Why the Big Trend in Online Education and Personal Development

What is now being referred to as "Webucation" as a result of a cover story in Forbes magazine is a hot topic that has brought a lot of attention to a rapidly growing trend.

So Is All The Buzz Justified
Whether it be to advance your career or start a business, the answers may surprise you Ironically, a lot of the answers came from our own online research.

Let's Start With The Obvious.
There is the convenience coupled with millions of new online customers every week. As far as the convenience aspect, more & more people with busy lifestyles are finding the unlimited resources of the Internet an easier, more time efficient way of finding or learning what they need as opposed to the conventional method of traveling back & forth to school, the library or tracking down someone via the telephone.

Here are a couple excerpts from a recent cover story article in
Forbes Magazine, one of the most respected business magazines in
the world:

Peter Drucker states, "Triggered by the Internet, adult ongoing
education may well become our greatest growth industry. Education is already grabbing a major chunk of Americas' Gross National Product."

"I believe the U.S. now spends about 1 trillion dollars on education and training. We live in an economy where knowledge, not buildings & machinery, is the chief resource and where knowledge workers make up the biggest part of the workforce."

Frightening Statistics:
We've all heard the claims starting back about 25 years ago that the day would come where there would be no such thing as a stable long term job or company. We've also lived to see those claims become a frightful reality. With businesses closing or being sold faster than anytime in history and long-term unemployment at an all time high, we have two basic choices:

1. We can educate ourselves to become more valuable than the next person for a job.
2. We can educate ourselves to become independent by starting our own business.

There is of course no right or wrong answer. It's different for each of us, as to what is the best path to choose, but choosing is a definite must. Ending up on the wrong end of a statistic is the last thing any of us want to do.

Famous Quote:
"Traditional education will make you a living, self-education
will make you a fortune." -- Jim Rohn

Self Education Is The Answer For A Better Job Or Position.
Countless companies and even universities are putting their top educators and trainers Online in an effort to create more opportunities for one to educate themselves to a higher position at an existing job or persue a better-paying job.

You Can Turn This Trend Into Opportunity.
The personal development industry was a 64 billion dollar business last year and growing by leaps & bounds. Business savvy entrepreneurs are focusing on this new Internet mega trend, which is expected to grow at a rapid pace for many years to come. This trend has already attracted many of the top names in the personal development industry like Dennis Waitley, Jim Rohn, Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Cynthia Kersey, Zig Ziglar, Robert Allen and countless others.

Companies like Success University, Emerald Passport and Mentors-
In-Motion were formed to create a unique business model where the
product itself is actually teaching one how to become successful and
have taken a "learn while you earn" approach.

So What's Their Philosophy
Matt Morris - founder of a Dallas based company called Success University says, "A lot of people think the personal development business is all about teaching people how to have a more positive attitude & feel better about themselves, which is certainly an important part of the formula, but it's so much more. The top success trainers focus on the complete package, everything you need to know about how to be successful in every aspect of life including: business, finances, investing, sales, social life, family & even the spiritual aspect of ones life.

For all the great things we learn in school, we don't actually learn how to be successful and that's what it's really all about, getting people to become well rounded and flourish in every aspect of life."

Alonso de la Guardia - President of Emerald Passport Inc.
suggests; "By utilizing the efficiencies of the Internet's "high tech business platform" we are able to reduce distribution costs in ways that would have been unbelievable just a few short years ago."

In Conclusion:
What's now referred to as "the information age," we are without question living in a world that continues to evolve faster & faster. For many of us just keeping up well enough to get by or just to relate to what's going on sometimes seems like a daunting task.

But The Good News Is
It's all right there at our fingertips just a couple clicks away.
Like anything else, if you approach the situation with the right attitude, you have an infinite world of knowledge known as "cyberspace" to enhance your life in every way. If you let it, the world of online education can be a fun, interesting adventure and could present an ideal opportunity as well.

About the author: Kellen Burgos has an extensive background
specializing in Teaching, coaching, Marketing and advertising.
Kellen is the owner of Success Marketing Systems a Wisconsin based
marketing company, founded in 1991.

For more information on the topic contact:
Kellen Burgos - Success Marketing Systems
(414)409-0954

For more info. on companies listed in this article,
go to: www.kb.successuniversity.com/slim

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