ELGIN, Ill., May 6, 2010 — VillageProfile.com, Inc.®, the national leader in Chamber of Commerce publishing, announced today it will work with the Tribune Media Group (TMG) to provide Chicagoland area Chambers of Commerce with innovative, state-of-the-art marketing and communications opportunities via locally targeted Chamber of Commerce multi-media products.
"This collaboration allows TMG to combine the strength of our advertising sales force and newspaper demographics with Village Profile's marketing, production and distribution services to better serve Chicagoland area Chambers of Commerce publishing needs," said Bob Fleck, senior vice president of advertising.
Village ProfileTM and TMG will leverage their respective resources and capabilities to deepen advertiser reach, and provide added promotional value via Tribune local newspapers and TribLocal community Websites to promote local Chambers in conjunction with their publication programs. In addition, Village Profile's exclusive Convergence Publishing Program® multi-platform advertising bundle, encompassing traditional Chamber of Commerce publications along with Websites, eBooks and mobile business directories, offers Chambers and participating advertisers access to a global audience.
President and CEO of Village ProfileTM Dan Nugara said, "What an opportunity TMG brings to Chambers of Commerce to promote their Chamber agenda and membership with multi-media newspaper and Internet support at the local community level, plus the dynamics of the Village ProfileTM Convergence Publishing Program® provides a win-win for the local Chamber, as well as TMG and Village ProfileTM."
About Tribune Media Group
Tribune Media Group represents Chicagoland's leading media brands through publishing, broadcasting and online outlets, which together give advertisers one destination for cross-channel solutions. The focus is driving business with custom solutions. TMG is as Chicago as it gets, engaging Chicagoans throughout their day in their medium of choice. TMG includes: WGN TV, WGN Radio, CLTV, Chicago Tribune, RedEye, TribLocal, ChicagoTribune.com and ChicagoNow.com. For more details, go to http://tribunemediagroup.com.
About Village ProfileTM
Village ProfileTM introduced its exclusive multi-platform Convergence Publishing Program® to the Chamber industry in 2002, launching traditional print into the digital world with online publication Websites in 1995, free New View eBook® downloads, CDs and mobile business directories. Since 1996, the company's Website, http://www.villageprofile.com, has seen over 230,000,000 hits from Internet locales around the world. In 2009, it garnered over 13 million hits and more than 2 million page views — of which nearly 1.7 million were unique visitors. The Village ProfileTM mobile business directory portal at http://www.vpmobile.us accumulated over 6.4 million hits in 2009.
Village ProfileTM has invested this level of time and resources not only to foster growth in Chamber communications, but also to help set the pace for a thriving business environment and let Chambers offer exclusive benefits to their members that no other publisher can provide. Village ProfileTM has presented Chambers of Commerce an economic stimulus package with more than $24 million in royalties paid — $14 million in the past eight years alone. Please take a look at a few of the company's client testimonials at http://www.villageprofile.com/aboutus/testimonials.html.
Village ProfileTM, headquartered in Elgin, IL, with a regional office in Fresno, CA, is an exclusive Chairman's Circle Platinum sponsor of the Western Association of Chamber Executives (W.A.C.E.), a proud member and Sponsor of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) association and a member of more than 600 local Chambers it currently partners with throughout the USA.
To learn more about the NO-COST, ROYALTY-GENERATING, exclusive publishing programs available through the Village ProfileTM – Tribune Media Group partnership, contact Joe Nugara, executive vice president of Village ProfileTM, at 800-600-0134, ext 220, or Jim Rotche, Tribune Media Group's manager of strategy and development, at 312-222-3185 for details.
For more information, contact Email, 800-600-0134, ext 220.
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