LIVE YOUR DREAM: 5K run/walk

On May 15, we are hosting our first annual 5K Run/Walk at Exchange Park in Provo to raise money for a scholarship for single mothers. We are looking for sponsors in the community to help raise money for the Live Your Dream Scholarship.

There are several ways you can support this cause.

Bronze Sponsorship- Donate any product or service to be given away as a prize at the race ($100 value).
Receive recognition at the race
Add fliers to our race bags
Silver Sponsorship- Donate $200 to the scholarship
Receive recognition at the race
Add fliers to our race bags
Set up a table to promote your business at the race

Gold Sponsorship- Donate $300 or more to the scholarship
Receive recognition at the race
Set up a table to promote your business at the race
Your logo will be on the race shirts
Your logo will be on our the race page on our website

Dave Young, President of Paragon Wealth Management, created The Live Your Dream Scholarship this year. It was inspired by his daughter, Katie. Katie’s husband passed away unexpectedly in 2005. She was 23 at the time and had a three-month-old daughter. Katie decided to go back to school to receive her bachelor’s degree. Dave wanted to help women who are in similar situations by creating this scholarship.

If your organization would like to be a part of this cause, contact me by phone at 801-362-5362 or email at shannon@paragonwealth.com.

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Daily Herald online gift certificate auction!

Exciting News! The Daily Herald is doing an on-line gift certificate auction once again. That means that you can auction off your goods or services and use them to pay for Holiday advertising. Here is how it works:

You put an item for sale on the auction. For instance, Mattress Outlet puts a gift certificate on the auction- $400 gift certificate- Can be used for the purchase of any item in the store (can not be redeemed for cash).

Total value- $400 The bidding on the auction begins on May 2nd and ends on May 10th and people bid on the item or gift certificate to try to buy them in an auction type format (like e-Bay). Each gift certificate must sell for at least 50% of the value. In this case, someone could Œwin¹ the gift certificate for $200. The $200 goes to the Daily Herald. However, you receive the FULL $400 value in advertising credit with us that you can use toward any advertising in May, June, and July. (Credit must be used by the end of July 2010 and must be used toward advertising above and beyond prior year advertising. Credit can be used to pay for 1/2 of a print and deliver or newsnote... Or full credit toward a regular insert or display advertising.)

A few more benefits:

• We will put your logo in all of our advertising to promote that you are participating in the auction.
• At the end of the auction, you will be sent a list of all the people that won a gift certificate with you (for instance, if you put 4 $400 gift certificates there would be 4 winners). I will ALSO give you a list of EVERY person that DID NOT win but did bid on your items. You will receive their name, address, phone and e-mail. These are people that are interested in doing business with you right now.
• Your hard cost is your actual cost for advertising. How much does your good or service cost you? I had a restaurant do $1000 worth of certificates ($50 each certificate) on our last auction and he told me his hard cost in food was about $300. He told me he was basically getting $1000 of advertising for $300.
• If your item(s) does not sell, then you owe nothing and the least that happened is that you received promotion from us for being on the auction.

Please call or e-mail josh.walker@heraldextra.com if you would like further explanation. Deadline to be a participant in the auction is Friday, April 23rd.

Josh Walker
Ad Account Executive
Daily Herald- North Utah County
Cell- 801-592-3127

josh.walker@heraldextra.com