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AALBC.com Home Page Rotation Book in Rotation on AALBC.com Homepage Premium Position Book in Rotation on AALBC.com Homepage	AALBC.com Home Page Rotation Plus Mosaicbooks.com Best Combination Deal Available
Power Campaigns Book placed on three popular websites plus other benefits	Google Adwords Enables advertisers to create and display ads on AALBC.com
AALBC.com eNewsletter Insertion Reach over 11,000 subscribers to the AALBC.com eNewsletter	Larger Budget? Premium run-of-site placements
Author Profiles Cost-effective

AALBC.com Premium Home Page Rotation only $99 per Week

Your book will appear in the premium position, top right hand side, for only $99 per week - Fixed Placement, You pick the week(s). There may be 1 to 3 books appearing in the Premium position with equal frequency.

Pay $99 for Premium Home Page Placement (Book Covers, or advertising banners up to 130 X 300 pixels high)

In the form below, enter the requested Start Date. If you are purchasing multiple weeks, please each start dates by commas (example (mm/dd/yy, mm/dd/yy,..) All start dates should be a Monday. Your book will be in the homepage premium position for one week; Monday at 12AM and run until Sunday 11:59PM. You will be contacted if the requested start dates are unavailable.
Enter the URL of the Landing Page (the web address where visitor's who click your ad will be sent).

Enter Campaign, Monday, Start Date

Provide URL of Landing Page
Email Your Book Cover or Ad banner to us at sales@aalbc.com
Please email the book cover or ad banner most formats supported (jpeg, flash, gif, etc)

If you are advertising more than one book, you need to submit one form for each book.

Please inquire about muti-book and long term discounts email sales@aalbc.com

AALBC.com Home Page Rotation only $200 per month

3 Easy Steps

Pay $200 for the Home Page Placement (Book Covers Only)

You my also pay by money order, or check. If you prefer one of these payment methods, skip to step #2 below and we will contact you.
Email Your Book Cover to us at sales@aalbc.com
Please email the book cover (or send us a link to a web page with the cover on it) and the URL of the page where you want readers to be sent when they click your book.
Let us know the start date of your campaign. Your book will stay in the homepage rotation for a full month. Your campaign will end on the same day of the following month.

Location of book, on homepage, is subject to AALBC.com discretion. In general, greater consideration is given to clients who have advertised with us longest. No matter where your book is placed; visitors will notice it.

Note: Rotation means that your book may not be displayed each time you view our homepage. If you want to check that your book is being displayed you may need to reload the page in order to see your book. There will be no more than 3 books rotating in any given position. Even though your book is in rotation, it will be viewed thousands of times a month; far more frequently that any virtually any other Black book web site.

AALBC.com eNewsletter Insertion $200
http://aalbc.com/enewletter_ad_insertions_rates.htm

AALBC.com eNewsletters are emailed monthly, to over 15,000 (as of December 2008) double opt-in* subscribers. We have published eNewsletters continuously since 1998. We also retain a copy of our eNewsletters on our website (http://aalbc.com/enewslet.htm), to provide the ability for visitors or non-subscribers to enjoy. Click here to purchase eNewsletter Insertion

View our most recent eNewsletter: http://aalbc.com/current.htm

AALBC.com Home Page Rotation Plus Mosaicbooks.com Introductory Listing: $300
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Great homepage placement on two different, premier websites.

Author Profiles $299
http://aalbc.com/authorprofiles.htm

Your own web site on AALBC.com. Your photo, bio, book covers with descriptions, excerpts and more. Includes homepage placement for 1 full month! AALBC.com author profiles are permanently displayed on the site.

Technically Savvy?
Advertise on other AALBC.com Pages using Google Adwords

Google AdWords enables advertisers to create and display ads on AALBC.com and the Google content network, which includes Google.com. You may set your budget, and see your ad almost instantly. Click button below for more information.

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Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Ad
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Online advertising is an important tool to help expose your book to a large number of people at a relatively low cost. While increased exposure does not automatically guarantee a best seller (there are several factors which contribute to this); no exposure will certainly guarantee a flop.
The following information will help you understand how on-line advertising in general, and with AALBC.com in particular, can help increase your book's exposure and lead to more sales.