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About Us

The Company
VI Now Inc. is a privately held company that specializes in providing information and resources about the US Virgin Islands through well organized and effective Websites. Our staff consists of Internet savvy folks with 20 years experience in web design.

The Goals
To provide incomparable web based resources related to the US Virgin Islands and constantly strive to develop and improve features allowing readers to be well informed about the US Virgin Islands. To enable advertisers to reach these readers and achieve their online marketing goals.

The Website
VInow.com, launched in 1999, is an interactive community of seasoned and first-time USVI visitors who enjoy travel planning, learning more about the USVI and sharing their vacation experiences. It is a comprehensive vacation planning site that includes guides to St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix and Water Island. VInow.com’s sister sites are VIMovingCenter.com and VITraders.com.

Contact Information
Email: info@vinow.com
Tel: (340)774-1181
Fax: (340)714-5217
Mail: P.O. Box 9678
St. Thomas, USVI 00801

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Distribution, Statistics, Visitor Demographics & Comments

Distribution
USVI Travel Site www.vinow.com ranks high in search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN for Virgin Islands related terms, often appearing on the first page of results. These three engines in addition to Ask Jeeves and AOL are the top referrers of visitors to www.vinow.com.

Premier publications like Islands and USA Today have referenced VInow.com in articles about the Virgin Islands; in some cases referring to VInow.com as "a winner", "a wise stop for anyone planning a visit", "a top Caribbean site" and "an impressive guide".

The site is listed in Virgin Islands' guidebooks such as Explore the Virgin Islands where it is described as an "excellent Virgin Islands website".

National Geographic Traveler included VInow.com in a recent article about St. John, where they presented "the best links on planning every leg of your trip there-online". And in another recent article entitled "The 4 Best: Islands for U.S. History", Water Island was discussed. The article included a link to VInow.com's Water Island section.

Statistics

Visitor Demographics (Source, VInow Readers Survey 2006):
The primary audience is travelers; seasoned annual visitors, 1st timers and cruise ship visitors. According to VI Now research, 61% are female and 39% male. Readers indicated that 72% of them are married and 29% travel to the USVI with children.

• 42% are 51+
• 36% between 36-50
• 22% 35 & younger

• 63% visit every year
• 41% reported planning an on-island visit for the next 6 months, 47% within 1-2 years
• 21% indicated they were planning a cruise to the USVI within the next 1-2 years
• 52% indicated they always use websites for travel planning, an additional 29% said they often do.

Comments from Readers:

"The site is the number one site I use for USVI vacation planning. I visit the message board 3 to 5 times per week."

"LOVE VINOW. I've been very impressed with how well it is done and it certainly has helped make my vacations to St. Croix more fun!"

"VINOW.com has been tremendous in helping us plan for our vacation."

"This is a great site. We've used it extensively for our planning of trips."

"You offer a great web site! I have enjoyed it & use it frequently. It helped us to have a wonderful land trip to St.John and to find villas there."

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Benefits of Advertising

• Target your specific market.
• Reach decision makers as they are making their travel plans.
• Drive traffic to your website with direct links in your ads.
• Create brand and name awareness through photo/logo and description in your ad.
• Increase your on-line exposure.
• Distribution of your business' brochures/flyers in mailings sent out to prospective visitors.
  *24/7 access to your ad’s statistics (ads views & clicks) is available.

Advertising Options

• Listings: Fixed placement in appropriate category, for example St. Thomas Accommodations. Includes link to your business' website, photo or logo, description up to 90 words, up to three telephone numbers and email contact form.
• Skyscrapers: Creative ad unit that rotates throughout the site in the right column of content pages. Size: 120 x 300 pixels, .jpeg or .gif, 12K max.
• Banners: Creative ad unit that rotates throughout the site at the top of content pages. Size: 468 x 60 pixels, .jpeg or .gif, 12K max.

For more information please fill in the form below! Don't wait until visitors are on island to introduce your services and business. Make sure you are in their plans from the very beginning! Visitors come to VInow.com to research and plan. They are looking for where to stay, eat, shop, play... They are customers looking for a rental car agency, a wedding coordinator, a hotel, a charter... Customers that are looking for YOU!