As classrooms continue to move from traditional to virtual, one new Gainesville online company is making waves by reporting more than $1 million in profits in its first year.
Under the company name EdutainmentLIVE, the website ITPro.tv takes a lesson from the playbook of Lynda.com — a popular software-training site — in offering premium instruction to paid subscribers. The difference is that ITProTV is solely for information technology professionals, and it resembles a talk show instead of a screencast with a voiceover.
“We’re not comedians. We don’t try to be comedians,” said Tim Broom, ITProTV’s proclaimed Master of My Domain. “But we’re like IT guys for IT guys.”
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