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6 Simple Hacks to Ensure Satisfied Workshop Participants

You have just taken the money, but didn’t earn it yet

Shajedul Karim
5 min readNov 3, 2020
Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash

Organizing a workshop is easy. Promoting it is even easier. But, satisfying the participants is tougher than satisfying your girlfriend’s mother.

You take the money, but you don’t earn it yet. No, I don’t mean you have stolen it.

We used to give a lot of workshops before getting full-time with our app, Programming Hero. Because workshops were our initial idea as a startup (which we now call as the prototype).

We were super-excited to teach. People enjoyed it. But, for some reason, they weren’t satisfied.

This was sucking the energy out of us. We didn’t want money, we wanted a satisfied customer who would then becomes our loyal fans.

We learned a few tricks the hard way to stand out and have satisfied customers. The trick is to be surprising to then be memorable.

Here I share them with you.

1. Give Away a Free Coffee Mug to Each Participant

Do you know what we love the most? Free stuff. Let's take advantage of that.

A few pro tips:

  1. If you have a brand, put your logo…

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Shajedul Karim
Shajedul Karim

Written by Shajedul Karim

My story might not matter but it'll gently touch your interior and remind you how smarter you are. Google forced to include numbers: shajedul.karim.01@gmail.com

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