For Content Providers

HOW IT WORKS

Progio provides a platform for content providers to sell a collection of exercises and workouts as so called “Titles” on progio.com. Titles typically are organized into one or more categories, for example, a trainer can put together one or more workouts, and an equipment maker creates a library of exercises and also includes sample workouts. Read the "Publish Titles on progio.com" on how to publish your content titles on progio.com.

Progio also works together with online portals offering custom or personalized workout protocols to their users. In this case, Progio provides a powerful integration interface that allows the portal provider to integrate his services with Progio's mobile devices, in a matter of days. Please read the "Content Server Integration with Progio" section below for more details.

Publish Titles on progio.com

The content provider can take full advantage of the Progio features, e.g., using images, video clips, and detailed text information to build up the exercise library, and use specific instructions to describe the workouts, including timer, sets, repetition, weight and more.

Progio publishes the title for the content provider on progio.com, packaged for a one-time purchase from progio.com with use rights limited to the individual buying the rights to use the package.

Our goal is to develop a successful partnership with all of our content partners. We have made significant investments to protect your intellectual property. For example, our hosted server location resides in a secure data center, downloading your Title onto supported client devices is a secure and robust electronic delivery, including measures to protect your IP on the device itself.

You provide the content and we’ll publish it for you.  Here’s how it works:

Convert your Content into a “Progio Title”

You	Progio
You create your workout content and protocol using standard editing tools and formats, including images, videos, exercise information, workout instructions.	We discuss with you the technical details to determine the best course of action, e.g., digital media formats for images, video clips, text and how the workout description is being managed. We prefer images in JPG, videos in WMV, exercise information as TXT and workout instructions in either DOC or XLS.
You provide your content via ftp, CD or email to us	Our post production team encodes your content into ProXM, a standard XML protocol required for Progio (like MP3 for music).

Create Marketing Material for your Title

You	Progio
You provide us  your name, a brief biography, photo, and optional a banner for your own Progio page	We create your own Progio page on progio.com
You provide us with information for each of your Titles: Program title, category, abstract, detailed description, equipment used (if any) Suggested retail price a 100x100 pixel thumbnail logo for each product displayed in the product catalog a 190wx250h pixel product image for each product that will be displayed alongside the detailed text description	We create product pages for each published Title on progio.com

Publishing and Business Terms

You	Progio
We agree on a retail price for your product(s)
We enter into a publishing agreement with you, outlining your royalties, payment terms etc.
You earn royalties on all sales of your titles	We publish your Title(s) on our progio.com provide the online marketing through our catalog transaction handling through our e-commerce engine maintain your intellectual property on our secure server location

Content Server Integration with Progio

Your content portal can take full advantage of the Progio features, e.g., using images, video clips, and detailed text information from your exercise library, and specific instructions to describe the workouts, including timer, sets, repetition, weight and more.

Progio provides your web developer with a comprehensive Web Services integration API and software development kit (SDK), which allows you to completely "embed" the mobile service into your web site, as seamlessly as possible.  We have made significant investments to protect your intellectual property. Our hosted server location resides in a secure data center.  Downloading your content onto supported client devices is a secure and robust electronic delivery, and includes measures to protect your Intellectual Property on the Progio Training Companion device itself.

Once the integration is set up, you will have a new powerful feature for your customers.  Following is an outline of the integration process:

Web Site Integration

You	Progio
We discuss with you the technical details to determine the best course of action, e.g., digital media formats for images, video clips, and how to convert your database records into ProXM, our XML based integration protocol. We prefer images in JPG, videos in WMV, everything else is converted into XML tags.
You provide us with a sample of your data.	We help you implement some conversion classes for ProXM at no cost to you.
You will implement a simple Web Services 2.0 protocol to send workouts to our server.	We test and validate your integration and provide you with engineering support at no cost to you.
As soon as the integration is completed, you are ready to roll out the service.   Optional: You can receive workout logs from the Progio device. This requires some additional integration work.

Co-Marketing on progio.com

 

You provide us with basic information about your web site and your service and we will publish the information in our partner directory at no cost to you.

 

Business Terms

 

We will discuss with you your business model and how your service and Progio will work together.

• How your customers can obtain a Progio device (Affiliate Program vs. Reseller Program)?
• Is the Progio Service a feature in your service or an additional service?
  
  

Generally, Progio is a value added service to your web site and we charge a flat monthly fee for each user account.  The monthly rate is volume based.