Dear Course Provider:

Thank you for your interest in the newly enhanced Seminar Finder™ Web site. As you already know, the Web can assist potential seminar, Web-based training (WBT) & continuing education participants in finding and registering for your courses. What the Web has been lacking, though, was a consolidated source to help people easily find the courses they seek.

In response, the technicians and designers at NovaStone New Media™ have created Seminar Finder - a proprietary interactive database program that allows anyone with Web access to browse and search information about your courses by topic, location, date, company, and/or seminar leader.

Each course listing features expanded course descriptions, public dates, seminar leader biographies, and detailed registration information - including secure on-line registration - to a global audience. There is also two pages of descriptive text about your organization linked to all your course pages.

We are positioning Seminar Finder as the source for information on all seminars, WBT and continuing education courses. Unlike thousands of separate Web sites, Seminar Finder is a pooling of resources within the industry. Instead of trying to find your existing Web site in a sea of thousands, a visitor can simply go to Seminar Finder and locate his/her information quickly. Once a course has been found, visitors can easily register directly with your firm or University any number of ways, including securely on-line!

As you know, millions of dollars are spent on advertising, brochures and catalogs to market training courses each year, but these methods are inefficient. You need to have your expensive paper catalog land on the right desk at the right time. But with Seminar Finder your courses can always be found when your customers need them. Seminar Finder is the most cost effective way to fill your courses with participants.

Business analysts predict that Seminar Finder may actually increase aggregate participation in training courses globally because it helps people around the world find the training they need much more efficiently than traditional media, such as catalogs.

We are aggressively advertising and promoting Seminar Finder in magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and on-line, which is helping make Seminar Finder one of the most widely utilized resources on the Internet. We have also begun a popular affiliate program whereby other high traffic Web sites can use the Seminar Finder database to let their audiences search for courses - which increases the number of people finding your courses!

If you have not already done so, go to the following Seminar Finder Web address to place 5 complimentary listings and to receive your ID and password: http://www.seminarfinder.com/free.php3

Q: How does the Partner Listings Program differ from the Paid Listings Program?
A: With the Paid Listings Program, course providers refer to the current Seminar Finder rate card and pay a fee to list each course. Full registration price goes directly to the course provider with no commission due. With the Partner Listings Program, course providers pay nothing up front and only pay a commission on each registration generated by Seminar Finder.

Q: How much commission does my program need to pay for the Partner Listings Program?
A: This is determined on an individual basis. Considerations include: course prices, number of courses, etc.

Q: Are commissions due on spin-off registrations?
A: No. Commissions are only due on registrations directly generated from Seminar Finder. Once a course provider begins marketing directly to that registrant, any registrations go directly to that course provider (yes, we know this is an excellent deal for the course provider :-)

Q: Our organization already has a Website, why would we want to list our courses on Seminar Finder too?
A: The Web is crowded, so users are drawn to websites offering extensive resources and listings. Seminar Finder generates a large amount of traffic because it offers a complete menu of resources to individuals looking for training. Don't let your smaller website get lost in a sea of others; a prominent presence at key Web locations maximizes your on-line marketing efforts. Seminar Finder reaches a large and diverse audience, thus increasing the number of new registrants who would not have considered your courses otherwise. No other marketing tool today presents such a tremendous value.

Q: How do people find Seminar Finder and my courses?
A: There are a variety of ways people find their way to the Seminar Finder Web site. NovaStone New Media, which manages Seminar Finder, dedicates its expertise in graphics, marketing, advertising and public relations to making Seminar Finder the most popular and accessible seminar sites on the World Wide Web. Seminar Finder is professionally marketed to course participants around the world through public relation campaigns, advertising and on-line marketing.

Q: How do I delete, modify, and/or add seminars? How do I modify my company information? How do I add dates to a seminar?
A: Go to the on-line members administrative page at: seminarfinder.com/members and simply enter your member ID and password. You will see options to administer all your information. This on-line administrative section was created so you can make minor additions and changes to your seminar listings at any time. Initially, Seminar Finder will gather all your descriptive course materials and publish them in Seminar Finder for you.