Hello everyone !
I’m writing this to keep y’all in loop with my progress
I send these messages out to my well wishers , mentors and people who I look up to
Only when I’ve made some progress
Re-Branding - Cracking Clans to FOCAS , when i pitched CC to someone (Hi anna!), i got a critical feedback about the name , so i dug further. ended up finding out that it sounded like a video game channel or more to say GENZ-er . and decided to rebrand , within 1 week i actually ended up with FOCAS , but i couldn’t settle on something better so i settled for FOCAS . But after all the priniting and saying out loud , im happy with it . It ccovers the Signaling as well - Check out FOCAS ( I did the website myself with Supersite, good enough for next months minimum)
First Batch for CA Inter Audit- I was the mentor , got 8 students first , on day 1 two of them dropped off-talked to them later , responded that they were uncomfortable memorizing it and just wanted to understand concepts- they were of the idea of a regular class ( Have to work on my Communication & Content about what we do, People presume that we are Academies). Need to work on making ICAI material a little more self explanatory and easy for memory. However at the end of DAY 16 the Outcomes were mind blowing ( i mean exceeded expectations). All 6 Students have understood, Memorized every page and Completed MCQs for 11/13 Chapters from ICAI Material itself in CUMULATIVE 80 Hours . There was no playing with ABC Analysis or Important Areas etc, the Complete thing, I recall it took twice the time and effort for me to come to 80% of this when i studied Intermediate. Now i’m confident of finishing this portion in 14 days (6 Full days( as 7AM-1PM & 7-10PM) and 8 Week days (7-10PM) ).
Second Batch- This time i’m not the Mentor , I’ve Onboarded 2 Mentors and in talks with few others as well. Just need 4 for Nov’23 exams since i’m only targeting 25 students. The Biggest problem right now is communication not with the mentors , But with the students. Who is the faculty is the question - who do i tell is the faculty?. since its going to be multiple mentors and We have decided not to rely on Personal Brands of Faculty/mentors. What would i say when they ask who is taking the class - Right now im just saying “a Faculty/Mentor who is a CA will handle your group of 7 students” something in that grounds - if you didnt know i launched the class on 12/10 - it now has 6 signups , pretty sure they think im the one who is going to be taking the class . Is it going to be a problem? (spoiler alert: yes) , i still have 5 odd days to figure out. But lets see ……
I had plans to do the second batch through a college , but plans fell through. I was hesitant to start the second batch , But i didn’t want to loose 6M- I wanted to be a Serious player for the next cycle and capitalize on the new syllabus wave. So i just need to have the know-how of how to run a Effort-Led Cohort , So we are doing this Last Minute Crash Course. the second batch will hardly any serious students - they may only pass Audit (or the forever attempters who are not doing CA full time). But Some Impact on them at least , lets see
I forgot what Content Creation is for the past 1 Month + , I have 12 Pieces of Content recorded and edited , just need thumbnails and branding (need to add logo). next 3 weeks will be releasing them One by One- if you see it while scrolling , pls just hype me up ok
Thanks for the continuing support and blessings !
K Venkat Ramanan