Applying its deep media expertise and trusted ADVISOR® brand to a wide range of topics, ADVISOR MEDIA has produced dozens of how-to products and services -- a comprehensive family of advice, information and training resources in the broad areas of business, technology, home and family, lifestyle, law, and more.

Identifying and presenting the unmatched advice of top experts, ADVISOR has covered the full range of media, including printed magazines and journals, websites, e-newsletters, live conferences and seminars, reference and training CDs and DVDs, onsite training, radio, television and more.

At the top are ADVISOR's two premier sites: www.ADVISOR.com and My.ADVISOR.com, each branching into many related sites.

Driving it all is ADVISOR MEDIA's mission: to help its customers solve business, technology and lifestyle problems, grow their businesses, advance their careers, become more successful, and have a great life. ADVISOR fulfills this mission by providing a rich mix of the best ideas, discoveries, experience, techniques and solutions.This expertise comes directly from the hard-won hands-on of ADVISOR's thousands of contributors.

Because ADVISOR MEDIA specializes in real advice to solve real problems, ADVISOR customers learn exactly what really works (and what doesn't). ADVISOR experts and editors focus on providing high leverage. Time invested reading an ADVISOR publication can save a reader many hours or even days of experimentation, dead ends and missed opportunities. A few days at an ADVISOR SUMMIT live event has saved attendees months of experimentation and dead-ends.

ADVISOR doesn't just touch the surface. To provide the professional information customers need to make informed decisions and get the job done, ADVISOR experts dive deep. The primary goal is to empower ADVISOR customers to take immediate, productive action. ADVISOR strives to provide a rapid and powerful payback many times over.

ADVISOR provides the independent, hard-won knowledge of world-renowned experts. It's real world experience, field-tested, proven and productive. The advice saves ADVISOR customers time, money, disappointment -- and lights the way to success.

Based in sunny San Diego, California, Advisor Media, LLC is privately owned and managed by Editorial Director John L. Hawkins and Publisher Jeanne Banfield Hawkins.

ADVISOR® COLLABORATIONS

The powerful ADVISOR® brand is known world-wide as the source of field-proven, real-world, expert advice and hands-on techniques. Over the years the ADVISOR MEDIA has produced print, online and live media in collaboration with major companies including IBM, Microsoft, Apple/FileMaker, Lotus Development, Novell, Computer Associates, Borland, Sybase, Ashton-Tate, Fox Software, and many others.

ADVISOR® MEDIA HISTORY

ADVISOR MEDIA has been a trusted and popular source of expert advice and know-how since the company's founding in 1983 with pioneer magazine Data Based Advisor, quickly followed by online, software, disk-based resources, live events, books, and a family of additional publications.

ADVISOR.com premiered on the Internet in 1994, evolving from 10 years of prior ADVISOR online services via CompuServe, The Source, and Data Based Advisor bulletin boards.

In the 21st Century ADVISOR presents two main networks: www.ADVISOR.com for personal/lifestyle topics, and My.Advisor.com for business/technology topics.

Since 1983 ADVISOR has established several trademark brands: ADVISOR_®, ADVISOR ACADEMY_®, ADVISOR_® ARCHIVE_TM, ADVISOR_® DEVCON_TM, ADVISOR_® EVENT_TM, ADVISOR_® EXPERT_TM, ADVISOR_® LIVE_TM, ADVISOR_® NETWORK_TM, ADVISOR_® NEWS_TM, ADVISOR_® ONSITE_TM, ADVISOR_® PORTAL_TM, ADVISOR_® SUMMIT_TM, ADVISOR_® TIPS_TM, ADVISOR_® UPDATE_TM, ADVISOR_® ZONE_TM, ADVISOR.com_TM, MY.ADVISOR_TM, and many more. See Trademarks.AdvisorMedia.com for a more complete list.