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TheRockwallNews.com is now the #1 best-read news resource in Rockwall County TX (Google Analytics), featuring the most comprehensive, up-to-date headlines and feature stories for residents of and visitors to the rapidly-growing Rockwall County Texas.

“First with the News You Want to Click!” is our slogan.

Since most people now read their news online, we provide local and area news and information where people want it – on a state-of-the art website. We do not print an “old school” newspaper.

Content partners with Yahoo Local, AOL.com Local, The Dallas Morning News and PegasusNews.com, our a state-of-the-art website is filled with hundreds of headline and feature stories, videos, photos, event listings, weather reports, free classified advertising and more.

Launched in May, 2009, viewership already numbers nearly 8,000 unique (separate) readers & 35,000 page views per month (Google Analytics). Readership continues to grow fast!

With over 80,000 Rockwall County residents – plus tens of thousands more people who are interested in Rockwall events – we expect our readership to easily triple within the next year and eventually number in the millions of page views.

Since nationwide research clearly shows that online local news websites will only continue to grow in readership, now is the time for you to establish a business relationship with us to secure the best rates for regularly advertising in the future to our fast-growing readership.

ADVERTISING SUCCESS STORIES

1. One advertiser which builds boat docks on Lake Ray Hubbard invested $2,000 in advertising for one month – with one banner ad, one box ad, plus a feature news story. After just 30 days, the owner said they had received so many calls and emails that they had to stop advertising to follow-up on all of their new contacts!

2. During election season, one City Council candidate and local blogger said the day after his candidacy article appeared on our website, over 100 people clicked on his blog to learn more about him. He said they must all have come from the article because he hadn’t posted any blog entries for two weeks!

ADVERTISERS

Businesses which have selected to advertise or have news stories written:

  • Aundrea Whalen, REMAX Realtor
  • Becky Eason Burkett for Heath City Council
  • Best Western Plus Rockwall Inn & Suites
  • Blue Canyon Kitchen, Tavern & Wine Bar
  • Bob Lewis for Rockwall City Council
  • Bounce N’ More Party Rentals
  • Butler Plumbing Company
  • Care United Medical Center
  • Carpet Direct
  • CrossFit Rockwall
  • David Sweet for Rockwall Mayor
  • Doiggs Carpet Cleaning
  • Doiggs Water & Fire Restoration
  • Eclipse Fitness
  • Edward Jones Financial Advisory Jerry Price
  • Heritage Buick GMC
  • Heritage Christian Academy
  • Horizon Auto Center
  • Jerry Hogan for Rockwall County Judge Campaign
  • Ken Jones for Rockwall County Judge Campaign
  • Knockouts Haircuts for Men
  • Lillian Smith Race To End Abuse 5K/Walk
  • Lorie Grinnan for Rockwall County Commissioner Campaign
  • Mathnasium
  • Margo Nielsen for Rockwall City Council Campaign
  • Mark Russo for Rockwall City Council Campaign
  • My Computer Guy
  • Paul Wilson for Rockwall County GOP Chairman Campaign
  • Rockwall Chamber of Commerce
  • Rockwall County Mud Bog
  • Rockwall Women’s League Gala
  • Sterling One Properties
  • Steve Clark for Congress
  • Sweet & Sassy Salons
  • Texas Marine Technologies

WHY ADVERTISE ON THEROCKWALLNEWS.COM?

News website readers are better educated, more employed and affluent, with more money to spend on your products/services than the audiences of any other media.

1. Your ads will be seen by 4-5,000 separate individuals weekly.

(More than any other local media!)

2. Your eye-catching, flash web ads across the top of each page and next to every news story are more often seen than ads in any other media.

(Ads are not squashed together)

3. You can tabulate how many people actually saw your ad, plus how many clicked on it for info.

(Tabulated accurately by Google Analytics)

4. Your ads will be seen by people with more money in their pockets and more disposable income than any other media audiences to spend on your products/service.

(They are also better educated and more often to be employed!)

5. Our advertising rates are low and highly-competitive.

(They provide the greatest advertising value for reaching Rockwall County’s upscale residents)

OTHER FACTORS TO KEEP IN MIND

1. More people now get their news from websites (47%) than from TV (30%) or any other media. (We Media/Zogby Interactive Poll, 2008)

2. Facebook.com, Google.com and YouTube.com are the three largest search engine in the world.

3. Over 90 percent of Internet traffic will be video by 2012. (Nielsen Research)

4. If Facebook were a country it would be the third most populated nation in the world, behind only China and India.

5. Over 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies now use Facebook as a primarily tool for building their businesses.

ADVERTISING RATES

Top-of-page “Banner” or “Leaderboard” ads and in-page “Big Box” ads are priced the same and rotate automatically across all 1,400+ pages of TheRockwallNews.com to provide you with maximum audience coverage.

Our flash and static web ad rates start at:

  • 1 week              $250 per week
  • 2 – 4 weeks       $240 per week
  • 5- 13  weeks      $230 per week
  • 14-26 weeks      $225 per week

Since readership is increasing so fast, we do not offer advertising packages for longer than 26 weeks/6 months.

Discounts and free ads are available for some non-profit organizations which do not advertise elsewhere.

VIDEOS

Video news reports start as low as $95 for a 60-90 second YouTube-style video.

High-quality, fully-edited video production starts at $500 for a 2-3 minute video.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

We also build websites, set up blogs & social media sites, plus produce professional and/or inexpensive videos for businesses and organizations.

We also can blog and write comments on various websites and pages in your company’s or organization’s behalf.

Prices begin as low as $50 to establish sites and pages, $300 for simple one-page websites and $200/mo. to blog and comment.

AD SPECS:

Top-of-page banner ads            728 x   90 pixels
Big Box ads                            300 x 250 pixels

To email your digital artwork (GIF, eps or jpg files only in flash or image only), please contact us first to obtain the correct email address. We do not post our email addresses to prevent spam (junk email).

If you do not have your own web ad(s) and need for us to produce one or more, our web designers can create extremely high-quality, animated Banner and Cube ads with up to three slides or copy changes for just $95 per ad. You can generally change and add three more copy changes for just $25 per ad.

Your web ads generally will appear online within 2-3 days of placing your order, unless you need a rush job which can be accommodated.

FEATURE NEWS STORIES

Another highly-effective way for you to spread messages about your business are through feature news stories. For just $495, we will write a top-quality, two typewritten-page feature story profiling your business.

For an extra $100, we can also place these same feature stories in other local Rockwall County media, including the Rockwall/Rowlett/Heath Neighbors Go, NeighborsGo.com, PegasusNews.com and possibly other local newspapers. Please ask for more details.

THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISING

Advertising experts agree that the key to successful advertising is to consistently reach enough people in your target audience enough times that they will be persuaded to contact or visit your business. Normally your ad needs to reach someone three times before he or she will respond to your message.

TheRockwallNews.com is now your best bet in Rockwall County for achieving that goal, plus we offer your business both paid advertising and free publicity opportunities.

WEBSITE PROMOTION:

TheRockwallNews.com attracts readers and builds traffic primarily online through our use of social media sites, RSS, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Google tools and email promotions (not spam) to Rockwall residents, organizations, churches, schools and businesses.

We also tell everybody we know and come across as we network in the community!

Please call J.J. Smith right now at 214-317-1718 (cell).

You’ll be glad you did!