Get your message across to Hastings! We launched The Hastings Handbook, a full-colour A5 local magazine, in December 2006 with a print run of 3,000 copies. Thanks to its success, we have now increased our print and distribution to 8,000 copies per month! On top of that, the whole magazine is published online on this website, where your advert can be seen by over 1,000 visitors every month.
Each month 4,500 copies are delivered direct to homes & businesses in Hastings and St Leonards, with a further 3,500 copies for local people and visitors to pick up from supermarkets, shops, cafes, the library, information centre and train stations. Each advertiser is also featured in our local directory (in print and online) for no extra charge (example here) with their advert, contact details and a link to their own website if they have one.
This makes the Hastings Handbook a great way to publicise your local business, service or event to many thousands of Hastings and St Leonards people at unbeatable rates:
From just £7 per month to appear in our Local Directory
£35 for a full-colour eighth-page in the main magazine
£55 for a quarter-page
£80 for a half-page
and from £130 for a full-page
There's no VAT to pay and further discounts are available for multiple bookings. Editorial features are also available, ideal for letting potential customers know who you are and what you have to offer.
The Hastings Handbook isn't just a collection of adverts padded out with a bit of low-quality generic editorial; we make great efforts every month to make the magazine look attractive (we don't put advertising on our cover) and ensure theres' a good proportion of seasonal, local interest articles. Because of this local people actually look forward to reading it, so they're far more likely to see and respond to your advertisment than if it appeared in a typical 'free ad mag'. We know this is a really effective way of advertising - the best on offer locally - because so many of our advertisers have told us so:
“Thank you so much for all your support and wonderful publication. The response to your article and our advert have been staggering! ”
- Croft Hall Lofts
“My adverts in the Hastings Handbook have generated far more business than similar ads in publications with twenty times the circulation! A brilliant publication that I can highly recommend to potential advertisers.” - Shirley Learthart, Vital Signs
“The Hastings Handbook wrote a really nice editorial that had an excellent response - it definitely reached the right audience.”
- Spilsted Christmas Tree Farm
“We’ve seen a lot of new faces in Trinity Wholefoods since our feature and many of our regular customers have taken copies to show their neighbours!” - Trinity Wholefoods
“We’ve had a lot of new customers from Hastings who read about us in the magazine - definitely good value for money.”
- Hope Cottage Farm Shop
“As a new business we’ve taken out advertising with various publications but we’re particularly pleased with the results from the Hastings Handbook - the first issue had only just come out when we had three new customers in one day, all of whom said they didn’t know we were here until they saw our advert - and they’ve spent money with us too!” - Imagen Gallery & Framers
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