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  <div class="kicker">The Corridor · Volume I · Sponsorship</div>
  <h1>Be in <em>the issue</em></h1>
  <div class="deck">A magazine of who's here on Ventura Boulevard. Every business gets a feature. Sponsors get the cover, the spread, and the eyeballs.</div>
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<section>
  <h2>Why <em>The Corridor</em>.</h2>
  <p class="lede"><strong>Ventura Boulevard runs nine miles through Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, Studio City, and Woodland Hills — and 17,462 licensed businesses sit on it.</strong> Our editorial team writes the corridor warm: a magazine-style feature for every storefront, profession, and atelier worth a paragraph. Readers come for the discovery; sponsors come for the position.</p>
  <p>Each issue is curated by neighborhood and vertical. Restaurants, professionals, beauty, medical, fitness, real estate, hospitality, automotive, and shops — distinct sections, distinct readerships, distinct ad audiences.</p>
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  <h2>The reach.</h2>
  <table class="specs">
    <tr><th>Metric</th><th>Volume I</th><th>Notes</th></tr>
    <tr><td>Businesses indexed</td><td class="metric"><b id="biz-count">—</b></td><td>Every BTRC-licensed business on Ventura Boulevard</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Editorial features</td><td class="metric"><b id="feat-count">—</b></td><td>AI-drafted, human-curated by The Corridor desk</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Verticals covered</td><td class="metric"><b id="cat-count">—</b></td><td>Restaurant · Professional · Medical · Beauty · Salon · Real estate · Fitness · Shop · Hospitality · Automotive</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Sponsor candidates</td><td class="metric"><b id="ad-count">—</b></td><td>Businesses already running paid Google/Meta/TikTok ads (proven ad-buyers)</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Issues</td><td class="metric"><b>Quarterly</b></td><td>Spring · Summer · Fall · Winter (digital-first, print-on-demand)</td></tr>
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  <h2>Sponsorship <em>tiers</em>.</h2>
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      <div class="tier-name">Listing</div>
      <div class="price">Free<small>standard</small></div>
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        <li>AI-drafted feature in the public issue</li>
        <li>Listed in vertical TOC</li>
        <li>Full-text search</li>
        <li>Photo placeholder (mood gradient)</li>
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    <div class="tier featured">
      <div class="badge">★ Featured</div>
      <div class="tier-name">Spread</div>
      <div class="price">$<span id="price-spread">240</span><small>per issue</small></div>
      <ul>
        <li>Owner-supplied photo (one full-bleed)</li>
        <li>Pull-quote upgrade with custom copy</li>
        <li>"Sponsored feature" indicia</li>
        <li>Linked from /scoreboard "Sponsor candidates"</li>
        <li>Issue-archive permanence</li>
        <li>Mention in morning email blast (rotation)</li>
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      <div class="tier-name">Cover</div>
      <div class="price">$<span id="price-cover">1,800</span><small>per issue</small></div>
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        <li>Cover position · ABOVE the masthead deck</li>
        <li>Full editorial rewrite by Steve directly</li>
        <li>Custom-sourced photography (or owner-supplied)</li>
        <li>Featured in the morning email opening slot</li>
        <li>Tagged in scoreboard "Cover" leaderboard</li>
        <li>Newsletter banner inclusion all quarter</li>
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  <h2>What you get vs. boosting on Meta.</h2>
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    <tr><th></th><th>The Corridor</th><th>Meta boosted post</th></tr>
    <tr><td>Permanence</td><td>Quarterly issue + archive (forever)</td><td>~7 days, then dark</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Editorial framing</td><td>Magazine-style write-up by editor</td><td>Your own ad copy</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Local context</td><td>Hand-curated, neighborhood-keyed</td><td>Algorithmic, generic</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Discovery angle</td><td>Reader is browsing for what's around them</td><td>Reader is scrolling, mid-meme</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Cost per impression</td><td>Predictable, flat-rate</td><td>Opaque, auction-priced</td></tr>
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<blockquote>"The walls of Ventura Boulevard tell you who's here. The Corridor writes them down."</blockquote>

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  <h2>How it works.</h2>
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    <li><strong>Start with a free listing.</strong> Every business on the corridor has one already drafted. We send you yours to review.</li>
    <li><strong>Upgrade to Spread or Cover.</strong> Email <a href="mailto:steve@designerwallcoverings.com">steve@designerwallcoverings.com</a> with the photo and any copy notes; we typeset and ship.</li>
    <li><strong>Issue goes live.</strong> Your sponsorship runs the full quarter — digital, archive, and morning-email rotation.</li>
    <li><strong>Renew or upgrade for next issue.</strong> No autopay, no agency fees.</li>
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  <h3>Reserve your <em>spread</em>.</h3>
  <p>Email Steve directly. We respond within a business day, no agency between us.</p>
  <a href="mailto:steve@designerwallcoverings.com?subject=The%20Corridor%20%E2%80%94%20sponsor%20inquiry">steve@designerwallcoverings.com</a>
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