Why do people find 2500 expensive

There are a lot of people who are very interested in FOCUS - but find 2500 a "bit on the higher side" or "a little steep".

Basically they find it expensive.

I think working knowledge about success as well as assitance in finding your strengths - both of it is terribly underpriced.

That then creates a circle - becuase it is underpriced, nothing of quality comes into it....and because nothing great comes into it, it remains underpriced.....

I've lost.....I've lost big.....a few lakhs in scholarships where I goofed.....perhaps a few crores could be the net impact of me having quit placements......a few precious months after the crash of Thakore Learning Center.......

I belive that life is a terribly strict teacher - charges high, and teaches with pain.

We are a much cheaper alternative......

And honestly I think if someone doesnt want to pay this little for a workshop like this he or she doesnt really deserve to be there - its not important enuff for the person...

Yet what we want for the workshop is a diverse group......and then i see people who I'd love to have at the workshop but they have a challenge in paying. I dont want to discount coz that is pointless to something already so discounted.

So there was an innovative idea - of a work barter - an internship

To some of our closest people, and other deserving ones, we offer a price off....the balance is paid in work hours....

That's kewl for the person too - coz they get to work with the best ;)

I wanna throw it as an open barter - bring watever you have....web designign services? a contact database of all schools and colleges? design skills? come with it, name your price, lets haggle till we have a fair deal.....

for now Shivaji doesn't allow it but i guess he should........

that will let more people "FOCUS" ;)

Cheers!
AT

The Invite

http://geocities.com/spiritualabhishek/Invite_14_Mar_06.pdf

Kaam pe laga diya

As I pestered ABhishek into making this blog ' readable' , He gets me working too....

Aks me too upload the ppt's and the invite. I always thought he would do it else I would not have pestered him into making this blog..... ( he he he)

As Shivaji, trying to market a workshop is so different....... A 2 year MBA taught me to sell ( or convinced me that I cansell ) toothpaste , oil, cars, perfume, choclates..

But why the damn it does not teach to market a great workhop - something that can change lives...

Guess Will learn it by a better method called' experiene' and ' trail by fire' and mebbe later Start teaching MBA guys to do it.

Till then, busy figuring out how to .....

The first steps

Hehe....

As I write this Hemang is pestering me to update the site.... he is the "Shivaji" of the project
(Shivaji in Vikalp lingo = head of the project)

He is slogging to make this happen.

Personally I took time off to Bordi - another beach. I spent time thinking about how I want the workshop to be, among other things.

For one I want to from now on focus totally on the design of the workshop, and let Payal and Hemang do the rest.

We are sending out invites....guess they'd have started.

Its very much like sending your baby out to school for the first time. You are anxious. You want the baby to look good and give you a good name.

I worked on the invite till 3 in the night (after many rounds of fighting).

Then payal and hemang thrashed it (without appreciating my newly acquired design management skills).

There were three versions of the letter on page 2 :)

I guess I'll post all three.....

Yeah so as the invite goes out we hope people will see value in this, they'll come and join in....

I am trying my best to keep the marketing team from going gung ho on selling.I think its a product that deserves its own audiance....if someone doesnt care to come, let the be.

Dunno how it will work.

Meanwhile do keep posting your suggestions

AT

Welcome

Hi

Welcome to the "official" site of Focus - the workshop.

I ended up with a mandate to do this site .... Sometimes you just cant avoid work hitting out at you can you? ;)

I originally planned to make this a nice sleek and sexy site - happy photos and all of that - really to sell the workshop to people who visit this site.

I'd have converted the invite to an HTML and put it up.

But then I decided otherwise.

Focus anyways is open only to a close circle. So why not instead make you a part of the action, as we try to create the ultimate learning experience ... we're working hard on it, so we'll talk about all of that through this site.

For now I want to remove my photo out of this page - NO MORE PERSONAL BRANDING FOR US!!!!

This workshop is a product of three minds, and thats wat it should be....

Any suggestions on how do we do that?

Abhishek