Why advertise with Mums Like You

Here are a few of the many reasons why you should consider advertising with us:

1. You’ll reach a very dynamic & sophisticated mum audience. Our over 10,000 users are active bloggers and online networkers. Quite a few of them are successful entrepreneurs. They are enthusiastic testers of new products and opinion-shapers within their mum communities. By engaging with our audience your campaign can potentially go well beyond our website.
   
   
2. From the outset we wanted advertising on Mums Like You to be accessible to everyone - from the self-employed mum, to the established businesses. In order to place a banner advert here, you can start with as little as £100 and purchase more as and when you need to.
   
   
3. You remain in control of your campaign from placing the banner to tracking performance and our ad management system with give you all the necessary traffic stats (at no additional cost to you)

How much it costs

Banner advertising on Mums Like You is priced on cost per month, cost per thousand impressions (CPM) or cost per click (CPC) so you can choose the pricing that best suits your needs. You can see the current prices, once you start placing your advert on the website. To incentivize our members, we offer preferential rates for longer term advertisements.

For all advertising and PR inquiries, please email: advertising@mumslikeyou.com or contact Ivet on 07740063677

What can you advertise

If you are a member, you can advertise in a number of ways. You can promote your website through a banner ad, or you can advertise other content you have posted on the site such as activities, classified listings or your profile. So for example, if you organize parties for kids and you have posted a listing on our Events board you can further promote it by placing a banner ad on the site.

Similarly you can enhance the profile of your business, listed on the Marketplace by placing a banner ad with a link back to this listing.

There are other options to promote your business including sponsorships, blogger outreach, newsletter features, product placements, etc. Please email us on advertising@mumslikeyou.com for more information.

How it works

Mums Like You gives you full control of your advertising campaigns, from the design of your creative to choosing where on the site to place it and what users to target. You can place, pay for your advert and see it displayed on our site in a matter of minutes. Moreover, you can track how effective your advert is, through your personal analytics tools, providing real-time data on the impressions and clicks your advert attracts.

Placing an ad is easy, it takes three simple steps:

Step 1
Register on the site as either a company or mother [ View Screenshot ]

Step2
Go to your profile and in the My Content tab and select Campaigns [ View Screenshot ]

Step 3
Click on Create My Campaign button at the top right hand side of this window. Here you can choose where to place your advert and whether you want to show your advert to the public or just registered users.

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Once you have done that, you can proceed to payment. Select your preferred price option and press Continue. Then, upload your creative, add text and preview the ad. If you are satisfied with your advert, press Continue to Payment.

Subscription based advertising

There are a number of ways to advertise on Mums Like You for a monthly subscription.

These are the subscription plans we currently offer:

Business Subscription Monthly

For just £19.99 a month you’ll benefit from:

* unlimited listings on the Marketplace and Events area including images and a link to your webpage
* ability to post your Business blog
* product review listing where you can contact mothers willing to review your products directly
* customer voting and comments enabling you to build a credible presence on Mums Like You
* the top search engine ranking Mums Like You enjoys
* automatic indexing by search engines
* regular Marketplace and Events drives through our e-newsletter

Business Annual

For £ 200 a year you’ll benefit from:

* substantial savings of our monthly subscription fees
* unlimited listings on the Marketplace and Events areas, including images and a link to your webpage
* ability to post your Business blog
* customer voting and comments enabling you to build a credible presence on Mums Like You
* product review listing where you can contact mothers willing to review your products directly
* the high search engine ranking Mums Like You enjoys
* automatic indexing by search engines
* regular Marketplace and Events drives through our e-newsletter