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A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

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Re: A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

#11
Thats very comprehensive-- not the 500 page "essay" with a link to buy I was expecting -- well done!

Edit: That said, your actual product is very expensive, at least compared to Teachable/Thinkfic etc (though it similar in price to products like Kajabi-- is that who you are competing with?)

Re: A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

#12

Thanks for sharing that. I was expecting the usual "spammy" stuff, but this is legit good. I wish more outfits marketed this way. I wish you the very best.

No, it was very spammy, content free, marketing drivel full of empty promises and bad abstractions.

Re: A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

#14

Thats very comprehensive-- not the 500 page "essay" with a link to buy I was expecting -- well done! Edit: That said, your actual product is very expensive, at least compared to Teachable/Thinkfic etc (though it similar in price to products like Kajabi-- is that who you are competing with?)

Thank you!

We're aware of this and a revamp of our pricing is planned to have cheaper tiers or a freemium model in the future.

But yes, the product itself is more on the premium side because we're mainly targeting already established course and content creators who want a really advanced course platform for their students, not just an all-in-one tool like Kajabi or Podia that doesn't go in depth on the education side.

Re: A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

#15
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If no ads, whats your main marketing strategy (As schoolmaker)?

astroturfing

Dude I literally wrote on the landing page, and said in the trailer video that the guide was to:

1. Help people build great courses (which is 99% of the content, took me 5 months to research and write, and is totally free)

2. Promote our software (1% of the content, and any course creator can still apply the guide, even if they don't use our software)

What are you talking about :')

Re: A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

#18

Related: Rob Fitz (of The Mom Test fame) is building a community of people who write actually useful nonfiction books https://writeusefulbooks.com/community/

Funny you mention it, reading his book "write useful books" is what initially inspired me to create this guide :p

Great book, I highly recommend it!

Re: A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

astroturfing

Dude I literally wrote on the landing page, and said in the trailer video that the guide was to: 1. Help people build great courses (which is 99% of the content, took me 5 months to research and write, and is totally free) 2. Promote our software (1% of the content, and any course creator can still apply the guide, even if they don't use our software) What are you talking about :')

i read your thing, and i find it unbelievable that so many people here would have such nice, similar things to say about it. Who comments that a thing is "comprehensive"?

Re: A complete guide to creating actually useful courses

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude I literally wrote on the landing page, and said in the trailer video that the guide was to: 1. Help people build great courses (which is 99% of the content, took me 5 months to research and write, and is totally free) 2. Promote our software (1% of the content, and any course creator can still apply the guide, even if they don't use our software) What are you talking about :')

i read your thing, and i find it unbelievable that so many people here would have such nice, similar things to say about it. Who comments that a thing is "comprehensive"?

Are you insinuating that I created fake accounts to give myself pats on the back?

Let's look at the profiles of the 2 accounts that used this totally normal word:

1. @shantnutiwari, with an account that is over 1-year-old, who has 2 websites that he seems to still maintain.

2. @chrisrickard, who directly linked his Twitter account, and to me seems like a pretty real human being.

Would be a lot of effort creating all of this for some engagement on a post don't you think?

If you don't like the guide it's completely fine; I don't expect everyone to like it, but don't make false accusations.

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