Sticker Shock !!

[AbuAmani]

Assalamu alakum,
While preparing a presentation for Code of Scholars I thought about why I hesitated to attend my first class. I really hesitated to spend $165 on a "product" I had never seen. I thought $165 could buy a lot of CD lectures / books that would benefit me just as much as a weekend seminar. Of course after attending the first night I realised that $165 was a fair price for the "Al Maghrib product"
Do you think that a 1st class discount would help get new students on board? I'm not sure what the stats are, but it seams that once people get on board they stay on board.
Or how about a once a year discounted class for everyone? - That would be a reward for previous students and a incentive for new students.

Just thought I would throw that on the table...

Take Care,
AbuAmani

[Jannah]

This is a really good point. I think more needs to be done in terms of marketing to create that sense of importance and urgency to obtain Islamic knowledge. If you tell people to compare $165 to the many hundreds of dollars they spend on secular post-secondary school education in the United States there really is no comparison. The $165 is a bargain- and it's fruitful in the dunya and akhirah insha'Allah.

Pushing people to take advantage of the Power of 10 group incentive of paying only $135 and saving some $$$ is also very helpful! A lot of people loved this alternative for our last seminar Alhamdulilah.

[Jannah]

Key volunteers of each qabeelah should step up to create these groups of 10 so that more people can take advantage of them. Not knowing many people shouldn't be an impediment for anyone.

[Al Baraa]

Assalamu alakum,
I really hesitated to spend $165 on a "product" I had never seen. I thought $165 could buy a lot of CD lectures / books that would benefit me just as much as a weekend seminar. With AlMaghrib you arn't buying the product. You are buying studentship. You are buying what you will become after the seminar. You are buying a result...

...question is..what result are you purchasing? :D

[Rahma]

Of course after attending the first night I realised that $165 was a fair price for the "Al Maghrib product"
AbuAmaniAs one friend put it, "165...I felt like I was ripping off AlMaghrib"...pretty much thinking she was getting more for her bucks than she bargained for and that it should have been more.

As mentioned above whats being purchased is more of the result..kind of like, asking oneself questions like, "what have I gained from it..what have I learned about myself?" A lot of times results do appear in one way or another...considering being granted 6 days in between a busy school, work, family schedule..to just soak up ilm, some needed break, and in the process even get an "eman-fix" if need be.

Considering all of the sold-out classes these days one may not be able to easily obtain such a status. Allahu A3lam.