| 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. | 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 | | | How much does it cost to have a membership with eHouseBoatSite? | | 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? | | 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 | | How does the free advertising space work? | | 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. | |
