Rewarding Sponsors for Supporting User Groups
Here are your opportunities to obtain visibility in the User Group Network publications; UGN; InfoManager and User Group News. Of course we always welcome your press release and content submissions, however we do not guarantee they'll be published. The only guarantee we offer is with the following programs:
1. Friends of User Groups
Friend "Supporters" make a $50 contribution to show their support...
Your $50 Friends contribution gets you listed on our User Group Supporters page with a live link to your web site and 15 to 25 words about your mission. This listing remains for a full year.
Friends also receive a mention in one issue of the weekly InfoManager newsletter, during the month of your contribution.
Payment via PayPal. Your transaction will be confirmed by PayPal. You do not have to be a PayPal account to use this payment button. The Payment page accepts all major credit cards as well as your PayPal account. All payments handled via Showker, Inc. the UGN ecommerce provider.
Click here to become a User Group FRIEND
Annual Discount: Be a friend for a full year and save 25%, a full year for $450 PLUS: receive a live text link on the front page of the InfoManager BLOG.
Click here to book your Annual FRIEND contribution.
2. Patron of User Groups
Patron "Supporters" make a $100 contribution to show their support...
Your $100 Patron contribution entitles you to:
30-Day "Run of Site" Ad Button your 125 x 125 clickable button (JPG file) will appear in the coveted position #1 or position #2 on the front page, as well as "Run of Site" to hundreds of editorial pages within the User Group Network. The button will stay there for one calendar month.
Front Page Text Link - these coveted links give you the best name ranking status in the major search engines. The link will remain for one year. A 'title tag' reinforces your message and raises search engine rankings even more!
One Year content listing on our User Group Supporters page with a live link to your web site and 15 to 25 words about your mission. This listing remains for a full year.
Editorial burst in the InfoManager - this is the best bang for your buck on the web! The weekly InfoManager is both an email newsletter and a web site. Your editorial mention will appear during the month of your contribution.
Editorial Listing on our User Group Supporters page with a live link to your web site and some 15 words or so about your mission.
Payment via PayPal. Your transaction will be confirmed by PayPal. You do not have to be a PayPal account to use this payment button. The Payment page accepts all major credit cards as well as your PayPal account. All payments handled via Showker, Inc. the UGN ecommerce provider.
Click here to become a User Group PATRON
Be a Patron for a full year and save 25%, a full year for $900 PLUS: receive a live text link on the front page of the InfoManager BLOG.
Click here to book your Annual PATRON contribution.
What happens next? Upon making your contribution to any of the above three buttons, we'll be sending you an email with your link, and instructions.
Why is it so important to help support the User Group Network?
Since 1990, The User Group Network has welcomed an average quarter-million visitors each month, who visit at least three pages or more in the web site.
The main index, News and InfoManager pages receive as many as 3,000 unique visitors each and every day, averaging 90 to 125 new page viewers.
In March of 2007, UGN welcomed 93,338 visitors who read an average of three pages per session.
The InfoManager newsletter averages nearly 20,000 signed subscribers who voluntarily provided email address, first/last name, city, state, country, profession, and computer platform.
Focus of the User Group Network covers: new developments in the computer industry; accomplishing tasks with the computer; social and government issues as they relate to computer users; the war against spam and online crime; wow new products for computer users; and, of course support and growth issues facing computer clubs known as user groups.
The typical UGN reader:
* 92% have a college education,
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32% are self-employed
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38% are corporate or institutional "professionals"
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12% Are educators or involved in an EDU institution
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67% Women
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72% Own more than one computer
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24% Have been readers for more than 5 years.
(Based on 1999 survey data of 19,000 readers)
| Monthly Statistics for March 2007 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Total Pages | 185370 | |
| Total Visits | 93338 | |
| Total KBytes | 3494583 | |
| Total Unique Sites | 97513 | |
| Total Unique URLs | 4441 | |
| Total Unique Referrers | 4113 | |
| Total Unique User Agents | 4429 | |
| . | Avg | Max |
| visits per Hour | 553 | 7417 |
| visits per Day | 13285 | 24556 |
| Files per Day | 9834 | 19092 |
| Pages per Day | 5979 | 15761 |
| Visits per Day | 3010 | 3584 |
| KBytes per Day | 112728 | 219046 |
Contact Fred Showker, UGN Director at: 540-433-8402, (USA - Eastern Time Zone)
UGN Content Program
Since 1987, our reader-driven tradition dictates that any "presence" in the User Group Network represents a content-appropriate value to our readers. If you send content for publication, it must match the editorial content of the User Group Network.
Have a message that matches the focus of the UGN editorial content; and
Offer some form of usable information for our readers.
We invite articles, white papers or other content of value along with the opportunity to present your message, product or service to the UGN audience.
Send your "editorial" article, "how to" or problem solver -- 400 words minimum; screen captures, samples, and example images are encouraged.
You include all pertinent information; links; product/service size, platform, price, or other information sufficient for readers to understand what the product is about.
There is no charge for posting your articles, but we do not guarantee your material will be published. Keep in mind this is editorial information NOT advertising, press releases or pitch sheets.
Editorial contributors receive:
Item posting in the appropriate department of the User Group Network or InfoManager blog. Includes your product information and links to the specific page(s) in your web site.
Link Brief in the weekly InfoManager email newsletter (Up to 25 words describing your "editorial", with link) Brief also appears in the InfoManager news page
Link Brief on the index page of the appropriate topic department in the User Group Network (Up to 25 words describing your "editorial", with link)
PLEASE REMEMBER: Posting does NOT guarantee positioning.
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