Reach people who actually live here
Advertising
Basic listings are free and always will be. What's for sale is placement and depth — not inclusion.
The one rule
Nobody has to pay to be in this directory. Charging businesses for the privilege of being findable is what makes most local directories useless, because the directory ends up listing whoever paid rather than whoever exists.
What's for sale is the stuff above and beyond that: better placement, a richer listing, and sponsorship of the parts of the site people actually use.
Listing tiers
| Free | Name, category, address or service area, phone, website, map. Everyone gets this, whether they ask for it or not. |
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| Enhanced | Everything above, plus photos, a full description, hours, social links, and links to any news coverage about the business. |
| Featured — the Highlight Spot | Everything above, plus top placement in its category, the featured card treatment, a spot on the home page, and no similar-businesses list on your page. Always labeled Paid placement. $20 per month at founders pricing — details below. |
Sponsorships
Single-sponsor slots on the home page, the category pages and the events calendar. One sponsor per slot, no auction, no retargeting pixels, no third-party ad network watching your neighbors browse.
What it costs
One product is for sale right now: the Highlight Spot, at founders pricing while the site is new.
| Highlight Spot | $20 per month, locked through the end of 2026 (founders pricing). Your listing jumps the alphabetical line to sit at the top of its category, gets the featured card treatment everywhere it appears, takes a spot on the home page, and the similar-businesses list comes off your page. One spot per business, always labeled Paid placement. |
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See it live: Wesley Owens Coffee & Cafe holds the Highlight Spot in Coffee Shops.
Email [email protected] to claim your category
Sponsorship slots (home page, category pages, events calendar) are still priced by conversation while traffic history builds — ask.
What we won't do
- Sell placement that isn't labeled as placement.
- Let an advertiser change or remove a competitor's free listing.
- Trade advertising here for coverage in The Monument Independent, in either direction. See About for why that matters.
- Run third-party programmatic ads. The slots here are sold to local businesses directly or they sit empty.