ASF Sponsors are individuals that want to advertise here. Regular members like standard, elite and authorized sellers are not allowed to post advertisements, sales copy, have links in their signatures or advertise websites or products unless they pay the subscription rate to be an “ASF Sponsor”.

Authorized Sellers can sell their new and used items in the Buy-Sell-Trade (BST) Forums along with ASF Sponsors, but Authorized Sellers can not advertise banners or links in their signatures or post “sales copy” to promote some other website.  Authorized Sellers can not post topics to promote an external product or service or advertise websites, they are only allowed to post topics to sell items here in the ASF BST forum, not promote another website.

ASF Sponsors on the other hand, can do all of the above. They can also have their own dedicated sub-forum if they want to pay for the entire year upfront (at a discounted rate). ASF Sponsors also get unlimited banner ad views and clicks that are displayed all over this website for a low monthly rate of $59.95. To sign up now as an “ASF Sponsor”, please click here and choose the appropriate subscription. You will need to first create a member account or log in to the forum before you can select a membership plan.

If you do not have a forum account and you do not need or want to post items or topics for sale here on the forum and you simply just want to display your banners, Click Here to go directly to the Banner Ad System and Join as an Advertiser only.

To view common example banner sizes that we display on ours and other publisher or network websites, Click Here.

If you’re interested in signing up as a Sponsor but are curious as to the amount of traffic and visitors we get, click here to view our stats. For the month of May, 2009, we saw about 431,461 unique visitors who viewed 5,818,364 pages which equates into about 27,599,074 hits for that month. We average about 650-750 new airsoft members a month who are highly targeted for airsoft products and services.

UPDATE: In July 2010, we saw 1,085,413 unique visitors who viewed 9,412,009 pages!

Summary:

The first thing you need to do is join as a member, and then upgrade your account to “Authorized Seller” or “ASF Sponsor” (depending on what your goals are as explained above).

If you do not want to join as a member and just want to rotate your banner ads, click: Sign up as an Advertiser only.

If you are not yet a member and have questions, comments or would like to send an email to the webmaster, click here.

…Just to recap…

Authorized Seller Accounts get to:

• sell new and used items in our BST forums for $4.95 / month.

Advertiser Only Accounts get to:

• Display their banners across our entire website with rates from $9.95 to $59.95 month.

ASF Sponsor Accounts get to:

• sell new and used items in our BST forums,
• have clickable links in their profile and signature,
• have their website link on our home pages (as you see to the right of this text),
• Display their banners across our entire website for unlimited views and clicks with rates from $49.99 – $59.95 / month.

As an ASF Sponsor, you get much more than “Authorized Seller” or “Advertiser Only” accounts get.

An ASF Sponsor membership is $59.95 / month*. If you want to pay for the entire year in advance, you save $10 a month ($120 / year) and you also get your own sub-forum with imediate traffic to use as your own forum.

The price to become a Sponsor is currently $59.95* (billed monthly or $599.88* yearly via PayPal). If you take advantage of these low rates, you will be guaranteed that price for the duration of your subscription even if we raise our rates.

If you violate our advertising rules such as spamming the board with ads in un-designated areas, or irritate our members with repeated bad service, we withhold the right to remove your links and banners and cancel your subscription if the problem is not corrected.

*Please note: If your account should expire or cancel, the link in your signature, your link on home pages, as well as your banners will all be removed at the time of your cancellation. The price to advertise here and /or sponsor us is subject to change at any time without notice. We make no guarantees about the actual number of visitors or sales you might expect as those depend mainly on your banners and website which we have no control over.

In other words, we are unable to guarantee your results and we cannot give refunds unless there are special circumstances that may warrant a refund or extended ad runs at reduced rates or no charge.  Click through rates for your banners will depend on the quality of your banner. Conversion rates will depend mainly on your website.

To go ahead and signup as an ASF Sponsor, click here and choose the $59.95 (or $599.88 yearly plan). To signup as an Advertiser Only with just banner ads, Click Here.

To manage your banner ad account, Click Here