Online advertising is growing rapidly in Australia as at 12 months ended June 30, 2007, the advertising industry spent $1,199 million online - a rise of 54% from the previous year. Online's national share of advertising is now close to 9% and now exceeds magazines and has eclipsed radio's national share. This huge and fast growth in online advertising signals that clients are now, more than ever, confident that investing their dollars online will deliver the results they need.

Broadband adoption is crucial to online's success and nearly 8.5 million of Australians using the internet at home use broadband. In South East Queensland, 75% of connections to internet are broadband. Across Queensland, 2.4 million people accessed the internet in the last 4 weeks, of whom 751,000 accessed the web primarily for news. In South East Queensland, regular internet use has grown from 28% of people aged 14+ in 2002 to 72% in 2007.

THAT'S WHY!!

These are the rectangular, colour ads you see displayed at the top, sides and bottom of our site. Their sizes and positions are indcated on each one, the rates for each are as follows -

Gold Ad positions are displayed at all times on the website, regardless of the menu selection, they are located at the top and bottom of the site. The rates for gold positions is $60 per month

Silver Ad positions are displayed on most menu positions except calendar and business directory. There are 2 sizes for silver positions, $40 per month for large and $30 per month for small.

Beenleigh Onlines Local Business Directory offers FREE listings to all local businesses.

We have introduced a simple, automatic system for you to submit and manage your business listing yourself. We offer a basic FREE listing to all businesses, as well as a selection of paid for options to make your entry really stand out and give additional information about your business like google map location, photos and detailed descriptions to your potential customers.

The process is simple, to create your free listing, just create an account using the "Get started Here" panel above, its free. This account will make you a registered user to the site and when you login with your username and password you will see an additional tab at the top of the business directory page called "Add Entry". When you select this, as a registered user, it will display the entry form. The fields Name, Address, Suburb, Postcode and Phone are free and you will also see additional fields available to enhance your listing. For example Magnascan's standard listing looks like this, but with the purchase of "Short Description" and "Company Logo" fields the add looks like this, stands out doesn't it! In addition to this any extra fields you take, like full description or google maps, will display in a detailed view page when the company name is clicked, kind of looks like a mini website, try it by clicking the Magnascan name. No additional information is shown with the free listing. Once your new listing is submitted and published you can edit it at anytime by logging back in, displaying your listing and clicking the "Edit Entry" tab on the right side of your ad, this way you can add additional fields to your listing, or edit the data within fields you have already purchased like change pictures or edit the wording, you can keep your listing right up to date instantly!

The additional fields are a great way to show extra details to your potential customers, and remember, the more information you have in your listing, the more google hits it will attract, increasing your chances of more business from your ad.

If you find your business is already listed in the directory and you would like to edit it, just contact us and we will send you the instructions.