Online Learning Reaches the World of Bartending

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 7, 2012 -- Colleges today offer many courses online, allowing even the busiest people to attain a degree, study areas of particular interest or just brush up on their business skills. This new trend in education has changed the lives of working mothers, those in remote areas and youth who are exploring their career options. Even nontraditional career classes are now offered via the Internet. Many of these courses can lead to certification for employment in technical positions.

Use of various resources and training methods has expanded the options for conducting lessons. Convenience and variation of delivery yield greater comprehensive results. With these advantages, it is no wonder that the novelty is quickly becoming a preference in choice of study.

Students are learning in the fields of nursing, accounting, real estate, paralegal, bartending, cooking and nutrition from online courses. Nursing? Bartending? How is it possible to learn these professions from lessons taught online? In the case of bartending, one would think that students must be in a classroom or behind a bar to learn to make cocktails.

Not so says Kellie Nicholson, instructor for online bartending classes. Though students learn how to make all of the most popular libations, she states that bartending entails so much more than making alcoholic beverages. In her class, Bartending the Easy Way, Nicholson prepares students to be great sales persons, customer service experts and honest and valuable employees, skills that can lead to success throughout life. The lessons taught are also extremely beneficial to managers, waitresses and novice bartenders.

Nicholson has had great success teaching her classes on campus at 15 community colleges throughout the Los Angeles area. Expansion into the online system of courses has presented the opportunity for bartending students nationwide to benefit from her training. The online courses are offered at various schools throughout the United States and via the course website. These classes are designed to prepare students for the real world of bartending, which includes lessons that can be applied to most types of careers.

Serving clientele like Will from the Black-Eyes Peas, David Schwimmer, Jessica Simpson and Ashton Kutcher is only a small part of Nicholson’s extraordinary career. Using knowledge from her years of working as a bar manager and bar consultant gives her students the advantage of learning skills that make them highly employable and sought after by managers and those hiring.

Additionally, Kellie has been called upon by many magazines for her expertise. She also produces, "Road to Hollywood," live talent contests. Highly respected in the industry, her reputation is due to her high sales and her ability to make everyone feel like a friend and a guest, instead of a customer.

The hospitality industry continues to grow each year, also creating a demand for skilled managers. One challenge facing bar and restaurant owners and managers is that most hospitality programs are long-term and expensive. This is due to the wide range of subject material, much of which is never applied in the real world. Nicholson also offers Professional Bar Management at the Mastery Level, Customer Service and Bartending at Home classes.

For more information visit www.barbizz.com or www.barprofessional.com.

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