This year, though, it’s your lucky day – but only if you sign up for everything on Breaking Into Wall Street for 46% off (save $432).

As promised, this special offer will expire at 5 PM sharp on Friday, January 13th (New York Time)

UPDATE: This promotion is now over. Thanks!

What’s Included and Why You Should Care

This offer gives you the entire Breaking Into Wall Street training product suite.

It contains everything you need to master financial modeling, network your way into anything, and ace all your interviews.

You get access to over 141 hours of step-by-step video training on:

• Excel & Financial Modeling Fundamentals (Case Study: Apple / Research in Motion)
• Advanced Financial Modeling (Case Study: Microsoft / Yahoo)
• Banks & Financial Institutions (Case Study: JP Morgan / SunTrust)
• Oil & Gas Modeling (Case Study: Exxon Mobil / XTO Energy)
• Real Estate & REIT Modeling (Case Study: Avalon Bay)
• PowerPoint (Case Study: Apple’s Potential Buy-Side M&A Deal)

Plus, my best-selling interview guide (500+ questions and answers, sample interviews, and more) and the networking guide (dozens of templates and scripts and contact information for 13,000+ banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds).

This is the easiest, most effective way to get everything you need to stand out in interviews and to prepare yourself for years to come as you rise through the ranks in the industry.

And the best part is… there’s enough material here to not only boost your career now, but also assist you in the future.

In the finance industry people hop jobs as if they were musical chairs, and you could find yourself interviewing with an energy group, or a real estate group, or any group, with only a few days of advance notice.

Sign up now, and you’re covered – even when you find out about your interview the night before.

The 3 industry-specific courses on Real Estate, Oil & Gas, and Banks are all increasing in price on Friday at 5 PM, so this is the last time you’ll ever see this offer on this site.

OK, But Does This Actually Work?

Yes – in fact, that’s the biggest benefit of all this training.

There’s value to learning out of intellectual curiosity…

But you’re here because you want to get into the finance industry, or at least position yourself to get there in the future.

Click here to learn what exactly learning financial modeling will do for you and why the more advanced material matters.

Or, just go here to read dozens of other success stories from current students.

And if you think only junior-level people at banks, PE firms, and hedge funds find value in financial modeling and in the courses offered here, think again.

Here’s an email that came in the other day (click the image to see a bigger version):

True, nothing’s perfect – he did have a few suggestions and ideas for the Bank Modeling program, which we’re going to incorporate soon.

But you could also say that everything has been “Managing Director-approved”.

UPDATE: This promotion is now over. Thanks!

Why This Special Offer and Why Now?

Originally, I created and released the 3 industry-specific courses – Bank & Financial Institution Modeling, Oil & Gas Modeling, and Real Estate & REIT Modeling – at lower rates, to reward you for signing up early.

The courses were new at the time and I wanted to get as much feedback as possible so we could improve them and make the existing courses on the site even better.

Now that they’ve been out for over a year, that early discount period has ended and each one is going up from $97 to $247 on Friday, January 13th at 5 PM New York time.

But I don’t want to make a change like that without giving you a fair chance to join first.

And I’ve even gone one better, by knocking 46% off the regular pricing.

What to Do Now

So I’m giving you one last chance to order everything before the price goes up. You’ll receive a 46% discount and save $432 when you sign up via this special link:

UPDATE: This promotion is now over. Thanks!

Yes, this is a significant investment – but we’re not talking about a luxury car or some other depreciating asset here.

These courses will serve you for years to come – and you’ll be able to ask us questions and get personalized answers for years to come, too. Full support and lifetime access to updates are included.

And even as an entry-level analyst in investment banking, you’ll earn back your investment in this package by your second day on the job. If you’re more senior, it would take an hour or two.

So, you have a choice to make.

You can sign up now and gain access to everything for 46% the regular price… and benefit for years to come.

Or, you can delay and lose out.

UPDATE: This promotion is now over. Thanks!

FAQ

Q: I’ve already signed up for some courses on your site and I want to upgrade to take advantage of this offer – is there anything for me?

A: We sent out an announcement about this on Tuesday, but not everyone received it judging by the emails we’ve been getting.

If you’ve already signed up for BIWS courses and want to grab all 3 industry-specific ones above at discounted rates, or upgrade your current membership to take advantage of this offer, please contact us right away.

Q: So when I sign up for this offer, will I really receive free access to future courses and additions? What do you have planned?

A: Yes, you will. We have not finalized plans for what will be coming in the future, but a few possibilities are Venture Capital & Early-Stage Companies, Buy-Side Modeling (for hedge funds and asset management), and Corporate Finance.

We have also received many requests for certifications, continuing professional education credit, and exams, so those may be coming as well.

Q: Wait, so do I still need to sign up for this if I was one of the early customers of the Breaking Into Wall Street program and signed up before April 30th, 2010?

A: No. Back then we were running a deal to sign up and win free access to future modeling-related updates, so if you signed up within the first year of the course you should already have access to everything (and if not, please let us know).

Q: So, should I sign up if I’m interested in…

A: These courses were designed for investment banking and private equity because they’re geared toward analysis of M&A and LBO deals.

However, they could be useful for other fields as well:

• Equity Research – Just focus on the accounting, 3-statement projection, and valuation segments rather than the transactional lessons.
• Corporate Development – Lots of overlap here as well since you work on budgeting, projections, and transactions.
• Hedge Funds / Asset Management – If your fund focuses on long-term, value-oriented investing and/or something like merger arbitrage where you need to know transactions, the courses will be helpful.

If you’re interested in the sales & trading side, these are not the right courses for you unless you’re thinking of moving into IB, PE, or one of the fields above.

Q: So, any other bonuses planned if I sign up right now? Free bottle service for 1 lucky winner?

A: Maybe, if you’re good. I’ll think about it.

Any Other Questions?

Ask away. And we’ll be back on Monday with your regularly scheduled programming.

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If you want to get a massive discount, become a modeling guru, and gain a big advantage over the competition, you should sign up right now.

And if you want to get a special discounted offer that I’ve never made available before – plus access to a set of free modeling tutorials on advanced material – then you need to keep reading.

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What’s In It for You?

Put simply, advanced modeling skills make you far more valuable and improve your chances of getting hired and then out-performing everyone else on the job.

That’s certainly the case at large banks, PE firms, and hedge funds, where interviews are extremely technical – but it’s also true even at smaller firms, because they don’t want to pay you to sit around twiddling your thumbs and not knowing what to do.

They want you to hit the ground running because it saves them time and money and it lets them make more money if you already know what you’re doing.

Got Skepticism?

If you’ve read this site for a while you know that I don’t enjoy hyping up my own products and services, and I rarely even write promotional posts.

Occasionally I announce something or reference a product, but this is not like Motley Fool where you’re assaulted with “great investment opportunities” constantly.

You’ll also know that for a long time I was skeptical of learning financial modeling and of self-study courses in general.

But then I spoke with more and more readers and I realized they were actually helpful – and that there was value in learning the concepts rather than just memorizing interview questions and answers.

And then readers mentioned that talking about case studies and self-study courses actually helped them in interviews and with landing offers, so I reversed my stance in 2009 and started releasing my own courses.

At first we started out with the basics – Excel, accounting, valuation, and so on – and then expanded into more advanced material and industry-specific lessons.

If you want to see exactly how these courses will help you, what you’ll learn, and what’s in it for, enter your first name and email address below to get a set of 4 free tutorials on industry-specific financial modeling over the next 2 weeks:

UPDATE: This promotion is now over and these free tutorials are now closed. Thanks!

The Bad News

The bad news is that prices on the industry-specific modeling programs (Oil & Gas, Banks & Financial Institutions, and Real Estate) are going up.

Right now they are all $97, and they will be increasing to $247 on January 13, 2012.

The current pricing had always been intended as a special introductory offer if you signed up early – within the first year of release.

Two of the programs have now been out for over a year, and we’re closing in on a year for the third one. So the introductory discount period is about to end.

Similar programs offered by competitors are often $500+, with some running even higher than that.

That’s because the content is more specific, harder to find elsewhere, and also makes you more valuable once you master it.

Lots of people can walk through how to value a generic company or how the 3 statements link together, but few people can explain the nuances of revenue recognition for an insurance company or how a NAV model works for oil & gas companies.

And that gives you a big advantage over the competition in interviews – just ask a reader who recently moved from a Big 4 firm to a bulge bracket bank, in part by leveraging the Oil & Gas Modeling course.

The Good News

The good news is that you still have 2 weeks to take advantage of these introductory rates. So if you’re interested in just one or two of these industry-specific courses, go to the course listing page and sign up now.

And if you want to learn more and get a set of 4 free financial modeling tutorials, enter your first name and email address below:

UPDATE: This promotion is now over and these free tutorials are now closed. Thanks!

You’ll learn all about why financial modeling matters and what it can do for you, and then you’ll get specific tutorials on commercial banks, insurance firms, oil & gas companies, and real estate over the next 2 weeks.

Plus, you’ll get sample videos for all of those industries and tutorials for the core modeling topics.

And One More Thing… Your Special Offer

If you’re already a member of BIWS, you can already sign up for members-only rates within the sites and take advantage of great deals on all these programs.

But if you’re new to this site and to our modeling courses, you can sign up for a special bundle that gives you access to everything at a nearly 50% discount: the BIWS Premium, PowerPoint Pro, Bank & Financial Institution Modeling, Oil & Gas Modeling, and Real Estate & REIT Modeling programs, and the Interview and Networking Guides.

UPDATE: This promotion is now over. Thanks!

If you signed up for this material elsewhere, you’d get a fraction of what’s covered in this package, and you would learn nothing about these industry-specific concepts.

For less than what competitors with $500+ programs charge, you get 4-5x more material, lifetime access, free updates to all the courses over time, and access to thousands of questions that have been asked and already been answered – plus the ability to ask whatever else you want.

What You Should Do Right Now

UPDATE: This promotion is now over and these free tutorials are now closed. Thanks!

In any case, make sure you act by January 13, 2012 at 5 PM New York time because the prices go up then.

Any questions? Ask away.

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We posted resume templates, tutorials, comprehensive interviewing and networking guides, and everything in between.

But sometimes those aren’t enough.

Sometimes you need to go beyond the templates and guides – you need a real, live person to guide you and tell you exactly what to do.

And in sticky situations – applying for the job and working on the job - talking to a real person is far more helpful than posting comments and questions online and hoping for an enlightening response.

What We’ve Got –  Resume Editing

As you’ve probably figured out from the title, we’re now offering resume editing and coaching once again.

Resume editing is straightforward – especially since we’ve offered it here before (way back in the dark ages of 2008 – 2009) – but here’s what it involves:

• You go to the investment banking resume editing page and follow the instructions there to sign up.
• Then, you will be directed to a page where you can submit your resume (or cover letter) and any instructions or additional information you want to share.
• You receive back a detailed, line-by-line edit that “bankifies” your experience – even if you haven’t had those 5 investment banking internships that your competitors have had.
• Within 14 days of signing up, you can also request up to 2 major revisions along with any minor edits you want. Even after that period ends, you can continue to ask any questions you have and receive feedback.

Get all the details, see sample edited resumes, and sign up on the investment banking resume editing page.

In the interest of full disclosure, Nicole (read more here) will be doing the actual editing and providing feedback.

This is actually great news for you, because:

• If I (Brian) did it myself, the turnaround time would be far worse since I am too busy with other projects, writing and editing content for this site, video production, and so on.
• She has more experience than me, having worked in investment research, institutional sales, private banking, and investment banking.
• We’ve already been through many examples of how to edit resumes and cover letters, so she is well-trained.

If you have any concerns about this, read through to the FAQ at the bottom where I address a few additional points.

What We’ve Got – Coaching Services

In addition to resume editing, we’re also launching coaching services today.

Do not confuse these with mock interviews. They are different, and these coaching services are not mock interviews.

You can ask about interview-related topics such as how to tell your “story” or how to answer specific questions, but the coaching services are more for asking questions such as:

• How to network effectively even if you’re coming from a very random background.
• How to present yourself in information sessions, informational interviews, and real interviews.
• How to pitch your story and give appropriate answers to the most common interview questions.
• How to bankify your experience and make it sound compelling to financiers.
• How to get out of sticky situations at work (love triangles, co-worker drama, senior bankers hating you) and negotiate effectively when you get job offers.

You can check out all the details and sign up for coaching right here.

Once again, Nicole will be providing these services and that’s good news for you for the same reasons as outlined above – more experience than me, more attention and faster responses, and she is much better with these types of “soft” questions.

Why Now? / Why Did You Take This Away and Bring It Back?

The main reason that resume editing (and coaching / mock interviews) went away in 2009 was because I wanted to focus more on products and building up the then-new financial modeling courses.

It took over 2 years to do that, and during that period I had no time or energy to devote to consulting or even training others to help out – but I still kept getting requests for resume editing and mock interviews.

So now that I have more resources and more people supporting the site, I’m bringing these services back.

What These Services Will Do for You

The resume editing and coaching services will give you the extra edge you need to get ahead and stand out above everyone else.

Sure, templates and guides can help but there’s no substitute for one-on-one consulting, especially if you have an unusual situation or a more complex set of questions that we can’t possibly address in an article or guide.

The hiring market in finance gets more competitive each year and even tiny differences can make a huge impact when you’re competing against people with perfect grades, top schools, and multiple internships and/or full-time jobs.

Wait, But Do Resumes and Cover Letters Even Matter for Getting Selected?

Networking still matters more, and there’s no substitute for someone reviewing your resume to know your name and instantly recognize who you are.

I’ve said before that you shouldn’t obsess over your resume or cover letter, and I still believe that.

But signing up for resume or cover letter editing hardly counts as “obsessing,” and if this saves you time and effort then it’s well worth it – because you can then spend more time networking and preparing for interviews.

So the choice is yours: you can sign up, ensure that there are no flaws with your resume and cover letter, and save yourself time in the process… or you can roll the dice and do it yourself.

What These Services Will NOT Do for You

The coaching service is NOT a mock interview service. It’s strictly for asking questions on qualitative questions, “story”-related topics, networking, and so on.

We may introduce mock interviews later, but they are trickier to set up and require more training time, so for now it’s resume editing and coaching.

If there’s enough interest, I may be motivated to introduce mock interviews more quickly.

Also keep in mind that these services are not miracle solutions.

If you have a 2.0 GPA from an unknown school with 0 internships, resume editing will not magically get you an offer at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking in New York or London.

These services exist to give you a leg up and an advantage over everyone else, not to perform miracles.

What to Do Next

If you want to benefit from these services, sign up right here for resume editing and right here for coaching.

If you would not benefit from these services or you feel the templates are already enough, keep using those and ignore this announcement.

FAQ

Q: How much do these cost? What’s my investment in these programs?

A: They are priced in-line with similar resume editing and coaching services for the finance and consulting job markets. You can view all the details on the sign-up pages.

You’re applying to high-paying jobs where many people make over $200K by age 25 – so the services are priced at levels commensurate with those salaries.

Q: I don’t trust these services because you are not personally editing my resume or coaching me.

I ONLY TRUST YOU, BRIAN, AND I DON’T LIKE ANYONE ELSE.

How will you ensure quality?

A: I understand your concerns here, but would offer up the following points:

1. I’ve already been through many examples with Nicole and will actually be reviewing everything she does at first. It’s similar to how I heavily edit all the guest contributions here until each author can write without as much guidance from me.
2. Similar to the guarantees on all other products offered here, there’s also a money-back guarantee on both of these services. So if you’re upset or unhappy for any reason, you can request a refund and there’s no risk to you.

Q: What if you get too much demand? Is there anyone else helping?

A: We’re starting out like this to see how much interest there is.

Based on past experience running these services, I do not expect an overwhelming amount of demand because there has always been more interest in the guides and training programs.

But if there is too much demand, we will bring on more people to help out, limit sign-ups, and/or I will get more personally involved.

Q: What about mock interviews?

A: They may return depending on interest and demand.

Resume editing was always the most popular service, so we wanted to start with that – and coaching is relatively simple to introduce and many readers could benefit from such a service.

Mock interviews are trickier to implement correctly, and I don’t want to launch a service that’s not up to the standards set by everything else here.

Any More Questions?

See the resume editing page and coaching page if you have more questions – they both have extensive lists where we have answered the most common questions.

If you have a question about anything not addressed there, just leave a comment below.