About Us

College Town Profile, headquartered in Elgin, Illinois brings the most sophisticated communication technology to Colleges and Universities across the U.S. Our Convergence Publishing Program™ promotes your College or University and its programs, and, via the Internet, affords advertisers exposure to an audience reaching far beyond the printed publication and local geographic boundaries to a worldwide marketplace.

College Town Profile's EXCLUSIVE Convergence Publishing Program™ College Town Profile brings to your college or university, and your community, the latest, most up-to-date, most sophisticated networking communication technology available today: Convergence Publishing. Here's how it works:

First, your traditional College Town Profile print publications are converted into an online publication website, featuring the entire editorial and photo content and showcasing your institution and host community worldwide to millions over the Internet!

Then, we convert your publication into free downloadable New View eBooks™, available online at www.collegetownprofile.com.

Finally, your college or university's complete faculty/administrative staff phone directory can be accessed wirelessly via cell phones and smartphones at vpmobile.us®.

No Cost to Your College or University
All these components come together to promote your College or University worldwide, 24/7, at NO COST TO YOUR INSTITUTION! That's right -- you get thousands of printed publications, PLUS all the benefits of our exclusive Convergence Publishing Program™ --- bonus website, free downloadable New View eBooks, and wireless access to your staff/faculty directory --- at NO COST!

In fact, WE pay YOU to produce your College Town Campus/Community Profile --- the publication and its convergence components are supported completely through advertising sales revenues, of which your institution receives a percentage.

Choose the publication best suited to your institution's needs from among College Town Profile's custom publications:

Campus/Community Guides
College Town Profile Community Guides feature eye-catching covers and handsome pictorial spreads, professionally written community life editorial, all presented in full color on glossy paper as a high-quality magazine that students, their parents, your staff, and local residents and businesses want to keep.

Editorial features provide readers the kind of information they need and want about their community and your institution, and the amenities, services and products available to them, written in a refreshing, informal style that ensures reader interest.

Traditional Printed Maps with Interactive Online Features PLUS
Mobile Access to Your Campus

• College Town Profile Business Locator Info-Maps feature a street-level community and campus maps showing points of interest — schools, parks, water features, landmarks, tourist attractions, historic buildings, etc. Customized mapping is drawn from the most accurate sources available, by our experienced cartography specialists.


• Info-Maps also feature a community profile, which many colleges and universities use for: a calendar of campus and community events; important phone numbers; listings of community organizations; shops, restaurants, entertainment and cultural venues -- all of which create a useful resource guide for current residents and businesses, students and families, staff and faculty as well as a promotional piece sent to those considering enrollment.


• Your school receives several thousand printed maps to distribute locally and to relocation prospects. Even more exciting, though, is College Town Profile's™ exclusive Mobile Map Convergence Publishing Program™ providing wireless access to a mobile local business directory made accessible via web-enabled cell phones, smartphones, and other wireless handhelds. The directory includes wireless links to the businesses' websites; locator map accessible via wireless devices; and real-time direct dial-up via cell and smartphones.

As one of the early adopters of communication technology, Village Profile, parent company of College Town Profile™ was the first Chamber publisher, in 1995, to start converting our traditional print publications into websites, and thus became the catalyst for moving the entire Chamber publishing industry onto the Internet.

In 2002, we raised the bar again by introducing eBooks of our publications; and again in 2003 with the unveiling of our exclusive Convergence Publishing Program™ that ushered in a myriad of exciting publishing possibilities. Now, we're bringing that same all-encompassing publishing program to colleges and universities such as yours, and their host towns.

Every day the results of new surveys indicate a rapid “deployment” to an online economy — non-travel online revenue is expected to reach $100 billion this year. Businesses MUST be a part of the burgeoning online economy — or risk becoming obsolete.

A recent survey by Primary Research Group, The Survey of College Marketing Programs, 2007 edition, showed that nearly half -- 47% -- of American higher education institutions use web advertising of some type to market their colleges and universities.

The study also reported that 29.4% of colleges offered a PDF version of their viewbooks. . . .but College Town Profile's Convergence Publishing Program goes a giant step beyond such basic digital technology. At www.collegetownprofile.com, take a first-hand look at the exciting NewView eBook™ that lets readers literally turn the pages of your online viewbook. Accessible worldwide, literally distributing your viewbook to potentially millions

Revolutionize your campus and community and be on the leading edge of higher education marketing! College Town Profile's Convergence Publishing Program™ gives you the tools and the technology to revolutionize communications on campus and throughout your community -- all at NO COST to your college or university.

After you visit our website at www.collegetownprofile.com for a video presentation of our Convergence Publishing Programs™, call David Harris TODAY at 800-600-0134, ext. 664 or email: dharris@collegetownprofilemail.com for more information.