Hi Eric, Here's a banner ad to get up there for now. Please link to www.formulacarmag.com
Take care, Rob Howden Publisher / Editor-in Chief - ekartingnews.com - Super Kart Illustrated - eformulacarnews.com - FormulaCar Magazine Ph: 519-624-2003 Fax: 519-624-0053 P.O. Box 580 Cambridge, Ontario Canada N1R 5W1 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric D Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [F500] Advert Rates > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 16:38 -0700, Louis A. Schultz wrote: > > 2. These kinds of print campaigns are rarely used to sell messages. > > They are effective at selling products...like cars. So why aren't > > the F500 car manufactures doing any kind of print advertising? > > Easy answer... they can't afford to. Ask Don Clar, or Mike Quadrini or > Don Hanley how much they make off every car they build. The answer is > probably 'not enough to make it worth the time to build a car'. These > guys do it 'cause they love the class, not because they are making any > real money at it. For all of these guys building F500s is just a > sideline to their "real" businesses. > > > 3. A good F500 web site already exists and is very under-utilized. > > Only 2 car manufactures link into the site. > > That's because only two F500 manufacturers have web sites to link to. > > > Another link is for F500 rentals...who www.dolphin- > > motorsports.com/f500 by the way, already has THE slogan..."Fun Fast > > Affordable". > > Dolphin Motorsports already runs half page ads in some of the karting > magazines advertising their F500 rentals. Very nice, very professional, > full color pieces, with a good picture of one of their cars. I'm sure > these ads cost them plenty. Last I heard they aren't exactly getting > their door beaten down by kart guys who want to race F500. There might > be some good lessons to learn here... just 'cause you advertise doesn't > mean they'll come. > > > Question: Why aren't all the F500 manufactures linked to the F500 > > site or at the very least have a presence on the sites home page? Why > > aren't there any home page site adverts for manufacturers? Sell your > > brand, don't keep it a secret? > > Believe me Lou, I have talked to every single manufacturer over the > years about advertising. Reality is that they don't have web sites to > link to and they don't have budgets to advertise or build web sites. > > > Is it impossible for the car manufactures to feed more information to > > the F500 site? > > I quit pleading for people to help with content long ago. You can count > the number of items on the web site that were not authored by yours > truly on one hand. If people contribute articles, news items, links, > anything.... then they'll be published on the site. > > Now.... all that said.... there is a new development as far as > advertising and exposure that I've been quietly working on in the > background. Expect an announcement on the f500.org web site the next > couple days! > > ---- > Eric D Christensen > Proadmin, Inc. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > F500 mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change options please visit: > http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 > *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! *** >
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