What is Quick Sprout University About?

Name: Quick Sprout University

Website: QuickSprout.com/pro

Type of business: Website building

Price: $47/ month or $97/ year

Owner: Neil Patel

My rating: 2 out of 5 ⭐⭐

[Update] Due to the number of complaints, the members-only QuickSprout University program has now been disbanded and the videos can be accessed for free at QuickSprout.com/university.

QuickSprout has always been a well-known name.

As an avid follower and reading of QuickSprout’s blogs, I jumped at the opportunity when I found out that they’re releasing a new course.

Millions of questions run through my mind, like are the courses hidden tips that they never share on their blogs?

Will they guide us on boosting our blog traffic seeing that they’re providing a course now? More importantly, are they worth putting all our time in?

If you’re just as excited as me about how it all fans out, do continue reading my full QuickSprout University review on to know more.

 

What is Quick Sprout University all about?

If you’re into internet marketing, you might have heard the name Neil Patel.

He’s the owner of one of the World’s most popular marketing sites called Quick Sprout and if you’ve come across the websites Crazy Egg and Kissmetrics, we’ll he owns those too.

So if you are delving into the internet marketing world, you will come to notice that almost everyone knows him as Neil Patel is one of the most respected names in the industry.

He has helped many huge companies grow such as Yahoo!, Mazda and Walmart so with all that reputation and credibility he gets on his name, he decided to start an online business product which may soon turn out to be his downfall if he doesn’t do anything about it.

Unlike other scam gurus who teach how to make money overnight, Neil’s product teaches us how to grow our business rapidly, or so he claims.

His course of course covers the internet marketing essentials according to categories:

• SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).
• Link Building
• Content Marketing
• Social Media
• Paid Advertising
• Email Marketing
• Reputation Management
• Conversion Optimization

What I Like About It.

There are things which I really find helpful in his lessons.

For starters, they are short and easy to digest as being in the Internet Marketing line, you might have known how many technical jargons are there but Neil kept it very basic for you to absorb with ease.

The videos contained can help in trying to get rankings in Google as well as making your website more efficient so that it loads faster too.

But whether you want to spend that much money to learn something that can actually be gotten free somewhere else, depends entirely up to you.

If you have been in the Internet Marketing world for some time, I would recommend you to stick to reading QuickSprout’s blog instead as there is much more value in it than his very own program.

 

What I Don’t Like About This Program.

After trying out Quick Sprout University, I was really disappointed because it seems like Neil wasn’t serious about helping us after all.

Here’s what I meant:

Disappointment #1 – No Clear Direction on What We are Supposed to Do.

I was really confused when I got inside the program because truth is told, I have no idea what I was supposed to do!

Sure there is a list of categories to choose from but as a Newbie internet marketer, I have no idea what those terms are and why do we need them.

It’s common sense to us that for education programs, there should and must have a direction telling us where to start.

At the very least, a welcome note would suffice but Quick Sprout University doesn’t even have that!.

A clear example of an online business product that provides a clear direction and guidance on what you are supposed to do which I have reviewed is Wealthy Affiliate.

Even in the offline world (real life), when you go to a school or college, do you struggle and find yourself the path on how to get started, or will you get some direction after registering?

Of course you’ll get directions!

This actually made me re-think how those corporate clients can understand Neil’s program unless Neil personally shows them.

Wait, that actually reminds me…

Disappointment #2 – Neil Was Nowhere to Be Found.

From his sales page, Neil’s name was everywhere.

Heck, even the cartoon picture of a guy with the blackboard that you saw above is Neil Patel.

But when you get to his program, you will notice that Neil was nowhere to be found!

The videos weren’t even made by him, it was made by Brian Dean which Neil paid to do.

Perhaps it will soften the blow if Neil introduced to us earlier why is he hiring Brian to do the videos instead of Neil himself.

A lot of Internet Marketers hire freelancers to do their videos for them because they are afraid of speaking up which is understandable but Neil has done many talks globally which made me wonder as to why doesn’t he wants to spend some of his time doing his own videos instead.

Brian Dean is the founder of Backlinko but not everyone knows that, especially those who are new to the Internet Marketing world so if Neil would at least introduce us to Dean and why will he be trusting Dean with Quicksprout, it would affect this program much better.

Disappointment #3 – Overpriced for Very Little Content.

It is understandable for universities to charge expensive fees because there are facilities, but what facility do Quick Sprout University actually have?

To join Quick Sprout, we need to pay a monthly fee of $47 to access the content inside.

And what those content might be you ask? A compilation of a few short 5-10 minute videos.

And worse still, that $47 that you paid will only give you access to 5-10 minute videos every month which we can probably get anywhere else for free.

We know that you have huge branding on your name Mr. Patel, but that doesn’t mean that you should charge very high for something very little.

I have reviewed many online business products so I know that there are other courses out there that lets you learn for either a very low price or even free for contents that are beyond your expectations.

Neil’s Quicksprout blog which most of us know him from, gives way more information for free and has much more value as well as content in it compared to QuickSprout University which is only but a fraction of his blogs.

 

QuickSprout University Alternative.

There is a product that comes close to Neil Patel’s Quick Sprout University and that is called Wealthy Affiliate.

Like Quicksprout University, it is also an Internet Marketing and some people often refer to them as Wealthy Affiliate University.

It not only guides you to build an authority website the right way, but also the various ways of monetization which I find very interesting.

I was initially thinking of making Quick Sprout my number one recommendation but instead, that falls to Wealthy Affiliate because you get more than what Quick Sprout offers, for free.

There are many other features which I can explain but to help you see clearly what I’m talking about, here’s a table comparison overview…

 

 

My Final Word

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Don’t get me wrong, I respect and look up to Neil Patel as a very experienced leader in the online business industry as he has helped many companies grow their businesses online.

In fact, I was even part of the team that made it possible to invite him all the way to Malaysia to give a talk at MaGIC’s startup academy in October 2014.

But when it comes to creating an internet marketing course of his own, it seems that all he thinks about is money because all those videos weren’t even made by him at all.

Instead, they were made by Brian which means that he uses his name to get his product selling which is a slick way of making money.

Apart from that, there is also a clear difference in value between Quicksprout’s free blog posts and Quicksprout University because the blogs were made by Neil himself whereas this program is made by someone else which is why the Quick Sprout University program is definitely a scam and receives my rating of.

Thanks for reading, feel free to share your experiences below as I would very much love to hear them.