Becoming a Travel Savvy News Sponsor

Travel Savvy News (TSN) relies on its sponsors and other support to bring its visitors the best niche-oriented news about discovering the hidden away places that make the USA so great a place to live in and visit. Becoming a Travel Savvy News sponsor -

• Increases your exposure on the Internet by providing an additional way for visitors to access your site.
• Allows you to provide at least one article (or more!) per year for publication on our site (more below).
• Display your company's logo, background information and article listing on the TSN website.
• Access to your listing is prominently displayed on numerous pages; not hidden away in the background somewhere.
• Viewed by over 2,000 visitors a month - and growing!

More importantly - All Sponsors and the articles they supply are "refereed." That means that only businesses and organizations (and the articles they submit) we consider must comply with goals and intent of the TNS website. This helps insure that our Sponsor's articles are not mixed in with a jumble of irrelevant material.

We do not accept non-Sponsor articles for publication, except by special arrangement and at the discretion of TSN.

And all this for less than $35 per month ($400 annual subscription) and that includes all setup and installation fees plus publications of the articles you supply at no extra charge!

The ability to include your own articles relating to your business is almost worth the "price of admission" by itself. On most referral sites you typically get to include only a brief bit of background information about your company. Providing current business information or recommendations related to your business or a regular basis is simply impossible.

We do business differently - we allow you to provide us with current information about your business or organization any time you want and as often as you feel necessary by publishing information-based articles of interest to our visitors! (More...)

How to get started -

Simple: To be considered for our list of preferred Sponsors, just send us an email to either Sponsoring@TravelSavvyNews.com or - use our Contact Page and indicate Become a sponsor... in the How may we help you? box.

We will contact you to discuss your Sponsorship in detail, usually within 24-72 hours.

After that, use our online payment system, send us your complimentary first article and - you're good to go!

About Sponsor Articles -

We allow our sponsors to use PDF files for their articles! Not only do PDF files allow our Sponsors to create the best quality presentation with maximum impact, PDF files:

• Are the closest to a "universal" presentation medium available on the Internet
• When printed, they are far superior to a printed web page - that is:
  • Page breaks are retained
  • Images are in the same place and quality as the original
  • Type faces are preserved
• PDF files can be created easily through a variety of PC programs - without having to install costly of the Adobe Acrobat^® software. ¹
• Special note: Assistance with creation of PDF articles is available through our third-party support service: HirMon & Associates, Inc. Support services through this service is not covered by a Sponsor's annual subscription and additional fees may apply.

We only accept PDF files for sponsor articles. We cannot accept (among others):

• Graphic images of articles
• Word/WordPerfect based articles
• Web page (HTML) articles

The Contents We Expect -

Sponsor articles should contain information that can be used by a majority TSN visitors and the least time-dependent in nature as possible. That is:

A Time-Share sponsor might include comments about the benefits of time-shares, the pitfalls to avoid and other information that will be useful to visitors over a long period of time. Including special offers or other time-dependent information within the article is self-defeating since that information will become useless to visitors after the offer expires. Instead, use a comment such as Contact us for our latest specials! (along with pertinent contact information). This approach allows for in-house presentation of current information to prospective clients.

Other articles can be:

• An expansion of the brief notes we provide about your business or organization
• Regional events of interest and why visitors should consider attending them.

Hint: Avoid putting a calendar of events into an article that will be obsolete. Instead, put one or more links to websites that support those events so that visitors can access the website for current information.

• Specific destinations (again - use links to supporting websites and not "fixed" information that will go out of date)

Of course, we cannot hope to answer every question about the article you might have in mind but for more information, use the Contact page to let us know your concerns and ideas!

How to send us your Sponsor article -

• Finished articles are supplied to us as ready-to-use Adobe Acrobat PDF files (e.g. an email attachment). This means that -
• Sponsors are free to create their own articles with any contents (text, photos, etc.) they desire and in any page layout format ²
• The articles we receive are normally published to the TSN website after review and within 7 days of receipt.
• The annual subscription allows publication of one article per year, however -
  • Additional articles may be published at any time for a nominal $75 fee per article
  • There is no actual limit on the number of articles that can be published by a TSN sponsor
  • Additional articles (except for the first one provided during a subscription year) will be invoiced separately. Remittance must be received prior to publication on this site.

Like our Sponsors, we reserve the right to review the contents of all articles for compatibility with the intent of the TSN website and other considerations to protect our visitors. We do not typically accept "sales flyers" or other time-dependent pieces, since the goal of the TSN website is to provide quality long-term information to our visitors.

¹ While not a specific endorsement by Travel Savvy News, there are a number of programs such as PDFCreator (PC) available free of charge on the Internet that "act like a printer" and will create PDF files through any Windows program! To use these program, create your document the way you normally do it. When you are ready to create the PDF file, use your program's Print command and select the PDF "printer" from the list of available devices. Follow the on-screen instructions and - job done!

Other programs are available; some are free and some are provided for a nominal charge.

² One caution about PDF articles should be noted, however.

^{You may certainly include information regarding sales or other special offers, but remember that the articles we expect are primarily information-based. Once we publish a Sponsor's article, it will remain on this website - forever. If you include special offers, you must include specific wording that clearly indicates the time period for which the offer is valid.}