Circle.com Powers Eduventures.com New Online Business For The Education Industry.Business/Technology Editors BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2000 Circle.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CIRC), a leading provider of end-to-end Internet services, and Eduventures.com, Inc., the market knowledge leader on e-learning and the education and training industry, announced the re-launch of Eduventures.com's Web site, www.eduventures.com. The site's central feature is a new annual research subscription that will give companies in the education and training industry the competitive intelligence needed to make better business and investment decisions. The site also provides free access to daily news, free and for-sale research and white papers, career services, and conference and event listings. "This strategic upgrade for our company required a broad understanding and knowledge of Internet business expertise--which Circle.com has," said Tom Dretler, Eduventures.com's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "They translated our new business vision online in record time." Dretler added that the launch was accomplished on budget, "and is already generating significant new business without any advertising." Circle.com created a platform for deploying a profitable Web-centric business, built a database and content management system to enable e-commerce, while adding new search functionality for the site. The site's content has expanded to include hundreds of detailed company profiles, a directory of both education companies and education industry investors and new research reports. Through a combination of technology, design, and content, Circle.com designed a new user interface, and vastly improved navigation. For the first time, users can purchase the breadth of Eduventures.com content via annual subscription. A less expensive subscription allows access to a limited array of the company's products and services. The company also has a free trial of the site, allowing a user to "try before they buy." Introducing these new subscription options allows Eduventures.com to better serve their customers, while evolving their business. Robert T. Wilke, CEO of Circle.com, was enthusiastic about the project, noting that "Eduventures.com allowed us to showcase how Circle.com's strategic processes produce measurable results. Through the synthesis of our Internet skills--creative, technological, marketing, and strategic consulting--we demonstrated that our services can immediately affect our clients' bottom line." Wilke added, "We look forward to continued collaboration on an evolutionary business model for the education sector." About Circle.com http://www.circle.com Circle.com (NASDAQ: CIRC) is an Internet professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. provider that creates complete end-to-end Web enabling services for its Fortune 1000 and emerging Internet-based clients worldwide. Circle.com, through its 14 offices and over 500 associates worldwide, specializes in Internet-based customer relationship management systems. Circle.com is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland and is a division of Snyder Communications, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SNC SNC St Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) SNC Sistema Nervioso Central SNC Société en Nom Collectif (French: Partnership) SNC Système Nerveux Central (French: central nervous system) ). Clients include: American Legacy Foundation The American Legacy Foundation (ALF)[1][2][3] is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing teen smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. , drugstore.com, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , Guinness, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lexmark, Lotus Development, MSNBC.com, MyWay.com (A subsidiary of CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) ), OfficeDepot.com, The PNC Financial Services PNC Financial Services (NYSE: PNC) is a U.S.-based financial services corporation, with assets of $92.0 billion. PNC operations include a regional banking franchise operating primarily in eight states and the District of Columbia, specialized financial businesses serving Group, Symantec, UPS, and Wall Street Journal.com. About Eduventures.com http://www.eduventures.com Eduventures.com, Inc. is a provider of education technology industry analysis, market data and insight to buyers, suppliers and users of e-learning products and services. In addition, Eduventures.com provides market data and insight to education & training industry investors, service providers and other observers. The Company delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data as well as insight into e-learning technology to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions in the pre-K-12, higher education, and corporate markets. |
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