#447: Which is better - A college education or an ecommerce education?
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Let's compare getting a college degree to getting an ecommerce education and launching a business online. Which one gives you a flexible lifestyle? Which one gives you a shot at financial independence? Which one is trending towards more relevant? I won't answer these questions for you, but I will make some observations so you can hopefully answer these questions with a new perspective in mind. Did you know that some colleges are using the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course as curriculum for entrepreneurs? Did you know that we have dozens of recent success stories from our students who have left their careers in order to pursue their online dream business? Let's talk about it! I'll be having my wife Andrea on the show soon to discuss her new service to help advise homeschool parents on their education options! Get details at YourHomeschoolAdvisor.com Show note LINKS:
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Jim. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. This is one of those many episodes that we like to drop midweek sometimes. Hopefully I can keep it short today, make my point, get in, get out, and leave you better than I found you with some new information today that will hopefully help you think through one of the challenges that I think |
| 0:22.5 | we see in e-commerce for those especially who are trying to make good decisions about what does it |
| 0:29.2 | mean to be educated. I think that's one of the words that's gotten lost in the shuffle of all this |
| 0:36.6 | redefining so many key words and important words in our |
| 0:40.3 | culture. And it has a lot to do with our e-commerce success as well, our business success. So the |
| 0:47.4 | question I'd like to propose is, what's the difference between going the educational route of going |
| 0:53.2 | to college, the traditional route, |
| 0:55.1 | versus getting an e-commerce education. Let's compare and contrast a little bit. I've got some |
| 1:01.6 | hard questions that I'd like to ask. Maybe you can consider these and answer them for yourself. |
| 1:07.7 | And among other experts, especially those who might defend the college route and getting a |
| 1:13.5 | degree and kind of look down on e-commerce as some kind of secondary, hardly worth considering. |
| 1:21.1 | It's not a legitimate opportunity for education. The two get treated very differently, |
| 1:27.3 | culturally, and I'm not sure why that is. |
| 1:29.7 | So I think I'm going to raise some points today that hopefully clarify what is the difference |
| 1:33.5 | between the two. Where do they overlap, which I think is a huge unexplored territory, where the |
| 1:39.5 | value of an e-commerce education, I would argue is as valuable, if not ridiculously more valuable than a traditional |
| 1:48.4 | college education or college degree in many, many instances. So let's just go through the |
| 1:53.8 | compare and contrast list that I have here. I'm going to ask you some questions for your |
| 1:57.5 | consideration. I'm not saying I am the world's foremost authority on this |
| 2:01.4 | subject. I have, however, if you're not familiar with me, I've been feeding my family. There's |
| 2:06.1 | seven of us for coming up on 20 years as the only income that we have, five kids, homeschooled, |
| 2:11.4 | all of them. I'll talk a little bit about that as well because my wife has launched a really cool |
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