like location, hours, etc, (and even if you do), people can get all this info and more 24hours/day from a webpage. They can also SEE your business (if you provide photos), read about current specials or sales, and the list goes on and on!

And its inexpensive, so why not give it a try?

*fine print*
All items added to this site are at the discretion of the webmama of Fresno Family. I will only allow ads/webpages which are relevant to this site and blend well with the overall site/page feel. I will not allow ads which I feel innapropriate or downright ugly. I want to maintain the overall quality/feel of my site and so will always be choosy in what I allow to be posted here. I also reserve the right to refuse advertising for any business that I deem inappropriate or that promotes something I do not feel comfortable promoting.
I will refund all ad money if I choose not to advertise your business. (This is the only exception to the “no refunds” policy.)