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Yes you can buy just a month.
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Have you considered the lessons here? There are far more moves than the art of pole DVDs, much more complete descriptions and a safer progression to make you more successful in your pole experience.
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OLIVIA, I think as a former business owner you can understand that there is no such thing as “just”. Pricing models have to account for an entire range of business needs. A shift to individual lesson pricing would change our support model entirely, we would experience loss in our other pricing verticals that we would have to account for in the individual lesson pricing in a way that simply doesn’t make sense.
Many people familiar with iTunes might think, a lesson can be a dollar or two and it would work perfectly. However that pricing model is built on a much wider audience. The pole dancing audience lacks the breadth of other audiences so individual lesson pricing would have to be in the five to ten dollar range and only accessible for a set period of time.
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We’ve had many people suggest charging per lesson. That is much more complex and expensive than one might think. Due to the size of the pole community we’d have to charge much more than you would think in order for that to make sense as a support mechanism for the site.
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Just like youtube a video upload fails occasionally. The best thing to do is to simply start it over.
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Use the code GET3FREE to try the lessons out.
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There are a bunch of lessons here that condition you for pole but can be performed without one.
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Thanks Allyson! That’s more helpful than you think.
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I want to be clear the pricing discussion isn’t just a reply to nilla. I just wanted to be clear on what our pricing philosophy is.
With StudioVeena.Com you can be a fast learner and learn as much as you want without paying for more content. Conversely if you don’t catch on as fast you can continue to learn for the same fee without having to pay for more lessons. It’s truly a win win.
The pricing options we have now really are the best mix that allow you the lowest cost entry into the content while still allowing us to operate the site.
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So in short nilla you progressed beyond the content available in the lessons and you would be interested in more combos and routines. Would that be correct?
Regarding the statement “for the home student who is not breezing through beginning to advanced levels in the span of 12 months it could be nice to only have to pay for what you can use in a year.” It is important to note that you are paying for far less than you can accomplish in a year.
If you go to a studio you will pay for every lesson regardless of whether you improve or not. In this situation you are truly paying for what you can accomplish in a year. If it takes you 12 sessions to learn the fireman spin you pay for 12 sessions, if it takes you 5 sessions you will pay for 5. At StudioVeena.Com you pay one very reasonable fee then use our lessons as much as you would like.
Please think of it as learn all you want for $99 or $20/month or $35 every two months, rather than mentally assigning a value to each lesson based on an amortization of the fee divided by a number of lessons. With about 400 lessons that makes each lesson worth a quarter which I think everyone here would agree is absolutely not the case.
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A few things:
1) WOW!!! This is becoming an amazing thread. The value you guys attribute to Veena’s lessons is amazing. There are some great ideas here which is what we were really looking for with this thread.
2) Don’t anyone worry. While we appreciate that there are people who find that much value here, we will not charge for any feature other than the lessons. When Veena started pole dancing the forums available were catty and mean, Youtube was and still is less than ideal and the pole community was fragmented. One of our core values is to provide the community features completely free of charge so that pole dancers never have to experience that again. this is very very important to us.
3) It seems that the range of available financial arrangements might not be super clear, so I might need to work on that. If the $99 is too much for someone up front your have the $20 per month and the $35 per month, additionally every new user gets sent an early upgrade option giving you the first month for $10 if you want to try it, and as many of you are aware we run sales quite frequently as well.
We so appreciate the love we get from the community, and while its hard work from the time we wake up until the time we go to bed this is an endeavor thats worth it. It’s nice to hear that you all realize that Veena’s rapid responses come at a cost, I can’t tell you how many times we’ve been about to go to bed sometime north of midnight and Veena still has just a couple comments she’s got to reply to before bed or one more email.
I want you to know how much you all mean to her.
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The lessons do work on the iPad and iPad mini as does the whole site. We’ve actually put a lot of time and effort into insuring that the site scales across platforms.
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Bleskouka – There is a monthly option if you can’t afford the whole $79 up front but still want them. https://www.studioveena.com/accounts
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Anzia – You are in luck we actually have 30 and 60 day recurring memberships as well 🙂
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PayPal does offer the guest option on physical purchases, like a pole for example. On digital purchases they don’t. I think it has to do with the intransigent nature of the purchase and their need to control funding to a more precise degree. Essentially its a protection for the buyer, that way if there is a complaint PayPal can simply shift the funds back to the buyer’s account and avoid the chargeback process completely.