Chesterzoda.comReviews of chesterzoda.com

False advertising. very expensive, incompetent staff, Dr. Zoda not helpful at all. When issues are raised instead of addressing them he attacks the person raising the question. Did not deliver.

As a busy practicing physician I needed expert help to get this product organized. As it turned out the amount of work required was much more than anticipated, but the team guided me through each step. I was impressed with the slides they designed based on my written content and how professional the final product looks. They helped guide me through every step and gave me confidence that what we created is valuable and useful for our intended audience. Very satisfied with the entire process.

Great collaboration and helpful ideas

mila took the time to help me consider the best plan for me to move forward

Excellent job!Camila has helped me to move from a position where I did not like recording anything to enjoy researching, writing, and recording my course. She is very professional and is always on time. She has been flexible and accommodating with my crazy schedule. I recommend her one hundred percent. I would definitely work with her again.

I've noticed that many of these reviews are written quite early in the customer's experience. This review is based on a year's experience. My bottom line is that I have paid $36,600 to Dr. Zoda, an additional $1295 in marketing/platform fees, and have made ZERO revenue. I hung in there, believing, until I couldn't anymore. Here's my story, which I've shared with the company leadership, in detail, including the documentation. I joined the basic introductory Zoda course on 9/13/2023 for $7,800. Having developed online courses before, it was the claimed marketing expertise of the program that appealed to me during the sales call. I was told that there was a staff person with expertise in Semrush, for example, who would advise on niching. However, when I was in the program and looking for this expertise, the Semrush expert was no longer available. I became aware of the "Fast Track" program, so I booked a call to "see if I qualified" in mid-Oct. The sales person guaranteed, at the end of the 6-month program, a recurring monthly revenue of $30,000. There was a written guarantee in the contract that the team would continue to work with you at no additional cost until you realized that revenue. There would be an upfront market analysis of my idea to determine if there was really a demand for the content. My program was a B2B program for healthcare executives on leadership models to create cultures of wellbeing for employees. I was concerned about finding the decision-maker through online marketing. I was assured "It's all in the marketing and we really have that nailed down". I signed a contract for Fast Track on 10/23/2023. It was a $30,000 price tag then, but I paid $28,800 using cash. WITHOUT THE WRITTEN GUARANTEE I WOULDN'T HAVE JOINED! My 'customer success manager' (CSM) and her team were located in Bogota, Columbia. Their English and manners were excellent. I received an Excel spreadsheet spelling out the phases of the 24 week program. I was pleased with the market analysis provided in the first few weeks. It was clear that there was a market in healthcare for leadership development programs. Facebook and Google Ads would be the pathway to finding my decision-makers. Fast Track is a 'do it for you' program. Course Creators dictate their content to the CSM. I preferred to transition material from books I had written into a course format, rather than dictate it. When it came time for the team to turn my content into slides, I found the slides rather mediocre, not geared to the professional audience I was trying to reach. I ended up heavily editing, and ultimately, creating the slides for the later modules myself. Once I'd recorded my content, the team's responsibility was to build out the Kajabi platform for my courses to be delivered on, creating the promised automated 'cash machine'. The marketing phase on the timeline was for Weeks 21-24, but my project did not enter the marketing phase until week 33, 11 weeks late! I kept track on the spreadsheet of the reasons given for delays. They WEREN'T due to MY tardiness. My biggest complaint about the program is that the team lacked a sense of urgency or accountability about the timeline of the project. Delays = Lost Revenue. "Fast Track" became "Torture Track" as I felt like I was on the world's slowest conveyor belt. Communications happened through email. It could take 2 to 3 days to hear back if there was something that needed to be addressed. Then, a follow-up to iron out a further detail could be another 2 to 3 days. It was a very inefficient and frustrating way to try to resolve all of the minute details that needed completion. I hired outside resources to finish things I couldn't wait on them for. I also didn't appreciate the sense of being gaslit. I was told that certain things were being worked on, when clearly they were not. I'm not alone in the experience of overly slow output. I connected with one other student who had the same frustration. Finally, 11 weeks late, we began what was designed as the 4-week marketing phase. By this time there was no longer someone who did Google Ads. Dr. Zoda himself wrote to assure me that FB Ads were the best way they'd found to reach anyone through its segmentation capabilities. I'd been advised to price my B2B program at $5,000. I worked with the FB marketing expert for 9 weeks until I realized she didn't have the faintest idea how to find my people. I'd already spent $845 on Kajabi fees and $445 on FB ads with ZERO REVENUE. I asked the company's operations manager for a review of my situation to see if we needed to switch up something for a better outcome. The response I got was that eventually FB Ads would work for me, just stick it out. That was the laziest, most clueless recommendation I could imagine. It was time to cut my losses to regain my peace of mind. KW, PhD

Transparency in identifying and finding a resolution of my need.

Exorbitant price, false promises. I joined digital doctor program because I was promised that the program would help with legal aspects and marketing of my course. I didn't get this help. I don't even know if Dr Chester Zoda is a real doctor in USA. I interviewed with him for fast track program which costs more than $40000 with a claim of me earning back about $35000 within 3 months. He had no idea what my course was about and said it doesn't matter, it is all about marketing. He pushed a lot but it sounded unethical so I didn't join it. The digital doctor program has some helpful information but it is not at all a money making business per the extraordinary claims it makes.