Think local! The cover of the 16th Edition of the Hometown Community Directory prepared by Westside News Inc. features images of community welcome signs from throughout the area.Get local! Help your business be found — and do it in an effective and affordable way — place your advertising message in the 16th Edition of the Hometown Community Directory, a publication of Westside News Inc.
Consumers appreciate the Directory’s easy-to-read format in a handy “just right” size for quick access to important information for area community businesses and services.
As a proven resource, the 2012 Hometown Community Directory attracts customers all year long. Area residents refer to the easy-to-read-and-use local resource throughout the year whenever they are looking for service providers, merchants, a local map and contact information in general.
As always, if an ad is purchased in the Directory on one of the pages with a map of one of our communities, that same ad will run in all four editions of the Suburban News and Hamlin-Clarkson Herald on a week of the customer’s choosing absolutely free. By paying $395 for the ad in the Hometown Community Directory, the customer would actually save $486, which is the cost of a quarter-page ad in the four editions of the Suburban News and Hamlin-Clarkson Herald. There are also additional pages in the Directory eligible for this same special offer. For a complete list call the Westside News Inc. office at 585-352-3411 and speak with one of the account managers.
The Hometown Community Directory makes a communication message available for consumer use over a long term in a format which is readable, accessible and which includes other valuable community contact information. Those aspects make the Directory a source which is valued and retained by area residents.
The publication will include maps and listings for all government officials who serve the readership area. The Hometown Community Directory is the only such guide to provide important contact data for state and federal representatives at their offices in Albany and in Washington. “We may be the only directory to carry local phone numbers for our post offices, as a courtesy to our readers,” Westside News Inc. Publisher and President Keith Ryan said. “Also, listings for our local school districts are found in one place, not scattered throughout as with other directories,” Ryan noted.
Many other aspects make the publication unique and a valued resource — Westside News Inc. also provides free listings to local community organizations and places of worship, unlike other such directories. “We strive to make the Hometown Community Directory relevant to our readers, which gives them a good reason to keep and use it,” Ryan said, “all year long.”
The Directory has proven itself to reach area customers and clients for over 15 years. “The Directory continues to be one of the most popular products we publish,” Ryan said. “If we can, we want to give everyone the opportunity to have their message in the publication. That’s why we are issuing this reminder that time is of the essence to reserve space and have their advertising message designed by our creative production department so it is ready to be included in the 2012 Hometown Community Directory which will be delivered in April.”
Another popular aspect of the directory has been the year-long contest which uses the booklet as a resource to answer questions printed each week in the Suburban News and Hamlin-Clarkson Herald, the weekly newspapers which are also published by Westside News Inc.
“We have saved our advertisers hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in comparison to the higher-priced Rochester books, and the number of repeat advertisers who choose to be included in the book year after year proves the effectiveness of our publication,” Ryan said.
Don’t wait — find out more about the 2012 Hometown Community Directory while there is still time to be included. Check out the list of advertisers who have already decided to be included in this year’s Directory printed inside this week. Call Westside News Inc. at 585-352-3411 for information.
