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Who are we?
We are Chris and Lee Brown, Interior Designers from New Zealand, a small country renowned for thinking outside the square and being innovative.
We have been Interior Designers for 61 years combined. Together we have built an online community with interiordezine.com where hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have gained new skills and the confidence to take their learning to another level through the ecourses we provided. We have been a positive influence in peoples lives and their future, and we have done it all for free for the last 15 years.
So Why Change a Good Thing?
Technology has changed, and we can now offer a far better way of learning and helping even more people with a mobile learning management system. We have called this Willow College. Short 3-minute bite sized interactive lessons, able to be undertaken, anywhere, anytime. Users can login and see their progress on a dashboard, talk in a community, compete against their friends, generally learn in a fun and interactive environment.
Why Pay Now?
Technology costs money, to provide this system we need to charge you, its as simple as that.
Problems with Change - Why it Holds us Back
People often procrastinate with further learning because they don’t think that they can fit it into their already busy lifestyles and are too afraid to fail if they try because they are too busy to make the class or do the homework and assignments. With the Willow College system, you can be in a full time career and fit the lessons in anywhere. You can be waiting at the Doctor's surgery, one lesson done, taking a coffee break, that’s another. Queuing up to pay for your groceries, another lesson. It’s as simple as that – we can help you learn interior design without having to change your current lifestyle, but it will make an enormous change to your future. You biggest fear is overcome, you will not fail because we will guide you all the way.
Who Has Spare Time?
It just means when you would normally use 3 minutes to check your Facebook or Instagram account, you are now learning something with Willow College instead. The course is undertaken at your own pace, there is no time pressure, some weeks you have too many commitments and others you have more downtime. That’s the great thing about this, there is no one chasing you to hand in an assignment. You are in complete control.
So Why are We Crowd Funding?
It's pretty simple, we have put everything we have into this project, time and money, but we don't quite have enough to get it finished. We have a family to support and a little bit more software to buy, and a couple more helping hands would be great.
How Can You Help?
Because we have so many fantastic students who have already completed our 3 free courses, we thought they could help us get the word out about what we are doing and in return we could offer them great Foundation Member pricing for the subscription. Anyone that supports us with this funding campaign will keep the same "Perk" subscription rates for life. These Perks - (look right), are all listed there.
Lee has written an ebook about Interior Designer Insights - you will receive this entertaining and insightful ebook as well as a Subscription to WillowCollege.com. So exciting, you'll love it. We have enjoyed building it and can't wait for you to give it a go, but we need your help. If you help us here by purchasing a "perk" you will receive that life changing Interior Design learning experience. You won't look back, you will have skills, knowledge and confidence to change you life and your career.
How Can You Help Others?
A sponsorship system will be used to help those who can’t afford access to the new way of learning that we offer so they can still have the ability to learn. Interior design may not seem like an essential learning skill but you have no idea how gaining skills and helping people have a better environment to live in changes lives for the better. We get emails on a daily basis telling us that learning interior design was life changing. We have testimonials from people who’s lives we have made a difference to – please make sure you take a few minutes to read some of them in the updates section (the tabs at the top of this). You can buy a "Perk" for a subscription for yourself and sponsor a student less fortunate. Be a super hero - sponsor a student.
Why Believe in Chris and Lee?
Because we make things happen, 15 years of interiordezine.com, teaching Interior Design for free online. We are very generous people as you can probably tell by now, we rarely ask for help. We have a lot invested in this project and don’t want it sitting on the shelves for years if we have to go back and get jobs. We are in this to make a difference and won’t stop until its done.
We have both left our jobs, sold our valued possessions and fully committed ourselves to this project. Our friends have called us crazy - perhaps we are, but good things don't just miraculously happen, they need someone with drive, passion and determination to actively make them happen.
Thanks
Thanks so much for visiting, we hope you could contribute and get your Foundation Status and go on to change your career.
Thanks again,
Chris and Lee Brown
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