On Dec 31, 2007 5:58 PM, Badri Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > OTOH, I present as exhibit A: "tution classes" and their direct > > lineal decendants, the IIT/IIM/whatever training shops - who make > > plenty of money. > > > > At least one member of this list has started such a company, and has > > been acquired, too. > > As the person Udhay is talking about, let me add that we never encountered > even the slightest resistance to the idea that we were making profits by > teaching. People paid our fees without *any* complaint. > > We faced a certain amount of disapproval from people who thought we > shouldn't "trade" on our own educational backgrounds to market our > courses, but that's another matter.. > > B >
> We faced a certain amount of disapproval from people who thought we > shouldn't "trade" on our own educational backgrounds to market our > courses, but that's another matter.. > > B What was the rational behind such disapproval? Brand ambassadorship is the name of the game now, what's so different about you being your own brand ambassadors instead of roping (and probably hiring at high costs) someone else? Did the disapprovers express their reasons to you, and did you find the reasons logical? And no, I am not going to do a mass "happy 2008" to everyone on the list....and if I do so, it will be tomorrow, when it IS the new year! ----Yeugh, that sounds SO crabby and Scrooge-y. Hope you all had a Happy Old Year, as Udhay seems to have done, and certainly as I did.....and, slightly in advance-- Happy New Year, everyone, you have my warmest wishes as you go out to party...or not! ps. who gets the merely "good" and "better" compliments if everyone always only sends their best ones? Deepa.
