So after 8 weeks, I’ve finished my 1st course….with an “A” no less!!

Looking back on it I noticed:
1) It did not totally disrupt my life!
2) It was so convenient to be able to log in at anytime to view the lectures and participate in the discussion forums
3) It actually had relevance in my work already!

The 1st course was 1 week of introduction, 3 weeks of Statistics 2 weeks of Marketing and 2 weeks of Economics
The project for the course was to create a Business Plan….and this is not just an outline of what you’d maybe-possibly like to accomplish  on a topic….it’s a 30 page MBA-Level Business Plan!

It was pretty neat how the course was set up because each week the topic related back to the Business Plan and we’d complete a section of the Business Plan until the end and it was done. It was a great feeling to look at a complete Business Plan and know that it is so complete that you could go to a bank to submit for business financing if you’d like!

*I found a really impressive tool that helped me in this assignment too, it’s a software program that walked me through step-by-step each section with examples of how to complete the section of a Business Plan and gave 500 sample Business Plans for me to refer to so I could see how other people did there’s etc. If you’d like to do a Business Plan for your business, whether you’re in an MBA program or not it’s an awesome tool!

One last observation on this 1st course is that it’s so totally different going to school in 2007 than when I went to College in 1989 (duh!)….but what I mean is that whenever I was doing a problem or assignment and wondered how to do it, I’d Google the topic (isn’t it crazy that “Google” is a verb!).
But I’d research “How to use Excel to solve Binomial Distribution” for my Stats section…..and up pops page after page of sites that discuss that or showed me screen-shots of how to do it…..!! (too bad I couldn’t just type in the problem and up pops the answer! But then I wouldn’t learn how to do it on my own!)

I was talking to someone last night in the College and Career Sunday School class I teach who was telling me how he and his friends in High School would do just the minimum amount of work to pass a class so they could goof off!
I was thinking how different this mentality is from what I’m experiencing….I’m paying a pretty large chunck of change for this program…..MY MONEY….MY TIME….! And I want to learn it to apply to my Career and future! 

So do I do just the minimum to pass so I can goof off….UH, NO!
 
One of the reasons I’m getting this Marketing MBA is to start a Marketing Consulting firm, and I started building a website of Marketing Tools that I’ll focus all the consulting around….let’s face it, Sales Professionals, Realtors, Mortgage Lenders, Insurance Agents etc are typically not savvy on cutting-edge marketing tools!

Until next time….

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So I enroll in the Regis University Marketing MBA Online program….after much research, I decided on this one because I knew that I definitely wanted a Marketing MBA….not a Management MBA. Regis offered a nice program, with courses I really liked the look of (I wish they had a couple on e-commerce but I’ll bet I could add that in later as an elective)

The 1st course is:

Essentials of Business Development 520 part I.

YIKES! a 500-level course right off the bat…..

It’s been 18 years since graduating College and remembering Statistics class I knew it was NOT my best subject…..my Dad said there would definitely be Stats in the MBA program.

As luck would have it, the 1st class was….you guessed it….Stats!!!
The 1st week was all on how to use Excel in Stats….all the functions, formulas etc.
***NOTE***
If you’re looking into any MBA program, definitely get an Excel Stats book or online course and learn it before you start so you can get a bit ahead!

The really cool part about Online learning is….it’s ONLINE! And the video lectures you have to watch are all on the website to be viewed anytime you want 24 hrs a day! You log into the system and go to Week 1 and view your reading assignment, written work, and the video lectures and all loaded right in the Week 1 folder. By Sunday at Midnight you need to post up the assignment to the Homework Drop-Box, and then the Prof. grades it by Tuesday the next week.

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OK….so I enrolled in an Executive Online Marketing MBA program….no big deal right?

But it was a tough decision since I have a Wife, 4 kids (all under the age of 10) and a career in Mortgage Banking!

At age 40 I wondered if I could study at this level…..but with the encouragement of my wonderful Wife, and the fact that my Dad completed his PHD in International Business at age 62….I took the plunge! (he even had to go back in to take Undergrad courses to even enroll in his MBA….then after he got done with his MBA, and PHD….he took another 12 hours of Doctoral level Marketing courses!)

As I was looking aroung the Internet to decide IF I wanted to do the MBA at all…..I was serching for someone’s experience….to see what it’s like….to see if I could hack it…..but found NOTHING OF THE SORT!

And since summarizing something helps to reinforce the subject in your mind, I thought that blogging about my experience from start to finish will help me solidify my learning as well as to provide readers with a resource to help them see what an MBA program is really like!

So here we go!

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