Advertising In the Baja Western Onion

The Baja Western Onion is free of charge for posting text-based articles of general interest to our readers. News and Events, Comments, Questions or Answers, Ride Needed/Available, Misc. For Sale and Wanted, Boats or Vehicles for Sale, and Rentals Available and Wanted articles are normally free. We ask that you do not submit free articles more frequently than once every 14 days.

Commercial and Business Listings and Advertising

If you are a business or need to advertise more frequently, we offer paid advertising services, which will allow your text-based advertisement or banner display ad to appear in each issue of The Baja Western Onion at the following rates:

• Commercial and Business Listings, including Real Estate, Rentals Available, Boats or Vehicles for Sale, Sales and Services, or Display Banner Advertising - $20 per week per display banner ad or article.
  
• Advertising for Non Profit Community Groups - $10 per week per display banner ad or article.

Following are our weekly advertising rates for "for profit" Commercial and Business Listings. We offer a 10% discount for advertising contracts to run for 13 weeks or more, and a 15% discount for advertising contracts to run 26 weeks:

Non-profit Community Groups

Following are our weekly advertising rates for Non-profit community groups. We offer a 10% discount for advertising contracts to run for 13 weeks or more, and a 15% discount for advertising contracts to run 26 weeks:

Please note that each text-based ad and each display banner ad are treated as separate advertisements. Text-based ads may be accompanied by an illustrative graphic as a part of the same ad. Illustrative Graphics accompanying articles, whether paid or unpaid, should be in JPG or GIF format at 72 dpi resolution, and no larger than 250 X 250 pixels. All banner-type display ads are reserved for paid advertisers, and will not be accepted for unpaid ads.

All prices shown are in US Dollars. For payment in pesos, our rate is tied to the current daily exchange rate as listed at http://www.x-rates.com.

Commercial Text-based Ads or Articles

Image Hosting on Our Servers

If you wish to include an illustrative graphic or photo with your text-based article submission, it must be hosted on a Internet server of your choosing. If you do not have access to an Internet server to host your image, we can host it on our server for a fee of $5 US. If you would like to include an image hosted on another site, please see our Image Guidelines for more info:

Illustrative Graphics and Commercial Banner Display Ad Sizes

Here are our specifications for all illustrative graphics and commercial banner display ads submitted:

• Illustrative Graphics accompanying articles, whether paid or unpaid, should be in JPG or GIF format at 72 dpi resolution, and no larger than 250 X 250 pixels
• Paid commercial or non-profit banner display ads should be in JPG or GIF format at 72 dpi resolution and no larger than 700 pixels wide by 150 pixels high
• Please remove excessive white space from around the ad
• Total file size should be no larger than 30 KB

Display Ad Editing Services

If you need help editing your existing graphics to conform to the above sizes, we can provide this service for $30 per hour. Most graphics take no more than an hour to edit. Please submit all paid advertising graphics for review by E mail to the attention of .

Display Ad Creation Services

If you also need help creating a paid display banner ad, we can also provide this service for $30 per hour. Here are just a few examples of our banner display graphics:

You can also see some examples of our work in the most current Email issue of the Baja Western Onion, or on our home page

Working from your copy and ideas, banner ads typically take an hour to edit or two to three hours to create and upload, and will be billed at the rate of $30 per hour.

Changes to ads during existing advertising campaigns will be billed at the rate of $30 per hour, with a minimum of one hour per change.

Advertising Web Page and Site Development

If you also need a web page or website to link from your ad, let us know. Here is an example of an Advertising Web Page We Created. For more information on our graphics or web-page creation services, please contact , or call 530 903 4257 (US).

Advertising Payment Information

All ads must be prepaid. We can accept cash, checks drawn on Mexican or U.S. banks, or credit cards through PayPal.

Payment by Credit Card

We can accept credit card payments online through PayPal at http://www.paypal.com.

For orders under $100, please add 5% to cover the PayPal fees. For orders over $100, please add 3%. You do not need a PayPal account to pay via PayPal.

Our PayPal ID is Debra (-at-) BajaWesternOnion.com (replace the "( -at- )" with the ususal @ symbol and no spaces). You will see our account is listed as "Gold Rush Consultants," our company in the US. If you've never used PayPal before, it's quick, convenient, Safe and Secure.

Fill Out The Form Below to Pay by Paypal (Payment will be made to "Gold Rush Consultants")

https://www.paypal.com

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registration-run

Checks

You can mail US checks to our address in the US. Please make the check out to Debra Webster.

Debra Webster
2711 Mosquito Road
Placerville, CA 95667

Payment in Mexico

If you are in Todos Santos, you can leave cash or a check in an envelope at the El Tecolote Book Store in Todos Santos. Please make US checks out to Debra Webster, and Mexican checks out to Al Portador, and address the envelope to "The Baja Western Onion". Be sure to include information with your payment identifying the ad and the advertiser.

NOTE: Please notify us if you leave a payment. Send an E-mail to , or call 530 903 4257 (US).

The Baja Western Onion is baseed in the US. Sorry, we cannot issue Mexican Facturas.

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