Andrew, while I enjoy competition, let's try to remain objective and civil.
1) Your claim that your course is more complete is outright wrong. It's actually funny to see that some outlines you put on ExamPro.co matched 1-to-1 the outlines of some of my courses. Glad to be of help!
2) Making a Solutions Architect course free, to me, is a big mistake. You had shared with me your ambitions to make a business that could take down ACloudGuru, you tried to publish in Udemy, didn't meet the success you were expecting, and now deciding to make your course free to... boost your brand and hubris maybe?
There's a reason why some courses are paid, although cheap. It's to ensure that authors are properly compensated for their original work, and encouraged to keep on creating good content and maintaining the actual ones.
Finally, YouTube is outright the wrong delivery model. To anyone reading this, the AWS exams evolve constantly and adjustments need to be made to videos to keep up with these changes.
If you watch a YouTube video of 10 hours, you run the risk of missing that additional content. On my Udemy courses, you'll always get the latest and greatest. Oh, and you get quiz questions and practice exams. The real cost of a course is not the $10 or $15 you'll invest by purchasing the course. It's in the 10s of your own hours you'll invest into taking the course. Choose wisely!
Bottom line Andrew, self-promotion is fine, but don't step where others are being recommended by former students. That's too borderline.
1] I had course outlines before you publish your first course.
2] I've always wanted to be free, I had to publish to Udemy from pressures from my wife, my business partners and my co-founder. So I was appeasing them. I was happy with Udemy failure because it aligned all my interested parties to my original vision.
3] The Youtube videos come with a course outline in the comments on freeCodeCamp and on my Youtube they are all in a playlist. So you can keep track of them. And in my ExamPro platform it has a progress bar and quizlets and flashcards on every material. So I have much more content than any other provider. Right now this is paid but I'm actually opening this up to be free when I get a chance to code it in.
4] I reshoot videos frequently. I've reshoot how to create an account 5 times. I'm not afraid of making new content and I have the speed and means to do it. I've actually remade my Solutions Architect Associate course 3 times, and I'm going to refilm it again, we are working to refilm everything every year to keep this fresh.
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Andrew, while I enjoy competition, let's try to remain objective and civil.
1) Your claim that your course is more complete is outright wrong. It's actually funny to see that some outlines you put on ExamPro.co matched 1-to-1 the outlines of some of my courses. Glad to be of help!
2) Making a Solutions Architect course free, to me, is a big mistake. You had shared with me your ambitions to make a business that could take down ACloudGuru, you tried to publish in Udemy, didn't meet the success you were expecting, and now deciding to make your course free to... boost your brand and hubris maybe?
There's a reason why some courses are paid, although cheap. It's to ensure that authors are properly compensated for their original work, and encouraged to keep on creating good content and maintaining the actual ones.
Finally, YouTube is outright the wrong delivery model. To anyone reading this, the AWS exams evolve constantly and adjustments need to be made to videos to keep up with these changes.
If you watch a YouTube video of 10 hours, you run the risk of missing that additional content. On my Udemy courses, you'll always get the latest and greatest. Oh, and you get quiz questions and practice exams. The real cost of a course is not the $10 or $15 you'll invest by purchasing the course. It's in the 10s of your own hours you'll invest into taking the course. Choose wisely!
Bottom line Andrew, self-promotion is fine, but don't step where others are being recommended by former students. That's too borderline.
Best of luck with your ventures.
Stephane
1] I had course outlines before you publish your first course.
2] I've always wanted to be free, I had to publish to Udemy from pressures from my wife, my business partners and my co-founder. So I was appeasing them. I was happy with Udemy failure because it aligned all my interested parties to my original vision.
3] The Youtube videos come with a course outline in the comments on freeCodeCamp and on my Youtube they are all in a playlist. So you can keep track of them. And in my ExamPro platform it has a progress bar and quizlets and flashcards on every material. So I have much more content than any other provider. Right now this is paid but I'm actually opening this up to be free when I get a chance to code it in.
4] I reshoot videos frequently. I've reshoot how to create an account 5 times. I'm not afraid of making new content and I have the speed and means to do it. I've actually remade my Solutions Architect Associate course 3 times, and I'm going to refilm it again, we are working to refilm everything every year to keep this fresh.