Advertise with us
If you would like to advertise with us, or if you would like more information on advertising options, please use our enquiry form or telephone 01609 748900.
Advertise Resources
Why advertise with us?
Skills for Life Network can offer high profile, focused advertising opportunities to providers wishing to promote a range of resources to the learning and skills sector.
- Skills for Life Network is the leading online information resource for everyone with an interest in Skills for Life, Functional Skills, Foundation Learning and Employability Skills.
- The Skills for Life Network website receives 25,000+ unique visits per month. Our e-news update has 12,000+ subscribers, with 125+ new subscribers joining us each month.
- Our audience includes: Tutors, Trainers, Curriculum Managers, Heads of School, Advice and Guidance Workers, Personal Advisers, Job Centre Plus personnel, Trainee Teachers and Tutors, Teacher Trainers, Dyslexia Specialists, Support Workers and Learners.
- We have representation from: FE Colleges, Work-based Learning, Welfare to Work, Adult and Community Learning, Offender Learning, Family Learning, Voluntary and Community, Specialist Colleges and schools.
Advertising with us will enable you to:
- Promote your resources to a highly targeted and receptive audience
- Raise your profile within the learning and skills professional community
- Enhance your organisation's web presence, and drive quality traffic to your website
Advertising options
all prices exc VAT
E-News Update, email and website feature advertising
Bespoke, branded HTML email to our entire database
Resource Showcase and e-news feature advertising package
The Showcase is high profile - it forms the Resources home page of the site. A full webpage Showcase listing will enable you to communicate your key offering to the Essential Skills professional community, and the logo based presentation is a great way of strengthening your brand. Skills for Life Network appears in the Google top 3 websites under the search terms 'skills for life' and 'skills for life resources'. A Showcase listing, which includes direct links to your website, will enhance your web presence and help optimise your website with search engines.
- Your organisation's listing will feature in the Resource Showcase and Directory throughout the year.
- Your Resource Showcase listing will be mailed out as a feature advertisement in an edition of the Skills for Life Network e-news update (12,000+ subscribers), and also in an individual email alert to our Resource news subscriber database (10,500+).
View a sample Resource Showcase listing
Cost
- £795 for the year
E-news feature advertising
If you are looking to raise awareness of your products, services or events, a high profile feature article emailed out to our database of 12,000+ subscribers will guarantee you a large and highly targeted audience.
Your article will:
- include your logo and other graphics as required, with links through to your website
- feature on the News section of the website homepage, and remain on the site for 30 days
- be mailed out as a feature advertisement in an edition of the Skills for Life Network e-news update (12,000+ subscribers), and also in an individual email alert to our Resource news subscriber database (10,500+).
A limited number of e-news update feature advertisement spaces is available throughout the year, so please contact us for current availability.
Cost
- £295 per feature article
Banner and button advertising
A top of page banner or button advertisement is ideal for timed promotions of products, services or events. Your banner will appear at the top right hand side of every page of the site. A button advert will appear at the top right hand side of the site homepage.
Cost
- Main site banner - appears at top right of every page on the site: £395 per month
- Button advertisement - appears on the site homepage, above the News section: £195 per month.
Bespoke, branded HTML email to our entire database
This option offers an unrivalled opportunity for you to put your products and services in front of a large and receptive audience of learning and skills professionals. We can send a HTML email on your behalf to our entire subscriber database of 12,000+. You can send your mailing to us as an HTML file, or alternatively we can design and lay out the mailing for you. The cost is £1,200 if you supply your own text/graphics. This is discounted to £1,000 per email if you book two or more emails over the year.
Advertise with us
If you would like to advertise with us, or if you would like more information on advertising options, please use our enquiry form or telephone 01609 748900.
