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ADVERTISING CONTEST is designed for:

1. Contestants who want to earn prizes and cash awards GENERAL ADVERTISING INFORMATION
while promoting themselves and the pageant in their
communities and states. 1.Advertising is tax deductible to businesses as advertising
expense.
2.Contestants who need to earn money for their National
Pageant expenses or free hotel rooms for themselves 2.A dvertising money pays for designing the digital
and their parents. National Pageant Book and helps pay for state and
national prizes, awards,
3.Contestants who are interested in preparing for a and pageant expenses.
business career in marketing or advertising. 3. Advertisers may include a
Contestants who have sold Girl Scout cookies, magazines, hyperlink to their website,
candy, Christmas Cards and other fund-raising items for they may request a link on
their schools, clubs and churches think this contest is best, the MAC Pageant website
because they personally receive prizes and awards for their and they may request that
efforts. MAC Pageants send a
Prizes range from trophies to national trips to Florida and promotional email for their
Walt Disney World. business to each national
pageant contestant
Free hotel rooms may be earned by contestants whose
if they provide the
parents plan to stay at the host hotel in Florida during
national activities.
promotional content.
Cash awards may be chosen instead of prizes for
advertising sales.
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Contestants Earn Exciting Awards Through Advertising Sales
ADVERTISING SIZES AND ADVERTISING COPY:
PRICES: Advertising copy is the business card, logo, letterhead, text, graphics or camera
ready ad copy that will be included in the digital program book. A rough sketch
There are 10 business card advertising spaces on each showing how you want your ad arranged is all that is required if you do not send
81/2x11 advertising page. A full page of advertising (10
business card size ads) costs $600. One business card camera ready copy. All advertising copy may be emailed to patty@gocoed.com.
advertisement costs $60. Digital ads need to be 300 dpi in a tif, jpeg, or high-quality pdf format with fonts
SIZE PRICE SPECS embedded.
Full Page $600 912 h x 712 w ADVERTISING PAYMENT:
1/2 Page $300 4 8 h x 7 2 w
7 1 Payment for advertisement may be paid by check, money order, Visa/Mastercard,
1/4 Page $150 4 8 h x 3 8 w
7 5 American Express, Paypal, or Discover. You may pay online at www.coedstore.com,
give ad payment to the contestant or send it directly to the National Pageant Office
or BUSINESS CARD size ads:
1 BUSINESS CARD AD $ 60 2 h x 358 w listed below. If you prefer to send advertising copy and payment to the National
Pageant Office, be sure to put the name of the contestant from whom you bought
1/5 Page $120
the advertisement on the advertising copy and check so she will get the credit for
2/5 Page $240 it. Please make checks payable to American Coed Pageants and mail to the
3/5 Page $360 addressbelow.
4/5 Page $480 American Coed Pageants - 4120 Piedmont Rd., Pensacola, FL 32503
 Below Is A Sample Letter That You Could Send To A
Prospective Advertiser For The National Advertising Contest.
Dear Prospective Advertiser:
My name is_ ______________________________________________________. I am ______ years of age.
My phone number is _______________. I am in the _____ grade at _ ________________________ School.
My parent(s) names are:_________________________________. My hometown is___________________ .
I have qualified to participate in the National Pageant for my age group.
Will you please help me reach the goal I have set?
My goal is to sell $___________ in advertising for my National Pageant Book to earn the following awards:
______________________________________________________________________________________
If you have questions about the pageant or advertising contest, please call.
Thank you for helping to make my dreams come true!

(signed)__________________________________________ (date)____________________
7-Eleven John Deere Sheraton Corporation Jaycees
Listed to the right are a Ace Hardware Kahns Sherwin-Williams Key Clubs
small number of our total Allstate Insurance Kentucky Fried Chicken Speed Queen Knights of Columbus
Avon Kimberly Clark State Farm Insurance Lions Club
sponsors and advertisers Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Kinder Care Subway Sandwiches Loyal Order of Moose
Store Temporary Services, Inc.
for our digital National Bell Telephone Kohler Company Lutheran Youth Group
Texaco
Program Awards Books. Ben Franklin Department Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Postal Credit Union
The Framery
Stores Kroger The Prescription Shop Rotary Club
Those listed are the Best Western Motels La-Z-Boy Showcase P.T.A.
True Value Hardware
most familiar to the Burger King Shoppes Stores UFCW Union
Campbell Soup Company Long John Silvers United Van Lines United Steel Workers of
generalpublic. Carrier Heating and Air Marriott Hotels America
Universal Paper and
Most of our advertisers Conditioning Mary Kay Cosmetics Packaging Veterans of Foreign Wars
Century 21 McDonalds Waldens House of
are small business, county Computerland Volunteer Fireman
Midas Mufflers Photography
and state officials, local Cudahy Co., Inc.
Dairy Queen Mister Donut Wal-Mart AUTOMOBILE DEALERS:
service organizations, Dennys One Hour Photo Warner Cable Buick / Pontiac Dealers
Dominos Pizza Patrick Cudahy, Inc. Weight Watchers Chevrolet / Olds Dealers
and hundreds of family Farm Bureau Insurance Western Auto
Pepsi Chrysler / Plymouth Dealers
members and friends of Hardees 4-H
Pfizer, Inc. American Legion Dodge Dealers
Holiday Inn
our participants. Together Hyatt Corporation
Piggly Wiggly Chamber of Commerce Ford Dealers
Proctor and Gamble Department of Tourism Honda Dealers
they make a difference in IGA
Purina Mills, Inc. SAAB Dealers
insty-print Elks Lodge
the lives of thousands of International House of Radisson Hotels Fraternal Order of Eagles Suzuki Dealers
young people each year. Pancakes Ramada Inns Fraternal Order of Police Toyota Dealers
J.C. Penney Rexall Drugs Girl Scouts Volvo Dealers

AWARDS EIGHT ADVERTISING PAGES:

For eight ad pages the contestant may choose the national trip to Florida, which includes
FOR ADVERTISING SALES: up to $300 in transportation expense, a standard room for sixnights in the Florida Host
AD PAGES CASH AWARD PRIZES Hotel and A Day in Disney World for two.
HOSTESS TITLE:
4 $200 National Hostesses are runners-up to the National Cover Girls. National Hostesses
are featured in all State and National Books which are distributed nationwide. National
5 $300 Hostesses are crowned on stage during National Pageant Activities and are awarded
Official National Hostess Banners and Trophies and any other awards earned.
6 $350
NATIONAL COVER GIRL TITLE:
7 $450 The girl who puts the most advertising in the National Pageant Book (minimum ten pages)
for her age group will be crowned National Cover Girl during national activities (twenty
8 $600...... OR.... National Trip* pages guarantees title). If no one reaches the twenty page goal, the girl who sells the
*National Trip to Florida and Disney World most advertising over twelve pages wins the title. She will receive any other awards
or Cash Award earned through advertising sales. She will be featured on the covers of all State and
National Books the following year.
copyright 2014, American Coed Pageants, Inc. Advertising money is not refundable.
This is to introduce you to Veronica DeLaHarpe
_________________________________________,
an outstanding student who has qualified to participate in the National Pageant for her age group for

Miss American Coed Pageants

Her photo will be featured in the digital National Pageant Program Book. Contestants photos, sponsor
names, and program and awards pages are included in the book as well as an advertising section similar to
those in high school yearbooks.
Advertisers may buy space in the digital National Pageant Book just as they would in online newspapers
and magazines. Contestants can earn prizes and/or cash awards for selling advertising. The girl who sells
the most advertising for the National Pageant Book earns the National Cover Girl title and receives a crown,
banner, and trophy in addition to all the prizes and awards she earns.
Contestants who participate in this contest are our achievers, our dreamers, our future leaders who are
willing to work to make their dreams come true. This contest is designed to reward contestants for promoting
the National Pageant in their communities and states. The contest also gives participants the opportunity to
become acquainted with local and state business leaders, develop business and communication skills and
good work habits while earning prizes and awards.
Supporting the dreams of young people can help make things happen for them and return dividends to their
communities and states. The best investment community leaders can make is to support those programs
which help their young people mature into responsible citizens. Miss American Coed Pageants is one of those
programs.
Please take this opportunity to invest in the youth of your community.

Very truly yours,

Patty Hawkins, National Director

Make advertising check payable to American Coed Pageants.

You may give to the girl who sold you the advertising space,
mail it to the address below or pay online at www.coedstore.com
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