{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ditching Hourly","title":"Alain Chautard - Scaling Angular Certification","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a75ac252\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3024,"description":"Angular expert Alain Chautard rejoined me on Ditching Hourly to share how he scaled his certification business through partnerships and automation.\nJonathan 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.\n00:00 - Introduction and Welcome Back\n03:24 - Creating the Angular Certification Program\n07:00 - Automating Customer Support\n10:04 - Scaling with Global Partnerships\n12:08 - Handling Certification Interviews\n15:04 - Partnerships and Business Growth\n20:05 - Negotiating a Business Partnership\n24:38 - Email Marketing Journey\n36:51 - Exploring New Content Formats\n38:51 - Mastermind Groups for Soloists\nAlain 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 Angular, and scale the certification business through partnerships. Learn more at alainchautard.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NCUVrsmlcYseU9x7dN1dnT4q3rVJ5q27OIKrcXCPJrM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMjY2/ZjU5OTA5OWI3YzI2/MzdiODJlMmUwZWY1/NTJjZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}