What Is SMTnet and How Can It Assist Your Company?
 
What Is SMTnet?
SMTnet is the leading business-to-business commercial website serving the electronics manufacturing industry.
 
How Does the SMTnet Website Work?
SMTnet features eight distinct components that include the Industry Directory, Electronics Forum, Equipment Mart, News, Library, Calendar of Events, Career Center and the Express Newsletter.

Linked together throughout the site and accessed by easy navigation menus, the individual components combine to create an information source unique to the electronics manufacturing community and an excellent platform from which to market your company to its many visitors and regular users.
 
Why Advertise Your Company On SMTnet?
Hosting nearly 8,000 unique visitors each month and delivering upwards of 150,000 on-line pages each month, SMTnet is an excellent venue in which to promote your company.

A promotional campaign for your company on SMTnet is less expensive than print or direct mail and nearly every other form of marketing. It lasts longer and gets seen by more people and it can be targeted to specific audiences. Your message is flexible, not static, and can be changed and updated as needed.

The Internet is fast becoming the medium of choice for business-to-business contacts and transactions. It is effective and cost efficient whether the market is up or down.

Establishing a presence for your company on SMTnet allows you to position your company on the electronics manufacturing community's most active website and be discovered by a broad audience in a targeted industry.
 
Who Reads SMTnet?
SMTnet viewers include electronics manufacturing technicians, engineers, designers, quality control experts, project managers, purchasing agents and business owners and managers, directors, VPs and corporate presidents.

SMTnet attracts the target audience you most want to reach.

Through its Industry Directory, populated with over 5000 registered companies, its Electronics Forum, which hosts daily technical dialogs and its growing Equipment Mart, where hundreds of items of used PCB equipment and machinery are sold monthly, SMTnet captures readers' attention and brings them back again and again.
 
How Can You Promote Your Company On SMTnet?
You can promote your company on SMTnet in several ways. Assembling an Ad Campaign from the available options will create an effective message and establish the most conspicuous presence for your company.
  1. Register Your Company - Create Your Directory Listing

    The simplest way to promote your company is to register your company on SMTnet. You can register your company on SMTnet for free.

    Registering your company will add your company to the SMTnet Industry Directory. With that simple task, you have already increased the possibility that your company will be found and contacted.

    Register Your Company

     
  2. Upgrade Your Directory Listing To A Dynamic Company Page And Take Advantage of SMTnet's Full Marketing System

    The Marketing System, with its Dynamic Company Page, enables you to establish a prominent, high visibility presence on SMTnet and creates a powerful marketing tool with which to promote your company.

    The Dynamic Company Page is an upgrade from the standard free listing. It is the heart of the Marketing System and is your exclusive full-page company listing on SMTnet. It features your company logo, a description of your company, essential contact information, images and descriptions of your product line and a direct link to your website.

    The Dynamic Company Page is your exclusive page and contains no other competing text or advertising. It contains only your company information.


    How the Marketing System Works

    As you post information related to your company on SMTnet, it will point to and open in your Dynamic Company Page.

    Your directory listing, all site searches that find your company, your press releases and news articles posted to the site, equipment ads in the Mart, calendar events you have posted, library articles and job listings you post in the Career Center - all point directly to and display in your Dynamic Company Page.

    The Marketing System with its Dynamic Company Page is a powerful marketing tool and can be extremely effective in helping your company to be found by those who are searching for your products and services.

     
  3. Banner Advertising That Gets Seen

    Supplement your Marketing System with effective and visible banner advertising that gets seen by your target audience.

    Banner Advertising is effective for promoting your company's brand awareness, name recognition, brand placement and, ultimately, delivering potential customers to your website.

    SMTnet features standard rectangular, square and thumbnail advertisements and can design your banner or assist with your design as needed.

     
  4. Promoting Your Company In SMTnet's Express Newsletter

    Published bi-monthly, the SMTnet Express reaches over 10,000 viewers, with circulation growing monthly.

    The Express features timely news about companies, people and events in the electronics manufacturing community. The Express also features selected equipment classified ads from SMTnet's Equipment Mart and links to threads from SMTnet's Electronics Forum.

    Advertisements in the Express receive excellent exposure and can link directly to your company's website or to your company's Dynamic Company Page on SMTnet.

     
  5. OnBoard Forum

    The OnBoard Forum is a dedicated on-line forum in which industry experts address specific topics and answer direct questions pertaining to their fields of expertise.

    The OnBoard Forum is also a marketing platform from which the forum host can showcase his/her company and its products and services.

    Choose to host an OnBoard Forum and SMTnet will handle all the details, including extensive advance promotion both on the site and in the SMTnet Express.

    Visit the OnBoard Forum

      
  6. SMTnet Equipment Mart

    SMTnet's Equipment Mart is a rapidly growing, on-line marketplace for used PCB manufacturing equipment and related machinery.

    If you are a PCB equipment dealer or OEM, advertising your equipment in the Mart can bring your company excellent collateral exposure. Equipment ads in the Mart not only showcase your equipment for sale, but can also feature your company's name, logo and contact information, including email and website links.

    Visit the Equipment Mart
How To Get Started
Contact SMTnet by Email or call directly at 207-780-0887.
SMTnet's Director of Marketing, Sam Eddy, will be glad to field your questions and help you assemble an ad campaign which will promote your company and increase your company's exposure to its target audience.
 
Volume 5, Issue No. 5 April 23, 2003
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About This Newsletter

SMTnet Express is dedicated to bringing you useful news about companies, people and events in the Electronics Manufacturing Community. Inquire at SMTnet or 207-780-0887.

Ever Been Published?

SMTnet Express accepts technical and business articles. Published articles feature the author's name, company and link to your company's Dynamic Company Page on SMTnet. Inquire at SMTnet or 207-780-0887.


Company News

Send your press releases to SMTnet for inclusion in the SMTnet Express. Post your news directly to the SMTnet News Site and have it link directly to your company's Dynamic Company Page.

SMTnet Express Archives

Every SMTnet Express issue is archived on SMTnet. You can search the archives by subject and key words. Go directly to the Express Archives for your research needs.


Advertising in the Express

Banner ad spots can be purchased to appear in single or multiple issues of the Express. Send your inquiries to SMTnet or 207-780-0887.

Advertising on SMTnet

Promote your marketing message on SMTnet and create valuable exposure for your company on the industry's most heavily trafficked commercial site. We can customize flexible ad campaigns to help you achieve your marketing objectives. Send your inquiries to SMTnet or 207-780-0887.