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Click HERE for our rates & coverage area Here comes our biggest issue of the year: The September "Fall Boat Show" Issue!

This issue has always been our biggest and best issue of the enter year. Not only does this issue come out during the height of the boating season, but it also covers the biggest boating weekend on the Great Lakes - Labor Day Weekend!

This copy represents the highest circulation of the year at over 1,500 distribution locations around the Great Lakes. PLUS, you can pick up the September Issue at 3 of the biggest boat shows on the Great Lakes. First, we'll be at the North American Sail & Powerboat Show at Cedar Point Marina in Sandusky, Ohio. We're also going to attend the Toronto In-Water Boat Show at Ontario Place Marina. Then, we'll be at the Metro Beach Boat Show in Harrison Township, Michigan just north of Detroit.

In addition to the printed version, the digital version is going to be emailed to more subscribers than ever before. We've teamed up with the associations we belong to such as: MBIA, LEMTA, OMOA, NMMA, Boat U.S., US Power Squadrons and many manufacturers to increase awareness of our online magazine. All in an effort to get our advertisers the result they are looking for.

See the latest issue for yourself HERE. Complete with click-thru advertisements and direct emails from your online ad, you can be assured your ad in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt is working for you.

Let's not forget the newly redesigned website at www.greatlakesscuttlebutt.com! We made finding a boat as easy as can be with our relationships with Boatsville Network and YachtWorld. The exposure value and response that these relationships bring to our advertisers have more value than what we charge for advertising! The redesigned site makes it easy to look up the latest news on the Great Lakes with articles updated on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Visitors have the ability to become a new online subscriber either directly from the home page of our website or from the link to our magazine on the home page; Either way, new visitors and subscribers come to our website daily!

As an advertiser in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt, we provide you with a FREE banner ad on our site for the duration your ad runs with us. Our site receives 40,000 hits a week so, with your links in our boating services resorce, your banner ad and online ad in our online magazine, you can clearly see a results-oriented marketing tool working overtime to get you the response you want!

You can view our August Issue NOW by clicking on the below image!

The DEADLINE is AUGUST 15th for the September "Fall Boat Show" Issue! Premium space will not last! Call early to reserve your space and let us work for you!

2009 Media Kit

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Erik Kyle, Publisher

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Sent to: budd@truckaboat.com

Great Lakes Scuttlebutt PO Box 351417 Toledo OH 43635 U.S.A.

I have been paying closer and closer attention to the profiles, feedback ratings, and cancellation % of haulers that I compete with on UShip.com.

There is a predicatable, yet disturbing trend among haulers without DOT and MC# (also indicates a lack of proper insurance require for hire). They have; The lowest percentages of completed shipments .The highest rate of neutral or negative feedback

The lowest bids, resulting in the lowest UShip match fees - (many that are later refunded to disgruntled customers)

Do the statistics. Look at the correlation between your professional, insured, experienced haulers and the illegal, uninsured that are allowed in your 'doors' and able to bid and screw up a good thing for both haulers and shippers.

Why wouldn't UShip want to limit their exposure? Would you let a bum off the street into the UShip holiday party to help themselves to your buffet?

Mark Rinker

There is also the deception factor. Recently, it has come to my attention that several transporters listed on UShip are using (MC) Motor Carriers numbers from ligitimate transporters stolen at truck stops and posting them on UShip with their profiles.

Budd Aubry

Mark Rinker