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Sponsor a Virtual Cache

Cache in on the latest hobby craze - Geocaching* - with a fun new shop-local retail promotion. Your business can "cache in" by sponsoring a stop on one of our local Virtual Cache Tours.

Participating "virtual cachers go to www.cachearoundtown.com to find a Virtual Cache Tour. Each stop on the tour has a sponsor, whose advertising displays on the bottom half of the page. There are then two ways for participating "virtual cachers" to play:

No. 1: Take an armchair tour on your computer. Visit all the stops then answer the series of skill testing questions at the end of the tour. Enter your completed questionnaire page by e-mail for a chance to win in a series of draws.

No. 2: Take the tour with your GPS unit. Find a sponsoring merchant on any tour, go to that store to pick up your validation sheet. Follow the waypoints on the validation sheet to find all the stops on the tour and fill out the skill testing questions to get your validation page certified for the draws. Return to the sponsoring merchant to turn in your validation sheet, receive a free gift, and enter for the draws

Participating businesses get:

  1. The design of your own special Virtual Cache web page ad.
  2. A hosted web page on www.shopnorthernalberta.com with a special on-line offer from your store. This can include a link to your company′s existing web page or web site.
  3. A GPS location done of your business (A new way of telling your customers exactly where you are!)
  4. A metal Virtual Cache Tag for you to display in your store with your store's GPS waypoint and a special index number to be used with Geocaching promotional events.
  5. Named sponsorship for one stop on a Virtual Cache Tour.
  6. One additional metal Virtual Cache Tag to be placed on a Virtual Cache Site in your area, where permitted by local laws and landowners.
  7. Your business′s GPS location published in local print ads run in your area to advertise the Virtual Cache Tours.

Total cost: $100/sponsorship/month (plus GST).
                Minimum 12 month contract. Renewable annually.

For more information contact: Don Reid 780-332-1531