We come across two types of women who want to work remotely from home.
Some of them want to earn more, be successful in their career, and want to work remotely. They have the support of their family, which makes it very easy.
Then there are others who want to have financial independence desperately because they do not have support from their family. It is a question of either survival or dignity for them.
We love helping all our learners, but we have a soft corner for those who are struggling due to lack of family support.
How can we help them?
Most of them get stuck with finance. Some get stuck with time. First, we started offering them interest free loans through our third-party finance partners. This helped a lot of people to pursue our courses and become financially independent. After all, we can help them to get work that can help them to easily pay their EMI.
We thought this would make our courses available to all women. But that did not happen.
Often, some women do not have their own credit ratings, they could not get a loan sanctioned. We were told by some that they do not even have an active bank account.
How do we help them?
It’s very sad.
We can help them to earn by providing them work. Most of them are able to earn back the course fees within months. However, we cannot offer our courses for free. In that case it is impossible to provide the services we provide at scale!
We tried to let the learners pay us after they started earning. Didn’t work. Can you guess why? Very few people actually pay once the service is received and they get their outcome.
This is why all the companies that pioneered income sharing agreements failed in India.
This is the hard reality of the world. Why should I pay you later if I already got what I wanted?
We are not a debt collection company, we cannot chase learners for timely EMI payments.
So it remains an unresolved problem for us.
We have reduced the hurdle a lot, now it looks like this:
- You should be able to spend 2 hrs per day on the course curriculum, exercises, outreach activities
- You should be able to either pay the course fee upfront or be able to get a loan from a finance company (interest free) based on your credit score, or at least get a friend or family to be a co-borrower
- If you can do that much, we can support you with the rest. We can help you by connecting you with freelance work opportunities or part time jobs so that you can earn your course fee back fast and pay back your loan in no time.
We created a dedicated team that assists our learners to find low skill and no skill freelance projects which do not require any prior professional skill sets.
It can take our learners 2-3 months to learn professional level skill sets and crack their first few projects and start earning from the skills that they are learning in the courses.
How can they finance their EMIs until this period?
If our learners are willing to invest just a couple of hours per day, our own team is able to share opportunities with them.
These opportunities could be around data entry, proof-reading, research, blogging, translation, social media posting, or other assignments that do not require any professional skill sets.
Every month our team assists approx. 400-500 learners to secure such low-skilled or no-skilled assignments so that they can pay their EMIs while they are learning professional skill sets from us.
Here are just 10 out of the hundreds of women who have been able to earn back their EMIs within just 2-3 months of joining our courses:
Atchatha Murali, (January 2024 batch), a 2017 graduate from Easwari Engineering College, currently residing in Bangalore, and a mother of two, had a career gap of more than a year, took our course on EMI, started freelancing with the help of our team, worked as a virtual assistant, wrote LinkedIn posts, content creation assignments for her clients for 3-4 hours a day and has earned more than USD 1000 till date. She was able to recover her course fee in just 3 months and was able to finance her monthly EMIs with the earnings from the assignments that she was pursuing.
Rakhee Ghose, (July 2023 batch) a 2015 B.Sc graduate, was working as head chef at a cafe in Goa, took our course on EMI after a 6-month career gap, she started freelancing with the help of our team, and secured jobs to work as a startup generalist with 2 startups one based in Thailand and another in the US. She received the money she invested in the course within 4-5 months. She is earning more than INR 80k per month now.
Rachna Keshwani, (July 2023 batch), a 2009 graduate from Ahmedabad, was on a career break for more than 7 years, took our course on EMI to restart her career, started freelancing with the help of our team, secured a remote job as a virtual assistant job with a startup based in Cape Town and then another remote job as a virtual assistant with a startup based in Bali. She works 2-3 hours a day for work. She has earned more than USD 1000 and has self-financed her learning.
Munmun Kundu, (July 2023 batch), a 2006 B.Sc graduate from Kolkata, was on a career break for one and half years and was looking forward to working remotely with international clients. She enrolled in our course, took it on EMI, took help from our team and started sending proposals on Upwork. She was able to secure a remote job as a sales administrator with a UK-based startup and getting paid USD 9.44 per hour for working 20 hours a week. She is also working with an Australia-based startup. She was able to self-finance her course and earned more than USD 1100 to date.
Hema Vaithianathan, (September 2023 batch), a 2013 BE graduate from Puducherry, was on a career break since 2018 and wanted to become financially independent while enrolling with us. She took our course on EMI and started looking for remote opportunities as guided by our team. She secured a virtual assistant position with a Toronto-based startup within 3 months and is now earning USD 600 per month putting in 5-6 hours a day.
Veena Prabhu, (March 2023 batch), an HR professional with many years of work experience, had been a homemaker for 3 years. She took our course on EMI and was able to secure her first international client within 3 months as she implemented the strategies that we shared. She currently has more than 6-7 international clients and has earned more than INR 10 lakhs in less than a year!
Lakshmi Dhanaraj, (December 2023 batch), a 2004 B.Sc graduate from Chennai, took our course on an EMI basis and within 3 months was able to secure a remote job with a Canada-based client for graphic designing work for USD 6.30/hr and is working for 40 hrs/week. She has earned more than USD 1400 (approx. 1.2 lakhs) within 2 months recovered much more than what she invested in our course in just a couple of months!
Bhavna Sharma, (October 2023 batch), a 2008 graduate from Indore, having 15 years of professional experience, had to leave her job in September 2023 due to family responsibilities. She wanted to work remotely while enrolling with us. She took the help of our team to secure projects. She did projects related to content moderation, data labelling etc. earned around USD 200 and then later on secured a virtual assistant job with a Canada-based client. She is earning USD 1000 through the remote job.
Roshini Patel, (January 2024 batch), a 2010 BBA graduate from Pune, was on a career break of 6 years, enrolled in our course, took help from our team, secured 2 clients based in the US for social media marketing, blog writing, lead generation etc. She works around 15 hours per week and has earned USD 200 till date. She is self-financing her learning with the support of our team.
Yojana Anand, (May 2023 batch), a 2007 graduate from Kochi, Kerela, enrolled in our course, took help from our team to secure freelance projects such as content writing projects, hindi prompt pairing projects, review projects, etc. work only 1-2 hours a day and is self-financing the course through our support. She has earned more than USD 350 till date.