MREA Associate Member Advertising Opportunities

2010 MREA advertising rates and specifications

Online Co-op Directory Access & Data Downloads

Platinum, Gold and Silver Allies have access to online MREA Member Center directory.
Search our password-protected online database for buyers and other decision-makers at 44 distribution and 6 generation and transmission co-ops.

Segmented Database Reports and Marketing E-mails

Platinum and Gold Allies may request segmented database reports and up to three free marketing e-mails or mailings.
Don’t have a big office staff? Have a new product or service you’d like to announce to Minnesota’s electric cooperatives? Are you sponsoring an event or activity at a MREA or REMA conference? Running a special offer for a limited time? Gold Ally membership may be just the answer to these special needs. Contact us for a FREE e-mail or mailing addess list. Or send us your mailing to be included with other mailings to electric co-op CEOs or Line Superintendents. E-mails will be sent within two business days of receipt.

Online Associate Member Directory

Platinum and Gold Allies get a FREE company logo and website link in MREA’s online Associate Member database. Silver Allies pay only $20 for logo and website link placement. Trade Show and Patron Allies pay $40.

MREA’s Web site, www.mrea.org serves more than 5,000 visitors per month and receives more than 90% of all MREA conference and event registrations. MREA’s Web site is an important source of industry information for our electric cooperative members and many others in the utility industry.

Minnesota Co-op Power magazine

Platinum Allies get 50% off regular directory ad rates, Gold Allies 40%, Silver, Trade Show & Patron Allies 30%
Minnesota Co-op Power is a high quality publication distributed to co-op members, associate members, neighboring municipal, co-op and investor-owned utilities, legislators and regulatory agencies. The magazine will be published twice each year, in January, shortly before our annual meeting, and again in the fall. Apogee Publications, our professional publisher, contacts MREA Associate Members about advertising opportunities in the fall and again in the spring.

Newsletter Advertising & Sponsorship

Platinum and Gold Allies receive a one-month sponsorship of Member Connections e-newsletter and one free black & white quarter-page ad in two monthly issues of MREA Report. Silver Allies receive one free quarter-page black & white ad in one monthly issue of the MREA Report.

All Associate Members may advertise in:
• The biweekly MREA Member Connections e-newsletter delivered to co-op employees.
• The MREA Report, written by MREA General Manager Mark Glaess, is mailed to co-op directors and CEOs.
MREA Member Directory and Buyer’s Guide Advertising
Platinum Allies get 50% off regular directory ad rates, Gold Allies 40%, Silver, Trade Show & Patron Allies 30%

MREA Membership and Directory and Buyer's Guide

The MREA Membership Directory & Buyers’ Guide is used daily by cooperative managers and employees – the same people with whom you do business. The directory includes contact information for directors and senior managers at every electric cooperative serving Minnesota. Associate members will be contacted by Apogee Publications about Directory ads in the spring.