Sunday 05 February 2012

Placing an Invitation to Tender?

ArtsProfessional magazine, the sector's most popular medium for placing Invitations to Tender, is exclusively linked to ArtsJobFinder, an online service offering a comprehensive service for anyone wishing to appoint consultants or other suppliers for specific service contracts. Among ArtsProfessional's readership are hundreds of consultants, agencies and other suppliers keen to deliver the services required by arts organisations, and well-placed to provide them.

Invitation to Tender Rates

Your advert may feature as either Display Advertising in the main body of the magazine or in the recruitment section, and we will feature your ad on the ArtsJobFinder website and email bulletins..

Display tender advertising

One advert - three times the exposure

Invitations to Tender appear in:

1. ArtsProfessional

ArtsProfessional magazine is the leading trade journal targeted at professional people working in the arts and cultural sectors. The magazine is recognised as a ‘must read’ publication among freelance workers, consultants, agencies and other suppliers who are keen to keep up to date with the news and current issues that face the sector they supply. It is:

• published fortnightly on alternate Mondays (24 issues per year)
• mailed to a growing list of subscribers: current circulation is around 7,000
• estimated total readership around 22,500 (Source: 2008 ArtsProfessional Readership Survey)

Invitations to Tender can be presented:

• Either as display advertising in the main body of the magazine
• Or as recruitment advertising in the jobs section at the back of the magazine

Adverts for freelancers to deliver services may be most effectively placed in the recruitment section, while those looking for agencies, product suppliers and consultancies may prefer to be featured as display advertising.

2. APe-mail and ArtsJobFinder email bulletins

ArtsProfessional magazine is supported by APe-mail, a FREE weekly email carrying much-valued editorial material as well as a full listing of all recruitment adverts that have not yet reached their closing dates for applications. A weekly jobs update is also emailed to registered users of ArtsJobFinder every Thursday.

• sent only to legitimate registered subscribers – no spam
• currently goes to over 27,000 people, including some ArtsProfessional magazine readers, but also many others
• click-throughs take readers directly to specific adverts on the ArtsJobFinder website.

The high quality news coverage included in APe-mail means that registered subscribers continue to read it year-round. This means that adverts continually reach passive job browsers and active job seekers alike.

3. ArtsJobFinder

Invitations to Tender also appear on the ArtsJobFinder website, which can be viewed through the ArtsProfessional homepage but also accessed directly in its own right or through Internet search engines such as Google. ArtsProfessional Online’s advertisers have long benefited from an ever-growing number of visitors

• current web traffic averages nearly 48,000 visitors a month*

There are many special features on the site designed specifically to help advertisers manage the tendering process efficiently and generate the best possible response to their ads:

• ads can go online within 30 minutes of a booking being made
• automatic removal of adverts on the closing date for applications
• both text and logos appear online
• optional links to further information, including Tender documents
• potential suppliers can email for further details using a click-through direct from an advert
• advertisers have instant access to web statistics (link to the employer’s area) revealing traffic to their own advert

*ArtsProfessional and ArtsJobFinder websites [Source: Urchin Web Statistics June-July 2008]