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McCormack's Guides welcomes ads in all our editions. For information, please call (800) 222-3602.

Why It Pays to Advertise in McCormack's Guides

Targeted market: Our readers want to know about your services, products and institutions because they want to use them. Our readers are actively in the market for homes and apartments, mortgages, jobs, schools, hospital and medical care, and all the services associated with newcomers.

Repeat Exposure: Our readers use McCormack's Guides as reference resources. They use them over and over or give them to friends and family members.

Aggressive Promotion: We mail complimentary copies or flyers to almost every major business and real estate office in metropolitan California. Our web site was recently updated and hooked to the fastest and most popular search engines.

Great Distribution: McCormack's Guides are sold through bookstores, such as Barnes and Noble and Borders. The guides are carried in many libraries and can be ordered through amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Through mail and fax order, we sell thousands of guides to realty firms and major businesses and institutions.

For information call (800) 222-3602

Advertising is available in the following guides:

  • Alameda County & Central Valley
  • Contra Costa County & Solano Counties
  • Orange County
  • Greater Sacramento (includes El Dorado, Placer and Yolo Counties)
  • San Diego County
  • San Francisco County, San Mateo. Marin & Sonoma counties
  • Santa Clara County & Silicon Valley (includes Santa Cruz County)

Ad Prices

  • Black-and-white ads, inside pages. Call for rates.
  • Color ads, inside pages. $1,500. All inside color pages will be run at the beginning of the guide.
  • Black-and-white ads, inside cover, front or rear, $2,495.
  • Color ads, inside covers, front, or rear, $2,900.
  • Front cover, color, $3,995. For the front cover, we are looking for striking four-color presentations.
  • Rear cover. No ads in this position. Many of our guides are sold through bookstores. We use the rear cover to describe what's in each guide.

Discounts for placing black-and-white ads in more than one book.

Previous advertisers have first choice of ad placement, then placement is decided first-come, first served. We work with our advertisers to find them the best available placement.

Ad Dimensions

Full page.................4 1/4" by 7 1/8"
Half page, horizontal.................4 1/4" by 3 1/2"
Half page, vertical.................2 1/8" by 7 1/8"

Your advertising representative will provide the technical specifications. For more information, please call (800) 222-3602.

Graphics Charges

No charge for straightforward ads. McCormack's reserves the right to charge for complex ads or ads demanding custom artwork. Our professional graphics people will work with you to help build an eye-catching, dynamic ad.

Many of our color advertisers have the work done in their own shops or by their own artists and send the finished product to us. We will work with your graphics artist to produce an attractive ad.

For information call (800) 222-3602