For Buyers of Training and Development Products and Services
What is Trainingspotting.com?
The main purpose of Trainingspotting.com is to assist you in finding the best suppliers for your training and development needs. These can usually be of two types:
- A new type of training need that none of your current suppliers have sufficient experience with
- A training need that in the past you used a certain supplier for, but would like to know if there is somebody out there who can get better results or is perhaps less expensive
If you were to find a new supplier, it will, if done conscientiously, will take hours of arduous searching on the internet, looking through brochures, making phone calls, etc. Using Trainingspotting.com you can achieve similar results taking up a fraction of that time.
TrainingSpotting operates on the one hand as a searchable supplier database, enabling you to quickly find the right trainers or training companies based on your preferences, and on the other as a tendering portal, allowing your to ask for quotes from the companies you found as being experts at what you were looking for.
Why use the tender process? (RFQ)
- Most importantly, to save time. It is possible to locate training providers on the internet and you may even find good ones, but calling each of them, explaining each of them what you need, takes a long time. This way, in a couple minutes, (depending on how detailed a quote you would like) you can query the market and let as many providers know about your training need as you want.
- Especially if you're not sure who really does what you require, and whether anyone would be willing to do it at the price you stated, you definitely don't want to spend hours on the internet or the telefone looking for the right solution.
- As training and consulting are areas where a personal contact is necessary more often than not, our job is to help you in your preparations for sitting down with that one, two or three companies that you would consider doing the project. You want to be sure that it's not at the negotiating table that you find out that they're really not capable or willing to do what you ask them to.
- Our unique system allows for you to choose as manyk or as few providers as you want, to receive a quote from. It is also possible to exclude certain ones that you would not want to consider under any circumstance.
If I want to ask a quote for a product or service that currently does not exist in any of the categories, how do I do that?
Our RFQ request form for general products and services can be reached by:
On the main page click on the RFQ tab, and on the bottom click on "Post your rfq for free". By filling out this form, all trainers and training and development firms will have access to this information, giving you a better chance of finding what you need.
Trainers, Training companies, E-learning providers
How can we be listed on TrainingSpotting.com?
Each registered company or individual are allowed to be listed and appear as a result of searches in five subcategories, and there is only a small registration fee associated with this. The only thing it will cost you is about 2-5 minutes of your time. Our registration process is very simple, the only thing that may take more time is the description of your company, which is important as this is the first image that users get of your company.
In case you're interested in being listed in more categories, would like to have higher visibility, know about incoming RFQ-s, or put up more than one open training course, you can opt for Standard or Premium memberships, the price of which, we believe, is still quite affordable.
Why bother?
Day after day thousands of people are searching the net looking for the right training course, the right trainer, training company, or T&D related products and services. Browsing the World Wide Web is time consuming, regardless of how good the searcher is, or how sophisticated the search engine. TrainingSpotting.com aims to be the place that, in the area of T&D, makes most of these searches unnecessary. By having a large range of pre-selected categories, in a matter of seconds users can find the subject of their issue at hand and find the right person or company that can provide a solution to their particular problem.
- It's tough getting into the first 20 results on Yahoo or Google. But you no longer need to be. As more and more people discover the value of Trainingspotting.com and realize that they can not only get quality information, but they can find what they're looking for in a much shorter time, your chances of being recognized increase just as much. Let your future customers find you here!
- Our recently started HR/T&D article library attracts a great number of Human Resource professionals surfing for HR and training-related information. These people themselves are often in charge of making decisions about choosing training providers, are in charge of training expenditures or are in close contact with the people in their organization who are. Besides attracting the right people, this also gives the opportunity for training professionals to display their knowledge and expertise by posting articles here, and let people get to know their thoughts better.
- Very reasonable registration fee - If your marketing budged isn't flexible enough to let you sign up for a standard or a premium membership, you still have the option of remaining listed on the site as long as you like, and giving our users the opportunity to find you. Even though your visibility will be somewhat less than that of paying members, we believe you can still obtain a fair amount of benefits from having a presence on Trainingspotting.com
If I don't see our area of expertise under any of the categories. Can it be added?
Yes. Please email us with suggestions of other subcategories, and if they can fit within the main categories listed on the site, we'll be happy to add them for you. With your suggestions please write to us at info@trainingspotting.com
How can we get access to the RFQ-s?
When you signed up for Standard or Premium membership, you will get full access to all the general RFQ-s and, of course, access to all those requests that you have been invited by users to submit a proposal for.
To look at these submissions, please follow these steps:
Click on the RFQ tab. >>> click on Login and enter your login details. >>> at this point you should be able to see all the current RFQ-s meant for you.
If you do not see RFQ-s listed under that section, this can mean two things: 1. recently there were no general RFQ-s (after expiration of a deadline they're no longer visible). 2. you were not asked to submit a quote. (users can choose those training companies they want to receive quotes from.)
How can we include our open training programs?
To list your open training programs (those that have a date, time and place already associated with them) you will need to do the following:
Click on "Login" and enter your login details. >>> Clidk on "My Profile" (can be found at the same place as the 'Login' button was) >>> click on "Open courses". Then click on the "Edit" button, and enter the details of your upcoming open training progam.
How can I change the information that appears on the TrainingSpotting website?
Pls. see previous point.
How can I add a description to our training program?
On TrainingSpotting you have the opportunity to give a description to your training programs. Of course as most of you know, this is what can differentiate your program from that of somebody else, this is where you can tell your audience how a particular course you provide differs from those offered by other providers. You can tell them who the program is for, you can give a brief description of the content, tell them how it's going to benefit them. Of course we leave it up to you what you want to tell your potential participants, what you think is going to make them give you a call and discuss details.
To Add such descriptions, you will need to do the following:
After Logging in click on "My Profile" (can be found at the same place as the 'Login' button was). Among the links that appear below the TRAININGSPOTTING logo you can change any information you have previously given about your company. From among these click on the "Trening" button and scroll down until you see the link for "Training Programs". Choose the appropriate sub-category and give a description to your program.
Listing Options and Prices
Currently there are three membership options available, these are the Minimal, Standard and Premium.
For the differences between each of these options please see the following chart.
|
| Minimal
| Standard
| Premium
|
| Number of SUBcategories you can list |
max. 5 |
max. 20 |
No restrictions |
| Number of courses, programs or products* |
max. 1 |
max. 30 |
No restrictions |
| Company introduction (number of words) |
max. 50 words |
max. 200 words |
No restrictions |
| Number of locations you can list your company under: |
1 |
No restrictions |
No restrictions |
| Appearance at result |
Grey |
Black |
Black / choice of three colors |
| Ability to see details of RFQ-s. |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Email notification of new RFQ-s. |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Sorting to top** |
Bottom |
Middle |
Top |
| Ability to list open courses |
1 course |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
* You can leave a description of a certain course or product and this way communicate to your audience what is different about your offering.
** Search results appear in the following order:
- Premium members appear in searches first
- Standard members appear after premium members
- Minimal members appear last
In case within a certain category there are more members with the same status, appearance is arbitrary.
Our pricing is quite simple and probably more favorable than you would have thought, especially compared to the size of the contracts you can secure s you can see, as a result of being found on our site, our yearly fees are negligible.
Miminal Membership: $25.00 - a registration fee - no time limit
Standard Membership: $95.00 / year
Premium Membership: $199.00 / year
(For countries other than the US, please calculate with the current exchange rate.)
As you have probably noticed from the chart above, premium memberships provide significantly more value and make it possible that your company consistently appears on top of search results.
Payment information and showing up on TrainingSpotting.
At the end of the registration process you will be asked to choose from the three payment options, Minimal, Standard of Premium. You can pay the registration or annual fee by Paypal or a credit card of your choice.
If you have chosen the Standard or Premium membership, your extra privileges will not be available right away, but will be activated within 48 hours. It's advisable to start adding open courses or course description after activation.
