prices for a newspaper ad

[emt144]

Hello everyone,
I just placed an ad in the local newspaper that services a town of about 10000 people. It is a fairly decent ad and they quoted me 78.00 a month for a reoccuring ad. Does this sound fair. Seems kind of pricy to me. Please let me know. By the way, this newspaper is the only reputable paper in town

[Carolina Cutter]

My area is a bit larger but about $60 will buy you 7 days.......

[Jason Rose]

how long is your ad? I know they charge by the line. if your ad is 5 or 6 lines long that's real reasonable... our local paper os getting outrageous on their classified advertising and ads for services are about double what ads run for items for sale. I ran an ad to sell a truck for a week and it was 85 bucks!

[MMLawn]

Depends on 1) what the papers actual circulation is (based on 10K residents it is probably no more than 1-2000) also is this a daily paper or a weekly. 2) the size of the ad and what section it is in. But is sounds very cheap to me unless it is just a word type classified ad.

I ran one 2.5" x 2.5" ad in the Greensboro paper (225K pop) for 2 days (2 straight Saturdays) in the Classified Section and it cost me $623.00

[gogetter]

Are you talking about a display ad, or just a couple lines in the classifieds?
Six lines of text in the classifieds running for one month costs me about $150 in my local paper.

I can't imagine what they'd charge me for a display ad, even a small business card size for a whole month. I'm sure it would be HUNdreds, if not more, like 4 figures $$!.

[timturf]

Hello everyone,
I just placed an ad in the local newspaper that services a town of about 10000 people. It is a fairly decent ad and they quoted me 78.00 a month for a reoccuring ad. Does this sound fair. Seems kind of pricy to me. Please let me know. By the way, this newspaper is the only reputable paper in town

Post the ad
give the size
How many times will it run for $78.00
what is the circulation of paper

[red raider04]

A plain-jane 4-line classified ad in san antonio will run you about $90/week.....sa has about 1.3 mill people?, so it's like everyone else has been saying, it's just relative to ad type & audience.

[j fisher]

$135.00 per mth for a 3 line classified on contract. But it's worth every penny!

[plateau lawn care]

emt144 are you a fireman? pic of my bussiness card in paper for 1 month is 72$

[Metro Lawn]

Ours is $150.00 per run.

[tinman]

Classified ad here for once a week paper (10000 or more readers I believe) is $7. Pretty good deal really. Gotten a lot of work from it & basically got my client base going from it years ago.

[timturf]

give the size: BUSINESS CARD, 3 LINE CLASSIFIED, ETC
How many times will it run ? EVERY DAY, ONE WEEK, WILL RUN FOR HOW MANY WEEKS?
what is the circulation of paper?

If you don't post at least this amount of info, your not really answering the question!