Hooray for Family is a comprehensive monthly magazine, website and social media content serving Central Texas families.  Parents throughout McLennan and Bell Counties of Texas use Hooray for Family to find out about quality programs, services, activities, events, and more for the entire family. It also provides you, the advertiser, with the most affordable, parent-friendly and thorough marketing you will find anywhere in Central Texas. Although Hooray for Family is a monthly publication, we print two months at a time in order to keep our color printing costs affordable for you.  So, please keep in mind that you must advertise in two month increments.

Here at Hooray for Family, we pride ourselves on providing you with a complete marketing package for one affordable price.  We work hard at making sure we expose your business in front of parents through your print ad, your ad on our website, exposure through our social media content and through our participation in community events. Each of our advertisers benefits from the following:

• 15,000 copies of Hooray for Family in EACH county (30,000 total) hand-delivered through targeted distribution to 500+ per county (1,000+ total) established and monitored spots each month
• a coupon feature on our website - free to our advertisers where you can let our readers know about your special offerings
• an active social media following where we are happy to post for our clients
• email distribution campaigns with parent opt-in email lists in the 1000’s
• participation in large and small family-friendly events throughout the area where we distribute Hooray for Family to parents
• a free community calendar
• and each of our advertisers gets their own space here on our website with a free link to their site.

TARGETED DISTRIBUTION, 24 HOUR WEB ACCESS & UP-TO-DATE SOCIAL MEDIA IS KEY TO THE SUCCESS OF YOUR MARKETING CAMPAIGN

• Our three-pronged approach of "in print, online, and on the go..." assures you are in front of active buyers month after month.
• Over 360,000 copies distributed annually to targeted locations throughout McLennan and Bell Counties.
• Our website is bright, comprehensive, easy to navigate and always up to date offering parents timely information day and night.
• Our Facebook and Twitter posts are FREE to our advertisers and place you where parents are today!

We distribute our directory to:

• All of our advertisers
• Pediatricians/OB-GYN offices/Dentists/Clinics
• Daycare/childcare/learning centers/nursery schools
• Maternity/infant/children’s retail stores
• Libraries/Community Centers
• Realtors
• Grocery Stores – including HEB
• Restaurants
• Salons
• Car Washes

Hooray for Family will bring you new customers because...

• We are owned and operated by a local mom who knows what families in Central Texas need.
• We stay on top of technology because that's where moms and dads are these days!
• Every part of Hooray for Family is FREE to families so they come back over and over to see what's new.
• Our print guide is a great size and fits in a purse, a glove box, a diaper bag, brief case...
• We print on glossy, high quality, thick, magazine paper - not newsprint. It looks good and it feels good.
• Hand delivered, tracked and accounted for each and every month by the same distribution team.
• Free 24-Hour Web Exposure for all of our print advertisers.  We work hard at our SEO to keep your name out there.
• Additional High Traffic Web Advertising Options on our home page and index pages.
• "Keepable" - that's our word!  Maybe we can get it into the Urban Dictionary.  Keepable - an adjective meaning it looks good on the coffee table or kitchen counter, has valuable information, and won't end up in the recycle bin in a day or two! - "Keepable"

Free, Free, Free

• FREE advertising on our website with your print ad.
• FREE link to your site!
• FREE publicizing of your events in our monthly print issues and on our website!
• FREE posts on facebook and twitter!
• FREE access to placing coupons on our website!
• FREE access to sharing offers on our PERKS CARDS!
• FREE from hassle!  No hard pressure sales from us.  We are truly Hassle-Free!

Deadlines

Hooray! For Family is a monthly publication printed two months at a time. 12 monthly issues...only 6 deadlines per year!
This allows us to keep our overhead costs down and pass the savings on to you, our advertiser.

Please submit by the following dates for space reservation, ad changes and editorial submissions:

Calendar submissions and camera ready artwork is due by the 10th of the same months.

Artwork Specifications

Camera-ready artwork is not required. We would prefer to design a creative, effective ad for your business. The production fee would be between $20 - $40. You may provide us with logos and photographs for your ad. If you require certain fonts in your ad, please send us the font package. Note: If any adjustments or alterations are needed to use your provided ad, a fee will be charged. Alterations to existing ads will result in additional design fees.

Formats we can accept

• Reproduction quality reflective art: photos, graphics and logos
• Digital files may be sent via email or submitted on a CD or other portable storage device. We produce Hooray! For Family using Indesign version CS5. If you submit a high resolution PDF or EPS file, you must be sure to embed ALL of your fonts or your ad will not print correctly.
• We can accept eps, tiff or jpeg files at 300 dpi with fonts embedded or pdf files with font and graphics embedded with resolution set at 2400.
• Files should be composed in CMYK (4-color process.)

We cannot accept files that are not in the required format.