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Advertising Information, Features & Benefits

E.D.D.M. - Every Door Direct Mail® magazines
Information, Features and Benefits of advertising in the MarketGuide™ Magazine

We are Your Direct Connection to Customers.

Offering you easy-to-measure proven results in the Central Illinois, tri-county area, that is unmatched, unparalleled and comprehensive. 


Yearly, both MarketGuide™ Magazines are your connection to new and previous customers for FREE with delivery by the USPS® right to your customer's mailbox to approximately 286,000 households plus 40,000 additional issues for free pick up at numerous area wide businesses, restaurants and more!

Our Three Point Advertising Print and Online Package is All-Inclusive and Includes:


    Your Business Ad in Our Free Stand-Alone Direct Mail Magazine

delivered direct 100% by USPS® to tens of thousands of households. Save advertising money with cost-effective and proven shared direct mail with other advertisers in the tri-county's finest quality magazine savings publication.


  Your Business Ad in Our Magazine Placed for Free Customer Pick Up

of thousands of additional  free issues placed continually throughout the quarter run, at numerous high traffic locations, throughout the tri-county area for continued visibility and offer redemption.  


  Your Business Ad in Our Digital Media Advertising -  SEO Comprehensive Website & Social Media Channels

including a digital flip book version of our magazines, your ad and offer(s), maps with driving directions via Google Maps® along with additional ad placement on our Facebook and Pinterest.


Our Exclusive Benefits

1. Free Direct Mail to tens of thousands of households plus thousands of extra issues for free customer pick up at numerous locations.

2. Standout, high quality, full-size magazine using heavy weight, bright white paper and exceptional graphic desingers for appealing and professional quality ads.

3. Interactive digital flip book versions of our magazines for viewing and/or printing for increased exposure and accessed easily from the homepage of this website.

4. Class leading, comprehensive mobile and tablet responsive S.E.O. website that includes all our advertiser's ads.

5. Maps and driving directions via Google Maps® to every advertiser's business location.

6. Both of our physical magazine's, customer interactive, "Find the Fleet" contest.

7. Your business ad available on the cover of the magazine!

"We go the distance for your advertising success"
Our only focus is on you in our publications.
We are not divided on multiple advertising avenues, thus being pulled in different directions, which could cause sub-par attention to you and your ad campaign. This allows us to be sure to focus on you and put together the best savings publications in our area. We offer you the best possible value with large areas of Direct Mail saturation, along with the continued presence of extra magazines for free pick up at numerous high traffic locations and through our online and social media presence. We connect you to new customers and help retain return customers with both physical and digital avenues for customers, which in turn, increases your business visibility, traffic and customer retention. 
We've invested and continue to invest in the most comprehensive website to supplement our magazines, so your customers can easily find out additional information about your business, have access to a map and directions to your location(s), that go above and beyond your ad information.

Capture NEW customers and stay Top-of-Mind with our FREE Every Door Direct Mail magazine(s) with no customer subscription or sign up needed. 

Our reach isn't to a few hundred or a few thousand people but to tens of thousands, per quarter!


✔  You can be proud advertising with us!  

We set ourselves apart from all other free savings magazines with our publication size, material quality, eye-catching designs, ad variety and design and reputation.


✔  Reach your right audience and get results.

We offer two Direct Mail market area magazines to choose from, along with the ability to offer Direct Mail postcards to these areas.


✔  We understand budgets, everyone's different, so we offer seven ad sizes in our magazines to fit your needs. 

We also offer two specialty magazine options, the front  and back cover and a Direct Mail postcard.


✔  The best online ad presence of any savings publication in the tri-county.

Included is your ad rate is your ad placed here on our dynamically responsive S.E.O. website with map and driving directions to your business location(s), digital flip book versions of our magazines, one-click printing of your ad with additional coupons (optional) and areas of distribution and placement of our magazines along with social channels, Facebook and Pinterest.


✔  Our physical platform gives you the unique opportunity to offer great offers and coupons.  

With our low rates, you can advertise and offer something to customers to visit you. Win-Win. You have little to lose and much to gain.


✔  Scientifically proven, superior customer memory retention with a tangible physical publication vs digital advertising.*


✔  Long quarterly magazine run life.

This equates to your reduced ad cost and higher customer magazine retention due to our combination of direct mailings and continual free magazine placement at numerous locations.


✔  Go direct to new customers.

Get your business out there, your special message and possible call-to-action coupon or offer and saturate it to tens of thousands of households right to their mailbox, even if they have never visited you or even know who and where you are!


✔  We are your affordable connection!

No direct mail publication offers a lower ad rate with the customer reach, quality, ad size and perks. 








* Millward Brown, a research agency, found that physical media left a “deeper footprint” in the brain than digital media did. 

Direct Mail Marketing garners 7x more responses than all digital channels combined!

Our low priced, small business focused ad rates are all-inclusive for our direct mail, placement of magazine and online package. USPS® postage is included in all direct mail ad quotes and we do not charge additional gimmicky add-on setup fees, production fees or ad change fees!


✔  Ad design and changes at no additional charge.

We will create, design and make any changes for you to your ad by our professional graphic designers.


✔  You are supporting a true locally owned and operated small advertising business.

Just like you, with full time personal service and local area knowledge and understanding! We truly appreciate our advertisers for choosing us.


✔  You enjoy your R.O.I. once your ad is complete and approved.

We handle all the production, mail preparations, delivery and placement of tens of thousands of real-value-to-the-customer magazines.


✔  Incredibly easy for you to measure your R.O.I. results with physical coupons and offers. 

With a state-of-the-art, heat press, printing company we choose to use bright white, quality weight paper, so small text can be read, ads have real eye appeal, and you may include QR codes or bar codes that can be scanned accurately by your reader for coupon redemption.


✔  Our physical publications have a beginning and an end.  

This gives customers a focused choice and help lead them to contact you and/or to go directly to your website for more information.

Remember: General internet search engines for restaurants, products and services pulls up all of your competitors!


✔  We are the longest running free money saving magazine in the tri-county.

This is the MarketGuide's 30th year (1993 to 2023) because of the quality of our publication and proven results with real value offers from high quality advertisers. 


✔  Our exclusive, customer interactive "Find the Fleet" contest.

In every issue, we offer a contest for people to scan through all the ads to find the four pet pictures that are randomly located throughout the magazine and are 1/8" in size. The winner is randomly chosen by us in a drawing.


✔  Gain customers on their time. 

Unlike other forms of advertising where your ad is measured in seconds, only on a certain channel, or on a particular street or vehicle. Our publications are viewed, used and enjoyed at the customer's time with their ability to act immediately or revert back when the time is right for them...to go out to eat, or in need a product or service.


✔  This is what we do and all we do.

Direct Mail advertising magazines and advertising postcards. Our focus is on you only and not a call center advertising service divided among other avenues of advertising and focusing only on commissions.


Contact Us Today for additional Information

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