Individual Advertising Options
Featured Link
A special offer, not for everybody.
To see how a Featured Link works, go to our top page. Just under the banner ad at the top you will find our current Featured Link. Don't click on the Featured Link yet. First, to see how it works, look at the left-side frame. In a column in that frame you will see the links to various parts of simegen.com; What's New, Reviews, Fandom, etc. Clicking on each of them will take you to the top page of that section of our domain. You will see the Featured Link in the same position near the top of every section top page.
Now that you have seen how our Featured Link works, appearing on the top page of every section of our domain, go ahead and click on the link. If a customer has purchased it for this month, it will take you to that customer's page. Otherwise it will take you to a page on simegen.com that we are featuring this month. The Featured Link, unlike banner and text ads, is not appropriate for every ad. It will only work if you can compress a description of your book or product into one short line. If you can create a brief "tease" that will get people to click, the link will take them to your page, where you will place your complete sales pitch.
The Featured Link works best for announcing giveaways or contests that you are running to publicize your book or product. As there can be only one Featured Link on our domain at any given time, we sell the Featured Link by the month, first come first served, with a maximum of two consecutive months.
The cost of a Featured Link is $10.00 for one month, $15.00 for two consecutive months. If you can create a high-impact line of text that will get people to click through, this is a great bargain.
Newsletter Ad
Our lowest-cost offer.
We currently have four newsletters that go out to approximately 500 people. A text ad in all four newsletters, with a link to your website, runs $5.00 a month, three-month minimum. If a newsletter goes out more than once a month, your ad will appear in one of the editions during that month. Simply send us the information you'd like included, up to 75 words, maximum of two hotlinks. You may change your text once a month if you wish.
Three Months $15.00
Six Months $25.00
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Traditional Banner Ad
Our most popular offer.
A standard 468 x 60 banner provided by you, running in our carousel.
One Month $15.00
Two Months $25.00
Three Months $35.00
Six Months $60.00
To change your banner during the time you have paid for, add a one-time charge of $10.00. Banner ads may not be changed more often than once a month.
To have our staff create the banner ad for you,
add $15.00 static, $25.00 animated or dual frame.
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Book Card
We regret to announce that this offer is no longer available. It is a sad fact that so many malicious messages circulate these days that recipients are afraid to open e-cards. Because Book Cards are therefore no longer an effective form of advertising, we have discontinued them.
Sales Webpage
Sell from your own website
This is a commercial page for someone who needs it for six months or less--your storefront, as it were. You need this page only if you want to sell your product directly--please see our explanation of the difference between a free promotion page authors can link to other places that sell their books, and a commercial sales page from which you sell directly.
If you decide that you wish to sell directly, and therefore need a commercial page, costs are as follows:
One Month $25.00
Two Months $40.00
Three Months $65.00
Six Months $110.00
To have us create the page for you, add $75.00
Note: once the page is made, it is the responsibility of the owner (you) to maintain it. Your page will be set up so as to be easy to maintain with minimal HTML skills. We recommend the free HTML program Arachnophilia for those who do not already have a favorite HTML program. Pages created with Front Page are welcome, but we do not allow implementation of Front Page Extensions for reasons of security.
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Contest Sponsorship
A great way to attract customers and readers!
RUN A CONTEST in our Contest Facility!
PROMOTE your product, your book, your new seasonal line.
Use a contest to ACQUIRE AN OPT-IN MAILING LIST. Use that list to promote later products.
BUSINESSES--you don't have to run your own contest. You can sponsor one of ours!
The cost of your contest depends on how elaborate you want it to be. The simplest contest includes either a computer-graded quiz (made up by you) or a contest voted on by visitors to the contest site (we provide a voting form). Such a contest runs a month or six weeks at most from opening to closing and anouncement of the winner. You provide the product you are promoting as the prize, and if a judge is required, you either do the judging or provide the judge.
We create the contest website and basic cgi forms for participation. We announce your contest in our Contest Newsletter. All other promotion of your contest is up to you (we can provide tips on how to promote your contest without being taken for a spammer).
This basic contest running a maximum of six weeks costs $100.
Is the cost too high? There's a solution!
Are you not a business but an author trying to promote a book? Find another author who wants to promote a book, run the contest together, and suddenly the cost of our basic contest is $50 each. Find three other authors, and your cost is $25 each. We recommend that no more than four authors run a contest together lest each one get lost in the crowd.
Is it too much work? There's a solution!
Are you running a business and have no time to make up your own contest? Contact us about sponsoring one of our own regular contests--you may have a banner on every page of one of our contests and be identified in all promotion as sponsoring the contest, for only $50.00 and supplying prizes.
Need something more complex? A contest taking longer than six weeks? Boards for the posting of entries? Something else? Contact us with a description of what you are looking for, and we will help you implement your ideas. The more work for our staff, the higher the cost.
All contest arrangements must begin a minimum of one month before the opening day of the contest. The more complex the contest, the longer the lead time.
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Advertising Packages
Authors and Editors: Explore the free publicity tools available on simegen.com such as Author's Spotlights, Chats, and Websites. Get the most out of your advertising by combining it with one or more of our free services.
Your Newsletter Ad may run for a single month if it is part of a Package Deal.
Please read through our packages. If you don't find what
you want, please contact advertising@simegen.com with your request.
Complete Package
Four methods of advertising in one package.
- Sales Webpage
- Author Spotlight
- Banner Ad
- Newsletter Ad
One Month: $60.00
Two Months: $85.00
Three Months $125
Six Months $190
If we must create your website and banner ad, please
add a one-time fee of $80.00 to your choice. (For example, a two-month complete package would cost
$85.00 plus the $80.00 to create the website and banner, for a total of $165.00, but the same package for six months would be only $270 because the $80.00 for creating the page is a one-time fee.) Once the website is created, it is the responsibility of the site owner (you) to maintain it.
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Express Package
For those who don't need a sales page.
- Banner Ad
- Author Spotlight
- Newsletter Ad
One Month $35.00
Two Months $50.00
Three Months $75.00
Six Months $120.00
To have our staff create the banner ad for you,
add $15.00 static, $25.00 animated or dual frame.
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Publisher's Package
Our two most popular features for publishers.
- Banner Ad
- Newsletter Ad
- Both may be changed monthly.
One Month $25.00
Two Months $40.00
Three Months $50.00
Six Months $75.00
To have our staff create the banner ad for you,
add $15.00 static, $25.00 animated or dual frame.
Contact advertising@simegen.com for information about having a permanent banner at the entrance to our Book Shop (your ad appears any time someone accesses that page, not alternating with other banners).
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Author's Package
The ideal way to promote your book.
As a writing community, we understand
the needs of a writer. To this end, we offer writers a special comprehensive
package.
- Live Chat
- Author's Spotlight
- Author's Website*
- Banner Ad
- Newsletter Ad
One Month $50.00
Two Months $75.00
Three Months $100.00
Six Months $150.00
*Author's Website remains permanently on simegen.com at no additional cost unless in the future you wish to add a Sales Page to it.
If we must create your Author's Website and Banner Ad, please add a one-time charge of $80.00. Once the website is created, it is the responsibility of the site owner (you) to maintain it.
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Add a Contest to Any Package
See the information on running contests on simegen.com above. As part of one of our Package Deals, you get a 10% discount on running a contest.
Special Package
If you don't find what you want above, contact advertising@simegen.com with your requirements. You may need to have us create a form so people can sign up for your mailing list, or something else we haven't thought of but may be able to do for you. You won't know if we can do it until you ask!
Also, it is possible to extend any of these packages for
a longer period of time--contact us for further information.
For more than one sales page,
or anything featuring special effects (forms, java script, applets etc.),
contact advertising@simegen.com and
tell us what you have in mind.
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Details
Please give us at least two weeks
lead time for banners and newsletter ads, a month for a contest, a sales page, or anything that requires us to create graphics for you. Advertising is begun on the first of each month, but you may wish to have an Author's Chat later in the month a book comes out, for example, or tied to a holiday (Hallowe'en for a horror novel, Valentine's Day for a romance). Give us as much lead time as you possibly can if you need something like a chat on a specific date. We will work with you if you let us know your needs.
Advertisements and the products they advertise must adhere to the standards of what may be posted on simegen.com. Please see our Resident's Agreement for content requirements.
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Host Your Domain on the Sime~Gen Server
If you have your own domain name (URL), or would like to have one, we can host it on our server. There is a one-time setup fee of $25.00 and charges of $10.00 per month (three-month minimum) or $100 per year (20% discount) thereafter.
For complete information on hosting your domain with us, click here.
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Sime~Gen Inc. and Simegen.com
warrant to make every reasonable effort to keep pages up and accessible
at all times, but have no responsibility for off-site conditions which
prevent viewers from accessing the site. Offsite conditions are outages
and interruptions which may prevent users in some areas from accessing the
simegen.com website.
Simegen.com has no responsibility for interruptions caused by fire, flood, earthquake or other
natural disaster, or by power outages not under our control.
If, for reasons that are under our control, the Simegen.com server
itself is down for more than 72 hours in total, or more than 48 consecutive
hours, during any one month that an author has a paid ad, one extra week
will be added free of charge to the length of time the ad is displayed.
In the case of vandalism (hacking),
the sole responsibility of Sime~Gen Inc. and Simegen.com is to restore
the affected pages from backup within 24 hours of the incident's being
reported to us.
Contact advertising@simegen.com to place your advertising.
All monies paid for advertising,
including those for special effects, are to be paid directly to:
Sime~Gen Inc.
P. O. Box 1244,
Murray, KY 42071-0022
Payment may be made via PayPal to simegen@simegen.com.
Simegen.com is not responsible
for the appearance, quality, or timeliness of materials not created by our staff, or for the functioning
of animation, sound, Java, Shockwave, or other special effects not designed
by our staff.
Simegen.com staff members normally create pages, graphics, forms, etc. for our advertisers as representatives of Sime~Gen Inc. and Simegen.com and participants in our Revenue Sharing Plan. However, Sime~Gen Inc. and Simegen.com do not restrict our staff from taking private commissions. Privately contracted work by someone who is coindentally a Simegen.com staff member is considered to be the same as work by any other independent contractor an advertiser may hire.
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