Actividade versus resultados

"During the first few years Udemy was seeking the right pricing and promotions formula. They settled on $10 a course and started promoting others who were more interested in selling $10 courses. I became interested in other aspects of the business.
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For a couple years we cruised along. Then things started going down hill.
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And quickly.
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The market was getting crowded. I am not a believer in infinite markets and that “competition is good.” A guy who learns from you is someone who isn’t learning from me.
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In my analysis, courses have become a commodity. Ask most new instructors what makes their HTML course different, they’ll tell you it’s the “quality of instruction,” or “their communication skills.”
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I’m going to call bullshit.
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Because I used to say the same thing. Your courses are the pretty much the same as everyone else’s. And so were mine.
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Some time in the middle of last year it clicked: No one wants to take a fucking class.
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A class is work.
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A class is study, assignments, boring lectures. It’s torture. I hated all the academic aspects of college. But I really liked the result of getting a degree.
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The hundreds of thousands who had purchased my courses didn’t want to take a course. They wanted the result that course brought. Learning Javascript was great, but being a Javascript developer was even better. What did my students really want? They wanted to be professional developers.
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And we could facilitate that transition.
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you should think of your company as an organization that serves a market instead of selling a product. It was simple genius.
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We were a company that served new developers who wanted to be professionals — not a company that sold courses.
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And, that, of course, changed everything.
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We now sell live and online bootcamps that take people who want to be developers from never having written a line of code to job ready professionals.
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We’ve gone from selling $10 courses to $2,000 life transitions. (And the price goes up soon. And then up some more.) We’ve differentiated ourselves with a comprehensive bootcamp product that includes unique elements like a live instructor mentor, and a capstone program in which you build a portfolio which will lead to employment.
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In our program, participants earn 8 separate certifications. It’s now the furthest thing from a course on HTML.
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In the meantime our distribution business in the corporate vertical continues to thrive.
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The lesson here — Differentiate. Don’t be another guy or gal with a diet course, yoga course, or course on Python programming. You’re a commodity. Change your perspective and do something different. You’ll be glad you did."

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