Honest question. I love Couchbase and 4-5 years back I passed a certification exam and I wrote some practice tests on Udemy (that did fine, for the time I spent on them).
Two days ago I also published an 8-hours high-quality course about SQL++. I don’t expect it to be financially successful, as yours is a very niche market. I’m more interested in the JSON support added in all relational databases lately. My very new “JSON in Snowflake” looks very promising already… And look, I’ll not post any link here to my own stuff, I’m not here for that.
But what do you do in such cases? How do you encourage and help people to advertise your services? Because, in all honesty, I do not see a lot of effort in this area. Or a truly strong community around, as it’s the case for other products and companies. And I say this with regret… I may write about this (not here, but on my blog) once I collect all the info.
In the meantime, once again, how do YOU promote someone who also promotes your services?
That discord channel is described as “Use this channel to show us what projects you are working on, if you are creating content, or anything else Tech related you want to show off.”
So far, it looks like a lame (and failed) attempt to collect free info for yourselves (e.g. Couchbase) about what other people are working on. On a close channel, not indexed by Google at all, with very poor attendance.
To call this “promoting other people” is simply misplaced and disrespectful
I’ve seen your LinkedIn profile and we have a rather similar age and life experience, nothing personal here.
But you spoke up in the name of the company you work for, on their site. Nobody needs to privately call anyone. The question was: is there any decent support for what I asked for or not? It looks not.
Have a good weekend.
(hmm, I answered to the message you just removed☹️)
Thanks for your valuable contribution to Couchbase and for being part of the Couchbase community. We’re happy to shine a light on this in whatever way we can.
If you post it in the SQL++ category here in forums, I can pin the topic for a limited time.
As Michael suggested, posting in Discord is recommended (channel name aside)
If you have social media accounts, I will see if we can amplify your post(s) on X and LinkedIn that by sharing from our account.
I will include this on our weekly updates that are posted at the end of each week on Discord and dev.to.
I will explore more opportunistic ways to share your course.
Don’t hesitate to reach out on Discord to me if you would like to discuss more.
Wow, thank you, @brianking! TBH, I did no expect anything positive coming up, this was a nice surprise And I may take advantage of most of the things you suggested, if you’re indeed ok with them…
Just as an info and honest talk, I think my current channels - and especially with my well-known courses about Snowflake - bring me already 10x, maybe 100x more visitors that I could ever get through your channels. But it seems only right, I tell you, to have some form of low collaboration here. Few years ago, Snowflake picked up some blog posts of mine and they are still published and amplified by dozens of Snowflake employees everywhere. I became a “Data Superhero” and “SnowPro SME” for over two years etc.
I don’t expect anything similar here, but you have only two other old courses on Udemy by some other guy nobody knows about. A “Couchbase” group on Facebook has only 46 registered users. My post here on the forum, after 4-5 days, has only 30 views.The message I posted on your own LinkedIn channel (with 1.5K registered users) has only 15 impressions (!) after almost a week. And I can bet your hidden private Discord channel gets even less visibility.
That’s only positive criticism, to encourage you guys to do more. Because it would be only beneficial to you, to your image, to your product.
Thanks for the suggestions. We don’t focus on engagement in that LinkedIn group, instead our company page there and then Discord as our main community channel.
As soon as your post is up about your course (I can’t see it currently), let me know the link and I will pin it.
And I may take advantage of most of the things you suggested, if you’re indeed ok with them…