Sponsorship
Thank you for your interest in the sponsorship of Trekking Around. Trekking Around offers a variety of advertising and marketing opportunities.
Opportunities are as follows:
Sponsors benefits of Trekking Around are:
- Banner ads on main page and individual articles
- Blog posts reviewing and featuring sponsors products
- Product/Brand inclusion in pictures taken along the route
- Product/Brand inclusion in video media posts
- Product/Brand placement on the boat during open tours
- Product/Brand inclusion in personal interviews
Trekking Around has a target market of:
- Boaters
- Environmentalists
- Bloggers
- Location Independent Professionals
- Travelers
Our Readers also like
- The 4 Hour Work Week
- Location Independent Professionals
- Vagabonding
- Brave New Traveler
- Tree Hugger
If you want to enhance your site and brand awareness, sponsorship with Trekking Around is right for you.
Boat Sponsorship
We are now accepting applications for partial or full sponsorship of our boat. Please contact us for more information regarding this sponsorship. Knowing that boats vary tremendously per type and model we are fully open to negotiating on the details of the boat. The only requirement that we have is that it must have a diesel engine (see below).
Engine Sponsorship
We will be traveling as environmentally friendly as possible along our journey. A big big piece of that puzzle is going to be the conversion of a marine diesel engine to marine BioDiesel engine. We would like to prove that a BioDiesel engine is viable in an everyday application and a great solution to reducing environmental pollution. Please contact us directly for more information regarding this sponsorship.
Electronic Sponsorship
Electronic sponsorship can be done on many levels for our boat. We will accept applications for sponsorship of marine electronics such as radar, sonar, and navigation. We will also be accepting sponsorship of personal electronics such as video recorders, computers, cameras, and other personal electronic devices. Please contact us directly for more information regarding this sponsorship.
**Depending on the level of sponsorship boat or engine sponsors may enjoy exclusive sponsorship rights to the boat, engine, an all equipment. **
Stages
- Now until May 2008 - Beginning Stage, learning about the Great Loop, purchasing a boat, developing the business, increasing readers.
- May 2008 to June 2008 - Cast off from Nashville, TN, travel up the Mississippi River, arrive in the Great Lakes.
- June 2008 to August 2008 - Travel around the Great Lakes to New York
- August 2008 to September 2008 - Travel through Canada and Eastern US to the Atlantic.
- September 2008 to November 2008 - Travel down the Inter Coastal Waterway to Florida
- November 2008 to February 2009 - Explore Florida, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico
- March 2009 to May 2009 - Return to Nashville TN.
Each stage will include the following:
- Daily Blog Posts
- Full travel reviews
- Entertainment locations
- Local Attractions
- Interviews with local business owners
- Interviews with local people
Each stage will have ever-increasing sponsorship opportunities, more advertising possibilities, better-targeted audiences, and more page views.
Website Advertising
Also with each stage will come an increase in the cost of running ads. ***Lock in your rates right now by prepaying through the end of June 2008 and we will guarantee that you will not see any rate increases and you will have first rights to renew your advertising purchase.***
Package 1 - Single Banner
Cost: $150 per month
What you get: 1 site-wide banner
Positions: 125×125 box, 468×60 horizontal banner, 120×600 Vertical Banner
Availability: Available monthly - Limit 8 advertisers per size. (8 Available)
Benefits: Your campaign will be placed on all our pages. We rotate banners randomly and limit our advertisers to no more than 8. Every visitor will be exposed to your banner multiple times. This package is ideal for exposing your business to new people everyday.
Advertisers must provide their own banner. Banners may be in JPEG, GIF or HTML format. Banners are subjected to approval before being displayed. Advertisers may change their banners at anytime.
Special — Pre Pay until the end of June and lock in this rate. As our journey begins and continues our advertising prices will increase
Package 2 - Banner Package
Cost: $250 1-Month
What you get: 1 site-wide banner in all banner positions (125×125 box, 468×60 horizontal banner, 120×600 Vertical Banner)
Availability: Available monthly - Limit 8 advertisers per size. (8 Available)
Benefits: Your campaign will be placed on all our pages. We rotate banners randomly and limit our advertisers to no more than 8. Every visitor will be exposed to your banner multiple times. This package is ideal for exposing your business to new people everyday.
Advertisers must provide their own banner. Banners may be in JPEG, GIF or HTML format. Banners are subjected to approval before being displayed. Advertisers may change their banners at anytime.
Special — Pre Pay until the end of June and lock in this rate. As our journey begins and continues our advertising prices will increase
Package 3 - Text Link
Cost: $50 1-Month
What you get: 1 Site Wide Text Link
Availability: Limit to 10 Link Positions (10 Available)
Benefits: This package includes one text based link on every single page of this website including the main front page. Your link is placed under the “Featured Sites” area down the left sidebar of the website. You choose the anchor text and link URL and can change it any time.
Package 4 - Sponsored Review
Cost: $300 Per Review
What you get: One article written reviewing your site/blog/or product, minimum 500 words.
Availability: Anytime, subject to review
Benefits: Article reviewing your site including links directed to the area of your choice.
We only write honest articles based on our experience and what we have observed. Your site will be reviewed fairly and objectively. The review will include both pros and cons and how we feel our readers can benefit.
Contact Bryan
After making payment please send through links to your banners (host them on your server), text link anchor text and URL(s) to link to, or the site you want reviewed, to Bryan via Trekking Around Advertising.
