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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