Embroidery Billboard Guidelines

Check the current membership of Embroidery Billboard HERE . Make sure to look on the far right side of the Yahoo page and also click HERE for our second list (the first one got so large we started a second group (both groups get the same advertising).  

NEW LINK as of 11-15-2007 -- Pay for your vendor fees HERE

IMPORTANT NOTE:   The Embroidery Billboard and the Adorable Affordable Designs Mall maintains a high standard.  I do not advertise or sell for anyone who is in any way associated with a list, mall or person that may be involved now (or in the past) in illegal activities such as design or software trading or is associated with those that may have questionable business practice.  If you have questions email me at embroiderybillboard@cox.net  

PLEASE READ This Entire Page EVERY MONTH To Review CURRENT POLICIES & BENEFITS OF EMBROIDERY BILLBOARD VENDOR MEMBERSHIP 

Payment for Regular Billboard Ads -- Send In An Ad Once Per Week
These Three Choices available to any BILLBOARD vendor.  If you do not sell designs through the Adorable Affordable Designs Mall these are your only options	$10 & two design donations
	$20 & one design donation
	$25 and no design donations
This option if for those that sell at the Adorable Affordable Designs Mall and are not exclusive or they can choose one of the options listed above .	One Gold Design, One Adored Reward Design, One Free Design
These Three Choices available to those that sell exclusively through the Adorable Affordable Designs Mall	Two Design Donations Per Month
	$10 & one design donation
	$20 and no design donations
Payment for Newsletter Ads (Sent on Tuesdays & Fridays
You need to be part of the regular billboard ads (see above) to participate in the newsletter ads.  Includes ad in color newsletter for one set per issue and link to that set (with an image) is put on your billboard.	$25 a month (nine issues per month)
ALL VENDORS must have a link on your web site and in your signature line pointing to http://www.EmbroideryBillboard.com If you need a icon for your web site right click and save the one below

 Design donations help increase the membership and maintain the membership we already have. Pam may place the donated design on your billboard for free download one month and in the GOLD club the next month. (For Adorable Affordable Mall members your donation may be placed in the Adored Reward section.) 

Any design that is donated must be exclusive to the billboard site and not available for free at any other web site including your own web site but they CAN be a design that is up for sale in a set.  Use a design from set that you want to feature or promote.  Perhaps you might want to use a design from a set that hasn't been selling well but make sure it is a nicely digitized design.  Both designs give members a chance to sample your style and quality of digitizing and both will have a link near them that leads the potential customer to your site to make a purchase.

PLEASE READ DESIGN POLICY Below

Designs that are lettering only or very simple (one or two colors) or poorly digitized are not acceptable.  Redwork or other single color work can be submitted occasionally but not every single month.  You need to offer a quality design that will shows off your digitizing talent.   PLEASE donate high quality designs. Designs are voted on by the members and digitizers who win get rewarded.  I apologize if this offends those of you who have been asked to send in a replacement design but donating poorly digitized or very simple designs will not encourage people to purchase from you which is the goal of advertising. Pam reserves the right to ask for replacement designs.

Profit from the Gold design is used to pay for extra bandwidth and my time to help the large number of members downloading designs as this is a extremely time consuming list and expensive web site to run.  I pay large fees to increase the bandwidth so the site won't crash due to the large number of people visiting the site daily. I also put in many hours per week just for the billboard.  Please Click HERE to check out the various embroidery and sewing trade magazines and contact them about their advertising fees.  You will find that advertising through Embroidery Billboard is a great bargain compared to costs of other ways of advertising to so many embroidery machine owners. 

You may send in an ad to post each week. You are responsible for remembering to send in an ad to post and you must advertise only your own embroidery designs or embroidery supplies. Fees are due whether or not  you send in an ad because the link to your site is maintained at all times so people still have a way to visit your site.   If you want to have pictures in your ad limit it to about three images so that your ad loads fast for those with slow connections.  If you want images to show up write the ad and add any images on a web page.  Then upload that web page with the ad on it your server and email Pam the link to the ad.   Doing it this way insures your images will show up.  The images don't always show up when you put them into an email.  

 If you want to advertise more often than once per week then special arrangements need to be made through Pam. Ads are posted in the order in which they are received.  I cannot control when Yahoo releases the ad.  Digitizers who sell through the Adorable Affordable Designs Mall must point links in their Embroidery Billboard ads to their section of the Adorable Affordable Design Mall.  

Embroidery Billboard does not advertise for other mailing lists including other Yahoo groups or for other embroidery design malls unless the owner of that group has made special arrangements with Pam.

Pam reserves the right to edit ads for clarification and so that the rules above are followed and that grammar, punctuation and capitalization are corrected and that links work.

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Gold Club Designs are due by the 25th of the month prior to it being released.  You can send in designs early if you wish. For example your GOLD CLUB design that is counted towards JULY donation is actually due to me (Pam) by June 25th.   That is because I have to get the web page for GOLD CLUB and the conversions done in advance.  Free designs for a particular month need to be sent in anytime during the month it is due.  When sending designs please have them fit the 100x100mm hoop or include split files as there are still a lot of people that cannot stitch the large designs.  Also include a thumbnail (150x150 pixels with 100dpi) (1.5 inches on the longest side) of the design with a white background, the native format of the design or pes format (we will convert it to other formats for you) and a text file in .txt format that includes design information and your web site address.  PLEASE do not send in your designs together.  GOLD CLUB designs should be sent in separately with GOLD CLUB DESIGN in the subject line.    

  When sending in free designs write FREE BILLBOARD DESIGN in the subject line please. Do not send it in the same email as the Gold Club Design please.   We put up ART, PES, HUS, VIP, JEF and SEW because those are the most popular formats.   

 Please note that your free design may not go up for quite a few days if there are lots of people sending in free designs all at the same time.  Designs are put up in the order in which they are received and are put up as soon as possible.

I think you will be pleased with the increased traffic you will see at your site.   People just need to be reminded that your site is there.   Keep your ads short and to the point because we want people to get to your site and buy something they like rather than spending too much time reading your ad.  Make sure to include the ENTIRE link in your ad or YAHOO will not make it a link that can be clicked on (LIKE THIS http://www.yoursitehere.com)  

 Thanks for following these guidelines! Pam Hanson