Sponsorships & Advertising

SPONSORSHIPS AND ADVERTISING

Key Benefits for Sponsor

• A larger audience for less money than is possible through print advertising.
• Target your advertising by Topic allowing you to reach people particularly interested in your product or service.
• Sponsoring related content enables you to reach people in a planning or buying mode.
• Integrate e-mail with Web advertising.
• Profit from our left-margin, Rectangle Banners (180x150), as well as our article-embedded display ads to maximize your impact, both on-screen and when people print out our content to use as a reference.
• We can help you optimize your Web site by helping you create your own content to help improve the chances that people find you via major search engines.
• We'll email single-sponsored offers announcing your new products and services.

Measureable Monthly Reports

Our model is to provide advertisers with a highly cost effective and measurable means of generating leads by enabling you to:

• Target the most qualified audiences by sponsoring content and search terms most likely to attract potential customers.
• Cost-effectively reach a broader audience than is possible through print by sponsoring news delivered via the portal and e-newsletters.
• Quickly and easily, announce new products and services.
• Provide the ability to use our list for single-sponsored e-mail or print offers.
• Create objective, useful content that can be used on our portal and your site to inform potential customers, build credibility, and improve optimization.

SPONSORSHIPS

9-1-1MAGAZINE.com has created a number of sponsorship opportunities enabling the industry leaders to scoop up key portal real-estate at a highly affordable rate.  For the cost of a traditional one-page advertisement in one issue of a monthly trade magazine, 9-1-1MAGAZINE.com offers select advertisers a sponsorship package that includes a fully integrated program.

TOPIC SPONSORSHIP Program includes

$5,000 Topic sponsorship:  A one-year sponsorship of a topic of your choice, which includes a banner and a display ad embedded in any of the how-to, reference, or news content related to that topic.

Home page advertising:  A 180 by 150 rotating position on the home page for one year.
E-newsletter:  150 by 300 rotating position on all 12 editions
Buyers Guide: A one-year listing, which includes a locator map and photos of products. Under Construction.
Promotional e-newsletters: The ability to run one single-sponsored offer during the year.
Content: A customized article created specifically related to a topic of your choice that can be used on the portal and your site (must be completely objective in nature to appear on the portal.)

Topics

 BANNER ADVERTISING

 HORIZONTAL BANNERS - Top of Page Positions

RECTANGLE BOXES – Left Margin Positions

E-Newsletter - Monthly Frequency

OTHER MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES

Internet Advertising Bureau Standards      

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS/SPECIFICATIONS:

Ads may be supplied as ESP, TIFF, Flash, GIF files or static JPEG at 300dpi at actual size. 

Sound may not be used on ads.

All web page ads should include a click- through link to your designated web site.

Formats that require the user to download plug-ins other than Flash will most likely be rejected. Flash banners must be Netscape/IE 4+ compliant.

Each frame of an animated gif must display for at least four seconds.

All banners must have a hard 1-pixel border.

All banners that are submitted to 9-1-1MAGAZINE.com via e-mail must be uncompressed (not zipped).

ALT (Mouseover) text should be no greater than 10 words.

All banners, when clicked, will launch the linked site in a new browser window.

Banners must be designed so that interaction with the user only takes place if the user places the mouse within the advertisement area.

Advertisers may make banner or other creative changes or additions every two weeks, although we prefer advertisers to send us multiple banners at one time and have them scheduled any way you would like throughout your campaign.

As far as file size:  smaller the better.  Be sure and optimize.  File size should not exceed 30k.  Leaderboard should not exceed 50k.

Other formats must be tested and approved on a case-by-case basis.  9-1-1MAGAZINE.com reserves the right to reject advertising based on content, user impact, distraction factors and other situations as determined by the staff.

Ad design is available upon request.

Terms and Conditions

• Payment due prior to posting
• Credit Cards accepted:  Visa, MasterCard or American Express.
• Programs cancelled in mid-contract will be subject to a 10% pro-rate charge based on the full amount of the contract.

Contact: Jim Voelkl  714-544-7776 publisher@9-1-1magazine.com