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Your Guide to What’s Happening in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region

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We are the preferred choice of professionals to market Boating, Real Estate, Dining, Entertainment and Attractions to Tourists, 2nd Home Owners and Affluent Retirees. Our broad reach and cultivated relationships with hotels, motels and rental agencies ensure your message is getting into the hands of the right people, in the right places at the right time, allowing you to reach those people in the Lakes Region each year with the greatest amounts of disposable income.

Our seasonally adjusted format of Weekly in the Summer and Monthly in the Winter means you’re only buying 30 issues a year. That’s 22 issues less than most weekly papers. Reaching upwards of 50,000 people each time The Laker goes to press, your annual contract allows you to reach roughly 1.5 Million people annually for under $1800. Your message, designed, printed and distributed to roughly eight people for a penny.

It’s no wonder that more and more businesses are choosing The Laker family of publications to effectively market themselves each year.

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This combined with over 35 ponds and lakes ranging from 500 to 5000 acres each, the area between Rochester and the White Mountains is one of the most geographically intriguing places on the planet. Born and shaped by extinct volcanoes you’ll find great adventure just off this beaten path.

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The affordable entry level pricing of vacation homes in this area continues to drive more and more four season tourism as summer beach fronts become snowmobile central or a quick trip to numerous ski mountains. From the Madison Boulder, to the New Hampshire Farm Museum and everywhere surrounding it, you find more opportunity for less money in greater Carroll County, New Hampshire. Discover this affordable monthly product and you’ll be in the Sweet Spot too.

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The $6 Million Investment in Your Business!

DID YOU KNOW...

In 2018 the State of NH will spend over $6,000,000 to attract tourists and visitors to our great state?

Over 36 Million visitors will spend Over $5 Billion in the year to come.

Smiley Publishing Group helps business people reach this important market while those visitors are here on the ground in New Hampshire.

They’re here right now.

From The Great North Woods to the Seacoast and everywhere in between, you’ll find the Smiley Publishing Group family of publications strategically distributed to educate millions of these valued visitors about your business.

Extensive research by groups like Plymouth State University show visitors are looking for unique experiences and that they are willing to spend hard-earned vacation dollars to discover delicious dining, unique shopping and exciting attractions.

New Hampshire IS our passion and we present it to visitors like nobody else can or does.

Smiley Publishing Group, LLC Millions of Positive Impressions, One Person at a Time!

Mailing: P.O Box 119, Wolfeboro Falls, NH 03896 Physical Address: 83 Center St., Wolfeboro, NH Phone: 603-569-5257 www.thelaker.com lkr@thelaker.com

Think about the last time you took a vacation someplace new? Did you find yourself picking up tourism literature and similar publications?

Our company will effectively reach more tourists and second home owners than any other publishing company in New Hampshire in 2017.

Let us help your business reach this affluent and lucrative audience for a fraction of a penny per person.

It’s what we do... for you!