| Vendors have products and services to save you time and money and provide solutions to your greatest challenges. Contact each one and ask them what they can do to develop your school. (If you are a supplier, click here to find out how to qualify to be listed.)
Publications
Marketing/Enrollment Management
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Contact Direct Marketing
2091 E. Murray-Holladay Road, Suite 21
Salt Lake City, Utah 84117
Contact: Mr. Eric Schanz, President
Phone: 1-866-USE-CONTACT (873-2668)
Fax: 801-942-9282
www.contactdm.com
sfsa@contactdm.com
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| CONTACT Direct Marketing is a full-service direct marketing company. We specialize in eye-catching, innovative direct-mail packages including letters, surveys, brochures, and postcards that are fully customized to your school requirements. Supercharge your direct marketing efforts with Click to CONTACT! --- Online response option that delivers leads to your admissions team in real time. Ask about our Creative Services, Campaign Analysis, Lead Incubation, List Modeling, and Remarketing Strategies. Complimentary consultation, market analysis, and quote with SFSA code.
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GetStarts Inc.
1780 Kettner Blvd., Loft 104
San Diego, CA 92101
Contact: Mr. Sammy James, President
Phone: (800) 508-1958
Fax: (619) 237-1097
www.getstarts.com
sfsa@getstarts.com
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GetStarts provides schools with powerful new marketing tools to generate, measure, monitor, track and improve all lead generation and enrollment efforts.
GetStarts handles all marketing efforts including the following specialties: 24/7 Live Website chat agents, "Click to Talk" for your website, Live 24/7 Message Center, Form to Phone website converts (from leads to phone calls), Web Form Data Verification, Trigger Mail that automatically follows up website leads, and much more.
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lead ADVANTAGE
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Lead Advantage Inc.
1519 S Bowman Rd, Suite A.
Little Rock, AR 72211-4207
Contact: Mr. Phillip Moore, Managing Partner
Phone: (501) 687-5323 Ext. 227
Fax: (501) 225-8163
www.leadadvantage.us
sfsa@leadadvantage.us
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| We are a full service direct response lead generation company experienced in media placement, rate negotiations, and media performance analysis in national television markets. Our production team is in-house so we can monitor results and make program adjustments, keeping the creative fresh. Our offers range from hard hitting program specific “Live Look” commercials to increase lead flow or a combination of branding / image commercials with a direct response hook. We also offer turn key production for lobby videos, infomercials, and video elements for your website. Anything you can watch on a screen, we can produce.
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VentureDirect Worldwide
708 Third Avenue, 12th Floor
New York NY 10017
Contact: Rich Baumer, CEO
Phone: (212) 655-5123
Fax: (212) 655-5308
http://www.venturedirect.com
rbaumer@ven.com
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| A full service 24 year old lead generation company that specializes in increasing enrollments in schools and colleges offering on-site, distance education, and blended programs. We use highly evolved direct response techniques and the most advanced technological execution --all delivered on a cost-per-lead, no risk basis. First we learn your school's model, audience, economics, and your motivation to succeed. Then we build a custom lead generation campaign, that includes on and off-line media, to deliver a scalable, consistent, reliable stream of qualified and motivated prospective students.
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Recruiting High School Seniors and Young Adults
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SouthWest Direct, Inc.
2129 Andrea Lane
Fort Myers, FL 33912-1903
Contact: Ms. Kristine Haverly
Phone: (800) 968-5798
Fax: (239) 768-0408
www.swdirect.com
khaverly@swdirect.com
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| National company with over 30 years of experience in direct marketing for colleges, career schools, and universities. SouthWest Direct is a full service, direct mail production facility offering creative list identification, printing and mail services for lead generation, as well as consultation and analysis of your direct mail campaigns. SouthWest Direct produces postcards, self mailers, and personalized letters to meet your marketing requirements. Let our professionals guide you through every phase of a direct marketing campaign, from the beginning stage of consulting to the final stage of the mailing process.
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Financing
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RJM Acquisitions/Island National
575 Underhill Boulevard, Suite 224
Syosset, NY 11791
Contact: Mr. Chuck Fridkin, Director of Marketing
Phone: (516) 714-1384
Cell phone: (516) 790-0740
cfridken@rjmcq.com
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RJM Acquisitions is a national debt buyer specializing in the purchase of aged uncollectible student loan accounts. We generate immediate revenue on charged-off accounts that have already been through your internal and external collection process.
We utilize a unique customer service philosophy that uses customized letters instead of the usual collection calls. We prefer portfolios with total balances of over one million dollars.
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Barry Glasser & Company
Certified Public Accountants
30423 Canwood Street, Suite 218
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Contact: Mr. Barry Glasser
Phone: (818) 874-9940, Extension 22
barry@glasser-cpa.com
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| Full service accounting firm that focuses on the needs of all sized career schools and colleges. Financial and compliance auditing as required by the Department of Education as well as consulting with schools regarding purchases and sales and regulatory planning are all part of the services we provide. Tax planning and preparation, financial planning and due diligence are some of the additional services available. We work with you wherever you are located.
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Program Development
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
40 Tall Pine Drive
Sudbury, MA 01776
Contact: Jennifer Solomon
Phone: 1-800 832-0034 x.8118
Fax: 978-443-8000
www.jbpub.com
aweisman@jbpub.com
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| Planning a new curriculum or need to update your current learning materials? Jones and Bartlett Publishers offers current texts in the areas of allied health, computer science, criminal justice, emergency care, fire, health science, mathematics, medicine, nursing, and physical and biological sciences. J&B also offers materials if you are developing or upgrading programs in emergency medical services, electrical contracting, health administration, public health and more. Talk to us about curriculum development, instructor's manuals, distance education, and whatever else you may need to jumpstart a new program.
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Online Training
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EdTek Services, Inc.
30 Wascana Avenue
Toronto, Canada M5A 1V5
Contact: Paul Jacobelli,
President and Founder
Phone: 866-644-2450
www.edtekservices.com
sfsa@edtekservices.com
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EdTek Services, Inc. caters exclusively to small career schools and colleges that want to set up on-line distance education programs. Turnkey services provided by EdTek include Learning and Course Management Systems, curriculum, online faculty and faculty training, 24x7x365 Help Desk, and enrollment marketing.
EdTek offers SFSA clients and prospects a complimentary 17-Point Online Opportunities Analysis, including recommendations about which on-line courses to offer. If you are already on-line, EdTek offers a free On-line Program Audit that can help you determine if you are overpaying and by how much.
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Gatlin Education Services (GES)
109 East 3rd St., Suite 350
Ft. Worth, TX. 76102
Contact: Mark Lamkin, Executive Director
Phone: (817) -870-2870
Fax: (817) 870-2871
www.gatlineducation.com
mark.lamkin@cengage.com
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| Jump start your online career
training division with ready-to-run online
curriculum from Gatlin Education Services (GES).
Now a part of ed2go and Cengage Learning, GES
offers a broad range of programs and courses in
healthcare, business, law, construction,
automotive, computers and IT, video game design,
casino gaming, and heavy industry training such
as chemical and power plant operations, and
more. These flexible programs allow students to
work at their own pace under professional
guidance. Everything is included - instructors,
system administration, evaluations, and more -
for a true turnkey solution. GES can even assist
with approval from your regulatory agency and
other appropriate bodies. Custom curriculum
development is also available. Contact us today
to learn how you can quickly attract more
students from a broader market base.
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School Development
Student Services
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GadBall
1400 Quail Street, Suite 260
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Contact: Keith Duarte
Phone: (949) 833-7755
www.datafrenzy.com
sfsa@datafrenzy.com
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| Free career and placement services for your school. GadBall.com is the world’s largest and most comprehensive career portal in partnership with hundreds of job boards and thousands of employers. The GadBall Career Center has everything schools need to offer the entire process of career discovery, job search, resume writing, resume posting, interviewing, and salary negotiations. GadBall is perfect for all your grads who want free resume distribution, access to free salary surveys, interview tips, cover letter advice, networking tips, and even occupational research from over 400 professionally made career videos on the site. Just add a link in the careers section of your website pointing your students to GadBall. Then visit our web site to request a free listing for your school on GadBall.com.
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JIST Publishing, America's Career Publisher
875 Montreal Way
St. Paul MN 55102
Contact: Barry Newborn, Vice President, Sales
Phone: 1-(800) 648 5478 Ext. 245
www.jist.com
bnewborn@jist.com
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| To enhance students' and grads' job search knowledge and career exploration, check out JIST Publishing, America's Career Publisher. JIST's outstanding, self-directed products empower individuals to take control of their future and achieve long-term success. For more than 25 years, JIST has published award-winning materials on job search, career exploration, occupational information, life skills, and character education. Visit www.jist.com today to learn more about the materials right for the people you work with, request a complimentary catalog, or check out our special offers.
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Operations
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CresaPartners LLC
11726 San Vicente Boulevard
Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Phone: (310) 943-5105
Fax: (310) 207-0930
dshibuya@cresapartners.com
www.cresapartners.com
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| CresaPartners is an international real estate advisory firm. School owners seeking seamless moves to new locations benefit from CresaPartners services. The firm has offices in 125 cities throughout the U.S. and in 35 countries so regardless of your target destinations, there is a CresaPartner to serve you. Services are customized exclusively for you - the tenant school. It starts with a strategic growth plan, analysis of renewal vs. relocation opportunities, identification of ideal school sites, lease administration, and advising you of incentive opportunities. Cresa saves you time and money and advises you about the special needs of a school including parking space requirements, lighting, safety, signage needs, weekend and night openings, how to effectively work with architects and contractors, and how to create an ideal hassle-free move.
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Muno, Summers & Associates
Post Office Box 882
Oldsmar, FL 34677
Contact: Debbie Muno,
Managing Partner
Phone: 813-925-8410 1-866-JOB-FITS
sfsa@munosummers.com
www.munosummers.com
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| Muno, Summers & Associates is a Job Matching and Assessment Firm focusing on optimizing staff performance in career schools. Our proven Assessment Program, coupled with our experienced Career School Service Team, brings great results: Improved hiring strategies to attract top talent, Reduction in employee turnover, Retention of top performers, and Coaching and Developing the performance of your Current Employees. Our Assessment Program uses Assessments that are reliable, valid, and compliant. Assessments are offered on-line so results are immediate. And, they are available in several languages. We have extensive experience in the Career School Sector, working with schools of all sizes throughout the United States and Canada. If "People Problems" are plaguing your school contact us.
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Diamond D., Inc.-213198
PO Box 235
Kingsburg, CA 93631-0235
Contact: Dianna Atwood, CEO
Phone: (559) 897-7872
Fax: (559) 897-6011
www.diamondd.biz
sfsa@diamondd.biz
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| Easy-to-use software that manages students from leads through graduation. Includes admissions, registration, financial aid, accounting, placement default management, administration, and reports. Our high-quality customer-service oriented staff helps to assure that set up, training, and implementation are seamless. Support is just a phone call away.
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Horizon Educational Resources, Inc.
Contact: Mr. Ron Parker, President
Phone: (888) 532-9216
Fax: (512) 291-1590
www.horizoned.com
sfsa@horizoned.com
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Horizon has been providing a full range of default prevention services for universities, colleges, and career colleges participating in the Title IV programs since 1992.
Our services include default prevention, skip tracing, and debt recovery, which consists of a full-service call center, student loan counseling, collections, phone campaigns, letter campaigns, loan exit counseling documentation, and default prevention web based software.
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Knight Educational Products
10557 Metric Drive
Dallas, TX 75243
Phone (800) 323-2439
(214) 340-0265
Fax: (214) 340-5870
www.knightedu.com
Contact: David Luna
sales@knightonline.com
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| Knight Educational Products, a division of Knight Electronics, Inc., supplies career schools with a range of products needed for the medical, massage therapy, culinary arts, personal training, electronics and skilled trade industries. High quality, lower cost products include apparel, test equipment, tool kits, nurse's kits, uniforms/scrubs, massage tables, chairs and much more! We make ordering easy with a one-stop shopping experience for schools with multiple programs. Check our website for the latest equipment and special offers at discount prices.
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MaxKnowledge, Inc.
3943 Irvine Blvd. #262
Irvine, California 92602
Contact: Mr. Amir Moghadam, Ph.D.,
Executive Director
Phone: 714-505-0901
Fax: 714-505-1517
www.maxknowledge.com
sfsa@maxknowledge.com
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| MaxKnowledge offers a wide variety of online and blended training programs to enhance the knowledge and skills of career college personnel. Subject areas include: Admissions, Education, Faculty Training, eLearning, Financial Aid, Marketing, Operations, Placement, and Retention. Courses are facilitated by leading career education experts. Participants receive Continuing Education Units upon completion of training. MaxKnowledge is an approved provider by the Florida Commission for Independent Education. Look for our large selection of free soft-skills courses including communications, management, leadership, creativity, and innovation. Enroll your staff to increase the efficiency, quality, and profitability of your operations.
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