MBA701 Q&A Weekends: What are your thoughts on investing in a $2000 online course?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's Q&A Weekend, and today we've got a question about some seemingly high-priced online courses. Is $2k too much to spend on a course? The answer depends on several factors. We discuss the signs of a course that's worth it, red flags common to courses that aren't, and what factors you should consider before dropping four figures on professional development. Hit the play button!

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the 100 Army Show and today is a Q&A weekend's episode where we answer your question right here on the show.
0:17.5	If you have a question you want to ask just email us over at support at business republic
0:21.3	net or you can send me a tweet on Twitter by
0:23.4	handles the Omar Zenholm. As always I'm your host, your coach, your teacher,
0:27.7	Omar Zenholm. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete
0:32.0	business training and community online.
0:34.0	If you have to check out our free downloadable guides on how to start a business.
0:39.0	On different aspects, we have a free seven-part course as well, video course that you could check out over at 100
0:45.1	MBA.net. Today's question is from lance and lance asks what are your thoughts on
0:50.3	investing in a two thousand,000 online course?
0:54.0	A very interesting question, you know, Lance,
0:56.0	you're not the first person to ask this question,
0:59.0	not on the show, but people have asked me about this personally.
1:02.0	If you're listening right now and wondering why
1:03.0	this is an interesting question is because there are a lot of online courses now
1:06.9	that for some reason are pricing their product at $2,000. It's like some weird
1:11.8	price point that everybody's charging. Now I'm not saying
1:15.1	it's not worth $2,000. It might be worth more than $2,000. But there are a lot of courses
1:19.7	out there that charge a lot. A lot of people are asking, hey, should I invest this money? It's a lot of money. Is it worth it? Or is it some overpriced way to pay the coursemakers bills? I'm going to give you a straight answer and some advice in
1:34.8	today's episode so let's get down to business.
1:39.4	Today's episode of the 100 dollar show is sponsored by We Are Podcast, the largest
1:47.0	podcasting conference in the Southern Hemisphere and they're going to be back in
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