Support Crankfire.com
With that being said, the purpose of Crankfire.com is NOT to make money. However, running a website is not free and the bills at Crankfire.com are paid out of my pocket.
So here is my promise, any money made here will be used first to pay the bills, and any other revenues earned will be used for the betterment of the biking community - giveaways, hosting events, sponsoring events, charitable donations, really whatever I see fit apart from lining my own pockets.
Buy Advertising
Crankfire.com is (mostly) a geographically and userbase specific website - most of our traffic comes from the New England area, and of course, our traffic is mainly cyclists / sports enthusiasts.
To give an idea of the traffic we generate, our monthly average numbers look like this:
| Pages Served: | 950,000+ / month |
| Number of Visits: | 38,000+ / month |
| Unique Visitors: | 13,500+ / month |
| Average Visit Duration: | 9 minutes!!! (839 seconds) |
Advertising Rates:
| CPM (cost per thousand impressions): | $1.00 |
Purchasing Advertising from Crankfire.com
To keep the site effective and unannoying, we only offer the standard 486 x 60 banner at the top of the site as advertising space. Ads that are considered intrusive (popups, talking, etc..) will not be accepted.
You will also be able to track your ad campaign and generate reports through our phpAds management console. We will provide you with a username and password upon campaign activiation.
If you are interested in purchasing banner advertising on Crankfire.com, please do not hesitate to email me at contact@crankfire.com and we can get the ball rolling!
Buy a Forum "Sticky" Advertisement
Most of the activity on this site occurs with our discussion forums, so what better place to put your message? For $10/month, we will sticky your advertisement or message in whatever forum you want.
A few notes:
a) Content must be appropriate and approved by Crankfire.com.
b) To keep things clean and happy, a maximum of 2 stickied ads are allowed at any given time.
c) If you are a non-profit and/or have a good cause to promote, drop us a line, we would be more than
happy to sticky something free of charge for you.
Got Schwag?
We like stuff. If you got stuff and want to send it to us to do a review or just because you are nice and want to help - please do so! Drop us a line and we will arrange things.
Donate
Straight up dishing out some cash for us. The feeling you will get for doing something good will be your reward. And you will help keep this site around.
Shop through Us!
Planning on buying something? Please shop through Crankfire.com!
Just use the drop down box above or check out our complete list of affiliates.
