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    Posted: March 09 2008 at 17:03

Progarchives.com is committed to helping progressive rock & related advertisers to benefit from our popularity and traffic. To remain strong and innovative we need to accomodate advertisers.

In the past we have accepted generic advertising, throught networks like Google AdSense and Tribal Fusion. We want to stop using these generic advertisers and offer our traffic to direct banners advertisers with a relationship to prog music.

To replace all the banners and text link ads from generic advertisers from our third-party network, we need to find at least 30 banners advertisers.

So we have create this special package:

  • 30 randomly equally distributed rotative 728x90 banners available for the site and forum
  • More than 80,000 impressions per month per spot
  • USD 100$/month per spot
  • Payments through PayPal, subscribe link at http://www.progarchives.com/about_us.asp#advertise
  • Ads rotation starts April 1,  2008

For more details, contact us.

Maxime Roy
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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2008 at 19:42
christ and the king.... 3k a month in ad revenue... nice gig if you get it.  Either that is  one hell of a yacht  you are paying off LOL or I can see why you dismissed donations and this site is a hell of lot more expenisve to maintain that any of us thought.
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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2008 at 20:05
Indeed, it it expensive to maintain, to be the #1 prog rock site we need to:
  • Have a fast and high availability servers for the site, databases (monster 1.5 GB), mp3
  • Have 1,2 part time webmasters (me and Graphix) for now, we need $ to live
  • Continuously working on the site for improvement, bugs fixing, hacker attack fixin, promotion to have more and more new members, etc...
We are also working a new version of the site almost ready to launch. Graphix did a masterful job on it. Completely new code : ASP.net, SQL Server optimization for fast data access, new new new features,...

We want and will keep on beign the #1 prog rock website !

I think that if everyone help us we will be able to find those 30 advertisers that will fill out the top banner ads so we can remove the others.

I want to hear your opinions...

Thanks , Max
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wow.... had no idea M@X Thumbs%20Up I'll be spreading the word brother...
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no problem... was just about to put in order in with BTF....  I'll talk to the head honcho... and see if he has any interest... even with the dollar being ...f**ked in comparison to the euro.. the prices are comparable to what we can get stateside and the selection is great.  See if they might  want to increase their sales by advertising here.  BTF doesn't get a lot of mentions here.. and I love shopping with them. 
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I think a lot of emerging bands would be interested. I know of one in particular that has been asking.
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M@X, SPV, Mellow Records, Unicorn and Digital Revolution are now aware of this possiblity. Thumbs%20Up

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www.btf.it - Italy's best-known mail order company. They have a small but very well-stocked store in Milan (where Micky and I have spent quite a few bucks in the past few months), and they specialise in everything RPI. Their prices are usually cheaper than mainstream stores (we're talking about at least 2-3 euros lower), and their selection is very good. 
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Though I can't help, just wanted to say it's much appreciated, advertisers being a necessary evil to keep the site going, much better for them and the site members if the ads are at least music related even if not necessarily prog.  I think I speak for most members when I say I have not nor will I ever respond to an ad that isn't music related.
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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2008 at 06:19
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Though I can't help, just wanted to say it's much appreciated, advertisers being a necessary evil to keep the site going, much better for them and the site members if the ads are at least music related even if not necessarily prog.  I think I speak for most members when I say I have not nor will I ever respond to an ad that isn't music related.


pffff..... your loss brother ... by not responding .. you miss out on this gem from last year.

http://lanebryant.charmingshoppes.com/pagebuilder/special_promotion?PAGEID=1628

my ass had gotten pretty saggy with all the good food Raff had been cooking last summer LOL


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Hey Easy Livin, should we put this post as an ANNONCEMENT in all topics ?
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Perhaps what I'm gonna say is nothing to do with the subject, but I'm scared just like many other things from Internet, we'll have to pay to do better things in the page... I hope not..
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2008 at 17:48
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Hey Easy Livin, should we put this post as an ANNONCEMENT in all topics ?


Bob's not here, but I made it so. If it attracts insufficient visitors, we can always move it back Smile
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

M@X, SPV, Mellow Records, Unicorn and Digital Revolution are now aware of this possiblity. Thumbs%20Up
 
What about Laser's Edge (Sensory Records), Lion Music and of course, Inside Out??
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^ If you have contacts there, go ahead. I choose these four because three of them are our MySpace friends, and I have a direct contact at #4.
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Max, the racecar deal is still open if you want a new way to spread the news!Wink
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