Achieving Professional Certification Identifies You As A Leader
SMEI recognizes professionals who have met and surpassed high standards of education, experience, knowledge, and ethical conduct. SMEI has established sales certification and marketing certification programs for professionals to complete in order to be able to use its professional designations. These certifcation programs involve part-time self study and an examination process.
Your SMEI sales certification or marketing certification designation show to the world that you are a sales and marketing professional. Sales certification and marketing certification announce your professional competence to your clients, employer, peers, and customers. Your CSE®, CME®, SCPM™ or SCPS® designation certifies that you abide by the highest ethics and principles and have demonstrated knowledge and experience in sales and marketing.
"Leadership & learning are indispensable to each other." -John F. Kennedy.
The proprietary reference text for each of the sales certification and marketing certification programs developed in cooperation with educational publishers, along with online learning resources, will assist you in self study as you prepare for certification.
All programs listed below include an online, self-study course, and certification application fee.
Total Credits: 5 Online Course
- Categories:
- Marketing Education | Nonprofit
- Short Description:
- Effective use of social media as a marketing tool is often essential for nonprofits to get attention in this digital world. This course introduces learners to the use of social media in communicating, marketing, public relations, and fundraising for nonprofits. It explores the major social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest) as vehicles for nonprofits to reach their members, volunteers, and donors.
- Base Price:
- $129.00
- Price:
- $103.20 - $122.55
Total Credits: 3.5 Online Course
- Categories:
- Marketing Education
- Short Description:
- Using social media in marketing is practically a requirement in today's highly connected digital world. But it can be confusing and complex to dive into social media marketing without some foundation in the basics. This course focuses on teaching the principles, best practices, and strategies for incorporating social media into a marketing plan. The first module teaches the various ways that social media can be used for marketing, including defining a clear brand voice, improving reputation, and engaging with customers. The course then looks at the practical way marketers can incorporate social media activities into a focused marketing plan. Learners identify how to integrate their social media with mobile, a hub website, and email marketing. They also learn how to use strategic metrics for tracking success.
- Base Price:
- $129.00
- Price:
- $103.20 - $122.55
Total Credits: 20 Online Course
- Categories:
- Marketing Education | Professional Certification | Social Media Marketing
- Short Description:
- This course provides relevant knowledge, perspectives, and practical skills required to develop marketing strategies that leverage the opportunities inherent in social media and social interactions for achieving business and marketing goals.
- Base Price:
- $899.00
- Price:
- $539.40 - $899.00
Total Credits: 5 Online Course
- Categories:
- Financial Management | Management
- Short Description:
- Statistical Process Control is all about boosting quality. Quality management can not only deliver value to customers and stakeholders, it can also enable data-driven decision making that helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This intermediate-level course will introduce the basics of quality management, explaining the difference between quality control and quality assurance, providing methods for application of analysis, showing different applications of the Seven Basic Quality Tools. It all culminates in a brief case study, which illustrates the concepts covered.
- Base Price:
- $169.00
- Price:
- $135.20 - $160.55
Total Credits: 5 Online Course
- Categories:
- Financial Management | Management
- Short Description:
- Managing today can require good instincts. However, instinct is not enough to manage the huge amounts of available data and the complex variables of the business world. Statistics can help managers and leaders make sense of these complexities, back-up their assertions, and feel confident about when to take the risks and when to pump the breaks. This intermediate-level course examines statistics as a managerial tool. It also looks at common graphical representations of data and how these can be effective tools to explain situations and support persuasive arguments for a course of action.
- Base Price:
- $169.00
- Price:
- $135.20 - $160.55
Total Credits: 5 Online Course
- Categories:
- Entrepreneurship | Marketing Education
- Short Description:
- This course reviews the strategic issues that an entrepreneur faces while starting a new venture or business, and highlights the questions about market acceptance that must be answered during every stage of the entrepreneurial process.
- Base Price:
- $169.00
- Price:
- $135.20 - $160.55
Total Credits: 15 Online Course
- Categories:
- Leadership | Management | Manager's Toolbox
- Short Description:
- There are a number of managerial factors that are vital in managing and leading. Becoming a better manager or leader is directly connected to how well you can master them. The Effective Manager's Toolbox is a suite of online modules designed to give managers a head start on managing issues correctly and professionally with less stress and fewer negative organizational circumstances. The modules offer learners an explanation of the managerial mindset that all managers and leaders must adopt to succeed.
- Base Price:
- $349.00
- Price:
- $279.20 - $331.55
Total Credits: 3 Online Course
- Categories:
- Career Building
- Short Description:
- So, you've just landed a new job. What happens now? The first 30 days provide you a unique opportunity to set yourself up for success in your new role. Lots of people, most significantly your boss, will form an impression of you from the beginning that will be hard to change later on. This course will help you prepare for your first thirty days on the job, laying the groundwork for a successful tenure in your new role and at the organization.
- Base Price:
- $69.00
- Price:
- $55.20 - $65.55
Total Credits: 1 SMEI Video 1 PDH Credit
- Categories:
- Leadership | Sales Management
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Short Description:
- The concept of remote work is not new. Today's business environment is exerting pressure on companies to implement a work from home or distributive workforce policies in reactionary mode. This program we call on the expertise of two professionals with years of experience in creating and managing remote teams.
- Base Price:
- $99.00
- Price:
- $0.00 - $99.00
Total Credits: 3 Online Course
- Categories:
- Management | Marketing Education | Sales Education | Sales Management
- Short Description:
- One of the more precious resources a manager has is his or her time. Managers can become more effective by employing time management and scheduling techniques, delegating, outsourcing key tasks, and employing technology. Effective time management helps managers achieve their goals. The concepts covered in this course will help create structure around your time management skills, and will help reveal any weaknesses in your time management habits. Making time management a priority is often the first step to keeping on task and maintaining a schedule.
- Base Price:
- $99.00
- Price:
- $79.20 - $94.05
Steps to getting certified:
- Register for an online self-study certification course
- Complete the self-study program
- Register for and take the online certification exam
- 3-Hour Time Limit based on 180 True/False & Multiple Choice Questions (Exam can be taken from your home or office.)
- Achieve a passing grade of 75% on the exam
- Receive a digital badge from SMEI
- Request a press release from SMEI (Optional)
Taking an SMEI exam preparatory course does not guarantee an increase of a candidate’s exam score or chances of passing the exam.
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