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Grand Strand Living Relocation Guide

Grand Strand Living2008 Guidelines

Grand Strand Living® Specifications & Guide (PDF)
Fax Back Insertion Order (PDF)

Grand Strand Living® is the chamber’s official and only fulfillment piece for newcomer inquiries and is the primary business guide to the area. Included are membership listings, both alphabetical and categorical, with two color ads in the categorical section in addition to the four-color ads throughout the book. These ads provide smaller member firms a great opportunity for exposure inexpensively. A total of 35,000 will be printed also e-guide with online link. If you would like more information on advertising in the Grand Strand living please contact Scott Head at 843-916-7277 or by e-mail.

In order to be eligible to subscribe to Central Mail in the relocation category, members must purchase at least a ¼-page ad in Grand Strand Living®.

It is the responsibility of the advertiser, not the advertiser’s ad agency, to ensure prompt payment and timely submission of materials.

Grand Strand Living® advertisers may purchase cases of the guide. Please contact Johanna Hodge at (843) 916-7236 or e-mail for pricing and ordering instructions. Orders must be placed by December 14, 2007.

Timeline

Oct 22 Ad sales begin
Dec Assemble ad materials
Dec 14 Ad sales close
Dec 31

Ad and additional listings payments due in full or ad space will be cancelled

Jan 15 New Memberships must be in, to be listed in 2007 guide
Jan 15

Final ad and proof deadline, 2 p.m.

Preferred Pages

Four preferred pages exist – inside front cover and adjacent page, inside back cover, and back cover. Members who purchase a preferred page may also purchase additional space inside the guide. Two preferred pages purchased by one advertiser must be adjacent.

Rates

Download 2008 Rates in PDF file

Published rates are net to the chamber and are not agency commissionable.

Space reservations require full payment on or before December 31, 2007, or the ad space will be cancelled.

Ad Sizes

Four-Color Ads

Finished Size
Full-page Bleed 8.750 x 11.125
Full-page 8.500 x 10.875
1/2- page 8.000 x 5.000
1/4- page 3.875 x 5.0625
1/8-page 3.875 x 2.53125

Two-color Ads* (within categorical listings)

Finished Size
1/4-page 4 x 4
1/8-page

2 x 4

Specifications

Completed ad and digital color proof must be received at the chamber on or before January 15, 2008 at 2 p.m.

Advertiser may submit their ad electronically. Please contact Johanna Hodge at (843) 916-7236 for more information regarding this option.

If an ad is not submitted by January 15, 2008, a late fee of 10 percent of the ad space cost will be added to the advertiser’s account. If an ad is not received by January 29, 2008, the advertiser forfeits all payments and the ad space.
Publication Trim Size 8.500" x 10.875"
Line Screen 150
Bleed .125" from final trim
Live Area .250" from final trim
Maximum Density 320

Preferred Methods

Photoshop:  300 dpi or higher .tif or .eps
Illustrator 10 or CS: .EPS with FONTS CONVERTED and LINKS EMBEDDED
Freehand 10 or MX: FONTS CONVERTED and LINKS EMBEDDED
Adobe Acrobat: PDF saved as 5.0 or 6.0 version

NO NATIVE QUARK, COREL, POWERPOINT, PAGEMAKER or WORD FILES ACCEPTED.

A hard copy must accompany disk.

Note: If you did your ad in Quark, and then make it a PDF, include the Quark .EPS on your disk.

Ad rate does not include ad. Advertisers must supply finished ad to chamber.

 

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