Advertise on Bears-Direct Advertising on Bears-Direct helps pay the overheads involved with setting up & running the largest teddy bear artists portal on the internet ... plus it is an ideal way to get your message out to the collecting public at very inexpensive rates – only a fraction of the cost of advertising in the print or electronic media. Bears-Direct attracts thousands of visitors to its well established website (now over four years of international exposure and high rankings in all the major search engines). We offer a number of ways to advertise your business, ranging from features such as Bear of the Day and Artist Spotlight, to attractive, individually-designed advertisements on each of the Artist Listing pages, year-round banner advertising on every page in the Bears-Direct website, to submitted features by advertising bear artists in our monthly Newsletter. We also offer an easy entree into the wonderful world of the web and e-commerce through our mini-websites ... at only $50 p.a. you can have five of your bears featured on your own mini- website with a highly attractive domain name of www.yoursite.bears-direct.com ... allowing you to take advantage of our high page rankings and good search engine positioning ... click on the advertisement below to be taken to the page that explains our mini-websites in full detail. Below are listed the various options open to you, and you can sign up and pay with ease using your credit card for the advertising option you select: |
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Bear of the Day This is an ideal opportunity for you to show off one (or more) of your teddy bears to the many visitors to the Bears-Direct website ... many of the pages on the site have this feature appearing on them. Bear of the Day is a random selection of participating bear artists and each bear is randomly shown as visitors enter a page which includes this feature ... you have an ideal opportunity to show off your bear at many points during someone's visit to Bears- Direct, and this is a very affordable and exciting way to get out your message & product. Cost for this service is $30 per year for your bear to appear randomly for a full year of viewing. You can change your bear pic(s) at any time during the year for a changeover fee of $10 per new pic. People clicking on the pic of your bear will be taken immediately to your website, which opens in a new window. To sign up for this facility, use the Order Form below. |
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Artist Spotlight This is our major advertising facility which comprises a permanent story about you and your teddy bear business ... how you got started ... what you do ... what motivates you ... the type of teddy bears you make ... in fact, everything about you that a potential customer would want to know. Each Artist Spotlight has its own page on the Bears-Direct website, and all Spotlights are featured in the rotating Artist Spotlight feature (as per above). Artists participating also receive the option to contribute a monthly update about themselves to the Bears Direct Newsletter. Your Spotlight includes a photo of yourself and pics of up to six of your bears. Cost for this service is a once only charge of $60 ($100 if we have to write your Spotlight for you), plus an optional ongoing cost of $10 per year to maintain your rotating advert in our Artists Spotlight feature (as per above). To sign up for this facility, click below: |
BANNER ADVERTISING Have your banner on permanent and rotational display on Bears-Direct. One of our cheapest advertising options, your banner will randomly rotate on all pages throughout the very well visited Bears-Direct website at a cost of only $15 per year! Supply your own banner ad, or we will do up an animated standard banner ad (468 x 60) for you for only $15 extra (and you will own it & can use it elsewhere). To sign up for our Banner Advertising, go to the Order Form below. |
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High Impact Ads on Listing Pages Another highly successful and high impact advertising facility are our High Impact Ads on all of our Artist Listing pages ... these are limited to a maximum of two advertisements per page and have proven highly successful to a number of forward-thinking bear artists who have used them in the past. We are maintaining the same costs on this, the new Bears-Direct website, that artists have enjoyed in the past, and you will have to jump in early to get your name on one (or more) of these highly attractive and effective ads. |
Size: These ads are a standard 390 x 160 pixels in size and can either be a static advert
(as per the sample at left) or can include a slide show of up to five (5) of
your bears. |
Price: This ad is just $30 for 3 months including a blurb in the artist highlights
section of the monthly newsletter. Put it on 2 pages for just $50, or 3 pages
for $60! (Slide show ads are not eligible for the quantity discount). A slide show can be added to any picture ad for a one time set up fee of $45. If you renew, there is no additional charge beyond the $30 ad renewal fee. This is a real bargain! (not eligible for quantity discounts) |
Text Only Ads: This ad (at left) is just $15 for 3 months and includes a blurb in the artist
highlights section of the newsletter every month. To order either of these ads, use the Ad Ordering Form below. |
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