• 63% of the Metro East Job Seekers are News-Democrat Readers.*

  • 96% of 80,891 residents polled sited they use the News-Democrat and bnd.com
    for their employment search.*

  • The Belleville News-Democrat reaches 136,792 to the St. Louis Post Dispatch’s 68,861
    adult readers on Sunday.*

Source: Clarke, Martire & Bartolomeo, 2007

If you're spending 100% of your advertising budget on St. Louis Publications, 
you're missing 22% of the market.

This represents 542,600 people.

“But Illinois is too far away”
......Average travel time to work according to the Metro and Madison County Transit survey.

Metro and Madison County Transit survey:
St. Louis City
25.1 minutes
St. Louis County
24.0 minutes
St. Charles County
26.4 minutes
Jefferson County
31.0 minutes
Franklin County
29.0 minutes
Madison County, IL
24.3 minutes
St. Clair County, IL
24.7 minutes
Monroe County, IL
29.4 minutes

So they spend less time getting to work, how does that affect my business?

29% (more than 70,682 Illinoisans) work in Missouri.
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau).

More than 1/2 million people live within 30 minutes of your place of business.
       

Three reasons why you would want to consider including The Belleville News-Democrat and  www.bnd.com in your recruiting strategies ~ because of our powerful reach, our multi-media platform and because we are the most relied-upon employment source in the area.

Powerful Reach: Your recruiting message will reach over 250,000 active and passive job seekers who are looking for a variety of employment opportunities each and every day. What this means to you is your advertising message will invite a significant number of potential candidates to send resumes or complete applications. More importantly, you will reach the most qualified candidates in the area; increasing the likelihood they will come work for your company, and not the competition.

Multi-Media Platform: Satisfied clients tell us our multi-media platform offers their businesses the flexibility to interact with candidates in a variety of ways, such as user-friendly job postings, resume sharing and video promotions to name only a few features. These options ensure you hire the most qualified candidates just as quickly as possible to fill the important positions within your organization.

Relied on Employment Source: Our recruitment programs are the most relied upon employment sources in the area, nearly every adult in this market ~ nine out of ten to be exact~ turn to either our print or online employment solutions when seeking a new job or career. As a result your recruiting message is speaking to the greatest amount of job seekers in the market ~ the type of qualified candidates you would like to join your organization