Hi everyone!

I have a website for a few years now. I started with free content (software development tutorials), but I am trying to sell one-on-one courses now, and they don't get as much attention as the free stuff. So I am looking for feedback on improving my website for a more selling point of view. 

There are 120 - 200 visitors per day (Google Analytics). I'm not sure if this information is useful, but I would like to convert some of these visitors into buyers.

Anyway, here is the website: https://kenslearningcurve.com

Thank you in advance!

Edited November 20, 20241 yr by kenslearningcurve
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Is there still a demand for C and C# training?

The only reason I can think of for anyone to learn either would be to get employment in this field. I'd have thought most new developers will be leaning something more popular and easier to monetize.

If I were a beginner, €850 is a lot of money to shell out on something I might not enjoy or be able to do.

• At 1080p the hero image is of people's necks. Not sure what purpose that serves?
• Social proof/reviews - if folks are to part with cash you need more than Pascal's one, and they need to be on the home page.
• Are you for beginners or for people with ADHD and autism? Clearer messaging to target your audience
• A good amount of the one-on-one page should also be on the homepage
• Look up some highly recommended solo-tutors for inspiration on how they present themselves

Excited to see what you do with the website 🦾

6 hours ago, fisicx said:

Is there still a demand for C and C# training?

The only reason I can think of for anyone to learn either would be to get employment in this field. I'd have thought most new developers will be leaning something more popular and easier to monetize.

If I were a beginner, €850 is a lot of money to shell out on something I might not enjoy or be able to do.

Actually, there is. And I don't do C, which is totally different than C#.

C# is gaining more and more popularity with the newer versions (in combination with .NET) and the cross-platform. I was a teacher at a school first and the demand of people who wanted to learn C# was so high we had to hire 3 more teachers.

I did some research and the price is based on a video course, which is 600 Euro without any extra guidance.  That's just watching a video while I give one-on-one training, like in an online class. Do you think a pre-recorded video is worth more than a dedicated teacher who helps you through the process, with homework, and answers questions when needed? or do you think it would be better to record videos and that's it? (serious question).

Edited November 20, 20241 yr by kenslearningcurve

3 hours ago, Jogeta316 said:

• At 1080p the hero image is of people's necks. Not sure what purpose that serves?
• Social proof/reviews - if folks are to part with cash you need more than Pascal's one, and they need to be on the home page.
• Are you for beginners or for people with ADHD and autism? Clearer messaging to target your audience
• A good amount of the one-on-one page should also be on the homepage
• Look up some highly recommended solo-tutors for inspiration on how they present themselves

Excited to see what you do with the website 🦾

• Good point. I will change the image
• What do you mean by the second one? "Pascal's one"?
• The courses are not for people with ADHD and autism per se. I think I will remove that one. Teaching people with ADHD and autism requires dedicated, real-time, and offline time. It's hard to do through the internet. This is a different project of mine, so I will remove this from the text.
• Should these one-on-one pages at the top, where I have the C# boot camp now?
• I based my website (not the homepage) on someone who is very highly respected in the field. I guess the homepage needs more work. I do notice that most people don't come through the homepage, but more on a blog- or tutorial page. Google likes those pages more, I guess (most traffic comes through Google)

Thanks for the info so far! Will let you know when I have changed it.

@kenslearningcurve - if people want to to learn C# and they are landing on your blog looking for freebies they are not going to pay for one-to-one training.

There may be someone charging €500 to watch a video but they may not have any takers.

Rethink your whole marketing approach. Instead of charging for the whole course let people buy video modules. Some may just want a taster, some just want help with an advanced topic.

Change the structure of the website so your homepage shows the available modules.

Make the taster module free so potential developers can watch the video and decide if they want to continue. Maybe make the first two minutes of each module free so clients can see what's on offer. They them pay for the rest.

Consider also that some people learn better by reading so make sure the transcripts are available - that way I can go back and check on something you said without having to scroll the whole video.

Upsell each video module with the option to get one-to-one tuition.

And stop using jargon!

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C# is a programming language, but I think you already figured that out. But it’s also OOP, which stands for Object-Oriented Programming. And that means that you can use objects. 

Objects are instances of classes, which have properties and methods. You can see them as real-world objects and their interaction with each other. This makes our work as developers a bit easier to understand.

If I were an absolute beginner I'd have no idea what that means.

I did some work with Eddie a while back. See how he introduces the subject, then has some freebies and then the paid content:

https://samplecraze.com/

He uses video because they are available 24/7. Which means a musician in NY at 2am can access the content while Eddie is in bed.

Edited November 22, 20241 yr by fisicx
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