QUICK-SELL GREETINGS

Choose from an extensive selection of fresh quick-sell layouts to round up sales from multiple advertisers. These smaller-space, multi-advertiser formats are perfect for businesses on limited budgets, giving them the ability to pool resources and increase their impact. Choose from a variety of designs and sizes, in themes that range from spiritual messages to those focused on shopping locally. Don’t miss a special quick-sell design created to help local businesses thank our troops for their service at the holidays. Designs for both Christmas and the New Year offer combo advertising opportunities.

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GREETINGS & SELF-PROMOTION PACKAGES

This year’s Holiday Advertising Service features all the elements you need to create your own multiple-advertiser layouts with coordinated marketing materials that will help you promote these opportunities to local advertisers. Find customizable seasonal, Christmas and New Year’s designs to maximize market appeal. Run sales promotions in the frame designs as well to show them off in the months leading up to the holidays, or include them with invoices and newsletters to capture the attention of more potential clients. Share season’s greetings from readers with a sales promotion and page layout.

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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS & IMAGES

Unwrap a wide variety of ready-to-sell greetings designed to fit every advertiser’s preference in this year’s Holiday Advertising Service. From winter landscapes to Santa shots, religious themes and festive Christmastime rhymes, there’s something for everyone on your holiday selling list. Offer advertisers a range of artistic styles and designs to appeal to their tastes. Additional images provided can be used to quickly create new ads with existing layouts through MiAD. If you haven’t tried this valuable new tool, go to the new and improved metrocreativeconnection.com now for a step-by-step online demonstration.

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SPECIFIC ADVERTISERS

Tailor sales to your most popular advertising prospects with holiday greetings created for specific types of advertisers and their products or services. Find ready-to-present-and-sell features for restaurants, travel agencies, nightclubs, shopping centers, banks, fitness centers, gift shops, home stores, ski resorts, pet supply stores, toy stores, vision centers, garden centers, electronics stores, gas stations, medical offices, auto repair clinics, bookstores, furniture stores, your own newspaper and many more! These specific advertiser ads are available in a variety of sizes, so you can sell to virtually any budget.

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Quick-Sell Greetings

Tailor sales to your most popular advertising prospects with holiday greetings created for specific types of advertisers and their products or services. Find ready-to-present-and-sell features for restaurants, travel agencies, nightclubs, shopping centers, banks, fitness centers, gift shops, home stores, ski resorts, pet supply stores, toy stores, vision centers, garden centers, electronics stores, gas stations, medical offices, auto repair clinics, bookstores, furniture stores, your own newspaper and many more! These specific advertiser ads are available in a variety of sizes, so you can sell to virtually any budget.

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THANKSGIVING

Presell the holidays and give local advertisers a chance to show their appreciation for valued customers with Thanksgiving-themed greeting ads. Offer “early-bird” discounts to get businesses excited about sharing their gratitude and gearing up for the holiday advertising push. Thanksgiving ads are available in several different sizes to meet multiple budget levels. If client demand for Thanksgiving coverage is abundant, remember that MiAD is at your service! This handy online ad design tool is available to help you create countless new Thanksgiving greetings in mere minutes using additional MCC imagery.

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KWANZAA & CHANUKAH

Help local businesses focus on celebrating their African American and Jewish customers with holiday greetings designed for Chanukah and Kwanzaa. These ads present an opportunity for holiday advertisers to maintain a print presence for an extended period of time, beginning with Chanukah on December 6, and continuing through Kwanzaa, which ends January 1.
These ads are an ideal complement to special Chanukah and Kwanzaa celebration guides, or include them in your traditional holiday sections. Expand ad options through MiAD using additional images and headings provided.

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WEB & MOBILE ADS

Take holiday sales to the next level with moneymaking Web and mobile ads, provided in a range of popular sizes for maximum marketing potential. These polished designs will appeal to virtually any type of advertiser who wants to wish customers a happy holiday, thank them for their support or invite them to enjoy a special year-end offer. The ads can be opened in MiAD to customize and complete them with advertiser logos through the upload button. You can then download an optimized RGB JPEG file that’s ready to post to your site with a single click!

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COLORING BOOK

This year’s “Christmas Fun Coloring Book & Contest” gives local advertisers a chance to build name recognition and positive association among both kids and parents by sponsoring a coloring page panel. Create an entire coloring book section using the tab cover provided, or run a new panel and sponsor ad each week in the months leading up to Christmas. Local businesses will jump at the chance to be a part of this beloved holiday tradition.

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SWIRLS & HEADINGS

Artistic swirl-style illustrations are ideal for creating holiday section covers or new greetings through MiAD. They feature angels, holly, snowflakes, Champagne and more iconic images for Christmas and the New Year. Heading designs are another valuable springboard for creating new greetings, or introducing special greetings sections. Find headings for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays and the New Year, plus a selection of French and Spanish holiday headings.

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BACKGROUNDS & TABS

Create new opportunities with a versatile selection of themed backgrounds for the holidays, featuring trees, decorations, landscapes, New Year’s clocks and the Magi. These backgrounds can function beautifully as section covers, or use them to create holiday event flyers, marketing promotions for section advertisers or large ads for individual advertisers eager to make a big impression. Additional tab cover designs are featured using background and other images for Christmas greetings, a gift guide, letters to Santa, New Year’s Eve entertainment, holiday songs, a workship guide, a recipe guide and more!

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