My Local Guide provides inexpensive ways to promote your business and reach a local audience in a cost effective way. Why advertise with us? Read more here

We have packages to suit every budget, both large and small - even non existent!

Our advertising opportunities include:

• Leaderboard banner adverts
• Various sizes of display adverts - mini, small, standard and Tower Display Adverts
• FREE business directory listings
• Upgraded Business directory listings
• Dedicated Web pages for your business
• Articles

If you would like to apply for a FREE or upgraded Business Directory listing on My Local Guide, fill out the simple form below or contact us to discuss your needs.

Free basic Business Directory listings are available to businesses located in the area covered by My Local Guide only. Check out the suburbs we cover in the Hills, Parramatta and Blacktown areas for eligibility, or we will be happy to check your eligibility for you.

Free basic listings include*:

• Business Name
• Business Address
• Business Phone/Fax/Mobile numbers
• If desired, you may also include your personal name

• All the basic Directory Listing details PLUS
• Web address - This helps your website be found on Google searches!
• Business Description (tagline, slogan or description in 15 words max)
• Logo
• Email address
• Promotion of your listing to the top of a category (above free listings)
• Inclusion in up to 3 categories
• Nomination of a new category where an appropriate one does not exist (at editors discretion)

*All businesses with listings must supply My Local Guide with a valid contact name, phone number and email address (even where these details are not included on the listing). All businesses in receipt of a listing will receive a complimentary E Newsletter with What's new on My Local Guide each month and occasional special offers. We value your privacy and never disclose your personal details. You may unsubscribe from the E Newsletter at any time.

Other advertising opportunities include:

• Leaderboard banner adverts
• Various sizes of display adverts - mini, small, standard and Tower Display Adverts
• Upgraded Business directory listings
• Articles

24 Hours A Day/7 Days a Week Exposure

• Your advertising can be viewed at anytime (and doesn't get thrown out with the trash!)

Most People Use The Internet To Find Goods & Services

• 87% of all adults do their first research on the web
  • From Google - Australia, research by Nielsen.
• Estimates indicate that 80% of households regularly use the Internet to source local information
• Over 71% of homes in North Western of Sydney have home internet connections
• Over 50% having broadband connections
• 61% of Internet users used the internet to order goods and/or services for private purposes
  • Figures above are taken from ABS Census Data 2006 - can you imagine how high these numbers would be now?

Get Found on Google

• Hyperlinking from My Local Guide to your website assists your website to be found on Google (this significantly increases your search engine ranking).

Cost Effective, Locally Targetted Advertising

• We provide a significantly less expensive form of advertising for businesses to help promote their services - prices range from as little as $99 PER YEAR + GST (Upgraded Business Directory listing).

• We can provide this highly cost effective form of advertising as we have very few overheads.

• As we are on-line our content can be updated regularly, and any additional material can be updated FREE OF CHARGE.

Feature Articles About Your Business

• We can publish a feature article reviewing your business and services with photos to help promote your business.

No Website? Have a Dedicated Web Page For Your Business Hosted On My Local Guide!

• We can publish a web-page for your business and services. Easy to set up (we walk you through what you need to provide for the process - just up to 5 images and the text you want). There are no worries about technical aspects of web hosting, search engine optimisation, high ongoing costs that come with having your own website. Some changes can be even be made, free of charge. Low set up cost and low cost for an entire year.

Community Based

• My Local Guide is run by local people who actually live in the Hills, Blacktown and Parramatta area and care about our community.

Comprehensive Source of Local Information - Not Just A Business Directory

• The My Local Guide site is not just a business directory listing, it promotes & provides useful information to the community of the Hills District, Parramatta & Blacktown areas.