Advertise on Painfully Hip

Would you like to get your site in front of over 20,000 (per month) passionate, fashion-loving shoppers in a savvy, fun format for a price that you will love? Do you think your painfully hip inventory would be a perfect fit for our painfully hip audience?

Currently we have a Google PageRank of 5, receive over 80,000 pageviews per month and around 1,400 unique visitors a day and are growing very quickly! We’ve recently been included as number 19 in Shiny Media’s Top 100 Fashion Blogs and will also be featured in an upcoming book by author and blogger Vicky Zhou as one of the 500 most interesting blogs on the web! The following are testimonials from current advertisers who have all renewed their campaigns.

“Painfully Hip and ModCloth are truly a match made in cyber heaven. The shoppers we get from Painfully Hip stay longer than average, view more pages than average, and often convert into customers. Plus, Amber and Eve consistently produce inspiring content that we’re proud to support and be a part of. Keep up the good work, ladies!”

-Susan from Modcloth

“Starting an online business can be tricky. In the eBay world millions of buyers are also millions of sellers so carving a small niche in any field can be daunting. Thankfully PainfullyHip.com immediately came to mind when I knew I wanted to advertise my vintage site. Trendy, sophisticated, interesting and fashion-forward with the readers I wanted to target, I immediately signed up to advertise. Not only were the maintainers (especially Amber) helpful, but they were just as enthusiastic about listing my vintage advertisement as I was! Two months later I’ve noticed more online store hits, better sales and even more press on other blogs! I was really impressed with the service I got from Painfully Hip and I look forward to working with them in the future.”

-Kristen from Brown Bettie Vintage

“I’m so happy I decided to advertise with Painfully Hip! Amber and Eve are so down to earth and easy to work with. They allow a small business like mine to easily reach my target audience at a very reasonable price. Thanks ladies!!

-Jen from Penelopepup’s Vintage

“Of all the advertising we’ve tried online, Painfully Hip has given us the biggest bang for our buck. We receive constant traffic and sales from our ad placements - in particular the “Want of the Weak” and feature posts. Amber and Eve have a loyal reader base and many newcomers who respect their choices and opinions on fashion. Many of their readers have become our repeat customers. They are pleasant and accommodating and we will continue to work with them.”

-Michelle from LadyLanguage

“LuLu*s loves Painfully Hip. What a great site and you have to love how its’ fashion savvy readers LOVE to shop too. Our statistics show that the traffic we see from Painfully Hip converts into sales! It’s amazing to see that kind of return on our advertising dollars.”

-Colleen from LuLu*s

We would like to extend to you the opportunity to create some buzz with Painfully Hip’s loyal readers (almost 70% of our traffic is from direct request / browser bookmarks), a very desirable audience of hip, internet-savvy, fashion-inspired, mostly female shoppers!

Here are some of the affordable options we offer…

1. The Want of the Weak
A beautifully-designed (if I do say so myself) 150X400 weekly sidebar feature near the top of the page, which highlights our most drool-worthy, wallet-friendly picks of the week with a direct link to the item and another to your site’s front page. This featured item is handpicked by us from your inventory to fit our audience’s style preferences. It can also feature a Painfully Hip reader discount code which always produces higher click-through rates. This is especially useful for 7 day eBay auctions! The rate is $50 per item/week. Space is limited, so act fast!

2. Sidebar Image Ads (featured on every page in the site):

150×150 px
2 week run=$20
1 month run=$35
2 month run=$60
3 month run=$80

150X400: Vertical Skyscraper
2 week run=$45
1 month run=$85
2 month run=$135
3 month run=$185

150×600: Vertical Skyscraper
2 week run=$55
1 month run=$100
2 month run=$175
3 month run=$215

3. Footer Banner (featured on every page in the site)

4. Between Post Image Ads

350×125 px: $25 each
475×150 px: $35 each

These ads are extremely visible within the body of the image-rich content on the front page and will remain so even after scrolling into the archives. Our archives have enjoyed very active traffic with thousands of views from our easily-addicted readers, links from Stumbleupon.com (we get “stumbled” constantly), Sugar Inc., Coutorture, Splendicity, Spreemail eZine, hundreds of other blogs and all major search engines!

We also offer a HUGE quantity discount to have your ad in between every other post in the body of the page. We post 4-6 times per week, so after the first week that’s 4 large ads within the content of the front page! They will also remain in our very actively viewed archives permanently, or for as long as you like:

Between Post Image Ad Package

475X150 px
5 ads: $150 (reg. $175)
10 ads: $325 (reg. $350)
20 ads: $525 (reg. $700)
30 ads: $725 (reg. $1050)

NOTES:
Included with the purchase of any ad campaign for $100 or more, at least one FREE “Want of the Weak” post (mutiple, if there are openings), highlighting an item from your site! This is a great place to include special discounts for Painfully Hip readers, or mention any current promotions.

We LOVE to promote our sponsors! In our shopping posts, your inventory will always be considered first to be featured! EXAMPLE HERE.

We accept samples for review! If you ship us a sample and if we love it, we will include it in a “Check Me Out” post with a link to the item! EXAMPLE HERE.

If you don’t yet have an ad in these sizes, I am a professional graphic designer myself and would love to help out at a discounted rate! Please email me at painfullyhip@gmail.com for more information. There are some samples of my past work up at PainfullyHip Design.

Thank you so much and please do enjoy the Hipness!

Amber Mortensen
Painfully Hip
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