Summary

The Dissertation Writing Network (DWN) is a higher education company offering a unique and robust trend-setting, higher education training program featuring on-demand, immersive, and cohort-based learning to enhance doctoral dissertation writing performance.  

Our mission is to help enhance doctoral programs’ graduation and retention rates in all disciplines by providing customized, skills-based training programs that integrate seamlessly with the university’s core doctoral curriculum.

 Our solutions feature an innovative curriculum in video format, using character and object animations, and animated text, to facilitate a complex learning process (that is, writing a doctoral dissertation).

The flexible, cost-effective license terms allow the University administrators and professors to own, re-brand, revise, customize, facilitate, and manage the learning process for their doctoral students, whenever and wherever.

The curriculum expedites and simplifies the writing and management of the doctoral dissertation, increases retention and graduation rates, and shortens students’ "time to completion" for the degree.  It is flexible, student-centered, easy to implement, and streamlines and automates the role of Program Directors, Dissertation Chairs, Readers, and others in supervising and managing dissertations. 

The Dissertation Writing Network also supports faculty resources and training for managing and delivering the curriculum.

 We simplify the dissertation writing process to confidently put students on the path to earning their doctorate and graduating on schedule!

Product/Market Fit....

Research has identified a specific problem (high dropout) in the doctoral programs in the higher education industry. There is no curriculum targeting this identified problem.  We have no evidence that universities will pay over $100k price tag for our curriculum to address this problem.  However, having worked in the industry for over 30 years, we know their pain points on this issue (low graduation, high dropout rates, and over 50% annual revenue loss in doctoral programs) are real. Besides, this curriculum provides a direct, immediate, and long-term solution to the target’s identified problems.  

In addition, universities are becoming more receptive to purchasing income-generating curricula that are more cost-effective in contrast to design internally. Finally, most university administrators are unaware of the enormity of the dropout problem and may act quickly once they become aware.

We are a start-up...

We are a start-up company with no prior achievements or awards to showcase. However, we were founded by university professors, administrators, and curriculum experts who have designed, recruited, taught, supervised, coached, and managed doctoral programs and dissertations for many years.  The founder received his doctorate from Harvard University and has designed, led and managed doctoral programs.

What kind of agent is suited to this opportunity?

• Experience working in university environments as a vendor, sales personnel, consultant, administrator, or professor.
• Experience selling to high-level personnel at universities or similar industries.
• Related contacts with persons within the higher education industry.
• Ability to develop awareness, pursue university prospects who align with our curriculum, and channel interests into opportunities, to sell the curriculum.
• Use targeted questions to learn about the prospect’s dissertation writing environment, how it is organized, knowledge of their doctoral graduation rates, assess needs around the dissertation writing process, answer questions, and invite the target to the Zoom (or F2F) presentation to learn more about the curriculum and its benefits to the university and its doctoral students.
• Exceptionally well-prepared for each sales meeting with prospects.
• Ability to manage time that values client-facing obligations in person or virtual.
• Ability to establish trust, communicate, and follow up with each prospect.
• Using empathy and exceptional attention to detail to uncover pain points to determine when you can push ahead or hold back.
• Ability to actively listen to and align the prospects’ pain points with the curriculum.
• Excellent organizational skills to ensure all sales tasks are completed accurately and on time.
• Willingness to take feedback from and collaborate with management.