NEW School Website with NEW Services

Hello everyone,

This is just a short note, telling you that our new School
<http://www.schoolreportservices.com/> Report Services website is now up
and running.

What's new you ask? Let me tell you...

Firstly, we have revamped our entire registration model. Previously, we gave
you the option to register as a SCHOOL or as an INDIVIDUAL. But we got a lot
of 'tire kickers'. So in retrospect it wasn't one of the best decisions we
ever made. Now you have to be associated with a school to register - because
we now ask the school details right on the registration form. This is
hopefully going to save you folks a whole lot of confusion, and we hope it's
going to save us a whole lot of unproductive admin. This means we can give
more time and focus to our main customers - you the school representative!

We also decided to make a whole lot of free content available to all
visitors. These include a revamped Proposal document, some free material
your school can use to communicate to the parents, and the results of a
survey we conducted in Australia towards the end of last year. Registered
users get even more resources.

We decided to add a new service. This service allows us to provide your
school with its own customized Google Earth Satellite Location Pin. It
actually provides your school with its own mini-webpage using the Google
Earth program as the enabling technology. It's really cool and you can read
more about it HERE <http://www.schoolreportservices.com/GEPin1.aspx> !
What's more, it's also darn affordable!

We've improved the general layout and navigation of the site. This
"hopefully" makes it much easier to find what you are looking for.

Lastly, we couldn't have all this new cool stuff without polishing our web
page presence. So we employed the services of a design company to give us
artistic guidance. They did the new branding you now see on the site. We
also reworked our content significantly!

All in all, we hope you like it. - Adam Phillips

Education Expo - Good Stuff!

Hi,

I know I've been quite for a while - there's a lot going on.

First, we at School Report Services are frantically trying to tie up the
School Communications Survey that we did in Australia last year. It's 2
months late - my sincerest apologies. We were not happy with the quality of
the results that were given us - just a couple of bar charts - so we
undertook a deeper analysis of the data, which is proving MUCH more
interesting - it's also proving to be much more difficult and time consuming
than we first thought to prepare a document we think is worthy of further
distribution. When it's done, we will put the survey results on our website
as a free download. We will also be sending it to the schools in Australia
that wanted a personal copy (along with a humble apology letter for being so
late).

Yesterday, I attended the Education and Schools exhibition at Sandton city.
It showcased a selection of some of the BEST schools in South Africa. I was
impressed with the friendliness of the school staff that were there, and
especially impressed with the confidence and good manners of the student
representatives! Well done. It give me hope for the future of independent
education in South Africa! I still hold to my view that independent
education in South Africa is the way to go if you want to get quality
education. Except for the costs involved (which are steep) I wish the public
education sector would take a leaf out of their book, and get of their
collective rear ends and get more proactive in providing AFFORDABLE, QUALITY
education - which should actually be funded by the high taxes we pay.

We are also dramatically revamping our website
(www.SchoolReportServices.com). Here are some of the changes we will be
making:

A totally new look and feel, with a more friendly navigation interface.

New and Updated content

A NEW service (which is secret for now, but just to say, that this service
will provide your school with "missile targeted" marketing opportunities to
pop you way ahead of your competition). This service will be FREE for those
schools that use our standard reporting service.

That's all for now - I'll keep you posted.