On PDF handouts for students
Sep. 25th, 2013 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mekyriaI am making a pdf handout for my beginners, including answers to common questions, top ten benefits of bellydance, exercises to improve balance and coordination, overview of styles, etc. The visualization that I talked about yesterday is part of the hand out. It'll be a thirty page booklet with pictures and drawings that I made/own. In addition, several dancers in the past couple of years asked me for business advice. Creating a pdf download that answers questions about taxes, how to set up promotion, that kind of thing. The third idea was to reedit the costuming book that I made in 2007 and offer it as a digital download instead of print. I want to make it a paid download but have trouble with finding a technical solution for the payment that would work.
Most Dutch people pay with debetcards and in order to have the online payment option iDeal, I have to pay 25 euro per motnh to the bank, plus a small amount per transaction. I expect that the sales will (at most!) be 120 items over a two year course, which would not be cost effective. In short, I adjusted my belly dance strategy towards doing things I like and I am good at and I want to charge a small amount of money. For example, I've been writing for several bellydance magazines for over 8 years and though it is a labor of love, most of my work is gone because magazines went out of print/stopped existing. My own website with articles went under because I didn't spend time on the technical platform. Creating downloadable pdf's seems like an affordable way to tap into the e-reader market, spread the information that I want to share and get a little bit paid in return. By little bit, I was thinking about 7 euro (10usd) for a 100 page pdf (costuming book, book for professionals) and a couple of other products like t-shirts and posters, probably through a third party like cafepress.
Anyway, I want to give kuddo's to Autumn Ward. She never really caught my attention through her instructional dvds, but I found out that she has accompanying pdf downloads for her dvds and they are amazingly detailed and well thought out. I have to revisit her dvds soon!
Most Dutch people pay with debetcards and in order to have the online payment option iDeal, I have to pay 25 euro per motnh to the bank, plus a small amount per transaction. I expect that the sales will (at most!) be 120 items over a two year course, which would not be cost effective. In short, I adjusted my belly dance strategy towards doing things I like and I am good at and I want to charge a small amount of money. For example, I've been writing for several bellydance magazines for over 8 years and though it is a labor of love, most of my work is gone because magazines went out of print/stopped existing. My own website with articles went under because I didn't spend time on the technical platform. Creating downloadable pdf's seems like an affordable way to tap into the e-reader market, spread the information that I want to share and get a little bit paid in return. By little bit, I was thinking about 7 euro (10usd) for a 100 page pdf (costuming book, book for professionals) and a couple of other products like t-shirts and posters, probably through a third party like cafepress.
Anyway, I want to give kuddo's to Autumn Ward. She never really caught my attention through her instructional dvds, but I found out that she has accompanying pdf downloads for her dvds and they are amazingly detailed and well thought out. I have to revisit her dvds soon!
