Most important bit of the post: "[Don't be] shy to charge more." If there are people getting $250 of value out of your services, give them an option to pay you $250.
They probably don't have a hard limit at $250, and even if they do, it is often useful to get extra money from folks who are getting incredible customer surplus from you (e.g. big companies, well-paid professionals, etc) and just ignore people who don't (students, startups, etc).
Very awesome! To say I'm jealous is an understatement. One small nitpick, I thought the title meant you made $100,000 your first month alone. Congratulations none the less.
If you do and you have a reasonable affiliate program on it, I run a 7000+ subscriber strong JavaScript newsletter and would be all over this ;-) (Same goes for any good JS related products, to be honest.)
I've never run one. But the best ones I'm an affiliate on so far seem to be http://zferral.com/ and http://clickbank.com/ - they're very different. Zferral is basically a webapp that lets you create an affiliate program for your "whatever" using your existing billing system. Clickbank, on the other hand, actually hosts your product and does payment processing and affiliate stuff all in one.
I know many people that would buy something like this. It sounds like it would be a great into to the basics of the main web technologies.
You mention a database - client side local storage or server side? If server side, what server side language were you planning on using, out of curiosity?
Server side. I'd probably pick one or more web frameworks with simple ORMs. Basically take RoR, ASP.NET MVC/EF, and PHP Hello World applications, and add one more models and a couple of pages.
Congratulations, that's very impressive! VBA seems like it will be around for many years to come, and there is probably good opportunity in and around financial centres (London's Canary Wharf/City, New York's Wall Street) for a financial orientated VBA course.
As far as I know, many mid-office support staff spend their lives writing VBA code to soup up spreadsheets for demanding traders. Sure plenty of them would pay for a head start (or the firms would)
Congrats! Something has to be said of the demand for VBA in India however (or what percentages of classes were in US/India).
Edit, how about some more blog posts (or comments here, both?) on your current feedback loop that you used/developed the course material? (i.e End of class surveys, emails, in class choices, etc). I'm interested in hearing about it :-)
If i am not mistaken, you are the same Chandoo who started the "All I want to speak about CAT" (the profile pic is unforgettable :P) on pagalguy.com and what a great ritual you have started there.
I am very happy to hear again from you in this grand manner and i wish you the very best for your endeavor and congratulate you again for your success. :)
You know what, I miss programming Excel workbooks/spreadsheets. It's a hell of a lot nicer than dealing with the CSS/HTML/DOM/JS web-stack. You've got your data storage, visualization, maths functions, filtering algorithms, access-control, WYSIWYG interface-builder all built-in and integrated.
I got this message when I followed the link to his vbaclasses
Your computer or another computer on your network is compromised with a virus. This allows online criminals to use it as part of a botnet to send spam and attack websites.
