Mumo: Make Me Icons plans to price three-month courses at 4,500 shillings
Tony Mumo · First time Kenyan Founder Uses $1.50 FB Ads to Get First 100 Users, 64 DAU · Nov 3, 2023 · at 10:37
Tony Mumo, founder of Make Me Icons, discusses course pricing strategy in Kenya with Nathan Latka.
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“The initial idea for pricing was about 45 4500 shillings for a three-month course, and as we are recruiting creators, we are advising them to keep their classes within that price range, at least for the first first few months of the product, because affordability is one thing we're really trying to push for here in Kenya. And 4500 shillings is where we would like to start pricing our courses for a three month duration.”
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