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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STORAGEsearch.com reduces classified ad prices to 1998 levels
Baughurst UK - July 19, 2001 - STORAGEsearch.com, the #1 portal
for enterprise storage buyers, announced today reductions in classified ad rates
for storage manufacturers and VARS back down to the levels they were in 1998,
when the site was first launched. The new prices represent a reduction of 50%
for a typical manufacturer, and 30% for a typical VAR.
STORAGEsearch publisher Zsolt Kerekes said "EMC is a bellwether for the
whole storage industry, and their results yesterday show that the storage market
is no longer immune to the recessionary effects which have been hitting most of
the IT industry for the past 9 months. These price reductions are intended to
help more companies participate in the valuable communications channels offered
by our advertising products, and take effect immediately. We'll review them
again, when EMC gets back to its historic double digit year on year revenue
growth. Our advertising rates were good value for money back in 1998, and three
years on, with a readership that's more than ten times larger and still growing,
they're exceptional value."
Kerekes continued, "As a dot-com publisher, we've been hit a lot less
hard, than most, by the recession. We started this year planning for triple
digit revenue growth, and the recession has cut that down to double digits.
Despite these factors our profitability has increased this year, and that's
enabled us to keep investing in new content and acquiring new readers. As a 9
year old publisher, we repaid our startup costs long ago, and are debt free.
That puts us in a much more secure position than most other portal publishers.
These advertising price reductions will enable us to develop new relationships
with more vendors in the industry, so that when the recession is all over they
and we, will emerge stronger."
ACSL, publisher of STORAGEsearch, started selling web advertising in 1996,
when it transferred its venerable Sun buyer's guide, the
SPARC Product Directory
from a printed publication to a web format. STORAGEsearch was spun off as a
separate publication in September 1998.
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Classified
advertising rates
All inquiries and orders to:- sales@STORAGEsearch.com.
You
can pay by Amex, Visa, Mastercard, Check or Wire Transfer.
Pricing examples:-
- manufacturer ad package for 1 year, with 3 product entries:-
before
reduction, price was:- $3,900
after reduction, price is:- $1,900
- US VAR ad package for 1 year with boosted visibility for company
profile
before reduction, price was:- $1,000
after reduction,
price is:- $700
- UK VAR ad package for 1 year with boosted visibility for company
profile
before reduction, price was:- £1,250
after
reduction, price is:- £750 |
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