Advertise in Listen
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Listen offers you a wide market for advertising.
Listen is international in scope and outreach. Listen is read by more than 15,000 seekers
and subscribers and can be found in major theological libraries, retreat
centers, and spiritual direction enrichment, formation and training programs
around the world.
Listen is an inviting informative publication that is published four times per year — January,
April, July and October. Each issue features articles on spiritual direction
and companioning; prayer and practice, and ideas for contemplative, holy
living.
Click here to
see a pre-publication mock up and locate exactly
where your ad could be placed. The rates
for this unique
resource are listed below. Past issues in a FREE download are available for one year after publication.
Who reads Listen?
Listen attracts a variety of readers from all over the world and also has a
growing institutional base.
Its readers include:
- Spiritual seekers
- Spiritual directors
- People involved in enrichment, formation and training of spiritual
directors
- Pastoral counselors
- Campus ministers
- Lay, ordained and religious
- Professionals in related fields
Its institutional base includes:
- Retreat centers and houses
- Spiritual life centers
- Seminaries and rabbinical colleges, colleges and universities
- Dioceses and other ecclesiastical institutions
What might be good to advertise?
Educational Opportunities:
- Degree and certificate programs in ministry, spirituality, and spiritual direction
- Internships for spiritual directors and supervisors
- Workshops on supervision, MBTI, Enneagram, focusing and
bio-spirituality, dreamwork, 12-step methodologies, working with abuse and
dysfunction
- Courses on spirituality, theology, adult development, scripture,
prayer, contemplation
Ongoing Spiritual Growth:
- Retreats and sabbaticals
- Professional days, days of prayer and reflection
Books, literature and media (CD’s and DVD’s)
that focus on:
- Spiritual direction
- Spiritual growth and related issues
- Prayer
- Formation, training, mentoring and supervision
- Relationship with the Divine
- Various aspects of your religious tradition
- Inspirational reading
Questions?
If you have any questions about advertising
in Listen, contact Pegge
Bernecker You may reach her at:
Listen@sdiworld.org
Spiritual Directors International
PO Box 3584
Phone/Fax: 425-455-1565/6
Advertising rates for Listen: A Seeker's Resource for Spiritual Direction
Rates are per
each issue. Circulation is 15,000, and available in a FREE pdf download for one year on the Spiritual Directors International Web site.
(Measurements are in inches; rates are in U.S. dollars)
FULL PAGE
8.375 by 10.875
$900.00 (black and white)
$225.00 additional for design and
typesetting
(The printable area of the page in
Listen is 8.375" by 10.875". The
bleed size is an extra 0.25" around the ad, so the total image size for a bleed
in Listen should be 8.875" by
11.375".)
HALF
PAGE
6 1/2 x 4 1/4 (horizontal)
$540.00 (black and
white)
$125.00 additional for design and
typesetting
QUARTER
PAGE
3 1/8 x 4 1/4 (vertical)
$300.00 (black and
white)
$75.00 additional for design and
typesetting
BUSINESS
$220.00
$75.00 additional
for design and typesetting
GLOBAL RESOURCE or EVENT LISTING
(6 lines)
$50.00
FEATURED PROGRAM “Paid
Advertisement”
$600.00
Mechanical requirements
PDF or TIF format is preferred.
Ads may be submitted in camera-ready,
hard-copy format.
All hard-copy ads must:
* be Laser-printed at a minimum of
300 dpi.
* have a clear mechanical border that conforms to the size of the ads listed
above.
Ads that are not camera-ready or exceeding
specified size will be adjusted at an additional charge.
Terms and Discounts
The advertiser understands that space is reserved on a first-come, first-served
basis. For that reason, advertising orders are binding after the closing date.
Cancellations or changes in orders are not accepted after that time.
Advertisers canceling after this date will be billed for space ordered.
The advertiser agrees submit to Spiritual Directors International final
advertising copy by the due date indicated. Alterations requiring additional
work will be charged at current rates. When no other copy is provided by the
advertiser by the due date, Spiritual Directors International may insert a
previous advertisement from Listen or Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual
Direction
Every effort will be made to afford advertisers the position desired; however,
under no circumstances is position guaranteed, nor is advertising accepted
subject to position. Advertising must be paid for regardless of position.
Payment in full is due within 30 days of the initial invoice date. Advertising
privileges will be suspended on accounts over 90 days past due.
Discount applies for insertions of one ad placed in more than one issue:
(No discount is available for the Global Resource or Global Event listings.)
1 ad 1 insertion no discount
1 ad 2 insertions 5% discount
1 ad 2+ insertions 7.5% discount
To receive any discount, you must state the
number of insertions at the time of your initial reservation.
Deadlines
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Reserve
by |
Copy
due |
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January
issue |
Oct. 9 |
Oct. 19 |
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April
issue |
Jan. 9 |
Jan. 19 |
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July issue |
April 9 |
April 19 |
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October
issue |
July 1 |
July 11 |