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Door 4 of 6 Promotions
Put your business in the story.
For local businesses, organizations and families across the St. Joseph River valley.
People come to Project Scroll for the valley’s true stories: its towns, lakes, mysteries and the families who built them. Promotions put your name beside those stories, honestly marked, and help keep the quest free for everyone.
Shops and restaurantsInns and orchardsMuseums and societiesChurches and clubsReunions and anniversaries
Tell us what you needWays in, at a glanceHow a paid place looks
- Ways to be part of it
- 6
- Levels of support
- 5
- Always marked as paid
- 100%
- Cost to readers
- Free
Menu, product and storefront pictures, made for the businesses that take part. More pictures
Pictures that make people hungry
Menu, product and storefront pictures from the studio, sized for your menu, your window and Facebook.
Ways in, at a glance
The amounts published on the sponsors page. Advertising is priced on request.
For individuals
Friend of the hunt
Any amount
Once or monthly. Named on the sponsors page, or anonymous.
For individuals and families
Patron of a case
$300
One case. Named on that case’s page, with a copy of the sourced report when it closes.
For businesses
Business sponsor
$500 a year
A card in the sponsors’ strip on the home page, the yearly ledger, and a quarterly thank-you on Facebook. Three places only.
For organizations
Underwriter
$3,000 and up
A season: a whole hall of the hunt, a document series, or a year of the Document of the Month.
For businesses, museums and events
Advertising
Ask us for rates
A labeled partner card, a seasonal spot, a Facebook feature, a passport stop or a hunt prize.
How a paid place looks
Type your business name and choose what you do, and the card builds itself. Every paid place carries its label where readers can see it, beside the listings and never among them.
Try it
What you doNothing you type leaves this page.
- Every paid place is labeled. A sponsor is called a sponsor, and an advertisement is marked “Paid partner”, on the page and on Facebook.
- Money never changes a listing. Paying does not add a place, move it up, or change what we say about it.
- Never inside the evidence. No sponsor’s or advertiser’s name is placed inside a story’s evidence, a case or a finding.
- Only what we would visit ourselves. Local businesses, museums, societies and events in the valley, and we can say no.
Seasonal campaigns
Ready before the season starts. The band below follows the calendar; choose another season to see it.
Holidays
Holiday campaigns for your shop or event.
Window posters, Facebook posts and a place in the valley’s holiday listings, ready for December.
until Christmas
How a promotion works
- Write to us.Your business or group, what you have in mind, and when. Email, Messenger or the contact page.
- Get a plain answer.What can be done, what it will take and when, and whether a placement is a good fit, before you commit to anything.
- We make it.The research, the story, the pictures or the design, every fact sourced.
- It goes up, marked.Labeled as sponsored or as a paid partner, for the time agreed, on the page and on Facebook.
Questions businesses ask
Does paying change what you write?
No. Money never changes a listing, a case or a finding, and no sponsor’s or advertiser’s name is placed inside a story’s evidence. Nobody who pays sees a story before readers do. If a sponsor ever asked for any of that, the money would go back.
Who can take part?
Local businesses, museums, societies, events and families in the St. Joseph River valley. We take advertising only from places we would visit ourselves, and we can say no.
What is the difference between sponsoring and advertising?
Sponsors pay for the research that keeps the hunt free, and are thanked by name. Advertisers buy a clearly labeled place in front of readers. Both, side by side.
Is a sponsorship tax-deductible?
No. Sponsorship is income to Project Scroll, an independent research desk, and is not a tax-deductible gift.
Put your business in the story.
Tell us your business or group, what you have in mind, and when. We write back with what can be done.
Looking for research or studio work instead? See all our services.