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One click is all it takes! Easier and quicker to use than other services such as yellowpages.com.au, mylocal, truelocal, fyshwick.com and yourguide. One click is all it takes to get a result! What's better is the content really is local and more comprehensive than any other competitor. Constantly updated This Valentine's Day Weston Creek Online promoted 10 actual Valentine events on the 14th of February and over 170 events for the whole of February 2007. Our website is constantly updated by a fulltime dedicated team who are committed to providing Weston Creek with the best news, events, venues and link information available online. Do free newspapers and magazines really get delivered to every home and hotel room in the ACT? You can't be exactly sure to just how many. Some Advertisers have told Weston Creek Online that they themselves never got the edition they advertised in at their home address. Advice from The Chronicle (September 2005) is that "circulation audit based on average net distrbution" - so they estimated how many homes received it and again used survey results from Roy Morgan Research (Sep 2005) to estimate how many people read the Chronicle. If you want to be able to get to the desktop of a decision maker in government, you have to be able to rely on more than a handful of hits, we service 42,000+ government visitors a month and growing. Statistics from the ABS suggest that the internet is available in over 100,000 homes in the ACT (67% or 220,000 have home internet access, - September 2006), so next time you browse the internet you'll know we're only a click away. There's no need to go through the kitty litter tray or the bin to find us, Weston Creek's most recognisable internet address! Recent surveys have found that people are making the decision to spend at home before they get to the cash register and with the Internet now making up 15 percent of Australians' media time (Roy Morgan Single Source April 2005 to March 2006) and with 76 percent of Australian home Internet users going online via broadband (Nielsen NetRatings July 2006), businesses have to diversify their advertising to match the changes in their customers behaviour. Independent figures Weston Creek Online is able to quote real time independent usage figures. Other local websites quote 1,500 visits a month, 15,000 hits a year or don't mention it at all. We're proud to say we've had over two million and a half visits each month for the last 6 months and we've been online since 2001. We now regularly achieve visitation of 2,700,000 a month and growing. As our popularity grows on Weston Creek Online we are always happy to welcome visitors both old and new, especially our friends from the Canberra Times [112: 0.04%: proxy2.ruralpress.com - Oct 2006] Find it in yellow?
"Most people don't watch TV or read newspapers for the ads. That's where Yellow™ is different. It gives you a unique opportunity to put your business in front of people who are actively looking to buy." [Oct 2006]. This might explain why Sensis (Telstra) sold the first three results in a recent Accommodation search for Belconnen to non local businesses. If you want to be found in Weston Creek you have to be in Weston Creek Online. The number of Australians not using the Yellow Pages has increased by 57% (Roy Morgan Single Source - Jan-Dec 02 ; Jan-Dec 05). With over 12 million Australians using the internet monthly and over 50% of them using online directories, the internet presents a great opportunity for your business to be found by more potential customers (Sensis Dec 07). YellowTM one of Australia's leading directories recently partnered with ninemsn, Australia's No.1 website which attracts 8.3 million unique visitors monthly to stop the decline in the use of the Yellow Pages. Unfortunately in their Advertising what they don't tell you is how many people actually visit mylocal.com.au from Canberra and not just the bigger and more interesting ninemsn site where the quoted usage figures come from! Based on statistics, if 8.3 million is true and correct, 116,200 Canberrans visit ninemsn.com.au every month and even less to mylocal.com.au. More locals therefore visit Weston Creek Online then the Sydney/Melbourne based mylocal website! Canberra Times readership on the decline? Canberra Times weekly "readership fell to 138,704 in the year ending December 2005 compared to 196,000 in the year ending 2002 - a drop of 57,000" according to Roy Morgan Research and Audit Bureau of Circulation statistics published on the Fairfax website (December 2006) and the CityNews website (August 2006). While the CityNews has a confirmed weekly circulation of 37,000, according to the latest figures from the Circulation Audit Bureau [November 2006]. The Age reports on their website that newspaper circulation "has been stagnant or slowly falling for many years" (August 2006). Like many Advertisers we also ask why pay for advertising in something that isn't being read? A recent survey found 72% of people normally look to find local news, events and services in Canberra on the internet, 76% would listen to 60 minutes or less of Radio a day, and only 32% would read the Chronicle each week. Only 1 local website, Weston Creek Online, is kept up to date as the news happens and doesn't use stock photos to misrepresent a news story.
How many people viewed my Ad? Weston Creek Online captures exactly how many people viewed your ad or visited your website from our own. We can tell you exact figures anytime and where you rank amongst your competitors. This isn't possible with print advertising and we're unaware of a competitor who also offers this service via their website. TV Hype Have you ever noticed that it is mainly Australia-wide businesses who advertise on TV? That's because TV works for them. They can spread the cost across their stores and their thousands of customers. But does it really work for anyone else? Only at saturation levels. However John Grono from GAP Research Sydney busts the TV Hype by writing "very few people actually switch the TV off during an ad break, they generally stay in the room and either watch the ad or otherwise occupy themselves, leave the room (for a cuppa or a toilet break) of ... surf to other channels". Therefore can the Ad Ratings of TV really be trusted when they are just an average of viewers willing to be surveyed for their opinions? According to Craig Arthur from Wizard of Ads Australia "people are easily distracted and their attention is a fleeting prize. When an ad break comes on 80% of people start doing something else. The remaining 20% even though still watching are most probably off somewhere else in the minds. A glazed stare does not mean attention." Australia's most popular Wednesday show Thank God You're Here (1,848,000) is viewed by 26,400 Canberrans on average each week. Based on the statistics only 5280 people may actually see your Advertisement during the TV Ad break. As long as they aren't channel surfing or staring at the box blankly. This figure drops even more for the less popular TV Shows. Of course out of this number, how many are actually interested in your product or service? No more hype - Weston Creek Online gives you real figures every day. You don't have to pay a small fortune for 15 seconds of not very much fame. Can I search Google for the text in my Chronicle Ad? If you mean the details besides your business name and contact details then No. A Weston Creek Online Ad allows you to be found on the internet with keywords that match your business - we'll also directly link to your website (or create one for you), so there's no 10 clicks before you get there like some competitors. Your Ad will also be ledigble and not a distorted computer generated image unseen by a human eye like this example from The Canberra Times Trade & Services directory. The same Business Listing as above but in Weston Creek Online would look and act like this Australian Management Control Weston Creek Online also receives 28,000 referrals from Google every month. So if you want to be found, register with Canberra's number one website. Local content?
"truelocal.com.au is Australia’s only search directory for local businesses that offers you results by relevance – rather than paid listings" [Oct 2006]. Look at the attached example to see if News Limited is true to their words. Only Weston Creek Online is there for local Weston Creek businesses. Value for Money? A 'small' service directory Ad in The Chronicle can cost you at least $71/week (September 2006), larger more prominent Ads cost hundreds of dollars more per edition, the final cost depending on how much money you already spend with the Publisher and which side of a page the Ad appears. Some websites will cost you a cup of coffee a day (for those of you who don't drink coffee about $1600/year) or just $10/month, but still won't link to your website. Weston Creek Online charges $220/year, no loading charges and its just one click from our home page to your Ad. Try finding something in a Newspaper or the Yellow Pages that quickly! Can I control my own Ad? For a cost you can change your Ad with some of our competitors - you just need to wait sometimes (week, month, year) due to publishing deadlines. And when they make a publishing or editorial mistake you have no chance of changing it - risking clients and future opportunities.
With Weston Creek Online you can control your Ad and Red Hot Specials yourself at anytime from your home or place of business with no special knowledge required. Your changes are recorded instantly and reflected on the website that second. No waiting, no fuss, no cost. Your shop, office or business can be found easily with maps on every page and you can provide get directions options as well. Potential customers can send you an email with one click. Your business contact details are displayed in response to search keywords that relate to you (e.g. tradesmen in Weston Creek) so prospective leads are actually looking for a local business like your's.
But what makes Weston Creek Online so special? For only $220/year, businesses which don't have a web site yet, can include their own personalised Weston Creek Online web address (www.westoncreek.com.au/myname) in other forms of Advertising and really boost the value of their existing advertising by having their specials online that's linked to a comprehensive overview of their business, which really sets them apart from their competitors. For more information read our advertisers page. Why so many people choose Weston Creek Online to other Business and Event Directories is the choice and ease of access to information. With over 4300 business listings in Canberra Region available everyday (compared to the 300 listed at the Canberra Times/Chronicle - Sep 06), others would need an encyclopedia edition to keep up, but their readers are already struggling to work out the editorials from the advertorials. So with Weston Creek Online get listed, stay listed and be found anytime of the day or night or month or year.
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