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Introduction - Sell Software Online With Us!

Background information about ComponentSource with statistics about our global audience and worldwide customer base.

ComponentSource - A global software distributor and a worldwide software reseller, with multi-lingual sales & marketing for your software products. If you are looking to sell software components internationally or to sell development tools globally - you have come to the right place!

ComponentSource has created a successful software development tool and software component focused marketplace that is used by 290,000+ unique visitors every month - making us one of the most visited software development product Web sites in the world. These users include: programmers, corporate software developers, IT consultants, designers, architects, systems administrators, database administrators, network administrators, project leaders & project managers in end user organizations, software houses, ISVs and systems integrators. We also distribute software products through our worldwide distribution network of dealers and resellers, who regularly buy from us using their established credit accounts.

The main technology platforms of interest to our customers are Microsoft .NET/COM & Java/J2EE, with products for new technologies such as AJAX/JavaScript proving as popular as tried and tested products containing C++ Libraries and VCLs. Other new emerging technology areas are also of interest to our customers and we are seeing growing demand for products in the following areas: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft WPF, Microsoft Workflow Foundation (WF), Adobe Flash & Flex, Eclipse as well as products that work with Microsoft SharePoint and Reporting Services. Join Our Publisher Program

Recent News - Last updated Oct 3rd, 2008

• Sep 2008 - ComponentSource achieves our 3rd highest sales month ever in Sep 08, with record sales in our US office & strong growth in Europe
• Aug 2008 - ComponentSource breaks the 950,000 user barrier! We now have 950,000+ users in our database
• Jul 2008 - See our latest new products from: Caretta Software, ComponentArt, Ekobit & SyncRO Soft
• Jun 2008 - ComponentSource wins the 2008 SD Times Top 100 Award in the Components category
• May 2008 - 7 New toll free numbers for customers in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Uraguay & Venezuela
• Apr 2008 - Record Sales Month! In April ComponentSource set a new sales record beating the previous record set in Mar 2007
• Apr 2008 - 7 New toll free numbers for customers from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia & Slovenia
• Apr 2008 - ComponentSource adds new Chinese Translation Service for our software product publishers
• Feb 2008 - Latest ComponentSource Publisher & Product Awards for 2008 Announced
• Jan 2008 - A new design is introduced for our ComponentSource paper catalog for 2008

Our Audience

• 950,000+ Software development and component focused users in our database
• 430,000+ Unique visits to our web site every month, excluding search robots/crawlers
• 290,000+ Unique visitors to our web site every month (Average visit is 4.5 minutes)
• 220,000+ Addressees receive our weekly multi-lingual customer email newsletters
• 100,000+ Customers worldwide buying software components and development tools
• 200,000 English Paper catalogs distributed annually to our customers and prospects
• 20,000 Japanese& Korean Paper catalogs distributed annually to our customers and prospects
• 1,000,000+ We reach a further 1 million developers every month through our community partners like Microsoft, BEA Systems (Oracle), DevX, DevPia (South Korea) & Impress R&D (Japan)

Our Marketplace

• 1,450,000+ - Over 1,450,000 Page Views every month (excludes robots & crawlers)
• 23,000+ - Over 23,000 evaluations or file downloads every month from our sites
• 1,000's - Units sold every month from our site via Electronic Software Download
• 1,100+ - Global distribution through our network of 1,106 dealer and reseller accounts
• Proven - Tried & Tested Electronic Software Download (ESD) sales since March 1998

Our Customer Service

• Multi-lingual Web Sites in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese & Korean
• 3 - Multi-lingual call centers open 5x24 Atlanta GA, Reading England, Tokyo Japan
• 9 - Languages spoken English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin & Cantonese
• 49 - Toll Free numbers in 47 countries around the world to allow customers to call us for free
• 20 - Currencies to buy in USD $, Euros €, GBP £, JPY ¥, AUS $, KRW + 14 others
• 7x24 - Instant fulfillment by ESD download with optional backup CD/DVD shipment
• Purchasing available by Purchase Order on Account, Credit Card & Cash on Delivery
• Reseller and dealer network management and marketing program
• 1st line tech support & "Live Chat" service to assist with customer product issues

Our Company

• 13+ Years in Business - founded in October 1995 in the UK & launched in Europe in March 1996
• Opened US HQ in November 1997 and became a US Corporation in Sep 2000
• Opened Tokyo HQ for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Asian markets in May 2003
• A profitable business, owned and run by our founders and senior management team
• Strategic partnerships with technology platform owners, like Microsoft & Oracle

The statistics and/or news on this Web page were last updated on Oct 3rd, 2008.

Would you like to join our publisher program?

Having read the above program overview you may be interested in applying to join our worldwide software product marketing and global software distribution Publisher Program. Join our Publisher Program now!

For further information see our Program Details or read our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section for details on: Sales & Reporting, Pricing & Licensing, Product Requirements, Marketing Exposure and other general Publisher Program FAQs.

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Thank you for your interest in working with ComponentSource and remember, if you are looking to sell software components internationally or to sell development tools globally - we are here to help you.