Prospectus Business Opportunity
Business Partner, Local / Country Exclusive Licensee / Representative
B2B Media Services / Connectdirector.com
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), March 2009
Table of Contents
General and Basic Information
o Contract Partner / Licensee Provider
o Scope of Licensee Agreement
o Our Business Intentions
o Our Mission
o National Sites, Services and Planning
o Supporting / Information and Fun / Entertainment Web Sites
o Advertisers and Member Benefits
Licensee Characteristics
o Licensee Profile
o Licensee Tasks
o Organisation and Tasks (figure)
o Licensee Benefits
o Licensee Personal Investment
o General Remarks
Time and Financial Planning
o Time Consuming
o Licensee Fee
o Advertisement and Subscription Income
Apply Procedure
o Apply Online
o Continuation Procedure
General and Basic Information
Contract Partner / Licensee Provider
B2B Media Services, Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce registration 33291973
Owner / managing director: H.M.J. Stultiens, nationality Dutch, only authorized.
In this prospectus B2B Media Services will also be mentioned Connectdirector(.com)
Scope of Licensee Agreement
A contract to exploit, for own profit and loss, as an info-preneur, for a determined exclusive area or country the ‘national’ Connectdirector web sites.
Our Business Intentions
By our portal we
provide a business opportunity with a potential attractive income
support and accumulate existing (consultancy, trade, services) business
create a platform for referrals and new business
Our Mission
Become an authority in guiding and reducing barriers by direct linking business and social needs and interests on the principles of joint result, integrity, compliance and excellence.
National Sites, Services and Planning
In the first phase in August 2009 will be launched the majority of the national sites as Jobs and Business will only be online at November 2009. The payment module will not be available in 2009, but only integrated in the middle of 2010.
For an overview of the websites and its content and services, click here
Networking, Supporting / Information and Fun / Entertainment Web Sites
Those 18 websites are direct exploit by B2B Media Services with the goal to drive visitors to the 9 national sites. The supervision on the national forum pages is although the responsibility of the relevant country Licensee.
Advertisers and Member Benefits
These 14 motives will be basis of Connectdirector’s success, click here
Licensee Characteristics
Licensee Profile
self employed, an entrepreneur with a proven track record and solid reputation
commercial attitude to build up local / national business contact (not a qualification of a technical web wizards or online net worker)
a professional to run the business and as activities will grow has the intention to provide permanent office and staff or subcontract work
willing to invest time and some money
preferably in the business of consultancy & management support and/or merchant activities between local markets and foreign buyers/sellers (as we suggest to use connetdirector.com to promote also own private business)
Licensee Tasks
web content writing and update, including translations and national customising
promotion, online and offline
list / subscriber management
periodical newsletter
customer service, accessible, email reply and if necessary telephone communication
sales of advertisements and subscriptions
establish, coordinate and manage local service Agent Network
coordinate and manage the volunteer moderators of the national forum(s)
Organisation and Tasks
The association of organisation structure and tasks is reproduced in a figure. To open this figure, click here
Licensee Benefits
licensee of an sophisticated portal concept, a powerful marketing tool
attractive commission on national advertisement and subscriptions earnings
traffic to and promotion of personal web shop, services and/or business websites
recognized ‘national’ expert
network contacts for business referrals and new concepts
Licensee Personal Investments
time consuming
set-up (entrance) licensee fee
annual (yearly) licensee fee
General Remarks
the licensee has to live and have an office in the area/country that is allocated to the licensee
in common we will appoint for each country only 1 representative / licensee, except if the area/country has an exceptional size and potential (starts around 75 million inhabitants) then it will be not desirable and we will split it between more licensee partners
the entrance fee is equal to the annual fee with the exception that the entrance fee will be raised with additional costs and 25% charge for each (part of a) quarter later accession as March 2009 (with a maximum of 100%)
first 6 months of the licensee contract are a probation, contract conclusion can be done by both parties immediately on each given moment by a written letter and in the final settlement B2B Media Services will credit 50% of the original entrance fee
the annual fee has be paid every year at the latest on 1 January starting at 2010
notice that the set up is at least a 3 to 5 months fulltime hard work to collect, write and rewrite (high quality, content rich specialized) articles, photos (royalty free), maps (that we will have to redesign) all kind of business listings (for address/directory listings and promotion) - an option is to subcontract part of the work (most work will be the country / tourists web site)
the set up licensee fee is to cover (partly) our cost of our system/hosting, management support and (country set up and) additional web design
we demand a minimum of 12 months (or more if our submission targets are not achieved) to operate the site for free and charge no advertising costs for directory listings, advert classified subscription and advert special promotion index
on adverts we practice differentiated price-settings depending on size of business, country and site / category to make the advertisement service within reach of all businesses
on the advertisement and subscription income the distribution code is 70% for Licensee and 30% for B2B Media Services
our Licensee Agreement will have a target on advertisement revenue (depending on internet use and area/country business attractiveness and population), if a licensee is unable to fulfil the target advertisement revenue (40% under defied and/or average licensee level) connectdirector.com is entitled to cancel the partnership without any obligation and / or compensation
the yearly licensee fee is in proportion to the budget and target revenues and is an commitment-policy that will be 50% refunded if advertisement revenues are in line with the target
licensee has to pay directly (as a reduction on their own commission) their local agents / affiliates for advertisement referrals and all other costs
a licensee is not allowed to promote, join or to set up an affiliate program (included Google Adsense) on the Connectdirector.com web sites and therefore will have no revenue of any these affiliate programs
supervision of volunteer moderators and editors (of for example national forum pages) of national forum pages is the responsibility of the relevant country Licensee.
on going concern base Licensee will at minimum post 1 new quality rich article on the national site and promote this by article submission to article publishers and by search engines
Connectdirector.com will own the copyright of all content and materials published on our site
partnership and all activities of us and our partners are subject to our legal forms as issued on our sites and the Licensee Network Agreement (contract) and no conflict of interests and/or affairs are accepted.
Time and Financial Planning
Time Consuming
The country set up and first promotional period is (almost) a full time job. On going concern base the amount of time will be determine by Licensee effective organisational and management skills, intensity of customer service and the amount of promotion.
At minimum we expect 2.5 hours a day (12.5 hours a week), as most of the ordering will be done automatically. But the time effort could be more and is also related to the revenue. In this hiring staff or subcontracting work could be an option
A more accurate figure can not be provided
Licensee Fee
This will be $5,000.00 up to $40,000.00 depending on the determined exclusive area or country as we the fee will be related to size, internet users and average national income as those parameters are also the basis of the potential.
In contract discussion the exact figure will be given.
Advertisement and Subscription Income
On going concern base we expect national annual revenue (including our 30% reduction) at minimum $75,000.00 up to over $ 1,000,000.00.
Accurate figures cannot be provided as advertisement and subscription income are related to country volume/potential, pricing matrix and licensee sales skills.
Our pricing matrix is rather complicated as we practise differentiated price-setting (to make advertising available for more businesses), adjust to country standards and also provide several advertisement and subscription options.
In general we will aim at 75% of the common pricing level (to give an idea; in The Netherlands a website job advertisement will cost €199 (about $300), in Thailand an annual advertisement of a tourism site is 20.000 BTH (about $500)
In contract discussion the exact pricing matrix will be given.
Apply Procedure
Apply Online
For contacting us, please apply online with your application letter (only self employed professionals!) with motive, resume and possibility to make your remarks and/or to put forward your questions. Click here for apply online
Continuation Procedure
If you are a selected candidate we will inform you within 6 weeks. In a personal meeting at a location of your choice we will discuss further partnership and the licensee contract in detail.
