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ShopWilson.com - Wilson, North Carolina's ONLY On-Line Magazine and Searchable Business Directory..... Find it local. Find it HERE!

We provide people a choice:
Unlike print advertising, which is one-and-done, tossed out with the household trash, Internet advertising is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. It's there when viewers want it and search for it.

Unlike broadcast advertising, which has a shelf-life of just seconds and must be repeated--and paid for repeatedly--to get people to remember it . . . Internet advertising is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. It's there when viewers want it and search for it.

The Key to a successful advertising or marketing campaign is the combination of two words. Visibility and Repetition, if you are not visible, and your advertising is not seen many times over, you will fail.

ShopWilson.Com will provide you Visibility and Repetition to targeted local buyers for pennies a day.Take advantage of our marketing opportunities and let us showcase your business to thousands of the Capital District area residents and visitors. We are willing to work with you to create the “Right” campaign for your business, and we will do it at insanely low rates.

Consider the thoughts around these topics:

• Why You Should Advertise On The Internet
• People Are Looking For Content
• Why Are People On-Line
• Why Do Businesses Advertise
• Print Is Dead?

To sign up for any of our Affordable Local Internet Advertising Options, Contact Us NOW. We'll do it all for you.

Business Directory Listings:
All listings are 12 month listings. No cancellations. No refunds. Payable by credit card Money Order, Check or Pay Pal. Annual payments are discounted.

If you do not have a banner image or photos, we will create your banners and take your pictures, FREE!

We provide 2 extremely popular types of advertising packages to our customers!

To simplify our advertisers experience with us, we have done away with the long list of "Other" advertising opportunities that we used to offer. In their place, through partnership with other websites, we have joined The Ad-Network, and provide your advertising not only to our visitors, but to thousands of other web-site visitors also. Saving you money, and getting you more visitors!

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Why You Should Advertise On The Internet : ( Top )

• Businesses using the Internet to promote and sell their goods and services have grown 46% faster in the last two years than those that don't. - U.S. Department of Commerce
• Online spending will hit $3.9 billion in 2005. That's 46% greater than 2004. - Borrell Associates
• 87% of online users depend on the Internet to access local information. - Digitrends
• 52.7% of an online business directory users visited a merchant because of what they saw online. - Digitrends
• 85.5% of users of an online business directory would recommend the site to friends and family. -Harris Interactive
• 74% of adults are searching online an average of 9 hours a week! - Harris Poll
• Less than 50% of people in the United States read newspapers daily. - Washington Post
• People want to pick what they see, not what editors and TV producers pick for them. Online, people can choose what & when they view, not what editors and TV producers choose for them.
• People are turning to online sources of information and advertising because they can search & select!

We attract viewers to the our local area with good positions in most major search engines via paid advertising, and carefully designed LOCAL marketing campaigns of our site, ensuring that your business gets the best possible exposure. We spend a portion of every advertising dollar promoting the site and driving traffic to your business and to your Web site.

People Are Looking For Content! ( Top )

Local News	Local Events	Humor
Weather	PublicAffairs	School News
Church News	Club News	Recreation
Sports	Games	Contests
Puzzles	Classifieds	Business Directories
Garage Sales	And WAY .. Way... To much more to list!

Most searchers are window shoppers. If they don't like what they see in the window, they won't be coming back. Without good content, our site becomes a ghost town with a big "Road Closed" sign in front of it. So with us, content is priority one!

It's the content that drives people to our site. Even if they use a search engine to get here, what good does it do if Google refers a million visitors to our site if they don't find what they're looking for? Our site is actually a Home Town Google with our powerful Local Search! We concentrate on good content, so our viewers keep coming back. And keep seeing your ads.

Why Are People Online ? ( Top )

• People want to pick what they see, not what editors and TV producers pick for them.
• Online, people can choose what & when they view, not what editors and TV producers choose for them.
• People are turning to online sources of information and advertising because they can search & select!
• 1st quarter 2004 online retail sales were $15.5 billion, more then 28% greater than 2003. (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce)
• 87% of online users depend on the Internet to access LOCAL INFORMATION. (Source: Digitrends)
• 52.7% of an online business directory users visited a merchant because of what they saw online. (Source: Digitrends)
• 85.5% of users of an online business directory would recommend the site to friends and family. (Source: Harris Interactive)
• 74% of adults are searching online an average of 9 hours a week! (Source: Harris Poll)
• Less than 50% of people in the United States read newspapers daily. (Source: Washington Post)

Why Do Businesses Advertise? ( Top )

• Businesses advertise to present their message to viewers and readers.
• Viewers and readers seek content: news, pictures, information, and advertising.

But . . .

• Viewers are replacing readers and now outnumber them.
• Viewers are turning to online sources for content and advertising.
• The population of the USA is estimated at 299,092,237 in2006, of that it is estimated that 207,161,206 are On-Line! That's 69.3% of the population, that is serious market penetration!
• Online viewers search and select online sources of content and advertising -- if and when they want it.
• Online advertising is the only source available to them that fulfills this requirement.

" Print is dead " ( Top )

"Print is dead," Sports Illustrated President John Squires told a room full of newspaper and magazine circulation executives at a conference in Toronto in November, 2004 .

His advice? " Get over it," meaning publishers should stop trying to save their ink-on-paper product and focus on electronic delivery of their journalism.

The Washington Post provides statistical evidence of the drop in newspaper readership. It looks at the percent of people reading a newspaper in daily in 1967 and in 2004, broken down by age group.

The Washington Post reports that " newspapers are struggling."

We provide people a choice.

Unlike print advertising, which is one-and-done, tossed out with the household trash, Internet advertising is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. It's there when people want it and search for it.

Unlike broadcast advertising, which has a shelf-life of just seconds and must be repeated--and paid for repeatedly--to get people to remember it . . . Internet advertising is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. It's there when viewers want it and search for it.

The key is the content

We offer many great things for our visitors, ensuring they return again and again! Your advertising is online around the clock all year long, at a fraction of the cost of traditional print and broadcast advertising, which have a limited shelf-life.

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