Advertising Options
Advertise with PMI California Central Coast in our monthly newsletter, by email blasts, or at our Thousand Oaks monthly dinner meetings.PMI California Central Coast Chapter offers three advertising options to promote your product, business, or service.
- PMI California Central Coast Monthly Newsletter
- Dinner Meeting Sponsorship
- Email Blasts
PMI California Central Coast Monthly Newsletter
For advertising in our Newsletter, we offer the excellent rates of:
$80 full page
$40 half page ads
*An additional 10% discount is offered for 6 months or more of consecutive advertising
These are among the lowest rates of any PMI chapter for a wide geographic coverage -- San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and western Los Angeles Counties.
Our newsletter is distributed via email to almost 2,000 members and project management professionals, and also archived on our website. We publish electronically as a PDF file, and on occasion in print.
Ad Dimensions
Full Page - 9.25" high x 7.5" wide
Half Page - 4.5" high x 7.5" wide
Newsletter Advertising Deadlines
The advertising deadline is the first day of each month for that month’s newsletter. Our Newsletter is published between the 7th and 15th of each month to allow enough time to incorporate pictures and articles from the previous Chapter dinner meeting in Thousand Oaks. Please forward you advertisement as soon as possible to advertising@pmi-4c.org , but never later than the above deadline.Advertising Content File Format
The preferred format for ads is JPG. Please send a high quality image in the ad size preferred --we will compress as needed for publication.Upload Your Ad
If your ad is not ready to upload when you pay, you may email it later to advertising@pmi-4c.org.Dinner Meeting Sponsorship
You may also showcase your product, services, or upcoming seminar or course at one of our monthly dinner meetings. These Dinner Meetings are held the last Thursday of each month in Thousand Oaks, except July and November.
We provide three levels of advertising in return for your donation of a raffle prize (e.g., gift card, a free coupon for your services, free seminar ticket(s), or whatever you choose), which will be raffled off that evening to a dinner meeting attendee. If you don't want to contribute a raffle prize we will give you 5 minutes at the podium plus dinner for a fee of $150.00.
The "level" of your exposure depends on the value of the raffle prize as follows:
1) $40 to $100 – 2 to 3 minutes for you (or us) to present your product, service, training course or seminar at the dinner meeting immediately before we introduce our Guest Speaker.
2) $125 to $250 – 3 to 6 minutes to present.
3) $300 or greater – 6 to 9 minutes to present, plus a full-page ad in the PMI Los Padres Newsletter for the next month’s edition.
We will also set up a table in the back of the room for your brochures and other promotional materials.
Dinner Meeting Deadline
The deadline for a Dinner Meeting sponsorship is the second Thursday of the month you have chosen. Please sign up for whichever month you prefer by sending an email to advertising@pmi-4c.org. We do not hold these dinner meetings in July and November. If for some reason there won’t be enough time to present that month, we will contact you. Once you submit your request, it will be reviewed and you’ll be contacted with the details.Email Blasts
We will send your message to our members and prospects list of about 2000 individuals for a fee of $200.00 We strictly limit such emails to no more than TWO such messages per month to maximize the effectiveness of the ads we distribute by this medium. This is a first come- first served process so if you would like to use it, make your request early. The same invoicing process as described above for the newsletter applies here as well. We prefer a graphic file for your message rather than sending an attachment. We will also put a link to you web site in our message headline for your graphic.
How to pay
If you’re ready to advertise with Los Padres PMI, please notify our advertising coordinator of your option by sending an email to advertising@pmi-4c.org. We will then send you an invoice with complete instructions.
Checks should be made out to ”PMI-4C” then mailed to our Treasurer at the address provided in our invoice.