MPUG Media Kit


Reach Your Core Audience: Targeted. Responsive. Efficient. Advertising with MPUG® is the most cost-efficient, targeted way to reach the project managers who care about your products and services. 

 


Sponsorship Bundle

(12 Months of Advertising)

Your 12-month sponsorship of the MPUG weekly newsletter and website will reach the influential project managers (over 700K) who help define, guide and approve the purchase of tools, training, and services. By participating in the sponsorship program, you’ll be guaranteed coverage for your message in each of 12 upcoming months.

 

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Your 12-month sponsorship package includes:

 

1. MPUG Vendor Showcase

Our community of project managers are eagerly seeking “pressure free” information about products and services designed to support them and their Microsoft applications. Your “virtual trade show” event will be open to our entire community.

  • 1 hour session to present and demo your product/service
  • Your product/service will be included in MPUG event marketing
  • Your own dedicated page to describe your product/service, feature pictures or videos of it, and links to your website (Content restrictions below will apply)

 

2. Banner and/or text ads appearing each month in the MPUG newsletter

Minimum of 24 banner listings during the year.

 

3. A listing in the exclusive MPUG Solutions & Services Directory.

 

5. Publish an informational article on MPUG.com

Write an informational / educational article on the product or service of your choice. This piece will be published on mpug.com and featured in an edition of the MPUG community newsletter introducing potential customers to your product or service and directing them to your website for more information. Article will be offered to reader as related content when applicable. 

 

Cost: Only $6,900 for the 12-month sponsor advertising program!

 

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À La Carte Options

 

Create a course

  • $3,600
  • One to three, 1-hour training sessions.
  • Quiz.
  • Branded with company name, logo, business descriptions and contact information
  • Worth PDU credits for members
  • Resides on MPUG site in perpetuity.
  • Listed alongside Microsoft Project as a “must know” application for Project Managers

Vendor Showcase Session

  • Your product/service will be included in MPUG event marketing.
  • A 1-hour dedicated session to describe your product/service, feature pictures, videos and demos, and links to your website (Content restrictions below will apply).
  • Advertising in the newsletter for your showcase event
  • Inclusion in two showcase direct e-mails
  • 1 reminders email to those registered. 
  • Follow up email and survey post event with your content and links (this will go to all registered and attended).   Customers have the option to add their contact info to vendor in this email.
  • Ad in the services and solutions directory for 12 months
  • Article(s) in newsletter and on MPUG.com (650K users)
  • Events stays available for replay and PDU on MPUG in perpetuity
  • Recorded event included and promoted in MPUG newsletter (content and links provided on page)
  • $3000 – contact info@mpug.com 

Service and Solution Directory

  • $595 / 12 months.
  • Sponsor listing includes company name, logo, contact information and business description.
  • Ads lead customers to the directory.

 

Sponsored Product or Event Listing (Subject to availability)

  • $400 for 2 newsletter issues.
  • Ad will be included on the right panel of newsletter.
  • Can be purchased at any time of the year.

 

Publish an informational article on MPUG.com

  • Write an informational / educational article on the product or service of your choice. This piece will be published on mpug.com and featured in an edition of the MPUG community newsletter introducing potential customers to your product or service and directing them to your website for more information.
  • Contact info@mpug.com for pricing.
  • Ad will be included in main article positions of newsletter.
  • Can be purchased at any time of the year.

 

Banner and/or text ads appearing each month in the MPUG newsletter (Subject to availability)

  • Can be purchased at any time of the year in 3, 6, and 12-month increments.
  • Minimum of 1 banner listing per month.
  • Contact info@mpug.com for pricing.

 

Banner and/or text ads appearing on the MPUG website homepage

  • Can be purchased at any time of the year in 3, 6, and 12-month increments.
  • Contact info@mpug.com for pricing.

 


Specifications

  • Approximately 4 lines of text (about 15 words) allowed
  • Image needs to be 200px wide by 100px high

 


Editorial Profile

The highly popular MPUG.com and its weekly newsletters are dedicated solely to the needs of
Project managers and practitioners working with Microsoft applications. Our user group is designed
to help these project management professionals maintain real-time awareness of the latest products,
techniques, events, news and jobs targeted to their work. MPUG provides the kind of practical
advice and information that drives users to open our newsletters and visit the site often.
Recent topics have included:

  • Build an Agile Schedule using Microsoft Project
  • Using Facebook and Twitter in project management
  • Microsoft Project and PMI PMP certification advice
  • Using Microsoft SharePoint to manage projects
  • Best practices for Microsoft Project
  • Integrating SharePoint and Project
  • How-to’s on formatting text on a Gantt chart, creating reports, and managing resources
  • Easy ways to earn PDUs to maintain the PMP credential
  • Basics of Microsoft Project
  • Beginning, intermediate, and advanced reporting techniques


Readership Profile

MPUG Membership by Region

  • Americas 50%
  • Europe 22%
  • Asia 18%
  • Oceania 6%
  • Africa 4%

 

Partial List of Member Readers

Among our tens of thousands of readers and members, you’ll find the following governmental, national and international organizations represented:

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  • Boeing
  • BT
  • Chase
  • Chevron
  • Cisco
  • Dell
  • Exchange Bank
  • Ford
  • Goodrich
  • Government of Ontario

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  • Government of Washington State
  • Honeywell
  • HP
  • Kellogg
  • Loyola University Chicago
  • Microsoft
  • MillerCoors
  • NASA
  • National Park Service

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  • New Jersey Transit
  • Nissan
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Ohio State University
  • PACCAR
  • Pfizer
  • Qualcomm
  • Raytheon
  • SAIC
  • Stanley Black&Decker

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Advertising Specifications

Newsletter and Website Banners
Your banner is guaranteed inclusion in at least 12 newsletter editions per contract period.

Please provide MPUG:
URL: Location where you want visitors to land after clicking on your ad
Size: 468 × 60 pixels
File Format: PNG or JPG
Alt-text: 45 characters maximum, including spaces
Email: info@mpug.com

Banner 468 x 60 Newsletter Sample

Newsletter text ads

Please provide MPUG:
URL: Location where you want visitors to land after clicking on your ad
Text: 150 characters max. Please indicate text to be linked (single link – additional 75 characters max).

OR

URLs: Locations where you want visitors to land after clicking on your ad. Up to 3 links per ad.
3 Links: 75 characters max per link. 

 

Content on MPUG.com (restrictions):

Videos

File Types Accepted— but MP4
Max Length—15 minutes

Documents

File Types Accepted—PDF and MS Word

Forward all banner and text materials to: info@mpug.com by the materials deadline.

MPUG.com reserves the right to reject any advertisements it deems inappropriate. All insertion order contracts are final.

 


 

Forward all banner and text materials to: info@mpug.com.

Contact: Lexie Bogenreif
Phone: 515.491.1299
Email: info@mpug.com
Mailing Address: MPUG 1143 Northern Blvd., #315 Clarks Summit | PA | 18411