Do Indians have around $1-2k USD?

I don't know if anyone has said this before on the thread, but the general Indian population is more after certificates than actual knowledge. Offer them a valuable certificate that would give them high paying placement and they will cough up even like $5k if they have to.

But if you're selling a course that isgoing to make someone money and is going to need a bit of investment and effort, well there are people who would be willing to pay, but its going to be hard to find them outside of forums like BHW.
 
I am going to say this now, the internet is built on the back of Indians and other asian countries, and trying to fool them with things that only western people fall for won't get you far.
Lol..
1) how wrong could you possibly be.
2) how bigoted in one message could you possibly be.
 
No mate.
I’m indian, I’ll tell you simple calculation.
Avg indians has salery of 30-40k indian rupees.
I’m engineer and has salery of 20k indian rupee = 250 usd per month.
1 usd = 75 rupees average.
1k usd = 75000 rupees.

I completed my engineering in 4lack rupees. 4,00,000 rupees = 5k usd average my 4 years of college fee. And it is too much expensive here.
Hope this calculation works. It is average calculation, there are some more and less values area wise.
If you want any more help then dont hesitate to ask.
 
That’s a little bit racist isn’t it?

And no, India isn’t part of the ‘backbone of the internet’ - the large multinationals that shifted operations there are.
Do you think the likes of Bill Gates are implementing non-profit ventures like vaccination programmes in India especially, is a mere coincidence? And being done out of the goodness of their hearts??

Or is it because it makes it all the more easy to launder vast sums money being raked in through dirt cheap labour through India’s so called ‘backbone’, which they happen to be the one’s propagating?

And the worst part is, Indian customer service is shockingly poor and couldn’t Ctrl + alt + dot f their life depended on it. All the Paul’s and Daves really need to do something about the attitude they bring along with their $300 per month tech support job or may find that a little bit of mannerism goes a long way, which you’ll find if you talk instead to Filipino support instead - ie employees in partner branches who know what they’re talking about and can get the poin lt across with a chip on their shoulders :)
Im Indian and I support your view 1000%

We're so low-key racist most don't even know what is and what isn't.
Most Indians feel like the entire world revolves around their p**is because they were born in the land of the gurus. Just for saying this statement, I can get lynched if people knew when I lived.

Their level of entitlement is through the roof and we really need to learn from China instead of shitting on them all the time.

We're so used to living in shit like conditions that if ever anyone complains about it, they are heckled or taunted as being elitist.

We've been programmed to worship people as deities, no matter how messed up they are in their heads.

And we complain about the rest of the world when most men in our country can't even put a decent meal together without their wives/mothers constantly cleaning their shit.

Oh and did I mention we have ZERO game?
It's actually a players paradise.

Sorry for the rant. My country has so much potential and it kills me to see it being wasted.
 
Every product has its buyer. There are always people with money, and without money, in EVERY country.
You just gotta find them.
 
I've always wanted to travel to India. Wheres good to go?
For business and nightlife, mumbai
Beaches? Goa
Islands? Andaman and Nicobar
Food? Hyderabad and Mumbai and every city is India!
Ayurveda and yoga? South India is full of it!
Temples? Varanasi
Mountaineering? Laddakh
Road tripping? Jaisalmer
Palaces? Udaipur
Love? Everywhere
 
No it won't sell, also go work in macdonalds if you're in western areas better than trying to market a digital online course in the realms of mobile applications taking all the userbase there is on the internet
 
I gone through the comments and this is what I learned:

Most of Indians are touchy and have serious self-esteem issues.
 
I am an Indian working in the United States. I earn around $80,000 and I would not hate to spend $2000 on any online course even though I have the money. More than being able to afford , it all comes down to the mindset of people. I spent around $2000 for my bachelors degree (4 yrs) from one of the most reputed universities in India. Spending the same amount for an online course makes no sense to me.

The next problem is piracy. If your course becomes popular, it would be uploaded to all torrent sites in no time. We are not impulsive buyers, we first do a detailed analysis on whether it can be found for free or lower cost and then make the decision. For example EA stopped making cricket games after its first installment EA Cricket 07 because it couldn't control the piracy in India.
 
I am very curious about what kind of course you want to sell for 2k. I think I only saw one (no certificate) course for that price in my entire life haha
 
If you have to ask this question then you don't know your target audience well enough and wouldn't make the sale anyways. Here's a tip for Indians. A significant number of Indian men would be interested in a $2k dating course especially if they were taught how to get white girls. Not even joking. The adult/dating niche is one that demographic is interested in.
Can confirm xd
 
Don't try online courses. Start an institute in India, make it famous through various media, and get some niche expert/celebrities vouch for you. Show your certificate is somehow valuable for their career or personal life, yes you will not be selling the course but the certificate. Heck they will get it for even $5k!
 
For anyone saying Indians are "too smart" to pay $2,000 for a course as well, there are certain types of information and knowledge that can't be gained for free.. and the course that OP is considering offering may or may not be worth the $2,000 that it would cost, but you'll never know because before you even investigated exactly what is on offer you closed your mind off to it.

When I was studying at university I paid over $4,000 for an online course being provided by Udacity.. at uni I was studying artificial intelligence mainly, and the Udacity course was the first course of it's type to provide a robust set of information on self-driving car software engineering (which I was really interested in as it was a brand new and heavily in demand subset of AI).

Some of you would probably say that spending $4,000+ was "a dumb westerner" thing to do, but even if I could have bought a copy-pasted version of all of the videos, a few things would have been missing:

a) the additional parts of the course are the interactions with other students and the mentors, which is what takes you from kind of knowing something to mastering something. This is because of the additional angles of investigating the material that you get from talking to people instead of just watching videos.

b) when you have to stop and consider investing a substantial amount of your money into something that is designed to build a new skill, you have a stronger connection to the goal of digesting that information - aka when you pay $4k for a course you make damn sure you learn it, and you care about getting good enough at what you're learning in order to make that $4k back.

c) finding ways to save money is definitely an essential part of successfully building wealth. But constantly looking for shortcuts in everything you do and absorbing that mantra into how you operate is toxic and ends up meaning that you prioritise shortcuts over quality. You can bet that if you won't pay $2,000 on a course just on principle.. even if it could make you $10,000 straight after you finish it... then everything else you do in life will follow suit. Your knowledge and skillset will only need to be just good enough to make some money, instead of being great enough to make real money.

The last point follows on from c).. most of you said that OP is an idiot for even considering that Indians would be gullible enough to spend $2,000 on a course, but in your rush you be offended didn't even ask him a single question about what his plan might be and what he's offering.

Maybe you're right, and there's no possible body of information that OP could provide to the Indian market for $2,000 which would lead a majority of those who took the course to make more than $2,000 from that information. But that's obviously highly unlikely.

Not every "online course" is the same shit that people have scraped 1,000 times already, some of its new information that's valuable. Maybe OP's course would be one of those courses... none of you guys that shot him down without thinking will ever know though.


* BTW there are plenty of Indians who took the same $4k course I took, now half of them are probably on their way to being millionaires:
https://www.paysa.com/salaries/self-driving-car-engineer--t
 
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To all the people saying Indians are "too smart to pay".
Not paying for a course is not called "being smart", it is called being a thief. You are literally stealing someone's product and intellectual property and boasting about it.
 
I know it's a bit of a general question but I want to feel out how much Indians can pay for something like a coaching.

Can Indians afford to pay $1-2k USD or is it too far fetched?
It depends on the quality of your material and also if its in fashion.
 
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