| About TeachMeIT |
| Teach Me IT is a web-based information technology training and assessment service. Our
clients are individuals who wish to acquire current technology skills in a self-directed online
environment, or corporations, small businesses and organizations that want to provide this
training to employees, or test job candidates.
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| Our e-learning development team has been developing IT training materials for over six years,
for clients such as Gartner Group Learning, Oracle and Seagate.
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| Yes, for specific circumstances. Please contact us for information.
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| Co-Branded Sites |
You promote IT training, and provide prominent links in your navigation to your training area.
These promotions and links are on your site, on your server. When the user clicks through to
the IT training area home page, that page is the first of the co-brand. It features your logo, your
look and feel, and some of your navigation. It also features IT course information, registration
and sign-in boxes, and other helpful material. This page is actually on our servers. As the user
drills down and begins to take a course, the co-brand design falls away and the user is
completely within the training environment.
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| We work with you to create a co-brand that reflects as much of your site experience as
possible, making the transition to our courseware seamless for the user. See the Sample Co-
Brand for an example.
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| We build the co-brand using our template, including your colors and branding.
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| No, as long as we host the courses. |
| One year. |
| Yes, either party can cancel the contract as long as 30 day's written notice is provided.
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| No.
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| Yes. This guarantees unbroken fulfillment of the contract should any significant change in
ownership of Teach Me IT occur.
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| Traffic, User & Intellectual Property Ownership |
| We own and retain all rights for our training material. |
| It is necessary for the delivery of the training that the user register with us and become a
member of our online community. However, each user is "flagged" in the database with an
identifier for the partner through which the user came to us. That user is permanently
associated with that partner. |
| Yes, although only information on that partner's users will be made available to any given
partner. |
| Yes, reports on user behavior will be available, but again, only for that partner's users.
However, reports on aggregated anonymous user behavior across all Teach Me IT co-branded
sites may be made available periodically. |
| The partner represents only itself. The partner and we are independent contractors, and hold
each other harmless against any claims. The partner has no relationship with us beyond
reselling our IT training products, unless explicitly stated otherwise. |
| We receive the page views for all co-brand and training pages served by us. |
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| Sales Transactions |
| We handle the transactions when training is purchased. See the Price Sheet for current pricing. |
| We accept purchase orders directly from clients with 50 or more users, who meet our
requirements regarding minimum purchase amount or number of licenses; please enquire. We
do not accept purchase orders passed on to us from resellers. If you are a reseller you may
accept purchase orders at your discretion and at your risk, but we will receive payment for our
services as usual. |
| Once a month, 30 days after the end of the month in which the transaction occurred. For
example, a purchase made on January 16 begins the 30 day cycle on February 1, and payment
is made on March 1. |
| This is possible in exceptional cases. The reseller must make payment to us on the 15th of
every month for the revenues collected the previous month. |
| Teach Me IT does not sell its training services directly to individual clients, only through
partners. We want users to become loyal to our partners and the training we provide through
our partners. However, Help in IT, Inc. has other IT services that may be of interest to our
training clients and we reserve the right to inform them of these services. |
| Each user coming to us through a partner is tagged with the partner identifier. As long as the
contract is valid, users returning to us through the partner site credit the partner. |
| Not after the purchase is completed. |
| A charge back is applied to the appropriate partner account. |
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| Revenue Sharing |
| We have three revenue share levels, providing the partner 20%, 25% or 30% of the invoice
value, depending on exclusivity; prominence on co-branded site; and prominence in off-line
advertising. |
| The partner is paid the percentage on the invoice value as per the contract. Price changes
affect only new purchases, so whatever has been purchased remains valued at that price. |
| Yes, provided the partner informs us of any such arrangement and receives permission prior to
the finalization of the secondary reseller contract. The original partner with whom we have a
relationship remains our client, and our share of the revenue from each purchase of training
services remains the same. The original partner manages the revenue split with the secondary
reseller at its discretion. |
| At this time we are not accepting advertisements on our co-branded pages. |
| No. |
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| Hosting & Administration |
| Yes, if the following conditions are met. The partner must be a publicly held company, in the
U.S. It must pre-pay (and guarantee) a minimum of $100,000 in revenue share advance per
annum. We must be provided user information and administrator access to the servers. |
| Yes. If the courses are to be on the client's servers, the client must be – as above – a publicly
held U.S. company pre-paying a minimum of $100,000 per annum. For an extranet
arrangement, requiring a dedicated server that we host, the server and necessary bandwidth
are billable to the client. |
| Corporate clients are assigned a single administrative password. That administrator then
assigns access for selected users, and can monitor progress. |
| Yes. Corporate user browsers need only permit plug-ins. |
| We employ multiple T1 lines and server redundancy, for completely reliable up time 24 hours a
day. |
| We are fully scalable. |
| Yes, primarily through e-mail. Additional support provided as needed. |
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| Marketing |
| No. Our current revenue sharing structure provides the partner 20%, 25% or 30% of the invoice
value based on several factors, one of which is the prominence of the IT training as a
component the partner's marketing efforts. In exceptional cases, where our training and our
brand receive a particularly high profile in a partner's large-scale marketing campaign, we can
provide the partner an even higher percentage. |
| We currently do not create exclusive partnerships based on geography or target audience.
However, we will consider exclusive geographic sales territories outside the U.S. for CD-RM
distribution only. |
| Yes. Please contact us. |
| Yes. Electronic materials in the form of slide presentations, brochures, demos and other online
resources are available and can be customized for the partner. We will also soon be offering
online live walkthroughs and instructional seminars. |
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| Curriculum Development |
| We will offer at least 150 courses by the end of 2000, and will offer up to 200 additional training
titles in 2001. |
| We may change the priority of our course development schedule to accommodate requests if
the training product adds value to our curriculum. Depending on a variety of factors, we may
charge for this service. In any case, turnaround time for new course development can be as
short as 8 weeks. We own all content we produce. |
| Yes. This is available on a custom basis, and at a custom negotiated price. In the case of
proprietary material, the client retains ownership of the training product. |
| Yes, in exceptional cases, most often when collaborating with a client to develop training
products for proprietary material, as above. |
| We are currently in the process of certifying all courses that can be certified. For others, we are
creating our own certification standards. |
| Yes. We are actively seeking reseller partners for language conversion. Translation to any
given language will be applied to our entire library. |
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