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Trent Severn Lake Ontario, Thousand Island & Lake Ontario

Help sculpt our data base for your busisness
This is a no strings offer $99 buys you a typical home page optimized for search engine recognition.

We are now entering the final stages of completing the On-Line Trent Seven Cruising Guide www.cruising.ca/trent which is far more than a sponsored links web site passively seeking content, we go out travel the waterway accumulating thousands of original images of the waterway and destinations along with more traditional sailing directions. The remaining portion of the guide that covers Lake Simcoe to Georgian Bay will be complete by the end of this month.

The cost to advertise within the regional area of the On-Line Cruising Guide. We will be contacting you shortly, however we wanted to provide you an opportunity to browse the site if you are not already familiar with our product.

1. Local Link Text Presence

  • . $ 20.00 + GST Canadian per year
  • . Bold listing in the Marina's section.
  • . A Text link to your web site from the appropriate pages of the waterway guide

.2. Local Regional Presence

  • . 45.00 + GST Canadian per year
  • . L-34.html (example page)
  • . A bold listing in the Marina section
  • . 3 banner links on adjoining pages (art work not included)
  • . A link to your web site
  • . A semi custom �template� page to promote your facility within the content of the guide itself.
  • . The ability to provide up to 6 additional images of your facility
  • .3. Trent Seven Waterway Guide Premium Waterway Listing

  • . $ 80.00 + GST Canadian per year
  • . http://www.cruising.ca/Trent Severn Waterway Index (your link here)
  • . A bold listing in the Marina section
  • . Banner link from the overall Trent Seven Waterway Guide index page
  • . 3 banner links on adjoining local pages (art work not included)
  • . A link to your web site
  • . A semi custom �template� page allows you to promote your facility within the content of the guide itself.
  • . The ability to provide up to 6 additional images of your facility
  • .4. www.cruising.ca Banner

  • $ 300.00 + GST Canadian per year
  • . www.cruising.ca (home page banner)
  • . Banner link from the overall Trent Seven Waterway Guide index page
  • . 3 links on adjoining pages within the Cruising Guide
  • . Multiple links to your web site
  • . A semi custom �template� page allows you to promote your facility within the content of the guide itself.
  • . The ability to provide up to 6 additional images of your facility



  • Classified Advertising

    Banner Ad Info Here or Commercial Classified

    If you sell a product or service you must pay !

    If you SPAM or place innapropraite listings, your name e-mail will be disimated to anti spam groups, reported to your server and your IP published!

    Equally
    We have lately had to refuse a large number of ads which are placing off site URL's in the body. Our charges are low our volume and readership high. ALL LINKED & COMMERCIAL ADS MUST BE PAID no other free ads will be allowed. Please see conditions.

    If you wish to use your URL there is a nominal charge of $ 29 for a 3 month period.

    Security: www.cruising.ca customers you are now on our Canadianet Communications RLM. server.
    Please note you will be billed as RLM, not as Cruising Canada in US funds if you choose to use the online payment option.

    Private $ FREE info here If you are selling your own boat, and wish to spend the time to make a complete ad which provides the key information with one picture we would be happy to let you run it. FREE
    no off site links
    Private link $29 USD info here SORRY!
    The charge for ads with links will now be enforced.
    $29 USD 3 months
    Commercial $29 USD for 3 months 4 ads + access info here JOIN NOW
    Multipule Photos $ 40 per Month 6 picts - Discrete URL MORE DETAILS
    Brokerage 7% to 10% Internet, Standard & Agent MORE DETAILS

    October, 2002

    What about site volume you ask?
    May 2002 stats recorded roughly 500,000 hits, with 20,000 _ distinct visitors, viewing an average visit entailing 7 to 20 or more pages viewed. This site pays for itself and will be around for many years to come, without hosting under a university cheep server or relying on other organizations for content.

    For the commercial member our stats show a worldwide readership of committed cruising readers.

    ONLY fully discriptive and informative ads ar allowed! Preferance will be given to ads with photos less than 50K JIF orJPEG & a 180 pixel maxium width.
    1. $ FREE
    2. ONE "DIY" PHOTO CLASSIFIED AD insertion for three months.
    3. No off site links allowed

    A FREE AD IS PRIVATE PART - STRICTLY NON COMMERCIAL

    If you are selling your own boat, and wish to spend the time to make a complete ad which provides the key information and one picture please we would be happy to let you run it. However, we can not have one liners to off site links many pure SPAM.

    We reserves the right to determine private non commercial content suitability. We will routinely screen our classified and exercise these conditions. If you are found to be selling a product or service, or you are conducting a boat for sale business commercially your ad and subscription will be revoked without notice or refund.

    1. $ 29 for 3 months
    2. ONE "DIY" PHOTO CLASSIFIED AD insertion for three months.
    3. Allows publication of your URL for those with web sites.

    PRIVATE CRITERIA

    Cruising Canada reserves the right to determine private suitability. We will routinely screen our classifies and exercise these conditions. If you are found to be selling a product or service, or you are conducting a boat for sale business commercially your ad will be revoked without notice

    COMMERCIAL MEMBERSHIP

    The internet changes and so do we!
    1. Will be negotiated on a one to one basis only due to some others practices.
    2. FOUR "DIY" PHOTO CLASSIFIED ADS running for the three months.
    3. Live links allowed to your own website

    We also offer banner advertising web site design, maintenance and marketing services. Multipule site banners from $ $80.00 US for 6 months, to Classified Banners only at $ 40 US for 6 months.

    Original photography, or video with reproduction rights are available in several forms at industry rates.

    Multi Photo Ads

    We have had so many requests for multi picture and professional layout ads that we now offer you an entirely new option. This layout is similar to our net brokerage option however the negotiations and leg work is up to you with a fixed bottom line.

    You provide us the information from a supplied template via E-Mail and we give you your Own Page having a discrete URL that you can refer potential buyer directly to from anywhere, without going through the entire classified section exposing the reader to every boat available.

    Your URL would looks something like:

    www.cruising.ca/SV_MyBoat/

    Unfortunately, it is not practical to use a cgi based posting for this type of ad while providing a discrete URL. Please copy the attached HTML form and enter the relevant information for your boat and contact information. then E-Mail; it back to us along with up to 6 jpg or gif images no larger than 100 K each and we will proof the material and post it to a approved URL for you.

    The ad will appear in the classified section with a single photograph along with links to the images.

    Make It So - Sample listing

    BROKERAGE

    For 2002 we will be offering brokerage of select vessels.

    Rates may run as low as 6% to an average of 8% to 10% in the case of a full agent requiring commissioning. The service guarantees our last 6 years expertise in internet marketing and 30 years of boating is used to its maximum.

    BASIC LISTING 6%

    A basic listing which does not include "para legal functions" includes:

    • comprehensive photographic coverage (up to 24 images
    • site creation
    • Internet marketing
    • Hard copy Marketing using traditional publication
    • Purchaser interaction and offer

    CUSTOM LISTING 8%

    • Listing survey
    • comprehensive photographic coverage (up to 24 images
    • site creation
    • Internet marketing
    • Hard copy Marketing using traditional publication
    • Purchaser interaction and offer

    AGENT SERVICES to 10%

    Are you out of the country or otherwise indisposed? This may well be the answer. 10 years of vessel deliveries, 30 years of boat building and survey experience all come into play allowing you to relax and take care of whatever it is that is occupying your time.

    We provide all of the marketing and presentation services offered in any of our other option, and will ensure that your vessel is taken care of from its current location to sale with careful and cost effective sourcing based on our knowledge for any repairs or special services required. This covers a range of services and duties normally attributed to a delivery captain and commissioning yard. They can run a wide gambit for minor mechanical repairs to a major refit and delivery to cozen point of sale. Each case is too individual to detail in advance so each circumstances must be discussed and considered on an individual basis.

    (613) 332 6818

    I'd like to buy it!



    * Cruising Canada customers please note you will be billed as RLM

    Conditions

    If you are selling your own boat, and wish to spend the time to create a complete ad for our viewers (not to link your site) which provides the key information with one picture we will be happy to let you run it. However, we can not have one liners to off site links PERIOD. We do and will go out of our way to ensure that you have the ability to present your boat or expand on the one picture format.

    Cruising Canada and Canadianet Communications reserves the right to determine private membership suitability. We will routinely screen our classified and exercise these conditions. If you are found to be selling a product or service, or you are conducting a boat for sale business commercially your ad and subscription will be revoked without notice or refund.

    Commercial Banner Ad Info Here



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