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Barter and Exhange
For barters and exchanges, our goal is to ensure that the services provided or goods supplied by the A’ Design Award are of equal value to the exposure or goods received in return. To make it easy for you to evaluate our value proposals, we provide Euro values for barter items, furthermore for some barter inventory items, we provide alternative product or service exchange and barter values in their specific units. All barter arrangements are negotiated through our support, please contact us via our contact form.
Why Barter with A’ Design Award?
Enterprises, get involved with us in order to reach hundreds of thousands award winning designers, architects and other companies who are lead users, trendsetters and pioneers of design and technology. Press Members, get involved with us to get free press accreditation to reach unique, free and high-quality content for your publication meanwhile capturing new readers. Design awards, events and institutions, barter with us to reach new prospects. Below we list some ideas for barter and exchange but please contact us for more! Cross marketing and bartering with A’ Design Award will get you great exposure and branding opportunities. Remember to contact us for barters and exchanges; Table 1. Further Barter Ideas notes some barter values but it is important to have a better understanding and agreement by getting in touch, meeting and discussing what we could do together to create mutual value at earliest possibility; we have busy deadline periods during February and September and we cannot meet during that time periods however we are open for discussion in all other months of the year.
Promotions via Mutual Discounts
Do you have a service, product or experience that could appeal to designers, architects and design-oriented brands? Does your customer base intersect with A’ Design Award i.e. such as creatives, marketers, designers, artists, architects, brand managers? If your answer to both questions is yes, then here this out: You can provide a discount to A’ Design Award laureates and in return we provide a discount to your customers for taking part in A’ Design Award. Furthermore, we could both send a newsletter update to our users and inform them about the discount possibility, creating wider reach for all. Let’s do good by creating mutual value for our users. Contact Us to get started.
Social Shout-outs
We can start small, let’s engage over social media with shout-outs, thanking each other, mentioning each-other’s services, core value propositions. We will match your shout-out with ours; you provide an image, we provide an image, you provide a video, we provide a video, you type 280 chars, we do the same. At request, we will also provide additional boost budgets to ensure your shout-out reaches the right people, we will match your budget, you include a link, we include a link. In general, we would like to have a shout-out where you let your audiences know (1) Our Winners, (2) Our Deadline. Please get in touch with us so that we could agree on this. Contact Us to get started.
More Ideas
In general, we are open for business. Do you have an idea that could benefit us both? Let's do it. Below, we list some ideas, to have an idea of what we could do, but we are open for your feedback and proposals. Contact Us to get started.
| Table 1. Further Barter Ideas |
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| Service or Product Name | Barter Value1 | Purchase Link |
| A’ Design Award Credits These are non-refundable, non-cashable A’ Design Award credits that can be used for any future transaction via list price as explained at dates and fees page. We are happy to provide valuable credits to press members who feature our winners or call for entries based on our press authority algorithm and review. |
10000 € | Buy Now. |
| Entry Tickets to the Competition These tickets help to bypass nomination payment, they are depending on Account Type; Entry Type and Entry Deadline, for your own use. We are happy to provide these tickets to press members who feature our winners or call for entries, number of tickets will depend on press authority and our manual review. |
2500 € | Buy Now. |
| Universal Nomination Tickets These tickets can be used by anyone to make a nomination, they are valid for all account types, all entry types and any entry deadline, do not expire and can be given to third parties, in addition they include express judging service as well as eventual shipping of winner kits. |
4000 € | Buy Now. |
| Yearbook Advertising Placement This is a Full Page A4+, Full Color, placement in a print publication of your choice among our publications; each year we publish several publications of our winners categorized under different design fields such as communication, spatial or product design. Your ad will be subject to an editorial review. |
20000 € | Buy Now. |
| Third Party Email This service helps you to reach hundred thousand designers, artists and architects who have opted-in to receive third party offers. We are open to cross marketing for this option, for about 100.000 opt-in subscribers, we can exchange mail blasts, we require however minimum 2500 clicks for this amount of blasts. The emails must be relevant to our participants who look forward for creativity, design and innovation oriented content. |
85000 € | Buy Now. |
| Listing at design-media.org Reserved for press members only, we are happy to provide a free listing for press members who feature our winners or call for entries. The design-media.org is the definitive list of the very best design oriented publications worldwide, updated annually. Lifetime listing. |
2500 € | Buy Now. |
| Stand at Gala-Night This is a 70x75x125 cm table that you can use to communicate your company at our gala-night which is joined by hundreds of designers, design oriented companies and press members worldwide. You can distribute your marketing collateral from this stand. |
25000 € | Buy Now. |
| Banner Totems at Gala-Night This is a 200x80 cm roll-up banner totem that you can use to communicate your company at our gala-night which is joined by hundreds of designers, design oriented companies and press members worldwide. If you send your design, we will do the printing for you otherwise you can also ship your totem to us. We will place 8 totems in various locations. |
16000 € | Buy Now. |
| Publication Display Area at Gala-Night This is a 250x75x75 cm table that you can use to distribute your marketing collateral or publications. It will be placed on our gala-night which is joined by hundreds of designers, design oriented companies and press members worldwide. |
25000 € | Buy Now. |
| Stand at Exhibition This is a 70x75x125 cm table that you can use to communicate your company at our exhibition which is joined by hundreds of designers, design oriented companies and press members worldwide. You can distribute your marketing collateral from this stand. |
2500 € | Buy Now. |
| Banner Totems at Exhibition This is a 200x80 cm roll-up banner totem that you can use to communicate your company at our exhibition which is joined by hundreds of designers, design oriented companies and press members worldwide. If you send your design, we will do the printing for you otherwise you can also ship your totem to us. We will place 4 Totems at various locations. |
6000 € | Buy Now. |
| Publication Display Area at Exhibition This is a 70x75x75 cm table that you can use to distribute your marketing collateral or publications. It will be placed on our exhibition which is joined by hundreds of designers, design oriented companies and press members worldwide. |
1500 € | Buy Now. |
| Item Distribution in Winner Kits This allows you to add up to 200 grams of legally transportable (solid, non-inflammable, non-toxic etc.) non-voluminous (density > 100 kg/m3), good size (width, height, depth should fit our standard boxes) material as a part of winner kits. These kits are shipped to winners worldwide. You can include postcards for the least fee while heavier items could cost more. |
60000 € | Buy Now. |
| Gala-Night Welcome Envelope Inserts These are A4/3 inserts that are distributed during our gala-night registration to winners only, they will be within the envelope of award winning designers, architects and businesses only. Welcome envelopes are read and studied quite well by the hundreds of gala-night attendee winners. |
6000 € | Buy Now. |
| Conference Speakers One of our core team members will fly from Italy to attend your tradeshow or event as a conference speaker, giving a keynote or speech on design, design value or innovation. We are also happy to send a free speaker to your tradeshows if you provide us a good space within your tradeshow to exhibit the award winning designs. |
15000 € | Buy Now. |
| Design Exhibition We will set-up a 100 meter square design themed exhibition at your event, featuring award winning designs, products and services. We are happy to do this free of charge if you provide us free space for your relevant tradeshow. |
90000 € | Buy Now. |
| Award for your Tradeshow We will run a design award ceremony at your event, a 5-person jury panel will evaluate your participants and decide on the winner for the tradeshow. Winners will get A3 sized certificate and a trophy. We are happy to run this award ceremony free of charge if you provide us ample free space within your relevant tradeshow. |
20000 € | Buy Now. |
| Mutual Discounts You will provide a discount to our members, we will provide a discount to your customers. Both parties agree to communicate the discounts via electronic mail to each other's audiences. |
40000 € | Buy Now. |
| Social Mentions and Shout-Outs We will publish a social post with your content. You can provide us with a video, text, images as well as a signed document where you grant us the right to post your content to our social media. We will also boost all social mentions to ensure your news reach the maximum of our audience. |
2000 € | Buy Now. |
We actually have many more possibilities available, simply get in touch with us now and start discussing about what we could do together.
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