hotairballoonist Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 A Hot Air Balloonist Manufacturers Membership. The Hot Air Balloonist Manufacturers Membership is a great way to showcase your products. At $5 a month it comes many fantastic features and permissions to promote your brand all over the site. If you manufacture anything for use in the balloon world from instruments to ropes to banners to balloons and more this is where you can showcase your products to the balloon world. Here is the list of benefits for the Manufacturers membership. Customize your personal space. Ad a company logo or photos of yourself so everyone knows who you are. Set your local time so postings will have a real time stamp on them. Add information on the different ways other members can contact you outside the HotAirBalloonist.com site. Add Age and gender and birth dates if you wish. Set background photos or custom colors for your personal area. Create a custom signature with logo and email and contact information, so each post or topic you start will have your custom imprint on it. Create a friends list. Customize your space anyway you want. Create Topics in the Dealers Lounge. In many cases we may already have a forum created just for you in the Dealers Lounge. This is your personal area of the site. Create endless topics about your items. Anything you want and interact with members and guests who are new to the world of Ballooning. List ALL Your equipment in your own custom Category. Each manufacturer has their own category where they can create endless topics. Showcase your new products. Advertise items you have for sale. Interact with the members who can see and ask questions by replying to your topics. Create your Custom Equipment for Sale Advertisement. Go to the 4Sale Category and build your own topic. Insert photos, text, links, emails, phone numbers and anything you want to make your page stand out from the others. This is your Equipment For Sale advertisement and you can create it any way you would like. Go back and change it every day if you want. It is yours to edit and alter at any time while you are a member on the site. Get your ancillary items for sale in the Store. We all have inventory of small items that are for sale. Tank Straps, Hose Caps, Refueling adaptors, Envelope Bags, Basket Covers and so on. With a manufacturers membership we will list any of those items for sale in our online store. Just send us a photo and a price. Create a photo gallery all about your ballooning. Link your photo gallery to your Equipment Sales Topic! Add descriptions of the photos about where and when they were taken. Create a blog about your ballooning or an event you are attending. Our Blog center is quite complex and will allow you to be quite creative in sharing your adventures Use the Online Chat Room. Stop in and see who is there. Join or start a conversation with other balloon enthusiasts. Stick a pin in the Member Map. The Member Map is a Google powered map with pins from members all over the country. Have a look around and see where other pilots and events are around the country. Browse the Equipment 4Sale category. Look for things you may need. Respond to topics started by others and ask any questions you would like from those who have equipment for sale. Start a poll in the Polling forum. Have a question that you want honest answers. Go to the Polling Forum on the topics page and start a topic about your question. Add a poll to your topic for others to choose any of multiple answers you have given. See the results in a real time format and get an honest opinion since the voting is done anonymously. Check on current news on the Current Events page. See new articles written by other balloonists and see what news is in the headlines from all over the world with our continuous news feed called In the Headlines. Have a look around the online BALLOON STORE. Find items you may not find elsewhere. Load a link to your favorite online balloon video in our Media section on the Current Events page. Download applications, maps, forms, and many other items available in the Download section of the site. Have a look at the member page to see if your friends are also members and interact with them by sending them a note or an email. Look on the calendar and find upcoming balloon events, festivals, safety seminars and many other things listed on several calendars available on the site. Interact with any of the dozens and dozens of categories on the topics page. Help answer a question from a student pilot in the Student Lounge. Start a topic in the tips and tricks category. Tell us about a learning experience you have had and spread your knowledge for the entire balloon world. As you can see there are many things a Manufacturers Membership can offer. The most value comes from your custom category just for you and for your Equipment. At $5 a month it is just about the best value on the entire site because you are getting the permissions of an equipment seller for half the price! (You are required to be a manufacturer to get this package) This really is an amazing site with so much potential the pricing to become a member is honestly extremely cheap to have all of functionality and resources in one location. Become a member NOW! You will be glad you did. Our support is fantastic. If you have troubles you can get answers most often in minutes. A Balloon Site built by Balloonists for Balloonist's Become a Member Today Jeff A Thompson. Admin@HotAirBalloonist.com 407-421-9322 ? 44 year LTA pilot, BFA member since 1977, BFA Level DA-8, Ed Yost Master Pilot. 6500 flights, 5650 Flight Hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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