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What everything costs
Two things are for sale: a place on a Buyer Guide, and a byline in the Executive Forum. Both are annual, both are reviewed by an editor before anything is charged, and both are on this page in full.
Buyer Guide placements
Your company on the guide where CIOs are comparing your category. We cap each guide at 5 Spotlight cards and one Featured Vendor, and the cap does not move.
| Being listed | Free, always | We compile the Directory ourselves. Corrections are free too, for anyone, whether or not you pay us. |
|---|---|---|
| Your first guide | $399 / year | A Spotlight card on the guide you pick, and the listing becomes yours: edit it, add your logo, link to your site, and buyer inquiries come to you. |
| Each additional guide | $199 / guide / year | Half the first. Same card, another guide, one renewal date. 5 Spotlight slots per guide. |
| Featured Vendor | $699 / guide / year | The one exclusive band above the Spotlight cards, carrying a document readers can request. One price per guide, with the claimed listing included. Arranged by conversation. |
Annual, and nothing is charged until an editor approves the submission. If we change a price, it applies to new purchases: an existing subscription keeps its own rate, and we give at least 30 days' notice by email before any change affects a renewal.
What it looks like on a guide
Taken from the real pages. The companies are invented — SuperDuper IT Co and the rest are examples, not customers.
What the price does and doesn’t buy
We sell a place on the guide and a listing you control. We don't sell leads, traffic, rankings, or a place in the guide's analysis.
Every paid placement is labeled as one and sits outside the analysis. Links on paid placements are marked as advertising, which is what search engines require. What we do promise: every inquiry and every document request reaches you in full, with the buyer’s name, title, company and work email. How paid placements work · Directory Terms
The CIOPages Executive Forum
A different thing entirely, for a different buyer: senior leaders writing under their own byline, in a section separate from our editorial coverage. Every piece is labeled a paid guest contribution. Applying is free and we authorize your card without collecting it — we charge only if an editor accepts you.
| Application & review | Free to apply | We authorize your card when you apply, and collect only if we accept you |
|---|---|---|
| Membership | $499 / year | Covers the review and your standing in the Forum for twelve months |
| Each article you write | $249 | Charged when we accept your pitch. A pitch we turn down costs nothing |
| Each article we write | $499 | Researched and written from your intake and a short call. Your byline, your sign-off |
| Ceiling | 6 articles / year | A cap, not a target, so no single voice takes over the section |
Up to 6 published articles in a membership year. Membership buys review and a byline. It does not buy a place in a Buyer Guide, a change to a Directory record, or editorial coverage of your product.
Free, and always will be
Being listed in the Directory. Correcting anything wrong in any listing, whoever you are and whether or not you pay us. Telling us about a company we’ve missed. Being covered in a guide’s vendor comparison, on merit. Pitching an article. Find your listing
Something to send on
The same prices and terms, written to be read on paper. If a PDF and this page disagree, this page is right.
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