Hometown-Pasadena.com is now accepting advertising from a limited number of like-minded businesses. Here’s the story:

Hometown-Pasadena.com is all about community, and our community is growing fast! Since our redesign in February 2009 our readership has grown tenfold. As of February 2010, we are averaging:

— 41,600 visitors per month
— 135,200 page views per month
And those numbers are increasing at a rate of 15 to 30% per month.

More importantly, we have built a community of readers who check in frequently for our interviews, food stories, features, events, restaurant and book reviews, history and Concierge, our listings of recommended professionals and tradespeople. Our editorial content is smart, informed, entertaining and (unlike at many other online and print publications in town) completely free of influence from advertisers.

And now this community of readers is connecting with well-designed ads from some of the most respected businesses around. Our recent advertisers include: Camp Shi’ini, Super King Market, realtor Darrell Done, Maude Woods, Plati German Car Service, Motif, Carmody & Co.,  Partnership Painting; Dream Dinners, realtor Carrie Benuska and Balanced Concepts Pilates.

We only have a few ad spaces, and they’re filling up fast, both because of our high-quality site and our modest rates. At $100 to $500 per month, our rates are dramatically lower than print publications. But how many coffee-table magazines get 135,000 hits per month?

If you’d like to find out more about advertising, please call marketing director Caroline Purvis at 626.793.9796 or e-mail caroline at prospectparkbooks.com.