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SCUK is the UK Partner.


Partner/Advertise


Why you should get involved

There are many opportunities for you to partner or advertise with Snowboard Club UK and we present them all on this page. If you want to speak to somebody about them then get in touch through our Contact Us page.

Let's deal with the most obvious question first. Why should you or your business want to get involved with Snowboard Club UK?

Advertising Rates - Download pdf file here

Europe's most visited snowboard website

UK's best winter website

Snowboard Club UK is Europe's most visited snowboarding website according to HitWise. This means good exposure in the UK and beyond.

Check out the Alexa statistics for most popular in Snowboarding. Yup, that's a UK site you see in the list!

The Snowboard Club website has won consecutive Top 10 Awards from HitWise in their Winter Sports category.

The website was voted Best Winter Website in the most recent Snow Awards. These were presented at the Ski and Snowboard Show at Olympia and covered by Channel 4. This is an award from the UK public.

Site Traffic

We know snowboarding

These figures are from Google Analytics:
  Jan 08 Sept 08
Visits: 128,310 85,104
Absolute Unique Visitors: 74,013 40,148
Page Views: 581,252 457,013
Average Page Views: 4.53 5.37
Average Time on Site: 00:05:44 00:06:55

Perhaps this isn't obvious. The website (in various forms) launched in April 1997 as TheBoarder.co.uk. It became SnowboardClub.co.uk in October 2004. All the staff snowboard and have been involved with the industry for many years. We're not some fly-by-night group trying to cash in on snowboarding. We do this because we love it and we support UK snowboarding and UK snowboarders. We can get your business/organisation right to the people you most want to get to.

You can read what we think Snowboard Club UK is all about here.

Site Membership and Newsletter Subscribers

Visitor Profiles

As of December 2008:

We have almost 50,000 registered users.

Our newsletter goes out to almost 56,000 winter sports enthusiasts.

We don't know for site visitors as a whole, but when we look at Club Members, we see that 24% are fine ladies and 76% are chaps. Ages range:
under 18 = 4%
18-30 = 49%
31-40 = 39%
41 plus = 8%.



So what opportunities are there?

We'll summarise them here. More detail is provided below.
Advertising Partner Pay for targeted banner advertising on the website. Read more... (pdf)
Competition Partner Offer prizes for regular competitions presented on the website. Read more... (pdf)
Club Partner (SCUK DEALER) Provide Snowboard Club Members with discounts on products and services. Read more...
Website Partner A strong reciprocal link to a link-minded website. Read more...
Retail Affiliate We'll promote you in return for a commission. Read more...
Membership Affiliate We'll pay you an attractive commission for promoting our Club Membership. Read more...
Group Memberships We'll give a potential large group a discount for joining the Club Membership. Read more...
Group/Affiliate Mix A smaller discount for groups and earn yourself some cash too. We're flexible. Read more...

If you want some SCUK and/or other stickers, send as SAE to our Brighton address and tell us what you're after.


Club Partner (SCUK DEALER)

If we have a preference in how we'd like to work with you, this is it. We'd rather you provided benefit to our members than cash to us.

What you get

We'll announce the new partnership as news on our homepage and in our newsletter. We'll add a logo, description of your business and the offer in the appropriate Discount page. Only members are able to see the details of how to claim a discount. Your logo will be added to the rotation in the right hand panel on the homepage and other pages.

We'll also send you some official "SCUK DEALER" stickers for your shop, slope etc... plus the logo for your website (see right)

How much then?

Becoming a Club Partner is free. Typically you will offer our Members discounts of 10% on goods or services, but naturally we can be flexible on this.

What next?

Becoming a Club Partner is easy. Email info@snowboardclub.co.uk and we'll sort out the terms and conditions of the agreement.


Website Partner

Sometimes you've got nothing much to sell, but have a great brand or website and you'd like to become a partner of Snowboard Club UK. We're very picky about our partners and need to make sure the services you provide match or compliment our own services or that you can provide us great exposure in return.

What you get

A link/logo on the bottom right of the website. We'll also post whatever news seems appropriate for the website as and when required to keep people updated on how your website/project is going. We can also arrange additional content if this seems appropriate.

How much then?

The cost to you is a strong reciprocal link on your website and/or representation on your product. For example, where we partner with snowboard movie productions, we would expect our logo to appear on the DVD cover and within the credits.

What next?

Email info@snowboardclub.co.uk


Retail Affiliate

If you're unable to provide our Members with a discount because it's not technically possible or against your policies, the next best thing might be an affiliate partnership. Whilst this doesn't benefit our members directly, it gets good exposure for you. It might also be that we can earn commission to link from our Discount pages if you're a Club Partner, when used by non-members to access your website. As with all our advertisers, we only take partners who have services we think are of direct relevance to our users.

What you get

A banner as part of our banner rotation in the bottom section of the website.

How much then?

You'll need to provide us with information on how to create the required affiliate links. We will also need a suitable banner as described above.

What next?

Email info@snowboardclub.co.uk to discuss terms.


Membership Affiliate

We have Snowboard Club UK Memberships to sell, so we offer you the chance to make money if you direct new members to our site.

What you get

You'll get paid 10% commission on all new membership joining fees you direct to us (unless they use another discount code when applying). So that's £1.50 on Lite Memberships, £2.50 on Junior Memberships, £3 on Adult Memberships and a tidy £7 on Family Memberships. We will pay out when you have earnt a minimum of £25 although we'll need an invoice before we can do that. Tracking is done via Cookies, which last 999 days.

These figures include VAT. Payments will be less VAT. Your invoice should include VAT only if you are registered.

What next?

Email info@snowboardclub.co.uk and we'll provide you with the code you require to create the necessary links from your website. This is of the form: http://www.snowboardclub.co.uk/Join-nnnn-xxxxxxxx.html


Group Memberships


Blank "Snowboarding is a drug..." A4 poster
Blank "SCUK" A4 poster
Both are 2mb Word Docs that you complete yourself.
To download in IE, please right click above link and then
"Save Target As...".

Need an email newsletter template? email us.

We'd like every single one of our members to get involved with this one. The more members we get, the better discounts and prizes we can sort out for everybody. If you have access to a large group of potential Snowboard Club UK members, say at work, school or as part of another club, then we can set you all up with a 10% discount on SCUK Membership and sort you out with some nice incentives.

What you get

We give your group a 10% discount across the board on all new Snowboard Club UK membership joining fees (unless they use another discount code when applying). So that's £1.50 off Lite Memberships, £2.50 off Junior Memberships, £3 off Adult Memberships and a tidy £7 off Family Memberships.

We can provide two formats of poster for you to complete and put up around the place. One is more "school friendly" than the other!

As an added incentive to you personally, if you manage 25 memberships, we'll send you a SCUK snowboard tool. If you encourage 50 new memberships, you'll be looking forward to some Etnies footwear on your doorstep. Be responsible for 100 new memberships and we'll shout you to a new K2 snowboard.

What next?

Email info@snowboardclub.co.uk and we'll provide you with the code you need to add to the poster and create the necessary links from your website. This is of the form: http://www.snowboardclub.co.uk/Join-nnnn-xxxxxxxx.html



Group/Affiliate Mix

This is a mix of the Membership Affiliate and the Group Membership schemes. You have 10% to play with, so split it how you like.


Banners

Here are a few banners you can use to help us promote the club.