Media Alliance Partners

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals™ is concerned with all aspects of outsourcing on a global level. Our corporate and professional members are diverse in size, industry, region, and service focus. Through our member feedback from surveys, research, chapter and event activity, we endeavor to continue expanding our membership benefits to better enhance the value of our organization to all of our members.

IAOP™ acknowledges the importance of continually communicating a positive outsourcing message through media not just targeted to the outsourcing community in particular, but to a broader business audience that may be on the verge of entering the outsourcing world.

With this goal in mind, IAOP has formed unique multi-dimensional relationships with strategic Media Alliance Partners.

FORTUNE^® Custom Projects

Since December 1994, when it produced the first-ever special section on outsourcing, FORTUNE magazine has been the leader in communicating and explaining this powerful business tool to America's senior executives. Their special advertising sections have consistently been the largest and most influential in the industry. Ways that FORTUNE and IAOP work together include:

Ø   FORTUNE 's annual special advertising section on outsourcing is consistently the largest and best reviewed, providing the most significant industry visibility available

Ø   FORTUNE magazine is the exclusive publication partner of The Outsourcing World Summit®, the industry's largest annual gathering, and distributes section reprints to every event attendee

Ø   Following the section publication, advertisers receive expanded exposure through www.fortune.com/sections; rated as one of the top ten trafficked sites on outsourcing on the Web

Ø   Section reprints provide advertisers a valuable tool for marketing,           investor and public relations

Current projects that our members can be part of include:

The IAOP special section on Outsourcing with The 2009 Global Outsourcing 100 Rankings– Issue Date, Spring 2009

Contact Vic Asselin of FORTUNE at Vicas2@southcoast-ca.com.

Download The 2008 Global Outsourcing 100™ FORTUNE® Feature

Outsource Magazine

EMP Media Group

Established in 1983, EMP Media Group was a contract publisher for local and central government (United Kingdom) as well as the private sector. Since then it has substantially increased its business to business (B2B) and Lifestyle portfolio, with more than 80 consumer, professional, business and sport publications.

Outsource is the only UK magazine that focuses on all aspects of the global outsourcing industry and offshoring business sector. Published quarterly, it is, along with the companion online magazine, the industry bible for outsourcing professionals — providing advice on best practices, in-depth interviews with leading industry figures and thought provoking features addressing the latest trends and developments.

The special media alliance between IAOP and outsource magazine will give:

Ø   IAOP members free access to the outsource web site and newswire

Ø   Member discounts of 50 percent on print magazine subscriptions

Ø   Preferential advertising rates to IAOP members

Ø   Special placement and IAOP authorship of content in the biweekly newswire, affording IAOP members a valuable mouthpiece to the European outsourcing community on issues of timeliness and importance