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Website. (OurSportsCentral.com)	E-Zine. (MLNSportsZone.com)
On the left is a recent screen shot from one of our competitors, Our Sports Central. Nice folks, and a fine website in the website/news aggregator/gateway category. Click on the link on this reccent screen shot and take a good look at it. If you like their style, advertise with them. On the right is a recent cover from MLN Sports Zone, an E-Zine on-line. Notice a few differences? The flashing banner at the top with the free gas may get your attention or the girl in the bikini. They're the only things that stand out in a lot of information and clutter. Now look at the E-Zine cover on the right. It's built for people who like magazines. It's a cover. No advertising. It's bright, and it's enteraining. You want to find out more. If the cover feature doesn't appeal, we offer ten links on the front page to major sections of the magazine on-line. If you choose "Baseball" you'd see the page below.
MLN Sports Zone allows only one set of five text ads on our section pages. No text ads on magazine articles. There will only be one to four display ads slotted for this section page for the season, starting with one as our number of articles for the summer is short, and four as the season draws to a close. Your ads stand out. The look is like a quality magazine that you might pick up at the store. We don't allow flashing ads, or ads that are not what the editors consider to be of a family-viewable quality. Magazine design sells your product better. Each section features large, eye-catching artwork. You won't find a stack of 300 stories here to shotgun blast for reader attention. We narrowband select, well chosen, thoughtful stories.

Notice a little difference? We'd include more, but it fills up a whole page. If you want to go see it, click here. Ours is complied from the pre-season to mid season by our full staff who watch records, poll coaches, scouts, player development directors, reporters, general managers, and media relations directors to get a sense of who, pragmatically, has a chance to go to the majors by mid-season. Theirs is done by one guy who faxes a ballot to the farm directors. We talk to farm directors. And scouts. And MLN publications understand the marketplace better. MLB.com's MinorLeagueBaseball.com is run like an extension of its major league baseball coverage. We understand the niche market fans better than that, and serve up both the content and the look that they prefer. Oh! And we do it in hockey, the other explosive growth market for minor sports, too. In the not-too-distant future, the NBA D-League will get its own, too.
Their Top Ranked Player in 2005. (In the Minors until 2007 as the No. 1 Pick)	Our Top Ranked Player in 2005. (Major League. Cover of ESPN - The Magazine March 13, 2006)

Content is King.

Our competitors do a lot of news aggregating - Pages of links to articles in local newspapers.

All of the articles in MLN Sports Zone are original features written by veteran journalists and the hottest new writers, with large magazine-quality graphics from award-winning designers that tell the stories of the minor leagues with passion and flare.

Would you rather have your product showcased in a crowded bazaar or a showcase window on Fifth Avenue? For advertisers used to quality gloss magazine exposure, an e-Zine like MLN Sports Zone is your ticket.

Looking for flea market ad rates, though? At least try one with clean stalls and good lighting. Our sister publication, MLN - The Raw Feed is an RSS newswire digest of press releases or as we say "Raw Sports News that's Well Done."

 

Developing LTRs Brings Your Ad Years of Exposure.

We look for Long-Term Readers (LTR). Like the print world, LTRs tend to come back and see your ads more often. Repetitive viewing helps with desire to make purchases, particularly of impulse and larger ticket items.

It also brings you a quality of client who has the focus and patience to absorb your message.

We give readers the ability to focus on your product as well as on the sports news that they came to read. For, as much as people say that they hate ads, a quality ad stimulates their thinking about important purchase decisions and even pleasure centers for fulfilling impulse needs.

We offer display ads on our magazine up to 770 pixels wide (full page). See our rate card and other pages in this ad section for more info on how we can leverage our audience to your product's benefit.

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