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eHouseBoatSite.com is designed to be a
HIGH TRAFFIC houseboat portal. It is our intent to
appear at or near the top in more than 85% of all houseboat rental
related web searches. By advertising your company and/or your
special discounts on our home page, each day your business will be
exposed to thousands of surfers intent on renting or buying a houseboat.
Free On-line Brochure.
This benefit will save you a ton of money! With postage
at .37 and rising, coupled with the high costs of printing and labor, it
is easy to see how you can save .60 or more per brochure. When the web
surfer downloads your brochure you will receive an email
with the customers name and address so you can ad them to your contact
database. The on-line brochure is included free with membership, however
a $50 one time set up fee is charged. The $50 fee is for a brochure the
size of
this sample.
If your brochure is larger call for a free quote. Web surfers
expect immediate results, responding to the web surfers needs with an
Online brochure will usually result in a 300 -
400 percent increase in the number of customers adding your brochure to
their travel files for immediate or future use.
You are welcome to have a link from your own web site
to the on-line brochure so that visitors to your site can access the
brochure from your site as well as from eHouseBoatSite.com
Free Brochure Requests.
For your customers who do not embrace technology and
prefer to receive their houseboat information via snail mail, we have an
enhanced brochure request feature. Unlike other houseboat portals
this feature allows potential customers to request a brochure using
three different methods:
1. By individual company;
2. By all companies on a specific waterway; or
3. By all companies in a specific state or province.
This feature will increase the number of potential customers contacting
you. We will bring the customer to you, all you have to do is
convert the sale.
Free Advertising Space
It is our intent at eHouseBoatSite to provide a true and
affordable market place for the houseboat rental community. While
it takes money to keep the site up and running, we find that we have
valuable cyber real-estate available and we offer it to you free of
charge. Each page that contains your company listing has two
ad spots adjacent to the listing. It is our hope that you will
sell this space to the local businesses that benefit from the customers your
rental company brings into the community. We even offer a free
coupon page to any company you convince to offer your customers a
discount.
This ad space has an estimated
value of $2,400 per year. There isn't another houseboat portal on
the web that gives free ad space and invites you to profit off their cyber
real estate.
Your Company Info Posted on
both the Waterway and State/Province/National Pages.
We have designed eHouseBoatSite with your customers
ease of use in mind. First, we have made every attempt to create a
site that lists every houseboat rental company in the world.
Second, we have listed each company based on their geographical location
as well as the waterway they are located on. This way your
customer can find you whether they know your companies name or just know
the area or waterway they want to explore.
More Free Advertising Space
The scrolling banner at the top of each state and
waterway page is available free to any member companies listed on that
page. This is prime advertising space and will result in your ability to
better market your hard-to-sell dates. Use this banner to promote
your specials and hard to sell dates. You are welcome to have more
than one promotion on the banner at a time. A $15 set up fee is
required, but you are welcome to leave your ad on as long as you need.
Two Free Links to Your Web
Site.
Links are important on the web. Most search engines
consider the number of links coming into your website in their search
algorithms. The more links you have the higher you will place in
their searches.
Low Cost Advertising on Our Front Page
With eHouseBoatSite being designed to appear at or
near the top in over 85% of houseboat rental related web searches anyone
advertising on our home page will have maximum exposure to the thousands
of
people searching for houseboat rental information each day .
Advertising on eHouseBoatSite is open to anyone who
wishes to employ our services. However, our members receive
extremely discounted prices. If you don't think these prices are
discounted check the prices at our competitors.
The following chart outlines our advertising rates.
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Type of Ad |
Non Member
Price |
Member Price |
| Rotating Banner Ad at
top of Home page |
$55/month |
$25/month |
| Houseboat
Rental Discount on
www.classifieds.ehouseboatsite.com |
Free for a limited time |
Free for a limited time |
| Equipment For Sale
and Boats for Sale on
www.classifieds.ehouseboatsite.com |
Free for a limited time |
Free for a limited time |
| Static Ad on home page
(down side of page) |
$30/month |
$10/month |
| Static Ad on Waterway or
State / Province Page |
$25/month |
$5/month |
| Editorial Ad on Front
Page |
$70/month |
$25/month |
| On Line Brochure |
$25/month |
Free |
| Scroll Box
Ad on
state or waterway page |
$35/month |
Free |
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| How much does it cost to have
a membership with eHouseBoatSite? |
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Membership is free
when you allow us to host your web site on our servers.
If you have a web site, then you know you are paying a company to
provide space on the internet for your site to reside. Allow us to
move your web site to our web servers and receive free membership.
Our web hosting accounts start at $25 per month on our Unix servers
and $30 per month on our IIS servers. Ten email accounts
are included.
If you decide you don't want to change web hosting companies you can
purchase a membership for $300 per year. |
| Can you build a web site for me? |
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Yes, if you don't
have a web site we highly recommend that you take advantage of our
web design and construction program.
Invest $125 and you can build your own fully functional web site in
less than a day, even without any knowledge in web design and
construction. Through the use of our special intuitive web
site construction software anyone can build their own website, even
if you aren't a tech geek.
The best part about building your own site is you will never have to
pay someone to update your site, you can make as many changes as you
want any time you want. Wouldn't it be great to be able post
special sales on your site and change them as needed? |
| What if I want a website but I
don't want to build it myself? |
We have a full service web development program.
We can build fully operational websites starting at $600 and up.
Prices
depend on the features you require, the size of the site, and how
much content and graphics you want us to provide.
Email us for more info.
sales@eHouseBoatSite.com
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How does the free advertising space work? |
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It is our goal at
eHouseBoatSite to provide houseboat rental operators with the tools
they need to market their business without a lot of expense.
That is why we provide you with free ad space. You are free to
sell this space to whom you want and for as much as you want.
Each member is given two ad spaces on the Waterways page and two on
the State/Province page. The intent is that your houseboat
rental company will sell this ad space to local companies that
benefit from the business that your houseboat rental company brings
into the community. Potential customers for these ad spots
include Restaurants, Bars, Grocery Stores, sight seeing venues,
historical tours, marinas, gas stations etc.
In addition to the free ad space, if you can get local companies to
provide discounts for your customers we will build a page to house
any coupons or discounts they want to offer, this way your customers
can print and redeem the coupons when they visit your advertiser.
Because your rental customers are highly qualified buyers of your
advertisers products this advertising space is valued at $50
per spot per month ($2,400 per year). However you are welcome to
sell the ad space for whatever amount you want. Even at $25
per month per ad spot you can see how this feature can easily
provide a positive cash flow. |
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