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CHS is advertising supported. We have raised about $1,600 in donations this year to help pay for writers and photographers. I am also in discussions about partnerships that will give the site another $5,000 to help us get through the year. The rest must come from the advertisements local businesses purchase to support the site and share their messages with the CHS audience. You can view our available ad types and rates here: Our ad system is self-serve so you can control your campaign on your own but I'm ready to help with whatever you need. Call me at (206) 399-5959 with any questions or suggestions. Thanks for reading and being part of CHS. Justin Carder 
Last week, Hearst Corp. put out a call asking for people to sign up to be neighborhood bloggers on the SeattlePI.com web site. Unpaid, volunteer neighborhood bloggers. SeattlePI.com is seeking a low investment way to get involved in this vital information flow of Seattle neighborhoods. I'd rather see the company work with existing sites like CHS. But they're not. So I'm going to ask for something even more audacious than for you to write and report on news for nothing. Please join the CHS, um, volunteer advertising sales team. It's an unpaid -- but highly rewarding -- role. Here's your CHS Unpaid Volunteer Advertising Sales Kit. Print a copy or two or e-mail the PDF to your favorite Hill business owner. Tell them how important you think it is to support CHS. Let them know we're affordable and effective. Tell them CHS gets somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000 people reading the site every month, depending on who is counting. Tell them CHS is your favorite way to take a break at work or spend a few minutes with... Got a kick out of this little piece of 15th Ave whiteboard marketing we saw today in front of North Hill Bakery.
People find god in some weird places. Now they can, um, find atheism in a weird place too -- the base of Capitol Hill. Neighborhood shutterbug xaotica shares this shot of the latest update to the billboard on the slope where Denny magically transforms into Olive.
Economic downturns, war, climate change -- too many people turning to a higher power these days. Makes you miss the good old days when nobody needed god. Capitolhillseattle.com is an experiment in community and journalism. A big part of that experiment is surviving and, hopefully, thriving. The goal is more than being interesting and documenting a piece of the day to day here on Capitol Hill. The goal is to last. And grow. The plan for survival and growth, then, is to sell enough advertising to
Gettin' paid Along with our cousin site over at Central District News, we have been running a trial of our advertising system for the past several weeks, inviting local business and groups to test out the system by placing advertising for free. The response has been solid: 30 advertisers got their message out to about a thousand people every day interested in... Now that we're bigger and (slightly) more serious about this whole neighborhood blog business, we need more resources to make things happen. Thanks so much to these pioneer CHS advertisers for helping make CapitolHillSeattle.com possible. Our July Sponsors:
If you are interested in advertising on CapitolHillSeattle.com, check out our rate card and consider taking us up on our July trial -- free advertising through July 31. Anybody can do it -- with our text ad placements, you don't even need a fancy pants graphic! If you do need some help, here are a few friendly neighborhood graphic designers who would love to hook you up with a beautiful advertisement for whatever you want to promote. Giving away free advertising is making this site look like a NASCAR racecar gone bad. Graphic design types -- We need your help. Please leave your contact info in the comments if you are interested in helping local businesses produce fantastic advertisements for CHS and beyond. Keep in mind that a lot of our advertisers are (very!) small businesses so keep your rates reasonable. 
In case you missed the news, I recently became Capitol Hill Community President. I want to share the secret of my success so you, too, neighbor, may achieve your goals. Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Stanley Sharpshooter (Light-Duty model). It brought out the vote at the CHCC election and it can bring out the people for you. Please staple responsiblity, don't cover other flyers, remove your old messages and, please, never tape.
BTW, the first CHCC meeting with the newly elected officers is Thursday, June 26th at 7p in Seattle Central Community College lecture room 3211. 
We're rolling out some new advertising code and our test period is your gain. Through the end of July, advertising in the new inventory is 100% free to help the Instant Journalist guys who power this site's code work out any bugs in the system.
Of course, we also want you to witness the POWER of advertising on a neighborhood blog. Once you're hooked, we're sure you won't want to quit. Create your ad today -- all you need is an URL and a message. After July 31st, we'll begin charging for the space but your ads will keep running until we're filled with paid ads. And it gets even better -- CHS will always save 10% of its inventory for local small businesses to advertise for free. Good deal. So give it a try and what you think.
Hmmm. Let's see. You can pay to advertise on CHS. Or get your ads on Central District News for free.
Tough equation. The CDN guys are rolling out their new ad system and are allowing anybody to advertise for free for a limited time to put it to the test. Great opportunity for small businesses. And good news for us -- we'll be rolling out the same system on these very CHS pages soon. Happy advertising, Hill start-ups, small businesses and nonprofits.
SPECIAL PROMOTION: Advertise for free in select inventory on the CHS site until
We have opportunities in many price ranges -- including a great budget opportunity that can put you on the site for less than a buck a day. Give me a call or drop me an e-mail if you would like to discuss further, have any questions or need help putting together online advertising elements like graphics, etc. Contact us today or call 206-956-4205. CHS Inventories 1) Placement: Splash Sponsor Price: $300/month Where: Every page on site Views: 12k/week Dimensions: 230x86 Notes: Design is incorporated with our CHS title graphic. 2) Placement: Main Banner Price: $250/month Where: Every page on site Views: 12k/week Dimensions: 468x60 Notes: Clickable 3) Placement: Sidebar Box Price: $125/month Where: Every page on site Views: 12k/week Dimensions: 125x125 Notes: Clickable. 3 available. Hierarchy is determined by duration of current active buys. 4) Placement: Sidebar Tiles Price: $25/month Where:...
Of course you do. Our pages are viewed by thousands of people interested in Capitol Hill. We continue to operate and support CHS for a lot of reasons -- one of them is the hope of growing the site into a small business. So help us help you. Local businesses can put their messages on the site for less than a buck a day using the Project Wonderful CHS bid page. If you are interested but not the technical type, drop us a mail and we can help you out. We are also adding some more ad placements that will be sold by time not bid if you are interested in a simpler option. Now back to your regularly scheduled neighborhood blog.
Sit back, have a sip of affordable red from EVS, put another Java Log on the fire and enjoy these fine, fine links from/about/over/above Capitol Hill.
It's already mid-month and we haven't yet thanked Marlow Harris for being CHS's January sponsor with her message supporting Jubilee Women's Center. Thanks Marlow!
Have a cause you'd like to support? A business you want to launch? A skill you want to tout? Our February sidebar inventory is now up for bid. We are also making RSS feed placement available for the first time. Auction close next Thursday afternoon.
Our January ad inventory auction ends Thursday afternoon at 3:30p. Current bid is $15.50. Could be the perfect last minute holiday gift for your favorite small business owner, dot com developer, etc.
Thanks much to this month's CHS sponsor. Eric Premo from Gerrard, Beattie & Knapp stepped up to become the first CHS sponsor in the history of the Internet. We're already planning ahead for next month -- bidding is open for January's CHS sponsorship. Auction ends Thursday Dec. 20th.
Yay! Our December ad auction netted 60-some bucks. As we promised, we're giving that cash to help with the Miller Community Center holiday party. BTW, Fly Like a Moth Productions, thanks for the payment but if you want your ad to get up and running, you need to drop us a line and let us know what you want to say. In the meantime, we're going to start schlepping our January ad auction (ends 12/20!). We're keeping the cash from this one to pay for any beer we buy ourselves at the CHS Book & Beer Swap.
I don't mind Seattle's rain now that I've lived here a decade. But rain trying to ruin Christmas and the holiday season is not cool. So we're stepping up and doing our part -- we've decided to put every penny raised by our December CHS ad auction to help the Country Doctor and Miller Community Center holiday party get things right before their event on December 15th.
Current bid is around $26 for our sidebar placement -- that's a bargain for a message space that appears on every page of our site and will be seen by about 2,000 people every week. We'll go back to our "20% to giving" rule in future auction but this opportunity to give is too rich to pass up.
My day job is to build the MyZip.net neighborhood blog network. But K and I continue to run CHS as an independent entity where we're free to do what we like within reason, the law and the capabilities of the internets.
We've toyed with various forms of advertising here and there over the years (yes, two year CHS anniversary approaches!) but nothing very interesting has come of it. And by interesting, I mean nothing has made us filthy rich. So we're going to try something new. We're holding our own CHS advertising ebay auction for December's sidebar placement. Bidding ends Thursday night. We have no idea what it will net. We'll give 20% to charity. We'll probably try it again in January. Oh, and, as always, you can always bid on our banner ad the 'old fashioned' way here. Maybe this is that unique Capitol Hill holiday present you've been looking for.
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