Re:The Business of SaaS
by bitL on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:39PM
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Yeah, I've read your blog post recently why you are quitting Udemy and am sorry about it as I enjoyed your course very much! I guess Udemy's only way to stay afloat is to push the price as low as possible to attract more paying customers all around the world (given they have competition). It's tricky to figure out a good business model for both platform and course providers; probably you could consider keeping simpler parts of your course on Udemy and then suggest getting advanced courses on your own platform? You leave the most problematic users on Udemy and get only the dedicated ones. I think in the future it will always be some version of freemium; free to get your course known and premium to make some money.
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Yep, my long term goal is to not use Udemy, but in the short term, something like you mentioned is how I plan to move forward.
It's going to be tricky to find a good balance (the bare-bones Udemy version still needs to have high value), but it's doable.
I have a lot of ideas this year for new content and I'm going to experiment with paid courses, free courses and even not putting some courses on Udemy just to see what happens.