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TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND RATES
This page is not linked from anywhere on the web.
Campbell Scientific has secured the major sponsorship as they pay for the site hosting - so their logo appears on every page.
However I have an agreement with them that further sponsorship is at my discretion.
Workz.com's article:
Determine where to post your banner ad
by Lane McCulloch, states:
A key advantage of banner ad campaigns is the ability to target your message to very specific groups of viewers. But first you have to identify them.
| That's easy!! - its SOWACS!!!
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FREE ADVERTISING!?
Press releases and "news" items can be sent as a post on the sowacs email discussion group, and the item will be listed under the new webpage free of charge.
Press releases are a good opportunity to coincide with release of a sowacs "feature article" - which are part of the paid packages below.
PAID ADVERTISING
There are three types of paid advertising available:
sidebar logo or banner advert, or standalone feature article.
Any paid advert on sowacs (logo or banner) includes a "feature page" of your choosing, as well as a prominent listing in the suppliers' index. (A standalone feature article by the month is now also an option - see below).
Your banner or logo can be linked either directly to your webpage, or, to a feature article but not both. Your feature article will have prominent links to your website.
(Having a feature page at sowacs would suit companies without webpages - as you effectively have a web presence for the price of a logo!)
The "feature article" you would provide, or I can create at a small cost. After the first year - the feature article would become a sowacs webpage and linked from your supplier details - (but no longer a feature) - so it is effectively free thereafter. Updating these pages would be at a small cost if you no longer have a paid advert.
The feature page can be as large or small as required. Your feature will be the current feature for at least a month (usually two or more), usually from the time that your advertising starts.
You also will be placed closer to the top of the suppliers' index. The order will be determined by the date that advertising is started with sowacs, with earlier advertisers being placed first. Non-advertises will then appear below.
In more detail:
Horizontal banner advertisements placed on the specific page/s you are interested in.
STRICTLY FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED - and there are a number of interested parties, so don't delay - secure the page you want now.
(Most of the pages have no banner yet, but once taken, there will no further opportunity to advertise by banner on the page - yours would be the first on sowacs as there are currently none).
These would be the standard banner size (as per sample above - width=468 height=60 pixels). THERE IS ONLY ONE ADVERTISER PER PAGE and can be placed in any one of the following three positions on a page (but not all):
a/ top left
b/ center, just above "Photographs"
c/ at three central locations down the the center column of the text. (the same banner as in the example on this page)
COST
Due to the premium on space, these would be based on a per page rate of US250 per annum, or US$50 monthly basis. Multiple pages at a negotiated discount.
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EXISTING ADVERTISERS pay only US$200 or US$40 respectively *******
Vertical sidebar logos:
These appear on ALL pages except the front page, and appear in order of date (most recent lowest).
COST
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BOTH OPTIONS (a single banner on one page and a small sidebar on every page) for only US$350 *******
Costs of the side bar logo adverts
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Standalone Feature Articles
Paid features (those not combined with a banner ad package), with two month's as "current feature" are US$50, but will be billed with your next year's account if you continue advertising, (or billed at commencment if not a current advertiser).
These are on an as available basis, so early booking is a good idea if timing with a new product launch is required.
Notes:
- The content of any banner can be changed as often as required - simply email me the new item - or place the banner on your website and have sowacs linked to it. It is then under your control.
- You may also want to arrange a dynamic banner linked via third party providers. (Currently I do not have the capacity to offer these directly, but these are achieved simply by placing a link in the sowacs.com webpage code).
- I can arrange the creation of banners, static or animated for US$95.
You can do it yourself at some internet webpages (some are free, better ones cost around $50).
Animated gif89a is the best, size should be the standard width=468 height=60 and size kept below 15kb or so.
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At the completion of a the term of the paid period, if a further term is paid for, the position of the sidebar logo (or the banner page) will be maintained. If advertising lapses at the end of a term, any further logos will join the "queue" from the bottom again, and the banner page will become available to other advertisers. This encourages existing advertisers to continue their contracts, while at the same time showing my appreciation for their support for sowacs in its early days.
- At the completion of any advertising period, the contract will automatically be renewed for a further time period at the previous rates and conditions, and you will be invoiced for these services - unless sowacs is notified to the contrary.
- Sowacs reserves the right to change the rates at the culmination of any fixed advertising contract period.
Sowacs reserves the right to change these terms and conditions as circumstances change (notwithstanding the obligations already undertaken to paid advertisers).
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I reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and the pricing structure at any time. (However, all obligations will be met as per the terms and conditions at the time any agreement was entered into).
26 June 1999
See also the IAB standard sizes and the bannerad Museum's best of year 2000 awarded banners for some ideas...
Guidelines for creating advert graphics
For professional help try: Flash Banner Design - Custom banner design, profesionnal GIF and FLASH banner ad creation at affordable prices.

Only use animated graphics if they're more effective than static graphics, only use graphics if they're more effective than text, etc. If you do incorporate large, complex files into your ad, make sure they're "optimized" (streamlined to take up the fewest bytes possible). There are numerous free online resources that can help you with this; a guide to some of these is available on the Adbility Web site, under Banner Ad Creation/Image Compression.
Adpated from Bcentral's site on add banners.. read more there BUT PLEASE COME BACK HERE!
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