Reach a NEW AFFLUENT audience

[Gerry]

Considering members’ sites for inclusion on my site.

For a limited time, I will consider inclusion of other member’s sites for FREE advertising on my site, ceuq.com.

I will be going after top medical suppliers and vendors in the USA and international for site sponsorship. Additionally, I will be soliciting fee-based job postings on a state-by-state manner. In the meantime, I will consider your site as a banner and direct link (see requirements below) to occupy some of the ad space until I start selling spots.

This is an opportunity to reach an entirely new audience. I make no guarantees of any success or failure but I will tell you this about the site:

• Launched in summer of 2005.
• Nearly 1m in traffic for 2009.
• Avg time on site 2:40 minutes
• 78.09% are new visits.
• Top geo sources are US, MX, PI, CA, UK, Ire, DE, IN, Saudi Arabia
• 13.49% is direct traffic, 29.53% referring sites, 56.94% is search engines.
• Top search engines were Yahoo, Google, and Bing
• Heaviest traffic is at beginning and end of month when people realize that their continuing education requirements are due.

My audience is medical professionals of all disciplines. Keep in mind that these are typically well paid people with good job security. They work hard and party hard. Most love to travel. This is the workforce that has expendable income.

To Be Considered: PLEASE READ!

Site MUST be medical in nature.

• International sites okay.
• All non-USA based will be placed in International.
• In the future, I may break it down by country as international usage grows.
• Will consider some service industries (legal, travel, web design, etc) at my discretion.

Indicate which state you would like to be featured on.

• I make no guarantee of placement.
• Some will fall into the National page.
• Keep in mind that this is a heavily used site from all states.
• The person looking up a state may be interested in relocating, travel, etc to that state. In no way is it a measure of where a person is from. Every banner can not be placed in New York, California, etc. If you are a service industry, you may want to choose the state you are in

You MUST post your site in this thread.

• Site must be inspected prior to inclusion.
• NO parked pages or redirects.
• Must be an active site.
• No obscene or inflammatory content.
• Final decision is mine.

Banner size

• MUST BE (full) 468 x 60 pixels or (half) 225 x 60 pixels.
• I want a consistent look and clean lines throughout the site.
• If you are unable to supply banner, I will do one using as much as your site’s original content art as possible. Cost is a one time fee of $75.00 via PayPal. The banner is yours to use wherever you choose. If you can do it yourself or get someone else to do it, that is fine.
• Placement of banner is at my discretion (top, bottom, middle, page placement, etc).

Being a limited time Free service to you, the member, paying customers will have priority of banner placement (yes, I am getting inquiries as the word gets out). You may be bumped or pulled at any time at my discretion. You also have the choice of being a paid sponsor.

It is not necessary but a reciprocal link would be appreciated.

[south]

Edit - will make new one

[David G]

Indicate which state you would like to be featured on.

A problem is none of my health/medical sites are targeted or intended for a particular state but are nationwide information sites.

[Gerry]

A problem is none of my health/medical sites are targeted or intended for a particular state but are nationwide information sites.

David, thanks for the notice.

I also have a National page. Plus, I am pretty flexible on where to put it and some undoubtedly will end up on multiple pages.

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[David G]

re (MUST BE (full) 730 px wide, 95 px tall or (half) 350 px wide, 95 px tall)

The logo on the site I have in mind is 800X112. Can you use the width and height attributes to shrink it to your size or do I need to make a new logo?

Do you have an example and your site url?

[Gerry]

re (MUST BE (full) 730 px wide, 95 px tall or (half) 350 px wide, 95 px tall)

The logo on the site I have in mind is 800X112. Can you use the width and height attributes to shrink it to your size or do I need to make a new logo?

Do you have an example and your site url?

ceuq.com

I may have been looking at a mockup on file when I gave those measurements.

The size needs to be 468 x 60.

I will make corrections in the post.

[south]

The size needs to be 468 x 60.

I will make corrections in the post.

Ahh. Was wondering about that..

[Gerry]

Basically the same size of the smaller banner ads that appear on DNF and also on DNJournal.

It is a Joomla format that I use and the width for body copy, text, graphics is restricted.

Ahh. Was wondering about that..

Mercy! Sorry for the screwup.

I was looking (and measuring) a mockup I had on my computer, not the actual product.

[David G]

FYI, there are 3 graphics on the site which do not work for me.

P.S. Can I ask you how the site get almost 1 million visits a year? That seems extraordinarily high.

[Gerry]

FYI, there are 3 graphics on the site which do not work for me.

P.S. Can I ask you how the site get almost 1 million visits a year? That seems extraordinarily high.

By marketing, word of mouth, twitter, and many other sources.

I have had direct mail regular postage campaigns.

I was sending postcards to the departments of Respiratory Care, Nursing, and Radiology. Those are the heaviest users and are always looking for Free credit hours, some can be very expensive. At last count I had sent out direct mail postcards to every single hospital in 16 or 17 states. That is THREE to each hospital department heads. Considering there are nearly 9000 clinics, hospitals, urgent care facilities in the country, we're looking at 27,000 postcards.

I am going to shift gears and do direct, non obtrusive, email marketing. But, getting email addresses to each department head is nearly impossible.

I am ranked very high on Google, Yahoo, and others for people searching directly for FREE continuing education credits for specific disciplines.

Most importantly, it is a niche. Identify a void and fill it. It is a specific market, but a very large market. There are millions of healthcare workers in the states. I am seeing more international traffic as those in other countries also accept the same certified continuing credits such as those approved by AMA, AACME, AARC, CCRN, and more.

FYI, there are 3 graphics on the site which do not work for me.

Are they the three small icons on the top of the page?

Or are they banner ads.

I have seen a couple of banner ads now not working. I am going to have to remove those graphics. Issue here is I do not know if there is a problem with someone else's server or whatever. I do not have time to chase down each person.

[David G]

pm sent with link.

[Gerry]

Got it, thanks.