Facility Maintenance Decisions
Audience
Facility Maintenance Decisions circulates to a 100% qualified list of 32,500 maintenance and engineering managers responsible for the operations of institutional and commercial buildings in the United States. When you advertise with Facility Maintenance Decisions, you reach and influence these types of high-ranking, influential readers.
With Facility Maintenance Decisions your marketing will reach and influence more than 32,500 buyers including:
- Director, Electronic Maintenance
- Assoc. Director of Building Operations
- Director of Custodial SVCS
- Director of Landscape Services
- Dir Of Plant Maintenance
- Grounds Maintenance Manager
- Program Director of Maintenance
- Deputy Director of Operations
- Director of Maintenance
- Chief of Maintenance
- Director of Eng Maintenance
- Director of EVS
- Director of Faculty Maintenance
- Energy Manager of Facilities
- General Central Maintenance Supervisor
- Highway Maintenance Director
- Maintenance Director of Facilities
- Manager of Facility Operations
FMD subscribers maintain the grounds and facilities across the country
Reach Facilities Professionals From Across the Country From Every Market
Manage $132B for renovation and retrofit
Maintain 1.2M institutional and commercial buildings
Building Type / Demographic
FMD Readers Buy/Specify/Recommend products from all corners of the facilities
Print Creates Brand Awareness and Credibility
The Only Third-Party BPA Audited Outlet in the Industry
Print Creates Action.
- 95% of subscribers took action after seeing ads in Facility Maintenance Decisions
- 81% went to the manufacture's website after reading articles or ads
- 93% of subscribers say ads are an important source of information
- Why only buy from a BPA audited outlet? Buyers know the data has passed a vigorous review of qualifications and demographic data. Advertisers know what they are buying. No guessing. No fluff. A BPA audit provides them with that assurance.
Editorial Calendars
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All editorial topics are subject to change without notice.
Circulation / BPA
Due to the meticulous qualification process of Facility Maintenance Decisions readers, we can assure you that the magazine is in the hands of people that want to see your product. As a result, your ad has a significant impact on your bottom line.
To further support the notion that Facility Maintenance Decisions is the right place to invest your advertising dollars, a Baxter Research Center http://www.brc.com study found the following:
- 88% of our respondents read each issue more than once, increasing your exposure to facility executives.
- 72% of Facility Maintenance Decisions readers will act based on the ad they saw in the magazine.
Print Specs
Preferred File Types
- PDF/X-1a:2001 or TIFF (TIF) for: 4-color process (CMYK) ads.
- EPS or DCS2 (Photoshop eps) for: 2-color (3 process colors) ads.
- EPS or TIFF (TIF) for: Grayscale or B/W (Process Black) ads.
(Note: We are unable to process Microsoft Publisher files)
10 STEP GUIDE to obtaining a maximum quality print ad
- All fonts must be embedded, converted to outline or rasterized. List of non supported fonts.
- Photos and artwork should be at least 300 dpi. Lineart (ie: logos) should be 1200 dpi bitmap or a Vector image. We cannot submit any photos or artwork, to the printer, with less than 266 dpi.
- All color must be set up in either spot color or CMYK (process color). All RGB colors will be converted and will not appear in print as it did on-screen.
- All black type must be black only, not Rich Black or Registration.
- All color photos must be converted to CMYK with a total ink limit of 300%. Click here to see how to insure proper ink density levels.
- All black and white photos must be converted to grayscale with a 20-25% dot gain.
- Documents should be set up to the correct final ad size. (No printer marks)
- Any bleeds need to be set at 0.125" on all sides - no printer's marks or slugs.
- Transparencies must be flattened. Layer/effects, Flattener Presets must be set to "high resolution."
- It is recommended to use the Adobe PDF preset: PDF/X-1a:2001 when creating your PDF file. This setting is an industry standard for printing (please deselect all printer mark defaults and, if applicable, include the bleed here).
Color Typography
For optimum reproduction and clear and sharp copy, use sans serif fonts such as Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Myriad or similar for small type. Reverse type reproduces best with large bold sans serif fonts. The same is true for color type. Thin serif fonts are difficult to read in color or reverse type. It is recommended that four color type and/or small four color reverse knock-outs be avoided. Black type that uses four color blends should never be used (Registration not allowed).
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Mechanical Specs
- Publication Trim Size: 7.875 x 10.75
- Live Area: 7 x 10
2 Page Spread Bleed
- Bleed 16 x 11 Trim 15.75 x 10.75
- Live matter must be kept 0.5 inch away from untrimmed edge and allow 0.25 inch clearance for gutter.
- Trim variance is 1/8 inch
Ad Type |
Width |
Depth |
Bleed Page | 8.125" | 11" |
Page | 7" | 10" |
2/3 Page | 4.5" | 10" |
1/2 Island | 4.5" | 7.5" |
1/2 Vertical | 3.375" | 10" |
1/2 Horizontal | 7" | 4.875" |
1/3 Square | 4.5" | 4.875" |
1/3 Vertical | 2.125" | 10" |
1/3 Horizontal | 7" | 3.125" |
1/4 Vertical | 3.375" | 4.875" |
1/4 Horizontal | 7" | 2.375" |
1/6 Vertical | 2.125" | 4.875" |
1/6 Horizontal | 7" | 1.5" |
FM Custom Research
Facility Maintenance Decisions can conduct custom research into the buying habits, brand awareness, product preferences and specification process of facility executives. Our research department conducts both quantitative and qualitative studies.
*Quantitative Research: Email invite/webbased surveys, telephone surveys, and postal (mail) surveys.
*Qualitative Research: Face-to-face research including in-depth interviews, focus group recruitment and moderation telephone surveys.
Call or email us for a free quick consultation to discuss your research needs and how we can help you. Contact Charlie Collins at 414-228-6860 x452 or email charlie.collins@tradepress.com.
Digital Opportunities
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