I run www.chicitysports.com CCS is a Chicago sports fan blog/news site/message board that is viewed by hundreds of thousands of fans (Last month we had 152,000+ Unique Visitors) We are looking for businesses that might be interested in advertising on our site. We aren't looking to jack up prices and create a profit for ourselves, we just wish to offer a fair price, to drive traffic to your site/cause also to align ourselves with quality sponsors. We don't want to throw ourselves to any site or company, we do a little research before sending these emails out and would love to align with a quality site like yours. We have 1 sponsorship spot left on our home page, and we wished to fill it. Not only do we offer the standard "banner/image" but we actually go out of our way to push our sponsors to our users through social media. We can reach over 10,000 highly targeted fans, by launching off a facebook status update and tweet about your brand. We genuinely hope to go above and beyond the normal advertiser. We don't want to slap your image on our site and "hope for the best"....we will go out of our way to insure you get your dollar's worth. We do , do work with the professional sports teams. Most recently Bulls & Sox charity events. The benefits of doing this include.... 1.) Your own forum on our Message Board. Your section on our message board will have a direct link on our message board to your company’s website as well. You’ll be listed along with the other official sponsors and vendors of ChiCitySports. http://www.chicitysports.com/forum/official-vendors-chicitysports/ 2.) Not only does your company’s website get a link in the forum description, you also get a Home Page Blogroll link. Our website averages over 100,000+ unique visitors a month and currently has a Google Page Rank of 3. This is expected to rise on the next site update as well. Both links are present as long as you are a vendor/sponsor. 3.) You will be given full control over your vendor forum. You will be given administrative power to control it. We can help you manage it if you wish. The purpose of the forum can be to interact with potential customers, post daily specials or sales, or to bounce ideas off the community. 4.) Home Page Review about your company and/or website on the home page. This review will be a stellar review about what your company or business does. When users Google your site, this will show up high. A good review from a reputable source = Good for business. 5.) Great Search Engine Optimization for your company or website. As our site links back to yours, the Chicago/Sports centric searches will rank your site higher above your competition. The amount of visibility your site will get from Google will increase. 6.) Social Media Plugs. Every so often ChiCitySports will use our Twitter and Facebook accounts to plug all of our vendors and sponsors. If you have a specific item you wish to plug to our readers, let us know and we will gladly do it. Our accounts are home to thousands and thousands of fans. 7.) Twitter Advertising. Every new thread created in your vendor forum will be sent out to thousands of Sports/Chicago followers on Twitter. These threads are instantly created and broadcasted to the twitter-verse. 8.) There is no limit to how much advertising you can do in your vendor forum. You can post as many specials or deals as you wish directing users to your site or products. We go with a rate of $40 per month. If you purchase a full year at $480, you'll receive a discount of $40 plus we'll give you a free month. So that is 13 months at $440. Also you'll get a permanent blogroll link on our other sites www.chicagosportsforums.com and cubs2011schedule.com and www.chicagobears2011schedule.com Hopefully we can provide quality service to you if you're interested. If not, thanks for taking the time to even read this. It's appreciated.
My post was on September 17th. August we had 150,000+ unique visitors. In september we had 87,000'ish. And in October we expect 110,000. Before August we had 46,000. And before August we always averaged 25,000 However this is ONLY home page traffic. This does not include probably 5,000-10,000 unique visitors our very active forum brings in. Which you can view here. www.chicitysports.com/forum