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Prfessor

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It’s software that allows anyone, regardless of technical skills, to instantly create their own online university, or academy, or training center. Like Blogger.com changed the world letting everyone easily create a blog. Prfessor.com allows everyone to take the knowledge they have in their head, and sell it on the web.

If you are someone who has expertise and wants to share it with the world, but not give it away, while minimizing technical barriers, Prfessor.com should be among your top considerations. It is also great if you want to joint venture with others in your market, product content, and sell it, making you an expert by association.

What Prfessor.com Offers:

• The ability to for experts to publish content (courses), and charge for it.
• Handling of customer payment (after your Paypal or Authorize.net account is configured)
• Course quizzes/exams
• Ability to invite other “Professors” to submit their content, giving them a percentage of the sale (this is a big deal).
• Ability to manually register students, take payment over the phone, override a fee for a given course. You can even promote a student to a professor.
• Dashboard to reveal course registrations at a glance, enrollment performance Course success tracking, and payables.
• With this service, learning online is no longer the future, but is attainable now for everyone who has expertise to share.

Prfessor.com is ideal anyone who has:

• Expertise (that a market is willing to pay for)
• A desire to profit from that expertise
• A desire to remove as many technology barriers as possible

Who can use it?:

• Business (turn your training into a profit center)
• Non-Profits (create a new funding source today)
• New Career
• Entrepreneur (instantly start a business)
• Subject Matter Experts, Coaches, Consultants
• Educational Institutions
• Professionals, Accountants, Financial Planners, Lawyers
• Non-Profits

$49.97/month, no contract for use of the Web-based software.

Milestones

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• 
  Prfessor added Dave Goerlich as Partner.
  Posted 10/22/09 at 9:27am
• 
  Prfessor added Josh Walsh as Partner.
  Posted 10/22/09 at 9:27am
• 
  Prfessor added Dave Van Horn as Partner.
  Posted 10/22/09 at 9:27am

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Screenshots

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Above: Prfessor Dashboard
Uploaded: 10/22/09

Above: Prfessor Live Course
Uploaded: 10/22/09

Above: Prfessor Integrated Payments
Uploaded: 10/22/09

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