Alain Chautard - Scaling Angular Certification

About this episode

Alain Chautard discusses scaling his Angular certification business through partnerships and automation.

Angular expert Alain Chautard rejoined me on Ditching Hourly to share how he scaled his certification business through partnerships and automation. Jonathan and Alain talk about turning niche expertise into a certification business, reducing support demands, using expert partners across time zones and languages, negotiating a licensing-style partnership, and what happens when a soloist plugs their business into a larger organization. 00:00 - Introduction and Welcome Back 03:24 - Creating the Angular Certification Program 07:00 - Automating Customer Support 10:04 - Scaling with Global Partnerships 12:08 - Handling Certification Interviews 15:04 - Partnerships and Business Growth 20:05 - Negotiating a Business Partnership 24:38 - Email Marketing Journey 36:51 - Exploring New Content Formats 38:51 - Mastermind Groups for Soloists Alain Chautard is a Google Developer Expert in Angular who does consulting, training, and conference/content work around the Angular framework. He created an Angular certification program after clients asked for proof of completion beyond a simple training certificate. His work now includes helping teams make architecture decisions, get up to speed with…

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Stark

Guest: Alain Chautard

Topics covered

• certification business
• partnerships
• automation
• customer support
• business growth
• email marketing
• content formats

Keywords

• Angular certification
• business partnerships
• automation
• customer support
• email marketing
• content formats
• business growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, Angular, alainchautard.com

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