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We would like to offer you an affordable way to promote your business
to our online visitors. Advertising with us will provide you with an excellent and cost effective way to
showcase your company to an audience of astronomy enthusiasts and gain market exposure and sales for your
product or service. Best of all, our prices are reasonable enough for even the smallest advertising
budget.
If you want to attract new
customers by reaching out to the 1900 visitors1
that look around our web site each month, then
you should contact us today. Our website is
Top Listed and has a very high
Google PageRank. Advertise with us
and you will be advertising on one of
Canada's premier amateur astronomy
websites.
We offer two advertising packages and the duration of your advertising campaign can be as little as one
month or as long as one year. All advertising packages must be paid in full and in advance before ad
placement will occur. Please be sure to book well in advance of special promotions to ensure placement.
The Banner Zone
Put your banner ad at the top of our main pages2. Statistics have shown that banner placement
at the top of a web page produces the most favorable results. Your banner will be in an exclusive fixed
position; there are no rotating banners like you see on other web sites. Therefore, you will be the only
advertiser in this zone for the duration of your advertising campaign and your banner will get maximum
exposure.
The Button Zone
Put your button ad in the left column of most
every page3. There are five button positions in this
zone, for up to five advertisers, and you may select your position, subject to availability. Just like with
our banner package, each button ad position is an exclusive fixed position. There are no rotating button
ads, like you might see on other web sites, and therefore your ad will receive maximum exposure.
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of Advertising Campaign |
1
Month |
3
Month |
6
Month |
9
Month |
12
Month |
| Cost
of Advertising Campaign |
$20.00 |
$57.00 |
$108.00 |
$144.00 |
$180.00 |
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Button Zone
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Duration of Advertising Campaign |
1 Month |
3 Month |
6 Month |
9 Month |
12 Month |
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Cost of Advertising Campaign |
$5.00 |
$14.25 |
$27.00 |
$36.00 |
$45.00 |
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The number of
visitors stated above is
based on the average numbers
of visitors per month, over
the last twelve months, and
is rounded off to the
nearest hundred. We
gratefully acknowledge the
folks at
Opentracker who provide
us with real-time website
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The term
"main pages" stated above
refers to the 14 pages that
our primary navigation tabs
and buttons, located at the
top of each page, link to.
Currently, these 14 pages
are as follows;
Adopt-A-Star, Ask the Expert
(Ask the Astronomer),
Observatory, Education,
Outreach, Image Gallery,
FAQ, Space Games, ePostcards,
eShopping, Friends, Members,
About Us, and our Home page.
The sub-pages below each of
these 14 pages are not
included in the banner zone
ad package, as they are
reserved for the various
affiliate programs in which
we are currently
participating.
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The term
"most every page" stated
above refers simply to the
fact that most every page,
but not necessarily every
page, in our website has a
sponsored links area in the
left column that can
accommodate five button ads.
Currently, there are over
100 pages available for
button ads and more are
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The Fine Print The Big Sky Astronomical Society will not publish any material that
incites hatred or is racist, is pornographic or considered to be adult, or is by nature and/or definition
illegal, nor will we publish material which endorses these views and/or activities. All banners and buttons
must be approved by us before being displayed on our website. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion,
to decline any banner or button.
The advertiser agrees to hold the Big Sky Astronomical Society and its directors
and trustees, staff, members, and volunteers, free of any fault from all claims for loss, liability, or damages (whether
they be monetary or intellectual) caused by the advertising campaign. This includes, but is not limited to,
court costs and attorney fees. The advertiser also agrees that their banner or button is not in violation
of any copyright laws, or other laws protecting third party investments such as trademarks and invasion of
privacy laws.
We reserve the right to change or amend these policies at any time. If we do change or amend our
policies, current advertisers will be notified in writing via email. We also reserve the right to revoke
your account and remove your banner and/or button(s) (without reimbursement) at any time should your
company go out of business or if your website links to or has content that is pornographic, adult, incites
hatred, promotes racism, or encourages any activity that is by nature and/or definition illegal.
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Adopt-A-Star
The colour of the traffic light
above indicates the status of our Adopt-A-Star program. A green light indicates that we are ready to process
Adopt-A-Star requests. A yellow light indicates that we expect to begin processing
Adopt-A-Star requests within a few days. Finally, a red light indicates that we are not able to process any
Adopt-A-Star requests at this time.
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Book of the Day
Businesses that are subject to an increased risk of fraud require a special type of merchant account called a high risk merchant account. 
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Space History
January 1
On this day, back in 1801, Italian
astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid. It was named Ceres, in
honour of the Roman goddess of agriculture. Ceres has a diameter of about 950
km, which makes it the largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt. In 2006, the
International Astronomical Union adopted the term "dwarf planet" and since then
Ceres has been classified as a dwarf planet.
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Big Sky News
The Nanton Legion recently
contributed $1000 to our 2010 Facility Enhancement Project.
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Did You Know?
A light-year is a unit of distance, not time. It is simply the distance that light travels in one year. The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second and therefore in one year (365¼ days) light can traverse 9,460,730,472,580,800 metres. In other words, a light-year is equal to about 9.46 trillion kilometres.
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