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Most Web sites deserve only a single visit. There's no reason to go back! And yet whatever your business, the potential exists to attract more customers and improve customer satisfaction, enhance team work or training, and increase revenue by using the Web. If your site just sits there, maybe it's time to let FutureU help you:
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Online Bookstore
(with Amazon.Com).
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Launch Your Own E-Store
Make it easy for customers or constituents to buy the books you write or recommend. We'll help you choose and install a database engine designed to create an annotated book list linked to Amazon.Com for speedy, reliable fulfillment. FutureU guides you through the process of becoming an Amazon.Com affiliate. All you have to do is provide the book list! No delays, frustrations, or wrong turns. Start earning 5 to 15% commission on every sale. Give your Web site the depth and polish it deserves by getting your online bookstore up and running right away.
Price: $1,200
(plus purchase price of engine--about $200 to $500).
Staff training: $200 an hour.
(Includes identifying book/tape titles. Estimate 8 hours, $1,600).
Plus travel time and expenses.
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Your Intellectual Capital for Sale
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Your research reports, white papers, booklets, instruction manuals, e-books, articles, photography, graphics, tapes, templates, digital product bundles—they all have value. And people want them. What you need is a simple way to sell them (or even give them away) without risking theft or mortgaging the farm. FutureU has spent years identifying the most secure, widely accessible, problem-free, and cost-effective methods of delivering digitized materials. Let us help you choose and install a "Digital Payload" engine that generates a unique URL for each sale. The URL disappears after a set time to prevent continued downloading. We can also help you arrange for online credit card sales.
The big dot.coms make it all look so easy, but unless you have millions in venture capital, you need FutureU to show you the shortcuts and the most affordable way to distribute your intellectual capital online.
System Start-Up: $3,500 (includes up to 24 SKUs)
Preparation of additional SKUs: $500 each, plus purchase price of Digital Payload software (about $500 to $1,000).
Staff Training for Ongoing Maintenance: $200/hr.
(Estimate: 30 hours, $6,000.)
Or, Ongoing Technical Maintenance by FutureU: $600/mo. (Up to 100 SKUs.)
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Co-Marketing of Your Online Materials and Modules
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If you want to reach trade associations, universities, K-12 school districts, continuing professional education and corporate training programs, FutureU has the contacts and the systems in place. Partner with FutureU and take a giant leap forward in revenue and exposure.
Price: Negotiable revenue sharing model.
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Online Enrollment
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There are many good alternatives for automating the enrollment process for your public and client-focused training programs. You can set up your own online enrollment solution with FutureU's help in software selection, installation, staff training, and launch oversight.
Price: $3,200, plus the cost of software
(free to several hundred dollars).
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Virtual Community Web Site
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Create a Buzz With Your Online Community
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Studies have found that the most active Web sites are the ones that give visitors a sense of community, which becomes their reason for coming back. Isn't it time you brought your web site to life? Let FutureU show you how.
You provide the content and artwork, supplemented by FutureU as appropriate. We set you up to present both free and premium (password protected) content designed to attract visitors/members. You'll have discussion spaces for peer-based interaction, customer service, and technical support. Also, a system for delivering polls, surveys, product reviews, and research reports. FutureU will also create a rudimentary database of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that arise from your ordinary records of customer requests, which can then grow from additional FAQs collected from the discussion spaces.
Your Main Community Portal
To design and build the portal. Price: $7,500
To manage the FAQs. Price: $500/mo. per discussion forum
To train your personnel to manage the portal. Price: $3,600
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Web-Based Event "Wraparounds"
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Make every event special. Well in advance, invite participants by email to click on your special event Web site, integrated into a "private membership" area of your online community. There, give them a real sense of the importance of what you have planned for them. Invite suggestions with surveys and discussion questions. Get people "talking." Think of the staff time you'll save answering routine questions. After the event, make the site even more active.
Draw people in:
- Increase interest
- Encourage buy-in
- Reinforce learning
- Iimprove outcomes
- Maintain momentum
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Use for:
- Annual meetings
- Board retreats
- Conferences
- Campaign kickoffs
- Any face-to-face event
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Use Before an Event:
- Surveys
- Discussion questions
- Schedules
- Maps
- Menus
- Contact information
- Backgrounders
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Use After an Event:
- Digital snapshots
- Minutes
- Reports
- Posters
- Followup surveys
- More discussion questions
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Let FutureU fully customize your "event wraparound" template with your own logo, colors, and materials.
To design and build your event "wraparound" template. Price: $3,500
Modify template for each additional event: Price: $200/hr. (estimate 2-6 hours)
To manage the Web site. Price: $500/mo. per site
(Most sites only last a few weeks before and after the event)
To train your personnel to manage. Price: $3,600
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Conversion of Training Modules for Online Delivery
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Includes Web site construction plus telephone coaching of trainers to organize and deliver materials and sign off on finished Web sites.
- Basic Module Web Sites. A unique Web site for each training module. Includes Module information [Syllabus] and Trainer Information (contact, bio, etc.)
Price: $1,500 per module
- Pre-Loaded Institution-Wide Discussion Forums (asynchronous). For peer-generated interaction. Virtual café preloaded with a welcome message and suggestions for how to use the space. Technical support forum preloaded with pointers to a self-paced guide and software FAQs. FutureU recommends training in interaction practices before faculty and students are invited into these discussion spaces.
Price: $1,000
(includes both a Technical and a Café Forum).
- Module Discussion Forums. Preloading of welcome message and module assignments and/or course logistics.
Price: $500 per course.
(Cost may vary with complexity of preloading.)
- Small Group Discussion Forums. To enable the dividing of participants into smaller study groups, each with its own discussion space.
Price: $500 per forum.
(Cost may vary with complexity of preloading.)
- Full Module Conversion. Price: $100.00/hour
(Average module: 25 to 50 hours).
- Online Enrollment. Software selection, installation, Your staff training, and launch oversight. Estimate, 16 hours.
Price: $3,200, plus the cost of software.
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