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That's a great idea. School and sporting events can pack local school gyms. And parents (and grandparents) are prime advertising demographics.

you might want to consider one of the banners at some of the schools I know Dobson Elem is looking for banner sponsers for their gym. I think they run $150 for the first year and $100 for the following years. first year includes the purchase price of the banner. Don't quote me though I might have the prices wrong but there are over 800 students at that one school if your interested I can get you the phone number to DES so you can get more info.

Only two events come to mind, one is the Fiddler's Convention at SCC in March I think. The other is poker runs sponsored by Granduer Motorcyles in Jonesville. The route usually goes to King but stops in Pilot Mountain, comes through Dobson and stops again in Elkin.

I agree with publicservice. I occasionally scan the classifieds looking for something I may need/want and as public stated, all listings default to GoWilkes.

I also agree with the suggestion of booths at community gatherings. This week there are Mayberry Days in Mt. Airy and in a few weeks, the same city will welcome hundreds of thousands for The Autumn Leaves Festival. With a booth at these functions, thousands of Internet users will learn of the "GO" network serving the state of North Carolina and beyond.

Personally, I am glad GoSurry doesn't get the traffic that GoWilkes gets. What traffic GoSurry does get is a lot more relaxing and fun to read much like the old days of GoWilkes.

Wilkes is very large in area but everything (governmental, business and majority of popualtion) is centered in the Wilkesboros. Surry is much smaller in area and has at least four different business centers (Mount Airy/Elkin/Dobson/Pilot Mountain). This at least triples the advertising effort and unlike Wilkes there is not a singular "Community Voice" in Surry. Similarly it at least appears that a majority of other categories (Classifieds, Personals, etc.) are the same for Wilkes, Surry, Yadkin and possibly other neighboring counties. Since Wilkes users have longer established log-ons they can log onto GoWilkes and check all of those categories for the whole area. So perhaps to have a better sales pitch to potential Surry advertisers as well as increase participation to other non-Wilkes sites it might be a good idea to have dedicated info for each county. I know if I were looking for a used car (for example) I'd separately log onto Surry, WIlkes Yadkin and any other neighboring site. Whereas now I could simply log onto Gowilkes and check them all and the traffic statistcs would only reflect a visit to GoWilkes. And while the visitor statistics are unquestionably accurate - that was an apple to orange and out of context reply to the original post. Anybody that can count to 100 can randomly sample GoWilkes Community Voice and the number of "active" participants is much closer to a handfull than it is to 15,000 a day. Best of luck with the advertising. A booth at a Pilot Mountain Cruise-In or an Elkin Pumpkin festival could probably a whole lot more legitimate leads than Facebook,

That's partially correct. GoWilkes is now 10 years old, while GoSurry is about 2 1/2 years old. GoSurry is infinitely busier than GoWilkes was after 2 years.

Lots of reasons but probably a) GoWilkes has been established longer b) Wilkes has maintained a very high unemployment rate so more people with spare time to be online c) Despite appearance, less than a handful of people generate the majority of the posts there. d) The Surry community is less divided along political, social and economic lines

No one uses GoSurry like they use GoWilkes huh? Wonder why?