During this time, online courses called "Suite University" were offered in an attempt to create revenue for the company, but this effort did not survive.

In 2006 the company was purchased by Canadian and German investors including Boris Wertz, a past founder of JustBooks.de and a previous COO at Abebooks.com.

Under this new leadership, Suite101 expanded its editorial team, in part by recruiting contract editors from book and magazine publishing.

On the business model side, the site, under new CEO Peter Berger, added advertising to each article page through a partnership with Google AdSense.

[2][3] In November 2009, Suite101.com was named by comScore as one of the top 10 fastest growing websites based on US traffic growth.