Advertise with ITS Tactical

Notice – As of 8/1/11 All Available Advertising is Sold Out

If you’d like to be placed on a waiting list, we’re offering space on a first come, first served basis if existing advertisers choose to not renew. If you’d like to be placed on this waiting list, please contact us with your website to review and the term of advertising you’re interested in locking in.

The staff of ITS Tactical have read advertising policies of media outlets who specifically state that an advertisement on their site or in their publication is not an implied endorsement of the product, simply that they sell advertising at a given price.

We do not subscribe to such nonsense at ITS Tactical and when you see an advertiser on our site you can understand that it is a personal endorsement by the management staff at ITS Tactical. If we wouldn’t vouch for an advertiser, we won’t take their money.

We can and often will turn down advertisers that do not meet our rigid qualifications to be accepted as an advertiser. Is our advertising biased? Yes, because we only accept the best.

Available Advertising on ITS Tactical

We have ten (10) 125px x 125px advertising slots available in the right sidebar of ITS Tactical. These ads appear on every page within our site, with the exception of the members forum. There is one advertising block that are reserved for our internal promotions.

Unlike most Web sites who sell their top positions for more money, our advertising is a flat fee for all positions. All advertising will be rotated on an random basis and our single site advertisement takes no preferential treatment, rotating along with all other advertisers. By having rotating advertising, no one advertiser owns the top spot, which helps your brand stand out.

Update: We now have the capability to host up to (5) different banners in your 125px x 125px advertising spot. Along with your spot rotating randomly with the other advertisers, the graphics can randomly rotate as well. This can be seen with a few of our current advertisers.

• 1 Year (12 Months) for only $2400 (Just $200 per month)
• 6 Months for only $1350 (Just $225 per month)
• 3 Months for only $750 (Just $250 per month)

How to Apply as an Advertiser

At ITS Tactical we’re here for our readers, just as you are for your customers and our readers come first. We will not accept all advertisers and if we don’t believe that your products will benefit our readership, you will not be accepted as an advertiser.

We’ve grown a very supportive Forum with the help of our moderators who unselfishly donate their time and energy helping ITS grow. We’ll be looking to them to help our decision in approving you as an advertiser. This is not negotiable.

To start the approval process:

1. Submit your 125px x 125px advertisement, what Web page you’d like it to link to, and what advertising terms you’re applying for. All submissions must come through our contact form where you can upload your creative as well.

2. Review ITS and its moderators will look at your submission and you’ll be notified via email (no longer than 2-3 days) with an acceptance letter and the payment logistics, which will be handled through credit card unless you prefer to send a Check/Money Order. This will slightly delay your ad in running, and payment must be received and cleared before your ad will be run.

3. Publish Your ad will be live within 24 hours of receiving your payment for your advertisement, as long as the above submission was complete and graphic design was not required. We currently recommend setting up a Google Analytics account and creating a campaign link that you can use to accurately determine the amount of traffic we’re sending to your site. Please see the FAQs below for our traffic statistics on ITS.

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: How much traffic will you send me?

Answer: There are no guarantees on the amount of traffic that will be sent, but we recommend setting up a Google Analytics account and creating a campaign link that will accurately track the exact traffic we’ll be sending you.

Question: How many people visit ITS Tactical on a daily basis?

Answer: ITS Tactical currently receives around 9,000+ unique visitors per day and a little over 20,000 page views per day. These are not “claimed numbers,” we’ve always had a public SiteMeter account for ITS Tactical available for anyone to see, we don’t hide our traffic. These numbers are not the typical “hits” you hear about, these are individual unique visitors and total page views. Please consider locking in long term as our traffic has been growing exponentially since our launch. View the growth curve here http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s14tactical&r=33

Question: Can I buy a banner ad that runs across the top of ITS Tactical? How about another format such as link ads?

Answer: Ads are sold in 125px by 125px banners and run only in the designated location in the right sidebar.

Question: Can you create a banner for me?

Answer: Yes, we have a graphic designer that can help you develop your creative for a small fee, please contact us for more information.

Question: Can I have flash or animated GIF advertisement?

Answer: Ads are to be static, animated GIFs are not the way to get people to notice your ad, as most people are conditioned to ignore these.

Question: Can I change out my ads during the advertising time I purchase?

Answer: We recommend sending us a link to your advertisement creative so that at anytime you wish to change it, you can. We’ll change it manually for you once a month if you’d like though.

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I’d like to take this opportunity to personally thank Jack at The Survival Podcast for his continued support of ITS Tactical and consulting in developing our advertising policy.

Thank you all for your support as we move towards being able to run ITS full-time and continue to bring you different methods, ideas and knowledge that could one day save your life.

Bryan Black, Editor-in-Chief