The Maine Resource Guide Network of sites offers a quality environment for your on-line advertising campaign. With more than 350,000 hits a month during the summer tourism season - the Maine Resource offers tremendous reach into a targeted market, allowing your business, organization or group to gain top of mind awareness for your product or service. No other web site in Maine offers this amount of reach into the tourism market in Maine.

REACH:

• The Maine Resource Guide Network of sites enjoys high traffic from users seeking to travel to or vacation in Maine. Whether for business or pleasure, the Maine Resource Guide has excellent placement throughout the Internet - providing the necessary road signs to attract on-line users. The Maine Resource Guide is referenced as a Maine resource by on-line travel sites like City.Net, Microsoft's Expedia, CNN Interactive, Excite Travel and more.
  
  Started in 1995, the Maine Resource Guide has become the most accessed commercial web site about Maine travel, business and entertainment. During our slow season (October through February - the number of page accesses sitewide still reaches 250,000. And, during our summer vacation season - our number skyrocket to upwards of 450,000. Each year, our traffic increases by 25-50%.
  
  

TOP OF MIND AWARENESS:

• For those companies seeking to capture the attention of travelers entering Maine - an advertising campaign across key sections of our network can dramatically increase brand recognition - giving your business the awareness it needs to draw increased revenue. If you own a chain of stores or services in Maine - you'll want to quickly identify your self, your services and the convenience of your location to potential travelers.
  
  
  While the majority of our on-line travel planners are from outside of Maine, the Maine Resource Guide enjoys a significant number of Maine users. Due to our television advertising campaigns, the Maine Resource Guide has excellent branding as a premiere travel resource. In-state vacation planning is a growing market and the Maine Resource Guide is helping Mainers plan local excursions in our beautiful state.

interactive marketing group has created a successful market environment. We have an excellent approval rating of our site from our users. And, our recent reformatting of our home page, now updated on a weekly basis, has steadily begun to increase the number of repeat visitors to our home page.

The Maine Resource Guide web site has been reviewed as a top site for Maine information by such Internet powerhouses as: Yahoo!, Microsoft Expedia, and was recently selected as the "BEST statewide resource for Maine" by Snap! (a division of C|Net On-line).

So, if you're looking to promote your business, organization, event or product to Maine vacationers, business travelers or even local Mainers, interactive marketing group has a package to meet your needs. Please review our advertising rates below and feel free to contact our Sales Department for additional information. No other web site in Maine can help promote your on-line ad campaign like the Maine Resource Guide Network of web sites:

• MaineGuide.com
• MaineOutdoors.com
• MaineEvents.com
• MaineChat.com

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The Travel Center is one of our most popular sections of the site and is a perfect location for those looking to caption the attention of planning vacations.

Target your region of Maine with our Regional Block Advertising Package. Each block will generate on average 5000 impressions/month for your banner ad. Placement includes the entire region, plus all city and town pages within that region.

This newest feature to the site has become tremendously popular as more and more visitors would prefer to search for something first, rather than surf.

Trying to sell your home, camp or property? Are you an agency looking for the most exposure your advertising dollar can buy? This popular section of the site is sure to draw targeted customers to your site.

The most exposure! Run your add throughout the Maine Resource Guide web site to guarantee your add is seen by everyone - no matter what they are looking for. In May '98 the Maine Resource Guide generated more than 100,000 banner ad impressions for this general rotation.

The Maine Resource Guide home page generates between 15,000 and 20,000 impressions/month. With the new home page formate (featuring weekly updates), those numbers are already starting to climb. Capture the attention of all those who visit our page (both regulars and newcomers).

Looking to target the outdoor enthusiast? This site focuses solely on outdoor recreation and lodging. From fishing and hunting to canoeing and hiking, this site offers you premier targeting for sporting related services and products.

This on-line chat network has a dedicated following with high repeat traffic. This site is primarily used by Maine residents, but also has an out-of-state following. Special promotion offers and other items would do well here.