LAMP Dealer Advantages

Whether you are a new dealer or a veteran dealer, LAMP has a TREMENDOUS amount of advantages for you. BUT, LAMP is first a Reference Site and an Archive. Unlike other internet entities, we're NOT here to get in the middle. We're here to offer information and help to collectors and at the same time create the opportunities for both collectors AND Reputable Dealers.

Our group of LAMP sites are a basic platform that you can use in a variety of ways. We provide a high traffic location and the opportunities...... You control your inventory and participation......

Because we're a reference site and archive, dealers must qualify to be able to participate. We have a No Mis-representation Agreement that ALL LAMP Dealers and Sponsors sign so collectors don't have to worry about dealing with unscrupulous characters.

Once accepted, we have a WIDE variety of opportunities, you chose the ones that you want. Chose one OR CHOSE THEM ALL. That's up to you.. Let's take a look at SOME of the advantages that we offer.

1. We give FREE space to our LAMP Dealers just to highlight YOUR business - You can use it to show your store, highlight your specialty areas. We're trying to create an area where collectors can come and see WHO YOU ARE... and we hope to help you build the old fashion rapport between dealer and collector without some internet entity getting in the way. Also, LAMP is a high traffic reference site with thousands of links to it, so consequently it will normally pull higher with the search engines than a normal dealer site by itself. So one way to take advantage of the search engines is to make sure that your section is done in the Meet the Dealers section. Because this section highlights YOU, your name, company name, address and other information about YOU will be the predominant information on the page. Also the poster search bar in YOUR section only searches YOUR posters.

2. Our LAMP Dealers get the LAMP Approved logo. We have spent considerable time and effort, including outside advertising, to promote this symbol to young and beginning collectors as a sign of a dealer that can be trusted. USE IT every chance you get. Display it on your site and anywhere else possible. Promoting IT only helps IT to promote YOU.

3. LAMP Dealers are placed on our Online Auction List - This list is in several places on LAMP including our home page. This is a list for young collectors who don't know any reputable dealers to look for on the online auctions. If you are selling in ANY online auctions, BE SURE YOUR INFORMATION IS CORRECT. We're getting about 120 beginner collectors a week going through the list. No this isn't HUGE amounts but each one is a potential buyer and steady customer for your auctions. If you are on multiple auctions or have changed your name, please let us know so we can keep your information available for them. We want you getting every sale possible

4. Inclusion in Outside Advertising - We're paying for outside advertising 12 times a year most of which you are being included in by name, which we do to especially help young dealers who can't afford additional advertising. Sometimes it's highlighting certain areas such as restoration, but we try to cover all areas several times a year.

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Listing your inventory in the MPDB.. We have an ever growing multi-level, interconnected bundle of databases (20 databases integrated together). This has created an ever expanding amount of listing possibilities. At this writing, we had over 101,000 movie titles, 35,000 poster images, and 28,000 cast records.... AND growing at an average of 100 images A DAY.
We have also set up programs to assist you. On our home page is 'Search For Poster Images' which is an alphabetical list of all images in the MPDB by size and country. We also have the Power Search where you can isolate any type of combination you want such as posters from a certain year, or certain genre.

6. Your name being shown constantly - As more and more collectors go through the MPDB, you want as much of your inventory as possible in front of them to show.. Connect your links to the page on YOUR site with THAT poster when possible; when you can't do that, at least connect to your home page. You have then at least let the collector know that YOU have that poster. At the same time, the more they see YOUR name, the more they will associate with it; so you want it as many times as possible.

7. Generic Display Area - Our new area at the bottom of each movie title record allows you to put your ENTIRE inventory on in a generic format until we have individual images in the archive. This gives collectors more info about what you have available ...here you can list VHS, DVD, Laserdisc, Reels, Trailers, Cassettes, Toys, Clothing, or ANY OTHER item that shows that movie title. These are associated cross collectibles that will expand the collectors coming to LAMP which will also give a lot more exposure to your items.

8 . Provide odd and unusual images to us. When we use YOUR image, a permanent tag goes underneath the image and stays as long as we use THAT image. THIS IS A FORM OF ADVERTISING FOR YOU. The more they see YOUR name, the more they want to see what else you have. There's plenty of room and we want ALL of our dealers having as much exposure as possible. Our first year we added over 27,000 images BUT what about when it gets to 50,000.... 100,000 ....... 250,000 images in the MPDB. There will be NOTHING like the MPDB ANYWHERE. The larger we get, the more we will be used..... the more they will see YOUR NAME.

9 . Ease of your inventory control - Once you have inventory in the MPDB, you can control that inventory very easily in your Sponsor Section. In one location, LAMP has made every effort to provide a state of the art database arrangement so changes can be made in about 10 seconds. There are many ways to utilize this function.. For example: when you have an auction... you can easily change the ones you have in LAMP to link directly to your auction on eBay.. Movie Poster Bid or any other place you want.. When it's finshed, you can easily change them back.

10. a. MOVIE POSTER BID... the LAMP Sponsored Auction Venue.. We started with MPB as of July 1, 2004. In a very short time, it is already beginning to show GREAT promise. The sell ratio is averaging about 20-25% which is about the same as eBay. BUT the cost is drastically less and it's geared to poster collectors. As a special benefit for LAMP dealers, YOU get 400 FREE listings per month. If you utilize this part only, it will save YOU about $175 per MONTH in fees.

b. Here's an additional benefit utilizing MoviePosterBid that can both give you clout and promote your business. YOU can have your own MAJOR AUCTION.... One of the benefits that MPB has is that you can go list posters and assign the start time and end time .... 2 or 3 MONTHS FROM NOW.

11. Coming Attractions Section - For dealers that handle new releases, on our front page is a section called Coming Attractions. This section is for people that want to know what's coming to the theaters in the next 3 months.... This has become one of the most popular sections on LAMP. You can easily go to this section... log in and list straight from this section. If we don't have some posters online that you already have in stock .... email them to us and we'll put them online immediately for you.

12. Biography of Industry LEGENDS - LAMP tries to reach cross collectors by the use of our LEGENDS Section. This section highlights a certain individual or character that has become a major entity in the industry. We concentrate on as large of a selection of posters on those movies as possible and try to market to collectors that are OUTSIDE of poster collecting but may be interested because of the individual or character to bring in non poster collectors. THESE LEGENDS ARE CONSTANTLY IN THE TOP TRAFFIC AREAS.... So make sure that your posters are in these sections, EVEN IF IT'S A PREVIOUS LEGEND. Our next Legend will be for October and we are trying to cross 2 different but associated Legends....... Hammer Films and Peter Cushing

13. Exposure to the International Market - LAMP-InternationalMoviePosters.com highlights the top 45 poster producing countries with reference information to help collectors research and learn any interested area. What this means to you is the exposure to an ever widening variety of International buyers.

14. Expansion into Other Major Arenas - As LAMP becomes larger, we are constantly in contact with larger and larger varieties of exposure. LAMP now has been in numerous magazines (besides Movie Collectors World) such as Star Wars Insider (4 times), Inc. Magazine and Money Magazine. We have been contacted by several others such as Newsweek and CinemaRetro as well as several Museums for help with material. Exposure for LAMP in these national venues is also exposure for YOU. (For the 2nd year of the MPDB, we have some programs coming online that will expand the national exposure DRASTICALLY)

15. Contacts and Leads - LAMP is constantly being contacted by both collectors and groups that are looking for material of one type or another. We list many of them in the Sponsor Section with the contact information, but we also directly send them to our dealers that we know have what they are looking for. (Almost like your own agent trying to match your material). The more we know about what you have the better we can connect you with the customer. (The best way is by listing your inventory in the database)

16. LAMP loyalty and support to our Dealers - Sue and I have made a commitment to both the LAMP and our Dealers. In almost 4 years since we first started, we have NEVER gone up ONE PENNY on one of our dealers. Prices have increased, but it has been to NEW Sponsors and Dealers coming on and NOT to any existing LAMP dealers. AND WE CURRENTLY HAVE NO INTENTION OF EVER GOING UP. So once you've locked in on a price, it stays the same as long as you remain a LAMP Sponsor or Dealer.


17. Expansion, Expansion, Expansion - We are very aggressive and have a TREMENDOUS amount of new programs that are currently in progress. These will continually open new doors and opportunities to both our collectors and our LAMP Dealers.

OK..... There's TOO MANY ADVANTAGES..... So if you got confused OR you didn't read all of that above...................Here's the SHORT VERSION..

1. Lots of Traffic
2. Lots of Exposure
3. Lots of Benefits
4 . Surrounded by Top Dealers
5 . Easy
6. CHEAP

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU ASK FOR!!! CONTACT US TODAY!!

With this last point in mind..... all of you have seen our motto many times on the bottom of each page of the MPDB and on a lot of the emails that we send out..

A little BIGGER and a little BETTER each day - building a new direction... FOR ALL OF US

WELL....... Are YOU a LAMP Quality Dealer? ............Then what are you waiting for!!....
Contact us NOW