Power Plant Forum Advertising

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Power Plant Forum is more than just a message forum. We feature Product Reviews, periodic Articles, marketplace to buy/sell items, and employment opportunities. All of these activities help bring a wider audience to the site, from the OEM, vendor, and end user.

We currently have three different introductory advertising packages available. To see a description of each, click the link from its name.

The majority of our transactions are handled via the Paypal service. The minimum term for any advertisement is 3 months, and by pre-paying for as long as 12 months in advance, you can lock in the current rates; as the site continues to grow and our bandwidth and hardware costs expand, rates will be adjusted to compensate.

We also offer a volume discount plan for longer terms:

This allows you to place a "standard" banner ad on Power Plant Forum, to be rotated among all current banners. Your banner will be found all over the site, including the main site (link to here) and the forum pages. Everything is tracked by our ad server, and you will receive a bi-weekly report detailing banner views and clicks.

An example:

The technical details are:

• 468 x 60 in size
• animation is allowed (no sound)
• maximum banner size of 25KB
• clicking on the banner will load your page in a separate browser window
• banner may be changed at any time you wish
• banners are displayed randomly across ALL Power Plant forum pages (site & forums)

File formats supported:

• GIF
• JPG
• SWF (Shockwave Flash)

For any additional information you may need regarding banner advertising, feel free to contact us.

This allows you to place a vertical banner ad on Power Plant Forum, to be rotated among other current vertical banners. The vertical banner differs from the regular site banner in that (a) there will never be more than 5 in rotation at any one time, and (b) it will be displayed on every page. It is likely that each of these banners will be displayed 10,000 - 15,000 times each day, and even more as traffic increases. Like regular site banners, everything is tracked by our ad server and you will receive a bi-weekly report detailing banner views and clicks.

An example:

The technical details are:

• 120 x 240 in size
• animation is allowed (no sound)
• maximum banner size of 25KB
• clicking on the banner will load your page in a separate browser window
• banner may be changed at any time you wish
• maximum of FIVE vertical banners will be active at any time; estimated 15,000+ views/day

File formats supported:

• GIF
• JPG
• SWF (Shockwave Flash)

For any additional information you may need regarding banner advertising, feel free to contact us.

Having your own Commercial Forum on Power Plant Forum is a powerful and virtually unlimited advertising tool. You have full control over the content of the forum, and may use it for just about anything you see fit. Product announcements, price lists, sales, closeouts, special deals, and so on are all easily conveyed to the Power Plant Forum community.

The technical details are:

• your own forum, visible on the main forum page
• your web address displayed below the forum name
• full moderation control of the forum
• all users WILL see your forum (it will always be on the main page)
• all users WILL see your forum (it will always be on the main page)
• allows you to add a link to your site where customers can interact directly with you; questions, new products, support, and so on -- a valuable tool!

Important Note: Having a Commercial Forum on Power Plant Forum entitles a retail company to have a single thread in one of our forums. However, regardless of their advertising status, no company is allowed to promote its products or services in other threads around the site. For example, posting "we now have XYZ parts in stock" in the XYZ thread is not allowed.

Our suggested use of a commercial forum is to add a "Discussion Forum" link to your website, leading straight to your forum at Power Plant Forum. There is simply no easier way to provide top-notch customer service. For any additional information you may need regarding a commercial forum and how it can benefit your business, feel free to contact us.

We hope that one (or more) of these options are suited to your business needs. As Power Plant Forum continues to grow, we will continually re-assess our advertising program to come up with new ways of reaching the community. All advertising is conducted on a professional basis, and invoices/receipts are available for tax purposes and for your records.

At this moment, we can process checks and money orders, as well as credit cards via the Paypal service. We hope to establish a merchant account in the near future to make advertising payments even easier on you.

If you are interested in any of these great options, please get in touch with us at, info@powerplantforum.com . We look forward to working with you!

Since Power Plant Forum is a free service developed by power plant engineers with full time jobs, all expenses to maintain the site is from our own pockets and hopefully funded by advertising and user donations. If you would like to make a donation to Power Plant Forum, you may send money via Paypal by clicking the link below, or send a message to info@powerplantforum.com to get our mailing address for other forms of payment. All money donated and earned through advertising goes into a specific fund used for paying monthly site costs, software costs, and future site upgrades. Again, all donations are appreciated big or small. We will continue to provide NO membership fees to users.