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The B-Town Blog is the only daily-updated, active community website in the Burien area that provides a highly-targeted, local, very desirable audience with:

• Fresh Local News
• Feature Stories
• Local Events
• Local Arts & Artists
• Business Directory
• Discussion Forums
• Videos
• Webcams
• Weekly Email Event Newsletter
• Local Humor
• and other content designed to inform and entertain its citizens

It is Published and Edited by local Burienite Scott Schaefer, a three-time National Emmy Award winning Writer for “Bill Nye the Science Guy” (PBS/Disney) with over 21 years’ media experience in Seattle and Hollywood, as well as a passion for educating and entertaining viewers.

Some of our current Advertisers include:

We are now offering Special Introductory Rates (good until June 1, 2008), and encourage all local merchants and businesses to buy an ad to get targeted access to desirable broadband users in the general Burien area:

1. Upper Sidebar “Prime Ads” #1 & #2 – 200 x 150 pixels, located in the upper right sidebar. Each Upper Sidebar Ad appears on every page of the site, which continues to expand on a daily basis. Each ad purchased here appears on every single page of the site, no matter what the story or topic. As of 3/20/08, there are over 183 distinct stories and pages, with 2-3 new ones added every day.
2. Sidebar Tile Ads – 200 x 150 pixels, located on the right sidebar. Each Sidebar Ad appears on every page of site as well.
3. Top Banner Ad – a 728 x 90 pixel banner that would appear across the top of specific pages, or possibly all pages on the site depending on your needs.
4. Newsletter Sponsorship – every Friday we send out the B-Town Blog Newsletter to locals looking for stuff to do on the weekend; talk about a targeted market (sign up yourself today and see what it’s all about).
5. RSS Feed Sponsorship – RSS is an efficient new “feed” technique in receiving news from the internet. You could sponsor this feed, which gets updated as often as the site does.

Since going online in December of 2007, the growth rate has been excellent, despite no marketing other than word-of-mouth and viral. We’re currently on track to having over 34,000 Unique Visitors per year and over 75,500 Page Views.

On average, the growth rate is approx. 49% per month for Unique Visitors and 39% for Page Views:

• Dec. ‘07 - Jan. ‘08: 76% growth in Unique Visitors; 67% growth in Page Views

• Jan. ‘08 - Feb. ‘08: 45% growth in Unique Visitors; 31% growth in Page Views

• Feb. ‘08 - Mar. ‘08: 40% growth in Unique Visitors; 46% growth in Page Views

• Mar. ‘08 - Apr. ‘08: 33% growth in Unique Visitors; 11% growth in Page Views
  

The growth is obvious, as seen in this statistics chart for January - April 2008 (current as of 5/1/08):

Want to talk about how you can grow your business by doing highly-targeted advertising to an affluent local demographic?

Please don’t hesitate to send an email directly to Scott, or call his cell phone at (425) 941-7847 during regular daytime hours – he’d love to talk with you, or come meet you in person and show you the options.

Thanks for your consideration, and I look forward to talking with you soon.

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