FAQ

1. What is the purpose of your website?
2. How to search a media or advertisement business?
3. How do you maintain the accuracy of the information displayed on your website?
4. How often do you update your information?
5. Who is a listing user?
6. What benefits does a listing user have?
7. What companies can be listed on your website?
8. How do I list my company for free?
9. Can I list more than one company?
10. What are online Listing Application Forms?
11. How would you use my information?
12. Why my company information disappear from your website?
13. How do I update my company information?
14. How often do you contact me?
15. Will posting my email address on your website increase the chance of being spammed?
16. How do you define types of radio formats?

The purpose of our website is to provide a platform for media companies to post their specialty, key personnel, programming, advertisment rates, mechanical specification, circulation statistics, and other relevant information. Advertisment agencies could also list their business information.

In contrast with a traditional advertising business directory, our website is user-managed. Listing companies have total control over the content and format of their information, and they can update listings anywhere and anytime.

We strive to build the first ever free advertising rates & data directory: it is FREE to post advertising rates & data and business information, it is FREE to use the database!

It is our hope that in the future, this website will become the virtual community for media, advertising, sales, marketing, and corporate communication professionals from all over the world to interact and develop professional and business relationships. And this Open Source advertising database feature will be an integrated component of our longterm business plan.

There are three ways to search for a media or advertisement business.

• Alphabet Browse:

  Companies are grouped by first letter of their names in alphabetic order. To search, just click "Alphabet Browse" from the menu bar, and then click the letter to show all company names starting with that letter.

• Category Browse:

  Companies are grouped by categories (Business magazine, Daily newspaper, etc.) and sub-categories (under Business magazine: Advertising and Marketing, Architecture, etc. OR under Daily newspaper: Alberta, British Columbia, etc.). To search, just click "Category Browse" from the menu and choose the appropriate category or sub-category.

• Criteria Search:

  To do a Criteria Search, go to the e-GreenPage.com home page. At the home page, you would see two sets of criteria, which are To search by name/keyword or To search by region or/and language.

  a)To search by name, enter the name or part of the name of the company you want to search.

  To search by keyword, enter the keyword, and hit the "Find It" button. This powerful research tool will look into every listing's content, and display the listing if there are words or phrases that match the keyword. This way, you might find media entities that you otherwise would overlook.

  b)To search by region or/and language, first select the Country, and then select Region, or Language, or the combination of both Region and Language.

Our website acts as a platform for media companies and advertisement agencies to post their business information to their prospective customers. Our team acts as administrators and moderators to make sure the information presented is professional and relevant. However, it is the users' responsibility to verify the information when they solicit service from the respective company.

In the future, if the users so desire, we will implement a "Customer Review" section under each company listing, so users could share their experience on a business relationship with a particular company. With the active participation of listing users and public users, we hope to maintain the information as accurate and complete as possible.

Normally, we send out mandatory update requests to all listed companies on a quarterly basis, and it is the listing company's responsibility to keep their business information current. However, companies are encouraged to update their information as frequent as they want. Listing companies could sign in on our website and make changes as appropriate. If requested, our support team could help to process the updates as well within 48 hours. At the end of each business listing, it shows the Last Updated time, so users would know how current the information is.

A listing user is a company who has registered an account on our website for free business listings. For the purpose of adding or updating business information, an employee or outside representative of the business should be assigned as the user and be responsible for maintaining current information about the business.

For publisher/broadcaster with multiple media entities, you can assign one user to be responsible for all media entities, or one user for each media entity.

Once you have signed up, you are entitled to list your business on our Website for free! You can add or update your information anytime you want. You have total control over the updating frequency, and the content and format of your listing (however, we do reserve the right to edit information on our site to keep it professional and relevant).

Remember, the information you provide will ONLY be used by our website, and will NOT be used, rented, or sold to a third party. We will NOT send you promotional emails without your explicit consent. Please look at our strict Privacy and Anti-Spam policy

Currently, we are accepting business listings of following categories: Advertisement Agencies; Business, Consumer, and Farm Magazines; Campus, Community, Non-daily, and Daily Newspaper; Out of Home media; Radio and Television stations and syndicates; Media Representative. In the future, we will include online media and other business listings. Please visit our website often for updates.

The process of listing your company is very straight forward. You can use either the Instant Online Registration method, OR the Offline Registration method:

• Instant Online Registration:

  To obtain a new user account, go to Free Listing section on the menu bar, or click this Not a member? Get account here link, and then provide appropriate information (please keep record of the information you have provided!). After submitting the information and your account is created, you are free to list or update your business information anytime and anywhere.

  For users whose company already listed on the site, please obtain a user account first, and then notify us to link your company profile to your online user account, so you could manage your company information anytime and anywhere. When Contact us, please include your user ID, and the company names you wish to link to.

  (To ensure the accuracy and relevance of the content on this website, we WILL review every new entry within 48 hours, and reserve the right to edite any information as appropriate. Every three months, we WILL send notice to all companies for updates. Response is mandatory.)

• Offline Registration:

  If you prefer the off-line method, please download the Listing Registration Forms. After filling in the necessary information, you can send us the completed registration form by:

  Fax: 1-866-556-6706 (no long distance charge within North America).

  Mail: PO BOX 42093, 7160 Kerr Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5S 4R5.

  Email: listings@e-greenpage.com .

Yes. You could list one or multiple companies. If you are representing one company, and then you should enter information for this particular company. If you are representing multiple companies, for example, a community newspaper group which owns several community newspapers, you could designate one person to enter and update information for all individual newspapers or designate one person for each newspaper.

After you have obtained a listing user account, you will have access to all Online Listing Application Forms. For every company type (Ad agency, Daily newspaper, etc.), there is a corresponding form for entering information to be displayed on this website. The forms are designed to be flexible, so while some users would provide very detailed information, others may just want to fill in the basics. These online forms are very easy to use. They allow you instantly enter and update your company information!

Most fields of the application forms are self-explainatory. The following will give simple instructions for filling in the information:

1) Name and Owner

This section includes basic information about a media entity, which are Name, Publisher/Owner, Service Region, Media Type, Market Area (Country, Province/State, DMA - Designated Market Area), and Website. Depends on the type of company, the required information may vary.

2) Location

This section includes contact information of a company's main office and/or branch offices.

3) Key Personnel

This section includes information about key personnels of a company. Please provide as much information as necessary.

4) Media Profile

This section is for a listing user to input a brief description of the media (editorial, content, theme, etc.). With a bit creativity, this could well be a mini-advertisement for your publication or broadcast. The maximum text limit is 2000 characters.

5) Media Representative

You could choose the name of your media representative from the list box. If your media representative is not on the list, please ask them to create an entry, or send the information to us directly.

6) General Information

For Radions/TV stations or syndicates, this includes information of Common Name, Licensing Area, Frequency Format, and Language.

For other print media, this includes Language, Established Year, and Subscription Rate.

You could make multiple Language choices by holding down the "Ctrl" key and click on the appropriate language options.

For Subscription Rate field, it is best to format your information in Notepad or other basic text editors first (especially for tables), and then copy and paste it in the text boxes. To ensure proper display, the Line width of your text must be less than 80 characters, including spaces, commas, periods, etc.

7) Other Information

• For print media, this section includes information about Issuance and Closing, Advertisement Rates, Mechanical Specs, Circulation , and Demography.

• For radio/TV stations or syndicates, this section includes Network, Membership, Program, Time classification, General Advertising Info, and Technical Requirement.

  You could enter stations for a Radion/TV network or enter network affiliation for a Radio/TV station in the Network text box.

• For advertisement agencies, this includes Accreditation, Affiliation, and Account.

It is best to format your information in Notepad or other basic text editors first (especially tables, eg., advertisement rate tables), and then copy and paste it in the text boxes. To ensure proper display, the Line width of your text must be less than 80 characters, including spaces, commas, periods, etc.

After completing the form, hit the Submit button, and your company's information will be displayed on our site.

To verify the information you entered and the display effect, open a new browser window to search your company. If you need to change the information or display format, modify the information on our online form and submit the data again. You might need to repeat these steps a few times to achieve the best effect.

These are a few examples of company listings: Atmosphere, The Music Scene, and Toronto Sun

The purpose of our website is to provide valid and accurate information about advertisement and media companies for the use of advertising, sales, marketing, and corporate communication professionals. The information we collect is to fulfil this purpose and will not be used in any other ways.

The purpose of our website is to provide valid and accurate information about advertisement and media companies for the use of advertising, sales, marketing, and corporate communication professionals. To achieve this goal, we ask all registered listing users abide by the Terms and Conditions of this website. If a user violates these terms and conditions (for example: spamming), information entered by this user will be deleted and the user will risk permanent ban from our site.

All content on the site is subject to review, and we reserve the right to edit or delete any information not relevant to the purpose of the website.

We believe the users of the site will appreciate our effort of keeping the listing information as current, accurate, and relevant as possible.

After you sign in with your user ID and password, the listing(s) you have created will be displayed. Click on the listing link you want to update, make changes as appropriate, and re-submit the data. Changes will be reflected on our site instantly.

If you do not have a listing user account, or prefer us to make the update for you, please fax, email, or mail your current information to us. We will be happy to help you.

We will contact listing companies on a quarterly basis for updates. It is your responsibility to update your listing. Otherwise, we would not normally send you mails, or emails. Please see our strict Anti-Spam and Privacy Policy

Email addresses on this site are protected by a security mechanism, which prevents internet robots from harvesting your email address, so you will not become an unwitting victim of spammers. Of course, if a spammer manually retrieves email addresses from our website, there is nothing we can do to prevent this from happening.

Our site utilized following radio format types, as defined at radio-locator:

80's Rock, Adult Album Alternative, Adult Contemporary, Adult Hits, Alternative, Americana, Asian, Blues, Business News, Carribean, Children's, Christian Contemporary, Classic Hits, Classic Rock, Classical, College, Comedy, Country, Dance, Easy Listening, Ethnic, Farm, Folk, Gospel Music, Grade School (K-12), Hip Hop, Hot AC, International, Jazz, News, News/Talk, Nostalgia, Oldies, Other, Public Radio, Regional Mexican, Religious, Rhythmic Oldies, Rock, Smooth Jazz, Spanish, Sports, Talk, Tejano, Top-40, Travellers' Information, Urban Contemporary, Variety.