Comments on: What is the Tuition? I’m Inviting You To Tell Me.

By: Kristin Erickson

Kristin Erickson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:53:49 +0000

I’d love more info.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:15:03 +0000

We will be announcing our tuition within the week. I think the majority, student and practitioner, will be very happy!

By: Jennifer Bernstein

Jennifer Bernstein — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:20:58 +0000

Hello,

My thoughts are generally in line with the others above, but I also wanted to add a request to consider those with heavy student loan debt (myself and I’m sure many others) who are considering starting their own practice to help augment their limited income. This is not a sob story, but I would hope maybe the cost of SPU would stay in line with the financial considerations of those without a successful practice, yet. Thank you.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:51:19 +0000

The $75-100 range sounds pretty good to me as a subscription, if the material continues to develop. I don’t have a philosophical problem with paying more, but would probably subject a higher payment to a more rigorous return-on-investment analysis in terms of net spendable money. If I were finding new ways to make my firm more profitable and my overall life more balanced, I could see paying more.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:01:24 +0000

To me the price point I would pay would depend on the usefulness and accessibility of the content. You seem to have a great ‘faculty’ I am just not sure how their knowledge, expertise, advise is going to be shared with us and on what topics. For instance as others have mentioned I might be interested in ‘e-law’ or whatever it is going to be called but not maybe not some traditional marketing techniques, can I pick and chose and pay accordingly? And how will the content be delivered and can I acccess it at my leisure on my schedule and once or more than once? I would envision a cost per download or something like that, maybe $100.00 per topic with the added feature of a paid members only message board for that topic. I suppose if the topic is more in depth or a larger number of ‘lectures’ then the price would rise accordingly – some topics can be covered more easily than others.

By: Squire M. Bozorth

Squire M. Bozorth — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:28:52 +0000

Fair enough Susan, and sorry about the crazy grammar and the mis-spelling of my own first name on the sig line. (whoops!) Me brain was nots working so goods that day.

Site looks great and I like it a lot. Kudos to you!

-Squire

By: Bob Kraft

Bob Kraft — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:27:12 +0000

With the fantastic faculty you have assembled, I think the sky is the limit on the tuition you could charge. I don’t know any place online or off where lawyers can be exposed to this depth and breadth of knowledge and experience without paying really big bucks.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:27:08 +0000

I have hesitated to come up with ideas to add here about pricing. My solo startup is progressing very slowly, and I doubt I can afford to add anything to my budget this year. I don’t think I will be able to join for the first term whenever it starts, but I will certainly consider it in the future.

By: Susan Cartier Liebel

Susan Cartier Liebel — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:55:22 +0000

@Squire –

“Personally, the site should be free. Revenue could be generated by Google AdSense and selling ads to West, Lexis, ABA, office depot, etc, etc, etc. It is rare to see ‘fee’ sites nowadays, and a free model would comport with the way most of the rest of the internet sites for professionals operate.”

See, Squire, SPU is different in every way and we do not plan to comport with the way most of the rest of the internet sites for professionals operate

We will not be held hostage to advertisers for products and services we believe DO NOT benefit solos or are ripping solos off! Our revenue model, which will be reasonable for ALL practitioners, will allow us to pick and choose those advertisers of products and services we believe truly are presenting a worthwhile offering for solos. Therefore, when you see a product or service available to you within our Co-op you know we’ve judged it to have real value, didn’t just need revenue to keep SPU afloat.

This practice alone can save solos thousands by helping them to avoid costly mistakes.

By: Squire M. Bozorth

Squire M. Bozorth — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:32:29 +0000

Great list of faculty.

When is launch?
Personally, the site should be free. Revenue could be generated by Google AdSense and selling ads to West, Lexis, ABA, office depot, etc, etc, etc. It is rare to see ‘fee’ sites nowadays, and a free model would comport with the way most of the rest of the internet sites for professionals operate. Also, since the people who would be utilizing the site the most are those just getting started or moving into solo private practice (like me), money is scarce.

Of course if actual ‘course work’ and CLE/classes are offered with limited enrollment that might be a different story and I could see charging for that (ala Berklee Music bwww.berkleemusic.com).

I am eager to join, but will probably forgo if $$$ are required for the basic services (forums, articles, blogging).

My 2 cents.

Sqire