Interactive Training and First Seminar Announce Marketing and Sales Partnership

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Marketing Manager
Interactive Training, Inc.
Phone: 978-921-2470
Email: info@trainingforum.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 8, 1998

Interactive Training and First Seminar Announce Marketing and Sales Partnership

BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, October 15, 1998 -- Interactive Training, Inc., (IT) a provider of interactive, on-line training courses and systems, and First Seminar (FIRST), a major reseller of corporate training programs, today announced a sales and marketing agreement to cross-sell the products of both companies through IT’s Web community and FIRST’s direct sales force.

IT is incorporating FIRST’s 250,000 fully searchable database of professional seminars & events into its award-winning training community, TrainingForum (www.trainingforum.com). FIRST will market and sell IT’s expanding CD-ROM and Web-based soft-skills and health care courses to its vast customer base of corporations and professional organizations.

“IT is pleased to partner with FIRST.” said Paul Earl, IT’s President and CEO. “Their number one position among resellers of corporate training programs will help us expand the reach of our CD-ROM and Web-based courses & seminars into major corporations and other organizations.” Anna Kritselis, President of FIRST, commented “Incorporating IT’s CBT courses & seminars into FIRST’s offerings will enable us to provide a comprehensive offering of high quality professional development courses to our customers. Recent requests for CBT have been increasing rapidly, and the partnership with IT will help us better meet these changing needs of our customers.”

First Seminar of Lowell, MA is the largest source of training programs in North America. They have contracts with over 1,000 seminar and events providers. Their database of 250,000 events and professional seminars covers all industries, is updated weekly, and represents the world's largest on-line database of professional and technical training events.

Interactive Training, Inc. of Beverly, MA develops and delivers on-line training resources for professionals and organizations. The company’s SoftSkills-interactive division provides interactive, Web-based learning programs to meet the performance improvement, training, skills improvement, and certification requirements of business professionals and organizations. The company’s HLS-interactive division provides interactive, Web-based learning programs and consulting services to meet the mandatory training, skills improvement, compliance, and certification requirements of professionals and organizations in the health care industry. Interactive Training’s Web community, TrainingForumTM (www.trainingforum.com), was recognized by NetGuide as a four star Gold Site winner placing in the top 5% of 100,000 sites that were reviewed and was also chosen as the “Surf Site of the Week” by The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD).

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