I understand this concept of paying the salaries and overhead. However, If you charge $1500 per meditation instruction, you have to weigh the cost of how many will learn as opposed to dropping the price. Basically, if you drop the price to $500 and maintain a 3 to 1 ratio of people learning, you're better off keeping it at $500.
Also, I find it hard to believe that TM instruction is the main source of revenue for the TMO. From my understanding it isn't just that, it's donations, the $5000 it costs to learn the Siddhis, and many other advanced programs and courses offered AFTER you learn TM. You can't expect someone who is completely oblivious to transcendence to value it up front. Once people experience it, they're hooked. So my opinion is, if you're going to raise prices, raise the price of all subsequent meditation programs & instructions (WPA's, TMSP, Advanced Techniques, etc...), but keep the price of TM more reasonable. I paid over $5000 for TMSP because I felt it was worth it AFTER experiencing TM. Prior to that, I never would've spent $1500 just on TM with no prior experience to validate the bliss that TM has the potential to give me. there are many POV's regarding the pricing of TM. Yours is the economic version of earning enough money to fund the TMO. If that's the POV, then we should continue the economic strategy of 'Bait and Hook' method. Give people a small taste of bliss, they'll want more and be willing to pay a lot of money afterwards. But prior to ever meditating at all, they're just simply not going to want to pay an entire month's salary. seekliberation --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@...> wrote: > > The most important factor is that the TMO has to pay its salaries and > overhead. Since there are no tithing requirements from members, the main > source of revenue has to be from the instruction fees.
