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Practical Ways to Spend Wisely & Increase Savings Each Year

Learn proven principles to seize cost-savings opportunities, negotiate, secure discounts, and manage your money.
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Platform: Udemy
Video: 1h 48m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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Video Score: 7.8 / 10
The course includes 1h 48m video content. Courses with more videos usually have a higher average rating. We have found that the sweet spot is 16 hours of video, which is long enough to teach a topic comprehensively, but not overwhelming. Courses over 16 hours of video gets the maximum score.
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Description

Scope
Learn simple and practical principles that will empower you to save money every year. You will learn how to:
1. Identify opportunities where you may save money
2. Ask the right questions to understand price drivers
3. Challenge cost, price, fees without fear
4. Manage a price discussion without jeopardizing relationships
5. Have fun in the process while keeping more money in your pocket
Yes, this is negotiation made practical, simple, and effective… Easy! Years of personal and business experience are summarized in this course to give you the core of money-saving secrets
Who will benefit from this course?
If you spend money and are not used to challenge prices, request discounts, or negotiate this course will be beneficial to you. If you fear asking questions, or being rejected, or believe that some expenses just need to be paid then this course will be beneficial to you.
Student, professional, salesman, casual shopper, serial shopper, wife, husband…Everyone buys or sells something at some point, low cost items, also more expensive items. If you practice the principles described in this course, use them gradually and starting with small items, you will soon be prepared to handle bigger opportunities. You will receive back the cost of the course in savings sooner than you expect.


Structure and duration
The course is delivered in five major sections:
1. Introduction. Learn in this section why it is important to know how to manage a price discussion, what are some of the types of opportunities you may encounter, and examples of them.
2. Steps to a price discussion. This section covers four simple steps that will help you manage a price discussion.
3. Principles. The principles elaborate on the concepts reviewed in the prior section. These are described individually to gradually build the story and facilitate retention.
4. Examples. Several examples are listed to consolidate the principles and describe how you may approach real-life scenarios.
5. Summary and next steps.
All course will take approximately two hours.


Materials and delivery
Course is delivered through videos over slides, using visual content (slides) as support to the audio content. You can easily just listen to and follow the course while you are in the train, car-pooling, plane, bus, or at your leisure in front of your computer.

You will learn

✓ Identify savings opportunities on everyday purchases and expenses
✓ Prepare key elements needed to conduct a successful price discussion or negotiation
✓ Use simple, and easy to use principles to challenge cost, prices, and expenses
✓ Develop a criteria to measure success, balance positions, and reach agreements where everybody wins
✓ Overcome barriers to hold price discussions and mitigate fear to speak-up and negotiate
✓ Close price discussions effectively

Requirements

• Patience and commitment. Understand that this is a journey, and that small successes will build into larger achievements
• Be open minded to the idea that everything is negotiable, and simple actions can result in huge savings for you
• Be willing to revise and possibly make changes to the way you approach a sale or purchase process
• A computer with good access to the interent
• A cell-phone with data access (unless option to download is available) if you would like to listen the course on the go

This course is for

• Great course for anyone who spends money and does not frequently challenge prices to pay; anyone who generally pays the published price; anyone who fears requesting price reductions; anywone who does not know how to handle a price discussion; anyone who avoids holding a price discussion or negotiation; anyone who pays fees without asking why; anyone who will welcome extra money in their pocket
• Busy professionals, students, salesmen, developers, cooks, business owners, scientists, entertainers, nurses, doctors, engineers, accountants, technicians, marketing professionals, attorneys, working, looking, or retired, anyone who spend money, buys or sells
• Anyone expecting a large purchase or sale and does not feel prepared to handle the price discussion
• May have limited value to those who regularly and by default request price reductions, negotiate, and are successful lowering prices to pay

How much does the Practical Ways to Spend Wisely & Increase Savings Each Year course cost? Is it worth it?

The course costs $14.99. And currently there is a 57% discount on the original price of the course, which was $26. So you save $11 if you enroll the course now.
The average price is $18.0 of 323 Personal Finance courses. So this course is 17% cheaper than the average Personal Finance course on Udemy.

Does the Practical Ways to Spend Wisely & Increase Savings Each Year course have a money back guarantee or refund policy?

YES, Practical Ways to Spend Wisely & Increase Savings Each Year has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.

Are there any SCHOLARSHIPS for this course?

Currently we could not find a scholarship for the Practical Ways to Spend Wisely & Increase Savings Each Year course, but there is a $11 discount from the original price ($26). So the current price is just $14.99.

Who is the instructor? Is Ed Torquemada a SCAM or a TRUSTED instructor?

Ed Torquemada has created 1 courses that got 4 reviews which are generally positive. Ed Torquemada has taught 353 students and received a 5.0 average review out of 4 reviews. Depending on the information available, Ed Torquemada is a TRUSTED instructor.
Business Leader, Entrepreneur, University Professor
22 years of experience operating in organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100, managing multi-million dollar businesses and procurement organizations are now at your fingertips through simple, practical, and easy to understand content.
Throughout these years I have:
Managed businesses to profitability and sustainable growth in both developed and developing countries.
Led global procurement organizations, structuring strategic global and regional agreements, and achieving millions of dollars in hard savings.
Developed and delivered curriculum content to engineering students.
Led and collaborated with global cross-functional teams with diverse background.
Lessons learned from these experiences, both technical and non-technical, along with hard skills stemming two degrees in business administration and one in mechanical engineering are the foundation to the content you will receive in my lectures. Every course always incorporates real-life, proven experiences that balance both successes and lessons learned from failures.
My latest adventure is Kellerworx, a start-up focused on business ventures, now priming several business verticals that include management consulting, on-line business & e-commerce development, and SME knowledge management. Experiences growing Kellerworx will also enrich content of future courses.
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