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Thanks for that palish. Wow, what a difficult sector though. I've worked with schools before and they don't have a lot of money- and when they do you have pra

by jwecker 20y ago

Thanks for that palish. Wow, what a difficult sector though. I've worked with schools before and they don't have a lot of money- and when they do you have practically a year long sales cycle. So if I were to give you one piece of advice in that market- keep your overhead _very_ low if you want to make a profit! Oh, and sell the vision. It sounds trite but it is very important to your target demographic in particular- most are teaching because of the vision of the difference they are making and if you speak to that it will make a big difference.

palish 20y ago
Thanks for your insight jwecker, I appreciate it. One thing that is fundamentally different about what I'm doing is that I'm marketing to individual teachers, not schools. I believe that this may be the right way to go about this sort of thing; it leaves the decision up to the individual, instead of the school. Spending time with individual teachers will be very important too, and I'm genuinely interested in helping them save time.
- jwecker 20y ago
  If you could somehow involve students in virally marketing it to their teachers it could get interesting. Still, not a big market (especially when you factor in their spending power). If you're passionate about it, though, it's an area that can always use a lot of help and I really hope it goes well. Keep your overhead low and it won't matter how small the market is, and you'll be making a difference in the world.
  - palish 20y ago
    That's something I hadn't really thought about before. If I create some kind of useful resource for students, then they'd be more likely to involve their teachers in getting a Classbug, yeah. That's an area to focus on. Monetary gains aren't my prime motivator. If I can just create a service that allows me to feed myself, then I'm happy. I want to devote some of the profits back to students via the competitions I was talking about, and get students to places where they can work on or create something.

by jwecker 20y ago

palish 20y ago

Thanks for your insight jwecker, I appreciate it. One thing that is fundamentally different about what I'm doing is that I'm marketing to individual teachers, not schools. I believe that this may be the right way to go about this sort of thing; it leaves the decision up to the individual, instead of the school. Spending time with individual teachers will be very important too, and I'm genuinely interested in helping them save time.

jwecker 20y ago
If you could somehow involve students in virally marketing it to their teachers it could get interesting. Still, not a big market (especially when you factor in their spending power). If you're passionate about it, though, it's an area that can always use a lot of help and I really hope it goes well. Keep your overhead low and it won't matter how small the market is, and you'll be making a difference in the world.
- palish 20y ago
  That's something I hadn't really thought about before. If I create some kind of useful resource for students, then they'd be more likely to involve their teachers in getting a Classbug, yeah. That's an area to focus on. Monetary gains aren't my prime motivator. If I can just create a service that allows me to feed myself, then I'm happy. I want to devote some of the profits back to students via the competitions I was talking about, and get students to places where they can work on or create something.