Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy
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#2I don't think I've ever seen a udemy course NOT on sale.
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#3Every Udemy course I ever bought was on a massive sale, usually in excess of 90% or so. There’s so many sales all the time nothing is worth buying at full price.
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#4My assumption was always that the full price is only there to act as a starting point for negotiations with companies buying courses for employee training.
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#5I get the marketing advantage of being able to say "90% off!" on your products and I guess that Udemy did their own A/B testing on that but when I discovered the website a few months ago it really made me think twice on the quality of the marketplace.
I bought a few courses since then and I don't regret it, it landed me a job, but the whole "eternal discount" thing really was a real turn off, how about just putting the right price from the beginning?
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#6I thought this was going to touch on how many Udemy courses are stolen.
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#7I get the marketing advantage of being able to say "90% off!" on your products and I guess that Udemy did their own A/B testing on that but when I discovered the website a few months ago it really made me think twice on the quality of the marketplace. I bought a few courses since then and I don't regret it, it landed me a job, but the whole "eternal discount" thing really was a real turn off, how about just putting t…
I agree with this entirely. I think there is also a linking factor that leads to action. If I see a "sale" - I might link my friend with "Hey, there is a sale on that course you wanted." Without the sale, I would just tell them to check Udemy, which might delay action. It really is a cheap tactic, but we are still all using the site...
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#8off topic, but to my ear the “an” in the title is jarring. i’ve been wondering for a while now why “an” doesn’t feel right before some words, even though i learned “an before words that start with a vowel.”
turns out it’s “an before words that sound like they start with a vowel” regardless of how they’re spelled.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/alt.usage.english/...
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#9i like these advices, thanks a lot. it's useful and can save quite a bit if you enjoy this platform for your learning needs.
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#10off topic, but to my ear the “an” in the title is jarring. i’ve been wondering for a while now why “an” doesn’t feel right before some words, even though i learned “an before words that start with a vowel.” turns out it’s “an before words that sound like they start with a vowel” regardless of how they’re spelled. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/alt.usage.english/...
This is a common grammatical mistake that I see made by folks from certain countries. Usually, it's using an incorrectly before a word that starts with the letter u but where the u has a consonant /y/ sound.