Advertisers and Supporting Vendors Information

[Mad Dog]

Join the Factory Five Community as a Supporting Vendor

The Factory Five Forum exists to serve the community. Vendors who provide valuable products and services are an integral part of this community. Our policy is to provide affordable access to Factory Five customers with reasonably priced advertising rates and qualified references.

At this time, we have three advertising packages.

Bronze Supporting Vendor - $9.99 per month

This support level includes your company listing and banner with link on our Supporting Vendor page and enables you to link customers to your website directly from your signature line on all posts. Static banners only.


Silver Supporting Vendor - $29.99 per months

This support level gives your company everything from the bronze level PLUS a rotating global banner at the footer of every single forum page.


Sample banner for Silver Supporting Vendor, size 468 px x 60 px

For an extra $10, make your banner with a Flash animation.


Gold Supporting Vendor - $99.99 per month

The gold package includes everything from the silver package, but replaces the medium size banner with a full size, large page banner (800 px x 100 px), below the main nav bar. Banners can be static or Flash.


Sample banner for Gold Supporting Vendor, size 800 px x 100 px

If you would like to advertise, please e-mail me directly at [email protected]. This program is developing and we may make small changes as we go. Any advertisers will be protected with a money back guarantee. We are planning on having the Supporting Vendors page up and running in the next week or two.

[discbrakesrus]

Hi
sign me up for silver
thanks Tom Reid

[tfalk]

Same, sign me up for silver level.

- Ted

[Mustang Man]

Sign me up for a Double-Double with a large Diet Coke! LOL!!!

Mark

[Gordon Levy]

Sign me up for silver.

[mrmustang]

I'll take a Bronze.


Bill S.

[DougR]

I'll start with a Bronze and see how it goes.

DougR

[cobraearl]

Im gonna sign up also. Pls email me at [email protected]

CobraEarl

[VeniceCobra]

Alright I could start my business now, thank you guys

[Richard Oben]

Start with bronze and see what happens, Richard.

[Mad Dog]

We should banners and advertising started officially March 1st, but I am working on getting banners up this week. Please keep in mind that this site is going to change and evolve tremendously over the next year or two. One example of this is the silver banner location, for now, has been changed to the footer of every page since the header location was crowded and didn't look right. As we evolve, the priority will always be to help those who support the community and you guys as advertisers are central to the community.

Another question is ads that use Flash. At this time, the price is the same, but it's probably something that we might add a small charge to, like $5 or $10 per month to keep it fair.

Any questions, feel free to contact me.

[Mad Dog]

Hi guys,

We're changing the size of the banner for the Silver package from 275x65 to 468x60 (same size as FFCars.) Also, if you wish to have a Flash banner, that will be an extra $10 per month. So for a static banner, the price is $29.99 and for a Flash banner, it is $39.99.

The original post has been updated with this information.

[prophet]

I'll take a silver. What's the next step?

[Art Totten]

Mad Dog,

Is there a yearly charge providing any saving?

Art

[VeniceCobra]

Hi guys,

We're changing the size of the banner for the Silver package from 275x65 to 468x60 (same size as FFCars.) Also, if you wish to have a Flash banner, that will be an extra $10 per month. So for a static banner, the price is $29.99 and for a Flash banner, it is $39.99.

The original post has been updated with this information.

Hi Mad dog
When you refer to a "flash" banner, do you mean an animated/rotating banner, or the file format. All that because you could create a rotating banner using Gif format.

[DougR]

Hi Mad dog
When you refer to a "flash" banner, do you mean an animated/rotating banner, or the file format. All that because you could create a rotating banner using Gif format.

Good question. Someone should have ask this before. Why didn't I think of it?

[Mad Dog]

Hi Art - We don't have a yearly charge providing savings at the moment, but I'll present that at the next mod meeting to see what everyone thinks.

VeniceCobra - Yes, by Flash I do mean an animated banner.

[DougR]

Looks like the links on the banners are now working. We're making progress! I can't wait to see the Bronze banners up.

[Mad Dog]

The banner/advertising system is working great now. Thanks Dave Hodgkins for helping! Dave and I have been working on getting the supporting vendors page up. Should be posted soon.

[mrmustang]

I'm still working on designing and producing a banner ad (not my strong point), will have it to you hopefully next week.


Bill S.

[DougR]

Dave, I've sent my contact info and banner for a Bronze but haven't heard back from you. Did you not get it or are you still processing stuff?

[David Hodgkins]

Doug, we're still setting up the link page. I think we are just a day or two away.

[prophet]

We need a pull down at the top of the supporting vendors like on ffcars. I know when I need parts, that's a quick way to check it out and see if I can help one of our own. Just a thought...

[DougR]

Doug, we're still setting up the link page. I think we are just a day or two away.

I know that the target date is the 1st so I'm not surprised that it's not there. It's just that I haven't received an acknowledgment or an invoice for the banner I sent to MadDog. I don't want to be left behind.

Thanks for your hard work David. I hope to see you again at the HB event.

[Mad Dog]

Doug,

I got your banner and all banners (including your's) that have been received are listed for when we get the sponsors page posted. Will double check tomorrow with Dave Smith and accounting to see how payments statements will be sent out and post the info. I'm sure we're going to keep it simple and straight forward. Keep checking this post for the latest updates regarding that.

[crash]

Cool, sign me up for a Bronze.

Thanks for pointing me here, but a link at the top of the page for "advertisers" that includes not only current advertisers, but how to become one, would make a lot of sense to me.

Thanks,

crash

[DougR]

Thanks Dave.

[David Hodgkins]

As stated here and elsewhere, it's in the works. Should be up sometime this week.

[Russ Thompson]

Russ' Garage is in for a Bronze.

[LS MAN]

Looks good Dave, I'll start out with Bronze, & go from there.

Thanks, Ted

[Mad Dog]

Russ and Ted,

PMs sent! We'll get you guys added right away.

Thanks everyone!

[David Hodgkins]

The Vendor link page and an article on how to sign up have been added and are visible via links and a button on the main button bar at the top of every page!

[DougR]

Thanks David H. You said that you'd have the vendor page up on the 1st and you did. Good Job!

[jlfernan]

What do you guys use to create a banner?

[David Hodgkins]

Jorge,

Contact Dave Lindsey (Mad Dog) at Factory Five and he'll create one for you.

[dalton]

Put me down for bronze, please use the banner from the old forum.
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Ed Konda - Ontario Kit Car Builders
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[Mad Dog]

Hi Ed,

Your banner has been posted. Thanks for joining!

[Russ Thompson]

I just wated to chime in here and say Dave "Mad Dog" did a great job on my banner and I wanted to thank him.

I want to thank FFR for keeping us smaller vendors in mind and keeping the rates low, AND let other vendors out there that might be on the fence to go for it, I've been getting lots of positev responce sinec this new forum started.

I also want to say thanks to all of my customers for all of their support, THANKS!

[Mad Dog]

You're welcome Russ! If you ever want to make any updates to it, just let us know.

Our vendors page has grown quite a bit since it launched a few months ago and we continue to add to it. Thanks to everyone for helping grow the community!