First, I actually need to create a subtitle for this post, and I’m calling it:

“How to Earn Accreditation With Surprisingly Low Out of Pocket Expenses Using A Platform Trusted by Fortune 500 Companies to Live Your Dream or Boost Your Employment Standing”

Okay, NOW I can get started telling you about Learn.com.

Elearning has never been easier (or less expensive). Learn.com (personal version) offers a vast array of online Accredited courses in:

o Healthcare
o Finance
o Legal
o Insurance
o Ethics
o Compliance
o OSHA
o and more!

They also have a search-able catalog of more than 5,000 additional courses from IT topics to personal development… and more!

You’ll see below that I’m looking around the IT section, but the next one I’ll be investigating will be their courses on health care. Health care and teaching are two valuable employment opportunities no matter where you live or plan to move to… they are just “in demand” fields (so I’ve got to keep that in mind as I look around).

Another amazing feature to using Learn.com online is you can create your own “job profile.” This means you choose your career path and they help you develop the necessary skills to achieve your own dream!

Going yet another step further, if you’re the inventive type and have a course you’ve created, Learn.com will help you sell it. Of course, with such high standards, they do review and qualify you to become a “course author” beforehand which only makes sense.

I just registered – for free - and there are 10 courses immediately available for me – again for free (easy enough to find, after registering and logging in click on Free Courses).

The problem is choosing which one?! Actually you can pick class by class or bundle the whole thing together. For instance, I just clicked on the IT program.

I have 15 choices, and each of them is broken into subcategories. The IT Technology Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) is further broken down into 13 sub-sections.

I can choose to:

o Take one course at a time at just (hold onto your hats!) $3.99/month or

o Opt for 6 months (giving myself more time for studying the course for just $6.99/month OR

o Select all the sub-courses, take a year to complete them, and pay just $9.99/month.

Now keep in mind, I’ve over here investigating IT because that is my passion. However, there are numerous “passions” to choose from. You can search by:

o Free Courses
o Sub Category
o All Courses by Category
o Or, Create a Course.

What is intriguing to me is THIS just may be the stepping stone your newly graduated son or daughter needs if they are “in between” what to “do next.”

And be selfish! Heck, brush up and/or add more skills to your own personal resume to hang onto your job or find a new one!

Oh, and while I personally am roaming around the “personal account” (again created for free), they also have a “business” signup, too.

Decisions, decisions….

Okay, I think I’ve written enough because, frankly, I want to spend several hours going over my choices and picking the perfect course that applies to me (while keeping my eyes open for our son).

To read their current press release, just click here.

Today’s I’m doing this in reverse. Typically I post the long one on this blog with a shorter version on the other. Today, the short post is here, with the “long” (which isn’t long) version on the other.

What am I talking about?

How would you like to learn everything you need to know about putting up anything from starter websites and/or blogs to advanced and more detailed sites and… flipping them for money!?!

Whether you’re looking to cash in multiple times with multiple “starters,” (fast and easy) or big time with more extensive web sites and/or blogs, click here to read my “longer” post (which again isn’t that long) titled Learn How To Flip Websites and Blogs For Money.

Yes, I’ve read the entire 48 page eBook, and yes it is worth the whopping $6.95 (that’s not a typo). At this price, you’d be crazy not to at least go investigate!

More than ten years ago, I went through all the rigmarole that most people go through when starting out online. By this I mean joining anything and everything that looked like it had potential (yet never did). The surefire way I learned to build readership, that to this day never fails, is very simple. There is a bit of background involved first, so do read on – the meaty part is coming
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Heading into the weekend, I thought it time for a bit of fun! If you’re a big contest fan, you’re sure to love what’s happening over at BluFrog.

BluFrog leans heavily into the music industry and includes detailed biographies on a wide range of individuals involved in the music industry. They’ve also got an amazing “photo stream” where they’ve captured moments in time at various events – all sorts of events (and you’re encouraged to look to see if you can spot yourself in any of the photos – who knows you just might be there!).

But getting back to the contest, it’s time to reveal just the list of your potential prizes. Visiting their blog, you’ll be able to click on the big contest image to enter to the page telling you more (and each prize has a “learn more” button, too).

The prizes include:

o  BluGamer: The Ultimate Gaming Package
o  Happy Blu-Year: Win A New Years Trip to NY
o  Blullapalooza: Win A Trip to Lolapalloza in Chicago
o  BluStreak: Win A Richard Petty Racing Experience
o  XtremeBLU: Win A Trip To The Winter X Games in Aspen

To enter is really simple – and you can “enter up to three times per person” using their three different methods (see contest rules at the end of this post for more details):

o Blog commenting
o Twitter tweeting
o Blog posting.

While every single one of these sounds like an excellent prize to win, my heart leans toward the BluGamer (The Ultimate Gaming Package) – for the sheer fact that it would be a wonderful surprise gift to give to my son. (I’ve talked before about how he’s a gaming nut and he’s been playing video games since he was three – starting on the first Atari system.)

So have some fun, visit BluFrog and be sure to enter to win!
(Contest Rules Here)