The Monkey Tree

Do you want to attract countless new customers to your business from West Essex and the surrounding areas?

The Monkey Tree printed magazine together with The Monkey Tree Online creates a comprehensive and extremely effective advertising environment which right now is helping loads of businesses to greatly improve their sales figures (see the testimonials at the bottom of the page)…and yours could be one of them.
 
Over the last 2 years since launch we have established ourselves as a valued and respected company with a genuine care for our customers.  We are constantly looking for ways to improve and develop new ideas in order to give our advertisers the best opportunities for success and value for money and to keep ourselves moving forward ahead of the rest.

We offer a comprehensive range of print and online advertising packages, which we tailor to your individual needs. See below for further information regarding the printed magazine and the website.  Please call us on 01277 815 070 for a tailored quote for either online or print media advertising or a combination of both. Alternatively use the form under Contact Us to submit your request. 

Advertising your business with The Monkey Tree printed magazine

About the magazine

The Monkey Tree printed magazine is a free, full colour, glossy magazine published quarterly.  Its unique size and quality sets it apart from the rest.  Our Fun, Fresh and Funky style gives The Monkey Tree unrivalled appeal for parents.
 
The printed magazine has a current distribution of 25,000 and an average readership of 2+ adults per magazine that’s more than 50,000 people seeing your advert throughout West Essex and surrounding areas, putting The Monkey Tree at the forefront of the family market.

Our distribution is specific and targeted through primary schools, pre-schools, day nurseries and toddler groups.  It can also be picked up at health centres, baby clinics, leisure centres, libraries, council public outlets, selected supermarkets and retail stores.

The Monkey Tree provides fresh up to date information on a variety of family focused themes.  Topical articles written by health and employment professionals, sports and life enthusiasts provide a quality read along with regular What’s On? Recipes, Book Features, Competitions and the unique ‘Metro Monkeys’ our regular feature bringing the heart of the Capital into reader’s homes.  New features planned are teenage information, family restaurants and home services.  The Monkey Tree has its finger on the pulse of active family life.

Extensive listings on clubs, classes and youth groups provide families with an invaluable source of up to date information relevant from birth to teens.  We recognise that families comprise of various age ranges and provide a magazine that is relevant to all.

Advertise with us

• 90% of distribution direct to parents in school book bags or in their hand at children’s groups.
• Keep factor -Parents love it,  keep it and reference it for 3 months until the next issue… our survey tells us so!
• It works! Our advertisers tell us so (see testimonials at the bottom of the page).
• Strong relationships with health and local authority make the Monkey Tree valued within the community.
• High quality design, copy and size.  Our readers love the size.

Artwork: If you require an advert to be created, we offer a professional design service.  This will incur a one off charge, per advert, of 10% of the single insertion advert price.

Please note:  The Copyright of all adverts created using our design service remains the property of The Monkey Tree Magazine Limited and cannot be reproduced in any other format without written permission.  All artwork should be supplied in digital format as either Hi-Res pdf, with all fonts embedded and all images created in CMYK profile.  Or as CMYK,300dpi jpeg files.  We do not accept film sets or bromides.  Charges will apply for conversion of incorrectly supplied files at our studio rate of £50 per hour.  The Monkey Tree Magazine will not be responsible for reproduction errors arising from supplied file errors.  A colour match print proof should be supplied with all adverts, our printers cannot guarantee colour consistency without one.

Publication & Copy Dates
Issue 17 – Spring 2010 Publication date 5th March Copy deadline 12th Feb
Issue 18 – Summer 2010 Publication date 11th June Copy deadline 21st May


Print Mechanical Data
Information to follow shortly.

About the website

There will always be a large percentage of parents who use traditional forms of media i.e. magazines, newspapers, etc to find family based information, but as time progresses more and more parents are starting to use the internet as an alternative and this is certain to grow with time.  Forward thinking businesses need to be aware of this change and how to use it to their advantage.

We at the Monkey Tree have been researching the new technologies available and their implications to the advertising industry and as a result have designed and built  “The Monkey Tree Online” a custom, comprehensive family information based website (launched at the beginning of June 2008) to provide readers with this new way of accessing information, and businesses a new opportunity of reaching unlimited amounts of new customers. 

What are the advantages of web site advertising?

• The technologies available allow us to specifically target your potential ideal customers who live in West Essex, Hertfordshire, Redbridge and surrounding areas (although the beauty of the internet is that customers can find you from anywhere in the world). 
• There are no limitations to the amount of quality information that we can place on the website.  We will be including current information from the latest magazine, popular features from previous magazines plus many exciting extras to encourage as many of your potential customers as possible to use the site on a day to day basis giving your adverts continued exposure.  We will also be updating the site regularly to keep the information fresh, appealing and relevant to the time of year.
• The information will be “real time” so you can instruct us to place an online advert or promote an individual event by using one of our tailored advertising packages that suits your individual situation. 
• The web site has been divided into categorised areas.  This means that we can place your advert in its most effective position on the web site applicable to your service or product to give you the greatest opportunity for success.
• We already have an established readership of 50,000+ readers through the printed magazine. We will be using the magazine to promote the website so already we will have a huge base of readers to start from.
• When readers are searching the internet for information they use “search engines”, these are web sites that allow someone to search for a very specific subject type using various key search words i.e. “family days out in Essex”.  We have professionally optimised our site to ensure that we will be as high up in the search listings as possible when someone types in a specific phrase or key word that is relevant to the content on our site again ultimately making sure that your advert gets as much exposure as possible.
• You can directly monitor how effective your adverts are working by using specific online methods. 

Advertising online can be purchased by the month (minimum purchase three months).  You can specify which section an advert is to appear in, and whether you want an advert on the right or at the bottom of the screen. All adverts are displayed in rotation. We display a fixed number of banner positions on each page, and banners are randomly displayed within their allocated section (e.g. right or bottom of screen).

If you would like to run a more prominant advertising campaign we can offer you a complete feature page which would be displayed in one category area of your choice.

Online Mechanical Data

We offer the following advert sizes:

Right hand column
There are two sizes of banner advert - single or double height.

Bottom section
We have a single size advert of 210 x 140 pixels at the bottom of the screen

All adverts should be supplied in either GIF, GIF89a or JPG format and must be under 20kb in size. We also offer an artwork design service, and can convert print ads to web adverts. If you want to display a Flash (.SWF) format advert this can also be done - contact us for further information.


Testimonials from our happy customers.

“The Monkey Tree has worked extremely well for Musical Minis, I couldn't be more pleased with the response I have had from my adverts.  The magazine is well written, interesting and informative, just what advertisers and parents need.  I prefer to use the Monkey Tree to advertise with as it is aimed directly at parents with young children, which is the age group I work with.  Everyone at Monkey Tree has always been very helpful and I will continue to use them as my main advertisers for my business.”
Claire from Musical Minis

“The Monkey Tree magazine has played a key role in making the buggy walks programme sustainable, we have had a fantastic response from readers, it has tripled our number of attendants.”
David Hogg Epping Forest District Council Active for Life Officer

“I have been advertising with the Monkey Tree magazine since the second edition was published, unfortunately I did not know about it before then.  As soon as I heard about this magazine and its target group I was delighted.  I picked up the first copy of the magazine and decided that my business needed to be in it! Everyone at the Monkey Tree has always been most helpful.  I always get calls from people who have seen my advert in the Monkey Tree magazine; this leads to busy classes and a healthy small business for me.  I also enjoy reading the magazine too; I think it is user friendly and I am glad we finally have something like this for Loughton and the surrounding areas."
Caroline Hand, Tiny Talk

As a mother I love the Monkey Tree as It is full of things to do and it is easy to find the information.  As an advertiser, I found it a great source for finding new customers and the staff are always helpful.
Adina Marks, Little Kickers

“I think the magazine is brilliant absolutely brilliant”
Rita organiser St Elisabeth’s Toddler group Loughton

“I absolutely love The Monkey Tree, the articles, pictures, ideas everything. It works for me in two ways, being a mum and running a business it’s exactly the type of magazine I would read myself, I wish it was in my area”
Carmel Bell. Bell’s Party Bags.