Re: SE Linux training
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:33, Dale E Martin wrote:
> > The training material will be based upon my work for Linux Kongress and
> > OLS which will be expanded to cover a suitable length of time (maybe 2-3
> > days).
> >
> > The question is, how do I sell this?
>
> 2-3 days of your hourly rate + travel and expenses. Or do you mean
> something else?
Billing for it is easy. Finding companies that have a need for it and getting
them interested in paying is the hard part.
Companies routinely spend $2000 each for a small group of their employees to
attend a training session on a new technology to determine whether it's
something that they can use. Such training sessions are run by the usual big
consulting companies who pack 20 people into a room, pay the instructor $4000
and make a profit of $36000 - cost of facilities. For such courses the
instructor usually knows less about the topic than I do about SE Linux.
I don't want to charge my usual consulting rates, I would like to get more
than that. The question is, how do I find some companies who are interested
in this, or how do I find a big consulting company that wants to do a deal
with me (even getting paid twice the instructor rates for developing the
course myself would be good money).
I am based in Australia, but would be happy to go to any other country to run
a course. If someone can find the people who want to pay then we can come to
some arrangement about splitting the money.
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