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Looking for advertising opportunities on e-reward.co.uk?

An unrivalled opportunity to advertise with the leading online supplier of reward information in the UK

e-reward.co.uk is the UK’s first web site dedicated solely to reward management. Launched in October 1999, it is one of the most widely used and authoritative sources of remuneration information on the internet. It’s written by reward people for reward people.

Our circulation is so finely targeted, it would be hard to beat. E-reward's content is aimed exclusively at people involved in compensation and benefits. Each user of the e-reward has requested and registered to use the site and actively gets involved in coming to our conferences, reading the newsletters and taking part in our ongoing research programme.

As many as 7,100 reward/HR specialists subscribe to our web service and receive our email publications, of whom a half are employed at manager or director level.

• Did you know, for example, that our regular email newsletter ereward bites is now about to enter its 11th year of circulation? It’s currently read in at least 24 countries. 

• The Reward Quarter, our quarterly journal, is now entering its fourth year of circulation. Hugely popular (we have plans to turn this into a ‘hard copy’ magazine), it too is read in dozens of countries worldwide.

We are confident that we have one of the largest email databases of compensation & benefits managers in the UK.

Contact details

e-reward.co.uk can offer you a wide range of advertising programmes to meet your needs. If you are interested in advertising on the site and in our online publication, please call us on 0161 432 2584 or email: paul@e-reward.co.uk.

What is e-reward.co.uk?
We bring the latest thinking and research in reward management to you through an award-winning web site, electronic newsletters, journals and reports, and conferences. Our high-quality, relevant information and guidance helps you improve your knowledge and understanding, form intelligent views and opinions and achieve your highest potential in reward management. Since 1999, we have been building e-reward.co.uk into the biggest, most authoritative community for those interested in reward management on the web.

Thousands of compensation and benefits specialists now rely on e-reward.co.uk for detailed guidance on all matter of remuneration issues. The site is widely recognised as the UK's most comprehensive, popular and innovative reward web site. Quite simply, e-reward.co.uk is a unique source of expertise and up-to-the-minute information on a wide variety of reward topics.

On our web site, you will find news, analysis and features, plus documents, guides and a forum for reward professionals to share insights. Best of all, it's free of charge!

e-reward.co.uk is one of the first ports of call for reward specialists because it offers:

• free access to more than 2,500 articles on reward management

• constantly updated news, features and guides

• a regular email newsletter, ereward bites, and quarterly magazine, The Reward Quarter, designed to keep readers up-to-date with the latest developments in reward management.

Carefully designed by two of the UK's leading authorities on reward, who have a clear understanding of the needs of their target audience, it is packed with relevant content.

Co-founders of e-reward.co.uk
This eminently practical web site has been meticulously developed by two of the UK's most eminent reward experts - Michael Armstrong and Paul Thompson - to keep pay specialists right up to date with new approaches and practice in all areas of remuneration.

Michael Armstrong is Britain’s best known reward management author, with recent titles on paying for contribution, job evaluation, pay structures and performance management. (Search for books by Michael Armstrong on amazon.co.uk if you are not convinced!) His eight-part volume, entitled Employee Reward, was hailed by one reviewer as the "most definitive and up-to-date book" available on the subject.

Paul Thompson spent 13 years working in the reward field at pay analysts IRS. Between 1993 and 1999, as editor of the Pay and Benefits Bulletin, he made a major contribution to the quality, comprehensiveness and high reputation of one of, if not the, foremost journal in the field. Paul has completed two major research projects on reward management and total reward on behalf of the CIPD.

Who reads e-reward.co.uk?
By deciding to advertise on e-reward.co.uk you know your advert will be viewed almost exclusively by reward specialists and all those interested in compensation and benefits.

Before entering the site users have to complete a registration form, which provides us with a rich source of data on our visitors. We know that each time a customer visits e-reward.co.uk is a perfect opportunity for you to reach an audience of senior HR and reward professionals.

• Each month more than 40,000 pages are downloaded from the site. 

• Our regular newsletter is emailed to the desktop of 7,100 reward and HR professionals.

• As many as half of our readers are employed at manager or director level. The site also has a strong following among consultants (12% of user base).

• Half of our readers are employed in organisations with more than 1,000 employees.

• Three-quarters of compensation & benefits managers in Britain’s top 100 companies use our site.

Readership by number of employees

Readership by job responsibility

Why should you advertise on e-reward.co.uk?
Because it is a cost-effective and easy way to reach senior practitioners in the compensation and benefits community.

1. A targeted advertising medium
Because e-reward.co.uk's contents are aimed exclusively at people involved in compensation and benefits. The very reason users visit our site and read our online publications rather than those of our rivals, return and recommend it to others is straightforward: because e-reward.co.uk provides invaluable decision-making information on all aspects of reward.

What really matters to our readers is the quality, practicality and originality of the material presented on our web pages and in our email publications - it's unrivalled.

2. A cost-effective advertising medium
e-reward.co.uk offers you an excellent opportunity to reach top quality customers in your target audience - effectively and at far lower cost than with other media. We have captured an extensive loyal membership at which you can carefully target adverts.

3. A mass advertising medium
Our unique ability to attract compensation professionals by providing in-depth research and analysis on all aspects of reward can be used by you to raise exposure and awareness of your products. Through the site and our email alert, you know your adverts will reach several thousand reward specialists.

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How to get your services in front of reward professionals at a fraction
of the cost of other HR journals or web sites.

Web site banner adverts

Leaderboard £950 + VAT a month
Large banner at top of the site
750x80 pixels

Large banner £750 + VAT a month
Banner adjacent to e-reward.co.uk logo at top of site
468x60 pixels

MPU advert £650 + VAT a month
Currently advert (right-hand side) with ‘Looking for a leg up’
180x180 pixels

Small banner £450 + VAT a month
Top right-hand corner
180x80 pixels

Your message will be seen by every visitor to our site, so you will have a unique opportunity to tell our readers about your product. Each of these advertising packages is sold to only one organisation per month. They are exclusive packages and you will not share that display space with any other advertiser during the month.

Monthly web site plus newsletter sponsorship  £3,500 + VAT a month

• One leaderboard advert - the horizontal banner strip that can carry an animated message, linked to your web site - placed at the top of every page of the e-reward site.

• 100-word text advert in four issues of our weekly email newsletter, ereward bites, to enhance your company profile.

• Company logo in the top right-hand corner of the email newsletter.

• Exclusive sponsorship package sold to one organisation per month.

Annual advertising package £7,750 + VAT per year

• You receive a banner advert on the e-reward home page plus display adverts in The Reward Quarter, our quarterly PDF magazine, and our email newsletter, ereward bites  – offering you excellent exposure and awareness:

• Logo/banner displayed in a prominent position on e-reward home page with a link back to your web site.

• Four A4 adverts in The Reward Quarter magazine (sent to our 7,100 subscriber list). The normal advert rate (one page) is £1,000 + VAT per issue.

• Four 100-word adverts plus logo in ereward bites (email newsletter sent to our 7,100 subscriber list) to maintain presence.

The Reward Quarter journal
Standard advert rates for 2009:

• Half page (width 210mm, height 148.5 mm): £500 + VAT

• Full page (width 210mm, height 297mm): £1,000 + VAT

By taking out an advert, you will also receive a 100-word listing on the journal's Resources listing page, complete with contact details and web links.

--> Forthcoming 2009 advertising deadlines: Summer edition - Friday 3 July; Autumn edition - Friday 11 September.

Reward job centre £300 + VAT per advert
Our reward job centre is the perfect place to reach top quality candidates in your target audience.

• The fee for posting one advert on the e-reward job site for 30 days is £300 + VAT.
  

• A text link to the job advert will also appear in one issue of our regular email newsletter, ereward bites, sent to our 7,100-strong subscriber list. Discounts are available on bulk bookings.

Advertising on e-reward.co.uk is a cost-effective way of reaching compensation and HR professionals. Sell to exactly the people you need to reach.

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