training and continuing education

The seminar company has launched its Web site to collectively promote and conduct transactions for seminar leaders'' seminars from around the world. Its Web site and backend database provide an organized format for easy comparison of many seminars in many categories -- from professional continuing your seminars to conventions, speakers bureaus, personal growth/development seminars, kids and seniors seminars as well as vacation learning and free seminars. Online training and academic education are also featured. The seminar company currently provides free listings for seminar leaders'' seminars under various topics. There is no cost to the seminar leader except for a nominal commission when an actual registration is made. Those who sign up are notified when a seminar in their area of interest and/or location becomes available. In addition to providing online listing of seminars and registration services for seminars, a back-up call center is provided. Promotional activities for branding the company name and Web site have commenced, with ads in trade journals and in-flight magazines that complement online advertisements.

The seminars will cover a range of topics. Topics include marketing, tax strategies, business valuation/succession planning, and technology will be presented by a group of national experts, internationally acclaimed marketing and sales success strategist and author and nationally renowned speaker. Each participant will be invited to attend a series of three seminars at no cost. The seminars are customized for businesses in different stages of growth. Start-ups will especially benefit from these topics: Marketing Yourself and Your Business, Creating a Do-Able Marketing Plan for the New Millennium and Tax Strategies for Small Business. Small businesses with a growing customer base will learn about: Valuating Business -- Succession Planning and How to Know When to Sell or Expand, Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Tough Competition, and Technology for Establishing Your Company''s Brand. All seminars will be led by industry experts in marketing, strategic planning and technology.