| How do I sign my DZ? |
To join, give me a call 310 344-8576 or drop me an email and I'll put your DZ on the map. The price is $100 per month for a non-exclusive lease. |
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| Who has a lease in my area? |
If a neighboring DZ is on the map, don't assume that they have the exclusive slot in your area. Skydive.com was a non-exclusive project long before we offered exclusive areas, so many of the listed DZs have a non-exclusive slot. |
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| Can another DZ exclude my DZ? |
If your DZ has a slot on skydive.com, it can't be excluded by another DZ. If not, your DZ can be excluded if it's located in the area that is taken by another DZ. |
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| Can you provide a projection of click through traffic? |
Not yet... I don't know how to create these kinds of reports. I will, however, hire a web guru, like Sangiro, to set up the pages with hit and click through numbers so that we can see, live, what sort of activity is taking place on each map and where the click throughs are going.
Over time, skydive.com will become a houshold word, on and off the net. For the short run, what it does for your DZ depends largely on what you do to expose it in your area. The large format stickers will help to jump-start the process and to at least cover the expense of leasing a slot on skydive.com. |
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How much does it cost?
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A non-exclusive slot is $100 per month.
Taking an area that excludes another DZ costs an additional $50 per month.
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What kind of payments do you accept?
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On the 15th of each month, I email invoices with a variety of payment options. We'll accept just about any form of payment - credit card, check, paypal, wire.
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| Is it a yearly fee or monthly fee? |
You can pay monthly or pay for a year to get a 15% discount.
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| What guarantee do we have that you will really promote this nationally? |
I'm already getting national and international exposure for skydive.com and will continue to do so at every opportunity. I don't have the kind of money it takes buy national advertising, but my connections in the media are very good. I provide content for a variety of TV programs and am often able to include skydive.com in some way. Please See MULTIMEDIA |
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Why is Jennings so infatuated with stickers?
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Small stickers are cool, but not real advertising. Big stickers are real advertising. Wherever the car goes, they're seen.
When a DZ signs on, I ship out enough stickers to deck out the back windows of ten cars. I've sent over 500 of these stickers to DZs across the US.
I'm betting on stickers because they target the DZ's exact market area. Advertising begins the moment the stickers are applied, and they last for years.
The way I see it, a slot on skydive.com is $100 per month. One tandem a month would about cover the cost. The stickers will do better than that. Just seeing "skydive.com" is remembering it. No other URL has this kind of potential.
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| Have you done a TV commercial? |
I'm looking for ways to include skydive.com into sports video infomercials. I'm keeping my radar up for opportunities. I don't have the budget to make and air a tv commercial, but through my contacts, I've already been able to get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of television exposure. |
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| Will you spend the money it takes to get strong search engine ranking. |
I don't plan to buy Adwords on google or on the other search engines. The net is stacked with websites jostling for position to catch anyone searching for a parachute center in their area. Skydive.com is a website, but its real potential lies outside of the internet. Its a word that requires no memory, a word that puts skydiving into people's minds in a single glance. A strong presence on the net is important, but I'm setting my sights on making skydive.com into a household word.
That said, skydive.com, by itself, is already climbing its way to the top of the search engines. It has more natural potential than any other url in our industry and we'll optimize every page as it grows. |
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| Are skydive.com email addresses available? |
Not yet, but they will be..... |
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| Is skydive.com a "skyride"? |
Its interesting to me, now that I sell skydiving, that skyride pops into so many conversations. Some ask if we sell coupons, others ask if we're putting virtual drop zones on our maps. One email said "you're another Skyride" as if it were a four letter word! Everyone knows skyride - I should be so lucky!
The answer is, we're different.
Skydive.com leases the word "skydive.com", as a marketing tool, directly to drop zones.
Skyride sells coupons to first time jumpers and sends them to drop zones that accept the coupons.
Skydive.com is a collective marketing effort with an emphasis on multimedia exposure (TV, radio, print, signs).
Skyride markets extensively with an emphasis on internet exposure (mainly high rankings on the search engines).
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How do I apply the big stickers?
To a Car? To an Airplane? |
 I posted a "how to" link here. |
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| We're outside of the US. Can we register our DZ? |
In North America, yes, otherwise, soon! Before I open skydive.com to the world's DZs, I want to make sure its up and running properly in the US. |
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We're a seasonal DZ. What about the months when we're closed?
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Your link and information on skydive.com will stay active all year. I won't charge for the months when your DZ is closed. |
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