Becoming and associate-background information

Now that you are acquainted with our web site and the wide range of management diagnostic tools and assessments available through the web (many of them offering almost immediate 360 degree feedback) we'd like to describe the opportunity that is offered to you as a potential associate.

In simple terms, we offer you the chance to expand your professional resources, enhance your expertise, exchange ideas with colleagues around the globe, and increase your income potential by joining the profiles-r-us.com network of Associates.

The profiles-r-us.com network of Associates is a professional network of independent business people selling high-end assessments and HR development and training products. Profiles-r-us.com web based instruments and assessments are currently used by hundreds of organizations around the world (with the numbers growing every week) committed to maximizing human capital and retaining a high-performance workforce.

As an associate, you'll be working with a proven strategic human resource consulting business and major human resource development publisher of proven, cutting-edge assessment instruments developed from solid research and validated to ensure quality, reliability, and compliance.

A NETWORK OF PROFESSIONALS

Your alliance with other independent distributors will give you access to local, national, and international networking opportunities. You'll benefit from the worldwide business experience of our highly skilled network of consultants, trainers, and human-resource professionals.

Click HERE to start the ball rolling by expressing your interest in getting to know more. Alternatively call us via phone on 61 7 5593 4399.
Jon Warner
President
Profiles-r-us.com Pty Ltd

profiles-r-us.com
PO Box 652
Mudgeeraba
Gold Coast, Queensland
Australia

profiles-r-us.com Associate welcome letter,

Dear Prospective profiles-r-us.com Associate,

Thank you for your interest in joining the profiles-r-us.com network of Associates. We are recognized leaders in developing and providing workshops and materials for the high-performance workplace, and take great pride in the network of professionals who are not only familiar with our products, but want to use them to help other organizations achieve their goals.

Working with us as a new Associate will give you immediate access to not only a wide range of management, and human resource products and services that will grow your business and provide quality solutions to your clients or customers.

The first step in becoming an Associate is to read as much of the information that you can on this web site (including printing out the forms and brochures that are included. You can then move on to complete and send in the Associate application form. Completing the application does not commit you to anything. You'll be contacted by one of our representatives to discuss your interests and the next step.

We look forward to discussing joining our network of professionals dedicated to sharing ideas and building their businesses through quality instruments and assessment systems.

Jon Warner
President, profiles-r-us.com,

Click here to complete and submit the form online. Alternatively, click the PDF link to print the form and fax it to us if you prefer

Becoming a profiles-r-us.com Partner
Whether or not you already have a Web site, you could jump into the world of electronic commerce today by joining the profiles-r-us.com Associates Program.

For a small once off up front set up fee and an even smaller annual maintenance fee, Profiles-r-us.com.com shares the revenue it receives for providing its services. So sign up today by just clicking on Become an Associate and fill out the enquiry form details.

Offer your own online assessments
Profiles-r-us.com Pty Ltd makes it easy for anyone to partner with us and share the revenue that comes from their portal version of our website. In essence, you get substantial discount on up to 42 world-class diagnostic assessment tools that you can sell on to your customers as part of your own business. It's a simple, quick and efficient process that will allow you to become a fully associated partner very quickly. Your portal web site (or having this site as part of your existing web site set up) will make your business more valuable to your customers as well as providing valuable content in the process earning money and making your customers happy.

How to get started
Joining the profiles-r-us.com Associate program is quick and easy. To become an associate, all you need to do is follow some very simple steps and enter some basic information. The steps to follow are:

• Fill out the Online Enquiry Form
• Indicate that you have read and understood the on-line a non-disclosure agreement (this allows us to release commercially sensitive information to you about our products and give you trail access to our site)
• Review the Operating Agreement we send you in detail
• Hold discussions with us and if we are both happy sign an associate agreement
• Select the portal design you want (on its own of linked to your web site)
• Use your version of the site to market to your client base and start making money

Lets get started

Associate Operating Agreement
This Agreement contains the complete terms and conditions that apply to an individual's or entity's participation in the profiles-r-us.com Network Associates Program (the "Program"). As used in this Agreement, "we" means profiles-r-us.com Pty Ltd., and "you" means the applicant. "Site" means a World Wide Web site and, depending on the context, refers either to profiles-r-us.com's site located at the URL www.profiles-r-us.com , or to the site that you will link to our site.

Enrolment in the Program
To begin the enrolment process, you will submit a complete business plan, drawing upon the outline business plan template brochure included in this partner zone. We will evaluate your business plan and application in good faith and will notify you of our views on becoming an associate. We may choose not to accept you into the associate program if we determine (in our sole discretion) that your site or business activities are. Unsuitable sites and business include those that:

• promote sexually explicit materials
• promote violence
• promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
• promote illegal activities
• include "assessment" or variations or misspellings thereof in their domain names
• otherwise violate intellectual property rights

If we reject your application, you are welcome to reapply to the Program at any time in the future. You should also note that if we accept your application and your site is thereafter determined (in our sole discretion) to be unsuitable for the Program, we may terminate this Agreement.

Portal site or Links on Your Site
Profiles-r-us.com will provide a portal site version of the entire www.profiles-r-us.com web site. This site will be at http://yourname.profiles-r-us.com . The site will carry your badging or brand on the home page and you may choose from four colours for your home page.

If you want to link the site to your existing web site, we will adbise you how this is to be done.

To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee accrual, we will provide you with special "tagged" link formats to be used in all links between your site and our site. You must ensure that each of the links between your site and our site properly utilizes such special link formats. Links to our site placed on your site pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as "Special Links." You will only earn referral fees with respect to activity on our site occurring directly through Special Links: we will not be liable to you with respect to any failure by you to use Special Links, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts which would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement.

Order Processing
We will process assessment product orders placed by customers who follow Special Links from your site to our site or orders made by phone or by e-mail. All orders must be paid immediately by credit card (as associates purchase on a wholesale basis) or must wait until associates funds are cleared if paying by check or credit transfer. We will credit your account for assessment you order immediately payment is made. Associates can track sales made to customers who purchase assessment products using the administration system for your portal site.

Referral Fees
We will pay you referral fees on certain assessment product sales to third parties and particularly when your customers ask for customized solutions that involve design consukting or code development work to be done on their internal computer systems. For an assessment product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee,.

Referral Fee Schedule
You will earn referral fees based on Qualifying Revenues according to referral fee schedules to be established by us. "Qualifying Revenues" are revenues derived by us from our sales of Qualifying Products, excluding costs for shipping, handling, taxes, service charges, credit card processing fees, and bad debt. The current referral fee schedule is:
15% of Qualifying Revenues

Referral Fee Payment
We will pay you referral fees on a quarterly basis. Approximately 30 days following the end of each calendar quarter, we will send you a check for the referral fees earned on our sales of Qualifying Products that were sold during that quarter, less any taxes that we are required by law to withhold. However, if the referral fees payable to you for any calendar quarter are less than $100.00, we will hold those referral fees until the total amount due is at least $100.00 or (if earlier) until this Agreement is terminated. If a Product that generated a referral fee is returned by the customer, we will deduct the corresponding referral fee from your next quarterly payment. If there is no subsequent payment, we will send you a bill for the referral fee.

Policies and Pricing
We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for assessment products sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect assessment products that you already have purchased, you may not include price information in your Product descriptions.

Identifying Yourself as an Associate
We will make available to you a small graphic image that identifies your own web site site as a Program participant. You must display this logo or the phrase "In association with profiles-r-us.com somewhere on your site. We may modify the text or graphic image of this notice from time to time. You may not make any press release with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program without our prior written consent, which may be given or withheld in our sole discretion.

Limited License
We grant you a nonexclusive, revocable right to use the graphic image and text and such other images for which we grant express permission, solely for the purpose of identifying your site as a Program participant and to assist in generating assessment product sales. You may not modify the graphic image or text, or any other of our images, in any way. We reserve all of our rights in the graphic image and text, any other images, our trade names and trademarks, and all other intellectual property rights. You agree to follow our Trademark Guidelines, as those guidelines may change from time to time. We may revoke your license at any time by giving you written notice.

Responsibility for Your Site
You will be responsible for the operation of your portal site and for all materials that are sold through it-including any billing of your customers to recover income owed. You will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys' fees) relating to the operation and use of your portal site.

Term of the Agreement
The term of this Agreement will begin upon execution of this agreement and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to our site, and all Team Publications or profiles-r-us.com trademarks, trade dress and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant to the agreement or in connection with the Program. You are only eligible to earn referral fees on sales of Qualifying Products occurring during the term, and referral fees earned through the date of termination will remain payable only if the related orders are not canceled or returned. We may withhold your final payment for a reasonable time to ensure that the correct amount is paid.

Modification
We may modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on our site. Modifications may include, for example, changes in the scope of available referral fees, referral fee schedules, payment procedures, and Program rules. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR NEW AGREEMENT ON OUR SITE WILL CONSTITUTE BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.

Relationship of Parties
You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

Limitation of Liability
We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement.

Disclaimers
We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, we make no representation that the operation of our site will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.

Independent Investigation
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.

Miscellaneous
This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the Australia and the state of Queensland, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating to this Agreement must be brought in the federal or state courts located in Brisbane, Queensland, and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement.

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Welcome and thank you for considering becoming a profiles-r-us.com associate. We believe that we can provide an invaluable source of content and revenue for your business. The process to discover how we might work together is easy, quick and efficient, so let's get started.

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Profiles-r-us.com is developing a number of relationships with companies who distribute or utilize our solutions. There are many benefits to being an Profiles-r-us.com associate, including the ability to offer customers one of the industry's most innovative, cost-effective and efficient suite of online human capital leverage tools in the world.

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