If you’re looking to launch a new online course, you may have recently run into a problem… On the one hand, you’ve heard it’s a soon-to-be $325 billion industry. Yet, on the other hand, you’re starting to realize how overwhelming everything is. Creating your course is only part of the process. If you’re like most of the people we work with, you have a clear idea of what you want to put into your course. …
Should you offer your students an online course certificate when they complete your course? We get asked this question a lot. Some course creators do provide a certificate to their students on completion. Some of these are accredited, whereas others are not. It brings into question whether an online course certificate is important, or if it’s simply a waste of your time and money. There’s no simple answer. As it stands, you don’t need to …
If you’re a creative type, we may have the perfect online course platform for you! It’s not only perfect for students in creative industries, but also teachers, coaches, and course creators that wish to bring their art form to life. But before we get to this platform, why should YOU care? Do YOU really want to become an online course creator? Do you have the time? The experience? The necessary skills? Maybe you do. Maybe …
Does a coach need a coach? A common myth we see around here is that good coaches and teachers don’t need a coach or teacher of their own. After all, if you’re a successful course creator, wouldn’t hiring a coach prove to your students that you’re not as good as you say you are? Why hire you? Why not hire the person you’re hiring? Well, for starters, no person is perfect. No matter how talented …
Creating an online course is a lot like writing a book… writing it is the easy part! Promoting and selling it is the hard bit. Yet it’s also the most important. The same applies to your online course. Sure, building the best course you can matters. It needs to be GREAT! It needs to be relevant and to solve a problem. Yet none of this matters if nobody finds it or buys it. So although …
One thing you can’t buy is… experience! You develop experience over the years as you build businesses, launch new products, fail, succeed, hire and build a team, lead it, master your skill set, and work with one new client after another. It’s hard to know what sort of experience you’ll develop over the next ten years, but one thing is for certain… it’s valuable. Not only for yourself but for others, too. It’s why we’re …
So, you’re thinking about building a Membership Site with WordPress. But should you? Is WordPress really the best option? Should you use a cloud-based platform like Kajabi, ClickFunnels, or Wild Apricot instead? Should YOU be building a Membership Site in the first place? This is the first big question you must answer. Not everyone needs a membership site, and most people aren’t ready to make the leap. We talk about this in detail in our …
Should you create an online course with WordPress or use a third-party course builder like Thinkific, Ruzuku, or Teachable? We hear this question a lot. When we work with our students and clients, they’re usually sold on the idea of creating an online course. They’re aware of the benefits and how it’s one of the best ways to build a new income stream. They’ve heard how it will soon become part of a $325 billion …
It’s the holy grail of business… recurring revenue. It’s also the one thing that seems almost impossible for an online course creator to have. We work with experts across every industry you can imagine, many of them running successful courses that generate increasing profit month after month. Yet when someone buys a course from you, that’s it. It’s a one-time sale. This means you have to create more courses and continue to up your marketing …
One of the next steps after creating and launching an online course is to build a private community for your students. Many course creators try to initially do this with a Facebook Group or Slack Channel. This is fine, and in the beginning, maybe this gives you and your students what you need. But after a while, it becomes clear that it isn’t enough. For your students, they don’t get the support and engagement they …