Is your dream to earn more money?
Yeah.
Perhaps greater job satisfaction?
Of course.
Maybe a new, more exciting career with better pay?
Now we're talking.
Today, women are demanding more from their careers and life.
Joining us to talk about ways to achieve all we desire is Camelia
Simes, CEO, and founder of Smart Majority, an online education
resource providing educational opportunities for women from
coast to coast.
Good morning.
Good morning, thank you for having me.
Thanks for being here.
YOu know, the more I see it, and the more I hear about it, it
seems like lots more women are being driven to the internet to
take online courses.
What gives here?
Why?
I think it's the flexibility that online courses provide us
around our busy schedules.
We all want to fit it in around our lives, so we have family
time, we want children, and we want careers.
So, online courses provide you that Flexibility to do it in
your own time.
Save the money, and have the flexibility to choose what you
want to learn, and when you want to learn it.
It offers you the opportunity to retrain, and also it offers you
the opportunity to do career boosting courses that give you
the help you need to find your prospects and be more successful
in your career.
So, who's your typical student?
About 80% of our learners are women, and a large majority of
that are moms.
Moms who want to be empowered, they want to be career women,
and they also want to be role-models for their children.
So important.
Absolutely.
The main challenge is time.
Online education gives them that flexibility, especially with us,
at Smart Majority.
We give them the time to learn at their own pace, save the
money so that they can have family time as well as career,
and apply themselves to their new skills.
And I know the feedback you're getting is amazing from women
that have gone through some of the courses, and you have a
couple here.
I'd like you to share with our viewers, because they're really
very happy once they go through it.
That would be fantastic if I could share some with you.
Absolutely, do so.
I have one here from Susan.
She started a make-up course.
She said, I love this course.
It's so much more comprehensive than many other online courses
out there.
Also, we have Valerie, studying interior design, which is a very
popular course with us.
Thank you very much for being such a great guide during this
new and exciting journey of mine.
Your remarks are positive and your input was extremely
helpful, and instrumental in my successful completion of this
course.
I'm excited to embark on this new journey and cannot wait to
see what the future holds.
Now, from a letter testimonial to a Skype testimonial, let's
hear from somebody who Skyped about how much they love it too.
Hi Smart Majority.
I just wanted to give you some feedback with my makeup course.
I had a great great time doing the course and I've learned a
lot, and I really love the assignments.
I appreciate all the encouragement of my tutors and
the support you gave me.
I would definitely recommend you to my family and friends.
Thanks a lot one more time.
Now, that's fabulous.
It is.
That's just one of the many messages we get from our
learners.
She has been studying with us now for about six months, and
she's just starting a new course, and it's exciting
because she has been empowered to start a new career.
That's what we want for our learners.
Let's talk about some of the courses that you offer at smart
majority.
We do a wide variety of courses.
We introduce new courses every three to six months.
It depends on what you want.
If you're looking to boost your career, there's leadership and
management.
There's entrepreneurial marketing.
There's sales mastery.
If you're looking to retrain, you can choose from event
planning, wedding planning, makeup artist.
We do a wide variety of courses, so the right course is there for
you to choose.
What about if someone struggles, because I mean, I kind of did
enjoy having the professor in front of me, raising the hand
and saying "professor" so do you have that kind of thing when
someone is stuck on something or not understanding, or just
having issues?
Absolutely.
One of the things that we're really passionate about, and one
of the messages that we like to leave our learners with is just
that if you're studying online it doesn't mean that you're
alone.
We have a wide variety of tutor support, customer care team out
there to help you and assist you, so that the help is there
when you need it, and as often as you need it.
And how can you compare the online to the traditional
courses when it comes to cost?
Learning online with Smart Majority is certainly a lot more
affordable than traditional learning.
That's because we work really really hard to keep the costs
down, and offer as much value as possible.
One of our mission statements is that we want to share knowledge
with as many people as we can, and that means that the cost has
to be affordable so people can do that course, because we love
to hear the success stories like you've just heard.
You've shared one with me, and I'd like to share it with our
viewers, about a woman who did the course.
I believe she wanted to write, and now she is writing books and
received awards??
Yes, she's actually given her notice to her job, and she's won
two national awards in England, and she's writing for a
publishing house now.
It's fantastic.
For us, those sort of stories are why we work, why I get up in
the morning.
Where can our viewers go to get this success in their life?
They can go to SmartMajority.com/
thebalancingact and they can take advantage of
a very special offer where they save 75% off, and they can start
learning a course today for less than $20 a month.
Thank you so much.
Come back again.
To learn more about learning online, go to our website, you
heard it, 75% off thebalancingact.com or
Facebook/TheBalancingActFans.