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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.

As many as 7,500 reward specialists in the UK subscribe to our web service and receive our email publications, of whom a half are employed at manager or director level.

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

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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 1,500 articles on reward management

• constantly updated news, features and guides

• a weekly email newsletter, e-reward 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 45,000 pages are downloaded from the site. 

• Our weekly newsletter is emailed to the desktop of 7,500 reward and HR professionals.

• As many as 52% of our readers are employed at manager or director level. The site also has a strong following among consultants (15% 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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Advertising on e-reward.co.uk is a cost-effective way of reaching compensation and HR professionals

Web site sponsorship  £3,000 + VAT a month
As part of the sponsorship deal, one banner advert - a horizontal strip that can carry a message and normally features the advertiser's logo, linked to your web site - is placed in a prominent position on every page of the e-reward.co.uk site.

• This exclusive sponsorship is sold to one organisation per month. 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.
• By sponsoring the site you will, in addition, receive a ten-line text advert at the top of three issues of our weekly email newsletter, e-reward bites, to enhance your company profile.
  
• We also send out on your behalf to our extensive email subscriber database one special email alert which includes only your sponsorship message.

Annual advertising package £7,500 + VAT per year
As part of the annual advertising package, we would add a small button banner to the e-reward home page and our readers would click on this to go through to your web site. The package also include adverts in The Reward Quarter, our quarterly PDF magazine, and our email newsletter, e-reward bites  – offering you excellent exposure and awareness:

• Logo/icon/small button banner will be displayed in a prominent position on our home page at www.e-reward.co.uk with a link back to your web site. Your logo will be seen by every visitor to our site, so you will have a unique opportunity to tell our readers about your services.
• Four adverts in The Reward Quarter magazine (sent to our 7,000 subscriber list). The normal advert rate (one page) is £1,000 + VAT per issue
• Four 100-word adverts in e-reward bites (email newsletter sent to our 7,000 subscriber list) to maintain presence. 

The Reward Quarter journal
Standard advert rates
Half page: £500 + VAT
Full page: £1000 + VAT
By taking out an advert in The Reward Quarter you will also receive a listing on the journal's Resources listing page, complete with contact details and web links, ensures your message is seen by thousands of reward specialists.

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