Why I’m So Excited About the New Tuts+ Premium

I’m so excited too!
Design is great, courses are perfect simple & easy to follow :-)

I was surprised when I saw the new amazing design and new features and even still I can’t belive that this is running on wordpress :-o !!!

Thanks for your hard work :-)
I’m so grateful to be here.

I’m still going to HS for some years and enjoy web development and design very much. What about making a lower price for HS students?
I think education is very important and would like to buy a premium membership, but 180$ are just too much for something that’s just a big hobby right now.

Very beautiful and well made project. Success for you guys.

Fantastic job guys, and the price is very well worth it. Not only with the premium content – but adding the E Books into the mix is definitely an added incentive. Keep up the great job, and I am happy to say as being self taught, Envato has made my progression possible!

I disagree with the price increase. Don’t bite my head off (Jeffrey), because I am not implying that it is not worth $19, but the ten dollar increase takes it from an impulse buy to something a person needs to budget. Nine dollars was a great price point. It really stood out among competitors such as ThinkVitamin(treehouse) and Lynda. Now it is too close to Lynda, which I believe is more robust (Lynda’s entire library vs Tuts+ premium).

I love the content here at Tuts+ and have been an off and on premium member. As a consumer, however, I obviously dislike price increases and believe you’ll see a Netflix-esq response. If somebody wants the books let him or her buy the books, otherwise keep the price at $9 and give people more value for their money. Hopefully there will be opportunities and special offers to lock in a discounted rate. Regardless, best of luck (seriously) and keep up the good work!

As some others have said it’s simply not a viable option for some anymore with the 100%+ increase when for a few $ more you can get subscriptions at other big places with a large library ,hopefully when you see the amount of subscriptions drop you’ll reconsider these drastic and unwarranted price hikes.

As James Gorman said if members want to buy books let them buy them separately on Tuts+ Marketplace where they already are for sale instead of trying to justify the price hike on adding the books for free here.

Last few days i wanted to buy a premium again, but the new price stopped me :(
I really liked this premium content, but for me – here in Poland, 19$ a month is a big price for student…

I signed up a couple days ago for the first time. I assumed it always looked like this and had all of this content. Paying 19 bucks per month (well, 14 euros per month for me) is a no brainer.

When I originally came to this site and starting poking around to my amazement I found all this wonderful free content and hungered for more, I quickly took note of the premium section of the site and in short order I had signed up. With a price in the single digit range I barely had to think about pulling out my credit card.

19 Bucks, that’s a whole different matter, it really makes you pause and think alot more and as many others have mentioned its puts you up there with alot of the other competition. Your new Premium Section of the site must scale proportionally with the price increase in terms of increased content output. My biggest worry is the initial offering of courses, with a couple in their that are rehashed from the original Premium Program.

Ive been an on and off member for a long time now but from my understanding if I drop my membership and want to come back I will lose the ability to once again get the “Basic Membership”?

I hope that’s not the case but if it is I can only hope that the promise for a steady stream of new courses might convince me to bite the 19.99 dollar bullet!

With that all being said I really do appreciate the excellent teachers and the wealth of free content on offer, I would just hate to see it all go bad because of a loss of new signups and renewals.

The quality and quantity of stuff the site delivers is certainly not in question. Fact is that I have no use for ALL the content, I am only visiting 2 to 3 of the sites frequently and cannot afford such a price increase. Great site but I will unfortunately have to draw back from purchasing a new subscription. A seperate subscription option would be ideal so you can choose between the 2.

Just want to say, I’m a long time subscriber to tuts+ premium (or whatever it was called), and a huge fan of Jeffrey and his tutorial, but I just want to say that I sadly will not be able to justify the $19 a month. As many pointed out, now that I have a job I was able to justify the $9 as something of 1) an impulse purchase, useful for the occasional premium tutorial I really wanted and 2) a small way to give back to a wonderful resource that helped me to learn a lot about web development.

$19 on the other hand moves it from “impulse, it’s a lot of money @~120 bucks a year but just don’t think about it” to “more then I spend on any given meal, half of what I spend on my cell phone bill and enough to allow me to purchase an iphone if I wanted, and twice what then I’m willing to spend on xbox live, netflix, etc”

I will certainly continue to use nettuts as a resource, and I will certainly still recommend the site to friends, but 9 bucks a month for a “basic” membership just doesn’t sit well with me. Add to that the fact that in recent months I have had issues on and off accessing premium content I have paid for (XML responses), the fact that I can’t figure out how to login to view a premium tutorial without leaving the page I’m on, etc… I wish you guys the best of luck, am sure you will be successful, but do hope that you find it in your interest to bring the price back down to the $9 level.

First off, I want to compliment you for all the effort and service you brought to the community! This is an honest thank you, the quality on tuts+ is absolutely great.

Yet I won’t purchase a premium account. Let me tell you why.

As Premium was $9, I didn’t buy it in quite a while – premium tuts seemed great, but I didn’t know if I’d had time to read/watch them. After some tuts came along that catched my attention, and specially after I had to notice that most non-premium tuts are of little use to an intermediate, I decided to buy.

Yet it was the exact time your premium option was disabled, so I waited. When it came back on, price had doubled. And now I’m stuck with an extended version of my former problem:

- Premium tuts look promising
- But only few of them look really interesting if you’re working in the field
- Courses and Books consume too much of my time, and contain a lot of stuff I already know
- 180$/year is too much for the 1-2 tuts I’d like to watch once in a while.

If you had retained the 9$ option excluding books & courses, I’d be on.

I think in the sentence “If you have a second, let me know show you what’s new.” you meant to say “If you have a second, let me now show you what’s new.”

jeff can you people introduce student package because $19 is too much for a student. teamtreehouse.com is introducing student package of $9 in new year.

i hope that tutplus will also introduce something cheaper for students.

So, the quarterly membership (@ $22.00) is gone?

Please advise as it nearly time for me to re-up!

Oh, I see now that there was a price increase. And I’ve read the above comments.

My $0.02 is as follows…

1. Fish gotta swim…

This business is changing. Rapidly. The skills required to work in this medium are increasing in rapidity and complexity. Finding good training is a time-consuming process of visiting Amazon, reading reviews, following the blogs (e.g. A List Apart… which everyone should be following), buying books, reading books, re-reading books, then maybe one goes to Lynda.com and watch some more training… oh yeah and coding.

As my skills developed, it becomes harder and harder to find truly good training which addresses real-world issues. Especially in the video training field. Either the training was waaay over my head (i.e. many assumptions made on skill set) or was way to basic.

Enter NetTuts.

Great presenters. Depth of Knowledge. Video training at MY level which is “light on the the fluff stuff” (I understand a “History of..” section, but they keep it short and relevant) and full of detailed real-world examples (i.e. “how to buld an {x} from start to finish”)… In truth, this stuff is really a gold mine. If you think this type of training has always been around, you’d be wrong. It has not. Not at this level.

My Verdict on the price increase: Justified (with a caveat).

The Justification

I make my living working the web. Training is an important tool for growing my client base and supporting my existing clients growing/evolving needs. When I learn new skills, I put them to use in my products/services. Sometimes they are directly billable, sometimes they save me time, which saves me money. I am the client who buys the whole year package @ lynda.com. I am the person who will most likely buy the whole year here @ NetTuts. Why? Because of the convenience of not having to sweat a monthly bill, a small cost savings and because it is well worth the price (IMHO). Add to that, I I love what I do and good training helps me do it… i.e. fish gotta swim.

But that is me. Not everyone can afford to do this, hence….

The Caveat.

Yes, NetTuts. I believe you SHOULD have a students price. With most students paying astronomical fee’s for the RIGHT to higher education and struggling under crippling student loan debt, every little bit helps.

Besides, all those students who go on to have a career in this field will likely BECOME the type of customer I have become: A grateful customer who sees training as a strategic advantage and gladly pays for a FAIR yearly price (based on the quality of the content).

That’s what you want, isn’t it?

Create a Student Price. It’s the right thing to do.

Just one persons humble opinion.

Preston