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Permalink Reply by Viveredux on July 12, 2009 at 1:26pm

*Fantastic* idea! And/or one how-to-lesson with the two or three vids that focus on the trick/move. Priced, of course, so a bundled class of several lessons is discounted from the combined cost of individual unbundled lessons. Nice extension of business model for both Sandra and hoopers if demand warrants it.

Another possibility is what the local music fest does with its concert series, you can pick and choose among the lessons to make your own "class," with perhaps a discount for buying individual lessons of your own choice. Say, 10% if you buy 5 at a time rather than one.

It'd come down to a question of how much demand and how much complexity in building/maintaining a more complex sales and support structure.

One issue that would need to be sorted is discussion access. Right now, I think that's done by class, with access restricted to class members. Would there be access to discussions on individual lessons, and how would that be handled?

I like buying the classes, myself, because I can do certain tricks at every level--well, with the exception of Blooming 2, which will be all new. Sandra adds a lot of twists and techniques that I'd either not seen or come up with on my own. There's something to learn at every level. Which reminds me, having worked carefully through the Seeding series, it's time to buy Budding :-).

But I can see where more advanced hoopers or folks who like to mix-and-match might prefer the flexibility of choose-your-own...

--Viveredux

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Permalink Reply by spider baby on July 12, 2009 at 2:11pm

i think it is also an awesome idea..!

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Permalink Reply by Tangled Macrame on July 12, 2009 at 2:19pm

I love having classrooms and the structure that goes with them...which I think will become more & more apparent as series are completed and "flow" demonstrations are added. However, there are definately some single tutorials I would love to pick up. Maybe clusters of tutorials, like the different leg or chest hooping tutorials (start to finish) would be cool. If it were my buisness I'd think about making single tutorials only available to those who had purchased a class, depending on how the costs evened out. I'm sure iTunes has fees.

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Permalink Reply by SaFire* on July 12, 2009 at 11:34pm

They do. : (

It kind of stopped me in my tracks when doing the research into it last year.

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Permalink Reply by Jentree on July 12, 2009 at 2:44pm

I think it's a good idea. Just make sure that you (SaFire) charge enough for the single tutorials. Otherwise, people could potentially load up on tutorials that would constitute a class, and end up paying less. Just looking out for you!

Tangled Macrame has a good thought too, of having them only be available to only hoopers who are enrolled in a class.

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Permalink Reply by circularlogic on July 12, 2009 at 2:47pm

YES YES YES-- there's one budding move that's driving me nuts-- the Stirring Jump-In-- but I can't really justify getting the whole class just for that. I'd LOVE it if I could download just that lesson.

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Permalink Reply by SaFire* on July 12, 2009 at 11:35pm

Well it sounds like the vote is in.

I'll get the gears turning in my head about a potential way to do this that would be somewhat automated. That would be the nice thing with iTunes is that I could set it up and walk away. If I have to individually e-mail out videos than that could get really time consuming.

Sandra SaFire

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Permalink Reply by circularlogic on July 13, 2009 at 11:26am

Yay! Whatever works best for you-- thank you so much for being such a generous & flexible teacher.

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Permalink Reply by Helfirey on July 13, 2009 at 10:31am

I would definitely go for this. The hooping classes are on my 'to buy' list for when I can save a few pennies (soon, fingers crossed!), but until then I'm using youtube and working things out on my own. This means that when I start the online classes I won't necessarily need to buy the the earlier ones as a group, but there may be a few tricks I haven't come across or would like help with.

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