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Why Should You Sponsor academicproductivity.com?

This website ranks well in search engines and attracts a readership who are interested in:

  1. Improving their time in front of a computer writing papers and doing research
  2. Bettering their teaching
  3. Achieving life balance
  4. Understanding the complexity of the academic world
  5. Contributing to science
  6. Time Management: Mastering their time usage and become extremely productive
  7. Motivation: Cultivate a burning desire to keep them moving towards their goals
  8. Overcoming Procrastination
  9. Goals: Setting realistic goals, creating action plans, and achieving the results they want

Why we are open for sponsorship

We don’t run academicproductivity.com as a business. This is something we do as a passion. Running this website incurs a number of monetary costs, and one reason we look for sponsorship is to cover some of those costs. But the most important cost is not money. Of course, we place a high value on our time; writing valuable content, administering a server, keeping the blog spam-free, manage comments, etc does take a bite off our ability to do other things.

Advertising options

Before we detail these options, know that we are picky on sponsors. If you are advertising for payday loans or anything remotely shady, odds are that we will decline.  If your site has a weak privacy policy, we will also decline your offer.  We have a pure concern for our readers and we will not tempt them with items that we don’t think are in their best interests.

125 x 125, static banner: These images are above the fold on all ap.com article pages as well as the homepage.  There are 3 spots open for 125×125 images. The monthly cost for one of these spots is $125.  Please contact us before you start designing to ensure we’ll accept your ad.

Text links. We are not keen on this since Google seems to have banned text links. Contact us if you have a proposal though.

120 x 600, static banner -  These banners go on all ap.com article pages as well as the homepage.  The ad is in the center column, right next to the article content.  The 120×600 banner is available for $250/month.

Feed and Email Advertising - Reach the entire ap.com subscriber base multiple times monthly with our feed and email advertising option. Since many subscribers never visit the site, this option is your best value in terms of pricing and reach.  We manage this internally so send us your ad that has up to 2 links to your site and up to 100 characters describing it. A one week placement in our feed is $25. If you are not good at writing ads, let us know and we can help.

Statistics

Ap.com has an average of 10,000 pageviews per month. We have been featured in sites such as lifehacker.com several times, and some posts have made it into a peer-reviewed paper. In those cases, the original post sports a figure several orders of magnitude larger than the running average.

Just in the first half of 2008 we have had 37,561 unique visitors.

The traffic we get comes from:

  • Search Engines 2,359 (43.27%)
  • Referring Sites 1,766 (32.39%)
  • Direct Traffic 1,327 (24.34%)

    • Payment

    All prices in this document are in USD. Payment is via PayPal.com. You can use your PayPal balance, your credit card or your bank account (in some countries). You do not need a PayPal account to make payment via credit card.

    All order links create a monthly subscription in Paypal to ensure you lock in your campaign. If you wish to cancel a campaign at any time you may contact us or cancel your subscription manually at PayPal.com.