The Sloan Consortium Vendor Corner

Providing Solutions to Online Education Practitioners

Reach our select audience of 20,000 academics
while helping to support the leading non-profit researchers in online learning

When you partner with the Sloan Consortium you’re helping a leader in quality, independent research continue to build its membership and meet the rapidly growing needs of higher education. We consider our vendor partners as essential members of the Sloan-C community.

For our part, we offer promotional services that put your company in front of a highly targeted audience, and help you identify potential customer needs.

We offer:

The ability to reach a larger number of targeted potential customers
Ways to improve your products through customer feedback and expert commentary
The association of your organization with an internationally recognized leader in the field of online education, the Sloan Consortium and our parent organization, the Sloan Foundation

For a look at the Sloan-C Vendor Corner, please log onto our website at www.sloan-c.org and select Vendor Corner from the menu.

If you are interested in participating in the Sloan Consortium Vendor Corner program, or exploring other mutually beneficial opportunities, please contact vp@sloan-c.org.

Vendor Corner Pricing
Category
Vendor Corner Partner:	$3,500
Showcase Subscriber:	$750
Subscriber:	$500

Pricing/Benefits - 2006
	Subscriber	Showcase Subscriber	Vendor Partner
Price	$500	$750	$3,500
Product/Service Description	2, 100-word	4, 200-word	6, 300-word
Company Description	100-word	200-word	300-word
Product/Service Categories	1	3	6
Company Contact Information	*	*	*
Logo Display	*	*	*
Graphics	*	*	*
Links to Effective Practices Reports	*	*	*
Post Your Company’s Effective Practices Reports		*	*
Post your company’s Press Releases			*
Company Logo – Front Vendor Corner Page			*
Guaranteed Listing – top of category			*
Exclusive to a maximum of five Vendors			*

(Vendors may make a special request to be listed in additional product/service categories, but it will need to be reviewed further to ensure they fit the appropriate category.)

Statistics

677 organizational members from the following categories:

Higher Education: 533
Corporate Training: 80
Vendors: 64

Distribution List:

23,253 and growing (98% Higher Education)
Includes current member institutions
Also includes individual accounts at organizations that are not yet members
55% Administration, 18% faculty & Staff, 1% Corporate
Decision makers and influencers for purchasing decisions in their online learning programs

Sloan-C Web Site Activity
	----------- 2004 ----------			---------- 2005 ----------			‘04-‘05 Percent Change
Section	Pages	Visits	Unique Hosts	Pages	Visits	Unique Hosts	Pages	Visits	Unique Hosts
Entire Sloan-C web site	1,568,108	604,150	314,167	1,701,499	607,738	332,377	8.5%	0.6%	5.8%
JALN	490,527	131,748	89,771	505,510	165,409	116,490	3.1%	25.5%	29.8%
Sloan-C View	96,107	25,531	18,608	94,993	31,871	23,126	-1.2%	24.8%	24.3%
Catalog	101,630	21,141	16,494	113,057	25,888	20,206	11.2%	22.5%	22.5%
Effective Practice	92,819	31,912	25,222	96,548	39,829	31,682	4.0%	24.8%	25.6%
Sloan PDF, PPT, DOC, downloads	494,836	93,108	71,835	492,504	113,392	89,375	-0.5%	21.8%	24.4%
Vendor Corner	11,828	3,036	2,158	25,278	6,793	4,837	113.7%	123.7%	124.1%

ADDITIONAL CATEGORY DETAILS

Vendor Partner $3,500

• The only companies with their company logo and link next to search categories
• Guaranteed listing at the top of your product categories
• Company contact information which includes:

Contact name
URL
Linked email
Phone
Fax

• Select six product/service categories
• Company Page (includes company logo, six, 300-word product or service descriptions, graphics, 300-word company description.
• Four press releases posted on our website
• Link to product display

Showcase Subscriber $750

• Company contact information which includes:

Contact name
URL
Linked email
Phone
Fax

• Select three product/service categories
• Ability to post your own effective practice reports
• Company Page (includes company logo, 200-word company description, four, 200-word product or service descriptions, graphics.
• Two press releases posted on our website

Subscriber $500

• Company contact information which includes:

Contact name
URL
Linked email
Phone
Fax

• Select 1 product/service category
• Company Page (includes company logo, 100-word company description, two, 100-word product or service descriptions, graphics.

Sloan-C will make the final determination for company category assignments. If multiple Vendor Partners are listed in one product category, they will appear in the order of the date that sponsorship began.

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Thanks for taking the time to review this information.

If you are interested in participating in the Sloan Consortium Vendor Corner program, or exploring other mutually beneficial opportunities, please contact Keith Bourne at vp@sloan-c.org or (781) 292-2533.

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