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Hmm. They couldn't sell their course on "The art of selling to intelligent people" so they've had to resort to cutting-me-own-throat prices? What's wrong with this picture?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Hmm. They couldn't sell their course on "The art of selling to intelligent people"
That guy already sold this 153 times 
Member 9082365 wrote: so they've had to resort to cutting-me-own-throat prices? What's wrong with this picture?
I think most of them trying the trick "Amazon Kindle ebooks sales rank" everywhere.
Price-down - More sales - Getting upper rank(More visibility) - Also getting more reviews - Then Price-Up.
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Agree it happens. But I do a background check before buying things. Regarding sites like Pluralsight & Lynda .... I'm not a fan of subscription type models. But at workplace I have free access to Lynda. BTW Pluralsight has only technical courses.
I'm not saying that all courses are worth for the mentioned price @ Udemy.
Since last two months I bought around 10 courses from Udemy but at the rate of $10(yes, during deals period). IMO this price is really cheaper when you compare with ebooks. I bought some ebooks & e-comics even over $10 through gumroad or Kickstarter or amazon.
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$199 down to $10. Makes me wonder why so many courses are on discount, some very steep discounts. Interesting, though.
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Kindle ebook sales Tip-Trick #[Insert a number] : Before applying discount, just increase the price so it'll attract the members with higher discount.
Before Trick
Actual Price = 20
Price After discount = 10
Total Discount % = 50%
After Trick
Actual Price = 20
Increased Price = 100
Price After discount = 10
Total Discount % = 90%
Buyers eyes vs Discounts(50% or 90%?) = 90% cheats the eyes easily.
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Are you positive that is what they are doing? It could just be that some of the courses are not in demand.
Anyhow, have you learned anything substantial from these courses? i.e. my salary just went up 5K because I am now a master of this or that. Just curious, is all.
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Slacker007 wrote: Are you positive that is what they are doing? It could just be that some of the courses are not in demand.
As I mentioned in other reply to someone, those're the just tricks some creators/authors do apply to increase the sales. Most of tricks come from amazon kindle ebooks sales tricks. Just search amazon using those keywords, you'll get many books about sales. There people selling their ebooks just for 99 cents to beat others who's selling similar(topic or genre) ebooks for over $2.99. But still so many authors beats 99 cents books sellers by their quality, on-demand & etc.,
Slacker007 wrote: Anyhow, have you learned anything substantial from these courses? i.e. my salary just went up 5K because I am now a master of this or that. Just curious, is all.
First, I didn't purchase any technical courses. All're related to art(Drawing, Videos, animation) & for my hobbies & etc.,
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IMHO, Udemy is little more than a course marketplace - the quality of their content is suspect. I much prefer Udacity.
/ravi
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There front page (udacity) makes me feel that I can be the most powerful web developer warlock, in just a few clicks. I mean, "full stack web developer". I wish I had a full stack.  
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I'm taking a Google course on Android programming, which is nice and chunky. The course requires you to wade through the docs and StackOverflow to implement some portions of the app. In the end, your app is critiqued by real Googlers. I really like the course so far.
/ravi
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I know this site but not much non-tech courses(I'm looking for Art related like Draw, Video, Audio, animation) there. Any other sites please? Recently found CreativeLive but the price range is too much.
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Lynda.com seems to be pretty good for stuff like that.
/ravi
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Yep, it's good. Right now I have free access to Lynda at my workplace. In future, I'd like to see some other site like Lynda without subscription model. Or Lynda should come with sales type model in parallel(while keeping subscription type)
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Well, I was going to go for WebForms (familiarity, grid heavy, etc, etc) but I do quite like MVC. In the end I started in WebForms and then changed my mind. MVC is the flavor of the month so best get going. Apart from anything else, I want to get some more experience with javascript libraries like angular and so forth (no, not Forth, forth).
Thanks for all the input which I pretty much ignored anyway - Ruby? really?
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With Visual Studio 2015 and possibly even 2013, you can mix WebForms with MVC, is my understanding.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm not sure I see the point of that other than with an existing project. I would imagine they had to do this so as not to alienate the thousands of businesses heavily invested in web forms.
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So, no knife fight then?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 but for the fact that I will have the Indiana Jones theme in mind for the rest of the day 
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Basing this decision on 'flavor of the month' vs. familiarity suggests that:
0) this is a personal project so no real deadline
1) not personal, but you have very patient stakeholders/employer
2) you are the boss so again, no real deadline
In any case, I applaud you for making the tougher choice to plunge into new waters! Good luck!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yes. No. Maybe. In no particular order.
Thanks.
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Is it too late to switch to WinForms then? 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Ruby? really?
Who on earth would be suggesting Ruby ? 
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