ENEB Master Thread

[MikeP]

I was curious if anyone had tried offering business consulting with their ENEB degree as a credential?

I was reading some beer money anecdotes about people selling business consulting services to small businesses (such as developing business plans, pitch decks and financial models for small businesses to acquire financing from banks, which is 90% of the actual demand there) on platforms such as Upwork and Fiverr.

Although there's a lot of legwork at the start to develop templates, after some months to a year, they seemed to feel it's relatively easy money as they can re-use a lot of their existing content (i.e. a local restaurant isn't going to vary significantly from another restaurant, and only requires adjustments based on numbers and business situation). They cite having low-cost business degrees from State Universities and being native English speakers as significant assets for charging enough to make this worthwhile (as many of these platforms tend to have significant volumes of low-quality sellers from developing countries that essentially verbatim copy their work from an existing business plan for ~$5 USD in volume, with zero actual work being performed). Fiverr and Upwork both seem like platforms where people tend to place more stock in the acronym MBA than where the MBA is acquired from, for example.

Has anyone been able to use their ENEB degree successfully to get considered to justify receiving the Fiverr Pro designation? Or started a side hustle doing small business consulting, bookkeeping, etc. after completing their ENEB MBA?

I think everyone is cognizant that their ENEB MBA isn't going to get them onto the floor of major global consulting practices or propel them to becoming a partner, but it seems more than perfectly fine to launch a consulting practice dedicated to small businesses and startups, especially if you're a native English speaker.  I personally was interested in completing my ENEB MBA to be able to justify having the qualifications for a small business related side hustle.

I'd be really curious to hear anecdotes from DegreeForum members on how they've leveraged the ENEB MBA professionally, either in their primary careers or in side hustles/freelance gigs/seasonal+casual positions (most of you seem to be doing the ENEB degree purely for amusement/personal development/stepping stone to another graduate degree than paper value, which is perfectly fine, but I think there's definitely some untapped potential there that we don't really talk about).