Mission Statement
Banner Ad Opportunities for the First Time!!!
Hello friends, family and moters and other vendors; so we supporters of Ventura Rocks! are going to open up advertising opportunities for the first time ever. The banner ad program will As many of you know, we re- be affordable and will never EVER Our Mission is to help cently celebrated our five-year affect what we already offer to the stimulate the economy anniversary online. Ventura venues listed for Ventura. Our Rocks started and continues as a in our favorite city in the content and music calendar will not labor of love. It comes from a whole wide world by be affected by whether a venue passion for music and a love for chooses to enhance their coverage promoting venues who this community. To date, this has or not. You will always be listed offer music and to the been solely a goodwill effort to for free on our Calendar and Ven- artists who live in and help the economy and to put ues pages. Ventura on the map as a great around Ventura as well main reason music lovers visit place for music. All expenses as those who travel here our website is the fact that we have been paid out of pocket. offer the most comprehensive Pam Baumgardner to play. That being said, we've been music calendar listing bar none, Owner and Operator We want to inspire peo- thinking long and hard about and we update it daily. VenturaRocks.com what's next. According to ple to get out and sup- [email protected] Google Analytics, Ven- And that doesn't even include port Ventura’s music (805) 340-6910 turaRocks.com averages 3800 our coverage on Facebook, Insta- scene. visitors monthly with over 8200 gram and Twitter. We mean page views. The people who visit We promise never to business. We are at the shows, our website are looking for mu- we’re taking pictures, we're charge the venues or sic. They are looking for venues checking in with Social Media. the artist to be listed on to patronize. The bottom line? We want people spending money VenturaRocks.com. They are looking to spend dol- to stimulate our economy while lars. As a website designer and supporting our music scene. I SEO specialist, we are extremely think we've proven our worth proud of the fact that when you and that we can be depended search Ventura and Music, we upon to keep our word to keep always come up on the first page. VenturaRocks.com as a viable That's no mistake. We keep our medium for getting the word out. website fresh by adding new items weekly such as photo gal- leries, music reviews, interviews Without hesitation, I'm certain and editorials. But of course the this has value for venues, pro-
Advertising will never affect the content on VenturaRocks.com P A G E 2 Unique Content on VenturaRocks.com
Not only are we the GO TO We love doing interviews and Ventura’s music scene and website for an accurate listing finding out more about the engage our viewers even fur- of who is playing where, but artists that are not only from ther with a better understand- we keep viewers coming back the area, but come here to ing of what our musicians and for more with Interviews, Re- play like Immortal Technique, our venues go through to views and Articles covering Dean Dinning of Toad the Wet make a living. Ventura’s music scene. Sprocket, Owen Bucey of The To date we’ve done several Calamity and Army of Fresh- There are three elements to new CD reviews of local art- men, Eric Rachmany of Rebelu- Ventura’s Music Scene. First ists including Shawn Jones, the tion, David Lowery of Cracker and foremost there are the Winchester Rebels, Dan and Camper Van Beethoven, artists, then there are the ven- Grimm, The Calamity, Hans Scotty Morris of Big Bad Voo- ues, but it would be nothing Ventura certainly Ottsen, 50 Sticks of Dynamite doo Daddy, Todd Hannigan without us music lovers!” does ROCK!!! and Lee Koch. Spencer the Gardener and Shaky Feelin’. And we love to write about
“There are three Photo Galleries elements to
Ventura’s Music One of our most popular fea- hundreds of bands that come the artists, but we have an tures on VenturaRocks.com through town playing at The abundance of venues to cover. Scene. First and are all the photos we take at Star, Bombay Bar and Grill, We recently started featuring live shows around town. And Amigos, Sans Souci, W20 at a monthly photo gallery high- foremost there are we try to mix it up by going to The Watermark, the Ventura lighting various shows we at- the artists, then as many different venues as we Harbor carousel stage, and the tend during that month. But can. From Yolie’s and Hi-Hat Wine Rack as well as at the we also highlight special events there are the Entertainment shows, to jazz Tavern and all special events and fundraisers with their own at Squashed Grapes, national downtown, at Ventura High photo galleries. People love venues, but it would acts at the Majestic Ventura School, Poinsettia Pavillion, pictures! There is no doubt be nothing without Theater, dinner shows at Pierpont Inn, well, you get the about that!! Rhumb Line, or any of the point. Not only do we have us music lovers!” Artist Input
Over the past few years we’ve Squashed Grapes writing about stepped up to the plate when discovered that musicians and the musicians he would be we needed someone to inter- artists are also terrific writers! playing with and each of their view Hip Hop artist Immortal When asked if he wouldn’t perspective backgrounds. Technique. mind if we included his Face- Evan Sula-Goff of 8Stops7 And we’re really excited about book post on our website, wrote a great article about the Polly Hoganson of Zoey’s fame Karl Hunter of Big Bad Voo- problems facing bands trying to coming on board doing inter- doo Daddy said he would love make it today. views and mentoring up and that! He wrote several excel- coming artists. lent pieces on his gigs at Adam Clark, jazz drummer, Polly Hoganson and Pam Baumgardner
P A G E 3 Upcoming Special Events
even more potential big part of Ventura Music Week Ventura fans of music. But we helping to put Ventura on the map County also list on our home- as a music destination. There is so Concert page special events to much music in Ventura that we Band plan on not only have become a one-stop resource weeks in advance, but for our viewers. months in advance. Every week we list out the music We help promote Blues Festivals, related events that people can plan Jazz Festivals and Beach Festivals. on attending. Daily, we list a calen- We highlight the Ventura Music dar of events on our homepage Festival concerts as well as the where viewers have come to de- Ventura County Concert Band. Partner up with pend on when they want to plan We promote the Surf Rodeo, and out their evening. We also do a Roadshow Revival’s Tribute to the Ventura Rocks. daily blast on Facebook to reach music of Johnny Cash. And we’re a Our viewers are
unique. They
are looking to Venues go out and spend money in
Not only are we a resource for provide all the information on them venues with finding out about the artists and from each venue’s address and when they are performing, but we phone number to their websites if music! list out the venues who offer music they have them. at least once in a while, from E.P There are over sixty different ven- Foster Library to the Majestic Ven- ues providing music at one time or tura Theater. From Yolie’s on the another. And it changes all the West end to the Garage on the time! East end. We have dive bars, we have concert halls, we have wine houses and outdoor stages and we The Artists
VenturaRocks.com provides an Artists Page whereby we not only list bands and solo artists, but we give their genre and website and Facebook information and provide a link for buying their music if they have CDs available for purchase, plus, we do not take any cut of their sales, This is a service we provide to help our local artists to reach even more potential fans.
Contact Pam Baumgardner for more information or to place your order: [email protected] - (805) 340-6910 2014 Website Advertising
Banner Ad Pricing
Top of Page Banner (2 Max) - 728 x 90 Miscellaneous Placement 300 x 250 Home page: Home page: $30 weekly or $100 monthly $25 weekly or $90 monthly Story or Photo Gallery Pages Story or Photo Gallery Pages $25 weekly or $90 monthly $20 weekly or $70 monthly
Sponsorship on Facebook: Mid Page Banner 468 x60 Calendar posts $10 each or 50 weekly Home page: All weekly/monthly banner ads and Facebook $20 weekly or $70 monthly sponsorships receive 3 thank you’s weekly on Story or Photo Gallery Pages Twitter. $15 weekly or $50 monthly We can create Banner Ads and provide links.
www.VenturaRocks.com We’re also on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!!! Website Ad Sizes:
Contact Pam Baumgardner for more information or to place your order: [email protected] - (805) 340-6910