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Software Leads to New Band Uniforms

Central District Band Members of the Central District 301 (Illinois) Band may soon be sporting new uniforms thanks to software purchased by their fellow students. That’s because the district is taking advantage of the fundraising option of its Microsoft Student Select program, where JourneyEd provides an online store and free posters and brochures for schools to advertise the program and encourage sales. Read more»

JourneyEd Europe

JourneyEurope Team For students and educators across North America, JourneyEd is the name to know when it comes to purchasing education software at significant discounts. But today, students and educators across Europe are also able to take advantage of the discounts offered through JourneyEd Europe. After years of growth in North America, today JourneyEd is a global company doing business in U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars, British Pounds and Euros. Read more»

Software Asset Management

Journey Education Marketing Inc. (JourneyEd.com), long recognized as a leading provider of software and technology products to K-12 schools, colleges and universities, announces the launch of the JourneyEd SAM program.

Software Asset Management (SAM) is an integration of policies, processes, people and tools dedicated to the active management of an organization’s software assets. It ensures that every piece of an organization’s software and related licensing is correctly tracked, from procurement to retirement. Read more»

New Offerings

In preparation for back-to-school, JourneyEd has added several bags and case lines targeted to student customers, including cases for the recently introduced iPhone by Apple.

A wide assortment of quality backpacks and messenger bags by STM, Case Logic, Pacific Design, Targus, Mobile Edge, Kensington and others starting at $19.98. Read more»

Dell Agreement

JourneyEd recently signed a unique new reseller agreement with Dell, which permits Journey to sell academically priced Dell configurations to hundreds of colleges and universities, including most of the online software eStores JourneyEd operates for Barnes and Noble College Bookstores.

The targeted accounts are a part of JourneyEd’s Academic eStore Network (AEN).

JourneyEd is bundling the Dell XPS and Inspiron notebooks with appropriate software to meet its Business, Graphic design, Gaming and Engineering students demand.

Musings from Mike

Mike Fischler

Thanks to all of our customers and supporting publishers and partners, we continue to be on track for our best year in company history. People often ask me if I ever imagined that our company would grow to become what it is today, when I founded the company 17 years ago. As I look back at our history over these years, I would say the answer is yes and no. While the Internet was not a thought for me in 1990, I could see that if we did things right, we could strive to become a market leader in an area that I thought was under served.

As a company, we have always tried to stay ahead of the curve. Sometimes we failed, but more times we were successful. Each year we reinvest a good percentage of our gross profits back into the company. Over the past two years alone, we upgraded almost every part of our back-engine and infrastructure, etc., to make sure we were ready to handle our forecasted business in a manner our clients expected.

Before I founded Journey, I was a marketing manager for Texas Instruments (TI). At TI, they assigned "gold-badgers" as mentors to new "red-badge" employees. Ed O’Neil, a 25 year TI veteran served as my mentor. At one point, when I was troubled about the state of our division or the company (I can’t remember), I went to see Ed for some advice. Ed, was a man who didn’t waste a lot of words. In today’s terms, he was quick to cut to the chase. Ed pointed to a white board behind his desk and told me that the board displayed TI’s business over his past 25 years with the company. I looked at the board and all I could see was a simple bell graph. It started low at the beginning of the graph, got to the top, then descended on down to the same level as when the graph started. He told me that in 25 years the graph had not changed. He further explained that what I was looking at TI’s semi-conductor business. "Business goes up and then down." Ed told me "The key to running our business is knowing where you are on the graph and then acting accordingly."

For me, the bell-graph story has stayed with me all these years later. While our business doesn’t follow a typical bell-graph, we do our best to know where our business is at any given period (both top-line and bottom-line) and act accordingly. Thank you again for all your support.

Mike Fischler
President/CEO