Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of Evangelism (Udemy.com)
How to Promote Your Product, Service, Company, or Idea
Created by: Guy Kawasaki
Last updated June 2017
What you will learn
- Master evangelism as an effective, inexpensive, and fun technique to promote your product in a crowded market
- Transform your sales and marketing from “closing deals” to converting true believers
- Craft a winning pitch and mantra for your product
- Hire, train, and deploy effective evangelists
- Optimize social media as a fast, free, and ubiquitous marketing platform
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 74% of them
- Reviews2,200#288 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length2.8 hoursshorter than 50% of them
- Last updatedJune 2017earlier than 96% of them
Course Description
Do you want to change the world like Apple? This course will explain how to use a technique called evangelism to change the hearts, minds, and actions of your customers, colleagues, and employees. Evangelism is an innovative approach to sales, marketing, and management. It means mobilizing your customers and staff into becoming as passionate about a cause as you are.
I first learned the technique of evangelism at Apple where my job was to convince developers to believe in Macintosh before it was “real.” I also used evangelism to convince developers and customers to believe in Apple during some of its challenging times. And the rest is history.
Subsequently I’ve used evangelism to introduce many new products. I’m currently the chief evangelist of Canva, the online graphics design service that empowers people to create great graphics. We’ve signed up over 10 million customers in 179 countries in less than four years. That’s the power of evangelism!
This course distills my 30+ years of experience as an evangelist into a straightforward handbook for putting evangelism into action.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Define your cause, whether it is a business or a public interest concern
Create a mantra, goals, and tactics to further your cause
Effectively pitch and demo your product
Use the stages of evangelism to accelerate your success
Leverage social media to evangelize more widely
Find, train, and recruit new evangelists
This course also includes:
14 activities so you can immediately put your skills into practice
My answers to frequently asked questions including: “What if my management doesn’t ‘get’ evangelism?”, “How do I differentiate my pitch?”, and “How do I evangelize a mundane product?”
My tips and tricks for bringing your own cause, product, or service from idea to reality.
By the end of this course, you will ultimately learn how to establish your product or service as “good news”—far beyond simple “speeds and feeds.”
This course is for people who want to make a difference. If you want to transcend traditional sales and marketing in order to create believers, this course is for you. If you want to challenge the status quo, the mediocre, and the mundane, take action to become a world-class evangelist.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
2,200 Reviews
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool, and executive fellow at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple. He is also the author of The Art of Social Media, The Art of the Start, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
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Reviews
By Renju Joseph on 10/20/2020
GREAT
By Deenya on 10/12/2020
Some of the information seems redundant but good overall.
By Muneeb Hassan Soomro on 9/7/2020
So far it is going great, learning a lot of new things.
By Daniel Ansong on 8/19/2020
Great experience. Completely a very different way of outreach with a very great product.
By Darryl Petersen on 8/18/2020
Guy is so easy to listen to
By Ahmet Furkan Ahi on 8/18/2020
thank you so much for this inspiring course
By Wei Tsung on 8/11/2020
so fantastic the course is , hoping I can follow you on Linkedin!!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wei-tsung-li-b536a8183/
By Cory Stewart on 8/9/2020
Great information. If only every company operated with sincere and profound causes...
You will want to watch this course several times because there is so many gold nuggets to use in your own work/life. Thanks Mr. Kawasaki for sharing your experience and wisdom.
By Lucas Guido on 7/23/2020
Nice content about selling an idea (behind a brand) instead of selling products itself. I don't give 5 stars because I think the same content should be delivered in 1 hour instead of 3.
By Rejith Mg on 6/20/2020
To much verbal
By Maris Kuklis on 5/26/2020
Really great course, lots of insights, knowledge and super useful tips and life lessons!
By Kurian Varughese on 5/23/2020
As I'm performing the role of an Evangelist in my company, learning from Guy's experience helps to improve myself in this role.
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