Visit Bend Advertising Opportunities - Advertising and Banner Ad Spots Available on VisitBend.com and in the Official Bend Visitor Guide

Why Advertise on VisitBend.com?

It's simple...VisitBend.com is the most widely used website for lodging, activity, event and relocation information in Bend Oregon. Not to mention the local's source for information on area businesses. With nearly 300,000 visitors every year and growing, VisitBend.com ranks #1 in the most popular search engines (Google,  Bing, Yahoo) for the keywords that everyone is searching when they are looking to plan their visit or relocation to Bend and Central Oregon. A variety of advertising packages are available and affordable. And, best of all, they produce results--lots of click throughs and sales.

Don't take our word for it...read what others have to say about their website traffic from VisitBend.com.

"We signed up to advertise on VisitBend.com in May 2010. Our website traffic increased immediately! In fact, we now have more traffic in a month than we used to get in a year. We receive twice the amount of referrals from VisitBend.com over any other source! It is now all about search and VisitBend.com has that dialed!"

- Chuck Arnold, Executive Director at the Downtown Bend Business Association and the Economic Improvement District

"We've been so impressed and amazed that the VisitBend.com website has been within the top 3 web traffic referral sources for both our Fairfield Inn & Suites and TownPlace Suites of Bend. Marriott.com and Google.com are the only websites out producing VisitBend.com currently; However, Visit Bend's site is only a few hundred hits away from catching up to Google."

- Fairfield Inn & Suites and TownPlace Suites by Marriott in Bend, Oregon

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Bend Visitor Center Brochure Rack Program

Have brochures you'd like to display? The Bend Visitor Center is the place to do it with over 10,000 visitors per year.

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FAQs

Why should I have my brochures at Visit Bend?

1. Visit Bend is a non-membership, non-profit economic development organization dedicated to promoting tourism on behalf of the City of Bend. In addition to promoting your business, your brochure rack fee dollars will be helping to promote Bend as a tourism destination, which is good business for all of us. All brochure rack fees and advertising dollars go back into the Visitor Development Fund which is solely used to bring large group events & tourism business to Bend.

2. An audience of over 10,000 visitors—and growing. The Visit Bend visitor center welcomes over 10,000 visitors every year who walk-in to pick up brochures & information on what Bend has to offer. You’ll want to be in front of them.

3. High profile location in downtown Bend. The new state-of-the-art Bend visitor center is located in a high-traffic area with quick & easy access off Highway 97. In addition to visitor traffic, Visit Bend will also host community events, board meetings, sell event tickets, etc. and more which brings in more visitors and local traffic.

4. Premium brochure placement for staff and volunteer referrals. Premium display space in Bend’s official visitor center will ensure staff and volunteers will be familiar with your collateral, products and services.

“Why didn’t I pay anything before?”

1. Managing hundreds of brochures and providing racks is time intensive and expensive. Visit Bend doesn’t charge membership fees.

2. Maintaining the quality of brochures we distribute is important. This will ensure we have the most-up-to-date and in-season collateral for visitors.

Why Should I Advertise in the Official Visitor Guide for Bend, Oregon?

Everyone Wants to Know “Why Should I Advertise in the Official Visitor Guide for Bend, Oregon”?
VISIT BEND is a non-membership, non-profit economic development organization dedicated to promoting tourism on behalf of the City of Bend. In addition to promoting your business, your advertising dollars will be helping to promote Bend as a tourism destination.

• The Official Guide is distributed to a targeted audience. Your message is getting in the hands of those who requested information on Bend specifically
• Large Amounts of Web Traffic = Visitor Guide Requests. The VISIT BEND website is the #1 most visited tourism site in the region. VISIT BEND’s site is highly optimized which means top page search results in the most popular search engines. When our website is found, this is the Visitor Guide that is requested.
• The entire publication is posted to VISITBEND.COM as an interactive brochure with direct links to our advertiser’s websites. With over 40,000 visitors every month, your ad will have twice the impact
• The only publication used by VISIT BEND to fulfill information requests to press & media, travel writers, relocation inquiries, meeting planners, events, phone, web, and visitor inquiries
• The Bend Buzz e-newsletter, emailed to over 15,000 of subscribers every month, prominently entices potential visitors to “Request a FREE Bend Visitor Guide” and to read the online virtual visitor guide with links to your business.
• The VISIT BEND OFFICIAL VISITOR GUIDE is widely distributed (100K copies) and a bargain for advertising. All advertising dollars go back into the Visitor Development Fund which is soley used to bring large group events & business to Bend
• Every display ad (quarter page or larger) receives VisitBend.com visitor leads free every week. Average weekly number of leads is anywhere between 100 to 300 depending on the time of year.

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