PROCEDURES AND POLICIES
- Content Submission -- Your flyer format is very important in ensuring a quality looking eblast. Your flyers produce should be no larger than 600 pixels wide in the form of a JPEG or GIF preferably. We can accept a TIFF or PDF file. If the format is larger, we will shrink it to 600 pixels. You choose the length but we suggest no more than 1100 pixels. Please note that in most cases we do add who, what, when, where, for more information and associated cost information below your flyer. Currently we also request that along with your flyer, you provide a text only word document with that information. This is critical for clients receiving our message on mobile devices that may have image display blocked. Please note that all flyers should be created in an industry standard program such as Photoshop. We discourage flyers created in Word or Publisher because it compromises the quality of your eBlast. If this is your only choice be sure to make your fonts large and as bold as possible.
- Graphic Design is available at a cost of approximately $125 per flyer for most design work done. Flyer creation usually takes 2 to 4 business days from payment receipt.
- Schedule Blast Times -- We have multiple time slots per day including the daily 12noon newsletter that you can sponsor.
- Payment Policy -- Once payment has cleared and we have received all the information, we will produce a draft for your approval.
- Approval -- Your eBlast MUST BE APPROVED either verbally or via email PRIOR to launching your campaign. We take pride in reviewing your message in detail, but it is your responsibility to make sure that there are no grammatical or hyperlink errors included.
- Turnaround time --It usually takes 2 days or 48 hours to get a proof to you for review, after which time and once you approve the blast for sending, it usually goes out within 48 hours. Please note that we only have a limited number of daily slots which are filled on a first come, first serve basis. We must stress that every change you request ads on time to the finalization of sending and that with your paid order you get one initial major change to your blast once received or requested and one minor change.
- Additional Requirements -- No refunds, advertisements should be geared to Black men, women, and families only. No landing pages to porn sites. Ads cannot offend based on race, gender, sexual preference, or disability. No alcohol or tobacco ads. No spam ads.
- Payment Policies -- We have several payment options. We accept Paypal which is an online credit card payment source. This can be processed three ways. 1. You can go online to beansouptimes.com, hit the “Pricing” page in the Advertise section and hit the paypal button under the appropriate selection. 2. You may log into your paypal.com account; hit the ‘SEND MONEY’ tab, a box will open requesting a telephone number or email address, please input ‘toure@beansouptimes.com’ as the address and then the amount, after which a new screen pops up to confirm the transaction. Be sure to reference your event or business in the subject line and hit send. 3. We can forward you an invoice for processing via email to the address associated with your account. 4. We also accept business check/cashier check/money order by mail. Please be aware that we must wait for checks to clear before service can be processed and delivered. To expedite your order, please feel free to forward a money order OR cashiers check. Please make all checks payable to Bean Soup Times, Inc and mailed to Toure Muhammad at 712 E. 47th St. 303E, Chicago, IL 60653. Payments can be dropped off between the hours of 9am to 5pm Weekdays at the front desk.
Thank you again, for the consideration and potential opportunity to serve you. We appreciate your business and intend to work hard to help you get your message out.
Feel free to call me, Toure Muhammad with any questions at 773.531.8798.