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You Have An Idea For An Online Course… Now What?

Creating an online course can be a fantastic way to boost your business.Courses can add value for your audience, create a great passive income stream, and identify you as an authority in your industry.Coming up with a viable idea for a course is half the battle. But even if you have that part sorted, you still need to figure out how to get everything up and running!So, what do you do if you have the standout idea?Well, those great ideas have a habit of staying in the idea bank for far too long i...

How To Create A Passive Income With An Online Course

Do you dream of having a business where you can earn money while you sleep?No, it’s not a fantasy promise. You can create a passive stream of income where you don’t physically need to be in front of the computer, engaging with clients or be on the tools to earn.You can do it by creating an online course.An online course is an excellent way to boost your brand authority, provide value for your audience, and create a long-term passive income stream for your business.You might scoff and think t...

Does Your Course Fit With Your Brand Identity And Vibe?

Online courses are a fantastic way to amplify your business and add value for your clients.But, they need to make sense.After all, a mechanic can show you how to maintain your vehicle, but probably not how to perform open heart surgery!It is essential that your course material fits with your overall brand identity.How can you make that happen?Well, read on and we’ll tell you exactly how....

7 Best Practices When Building Your Thinkific Site

An online course can be a powerful tool for your business.Sell it as a standalone product or use it as a value add for your existing clients, courses showcase your expertise and provide a goldmine of information to your people.Thinkific is a super popular platform for building online courses.You can even DIY your own course pages on this easy to navigate platform.But, just because it’s easy, doesn’t mean you can’t still make accidental errors!So, in this blog, we are going to cover 7 of th...

The Latest Online Course Trends You Can Capitalise On

Since the global pandemic, the online course industry has absolutely flourished.Online learning is incredibly popular and has become the new norm. This momentum is only set to continue with people choosing online learning as it’s convenient and affordable.So, how can you capitalise on this trend?There are a number of evolutions happening when it comes to online courses.And, in order to ensure the continued success of your own eCourses, you want to keep up with the latest online course trends. ...

How To Use Courses To Support Your Products Or Services

Courses are a fantastic resource for your business.They educate your audience, provide immense value to your clients, and they allow you to boost your income by selling your knowledge to the people it will help the most.But, that’s not all courses are good for.Courses can actually be a great business support tool.Not only useful as a paid resource, courses can be used for a whole bunch of other things in your business. So, let’s explore how you can use online courses to support and streamlin...

Why You Should Always Conduct An Online Course Review

Are you looking for ways to enhance or improve your online courses? One of the best things you can do is establish a simple course review process. As the developer of a course, we can sometimes be a bit too close to the content, meaning that feedback from others is a great way to identify errors or areas for improvement. The best way to do this is by setting up a structured review process. Quality assurance or review is best achieved when it is done methodically and habitually, as opposed to a r...

How To Support Your Students Through Your Online Course

Getting your online course up and running is one thing. But have you thought about how you will support your students as they progress through it? Learning through online courses is quite different from traditional education settings. There is more flexibility and autonomy for students, but there can also be more distractions and less motivation! And, if online learners are not getting the engagement or encouragement that they need, they may not have the best learning experience.Online courses a...

How To Use Email Marketing To Boost Your Online Course

Your course is all set and ready to go. Hooray!Now what?Well, it’s time to promote it, but also to enhance the learning experience for your students.One of the best ways to do that is to utilise email marketing. Why email? Well, it is a familiar and effective medium that aligns with the professionalism of an online course. So, how can you use email marketing to boost your online course? Let’s answer that very question now....

What Makes A Great Online Course?

Anyone can produce an online course, but not everyone can create a successful one! There are so many elements that contribute to the success of a course – from the structure and content to the marketing and surrounding community.Creating an online course takes a lot of effort, so if you’re going to do it, you may as well do it with finesse! While no two courses are the same, the very best courses have some key elements in common. In today’s blog, we’ll delve into exactly what these elem...

3 Ways To Know If You’re Ready To Create An Online Course

The great thing about online courses is that anybody can create one. But just because you can create one doesn’t mean you should. If you decide to build your own online course before you’re ready, or before the right circumstances are in place, you could end up wasting your precious time and energy only to have it fizzle. But get the timing right, and your online course could help build your brand, scale your business, and boost your income. So, how to know if you’re ready to build your ...

Creating An Online Course: Why Bite-Sized Lessons Are Best

When creating an online course, size really does matter. Particularly when you get down to the nitty-gritty details of your course lessons.Get fundamentals like lesson length wrong, and you could put your students off and watch your course fizzle.Striking the right balance is vital: you need to deliver enough content in each lesson to help your students meet their learning objectives, but not so much that they feel overwhelmed or bored.In today’s fast-paced, low-attention span world, bite-size...

How To Choose The Right Online Course Content

Putting together your online course content can be one of the most overwhelming parts of course creation.You somehow have to sift through all the knowledge and resources occupying your brain and present the information in a way that makes sense for your student’s learning journey.But how do you know what to include and what to leave out? And what delivery methods should you choose?Will you really be able to distil that mess of information in your brain into something coherent and logical?Yes, ...

Why Your Course Needs An Outcome Statement

Looking for a way to boost sales of your online course and increase engagement? You need an outcome statement. This essential element is often overlooked by course creators, but should be high-up on your to-do list. Not only will an outcome statement add value for your students, but it will help keep you on track as you design and refine your course. To be effective, your course outcome statement should succinctly communicate to students what value they will get out of the course. In this blog...

Make Sure Your Passive Income Does Not Create More Work for You

Feel like your passive income isn’t turning out to be as passive as you had hoped? Online courses do take some work to set up. But once you are loaded and ready to go, most of them can be marketed and managed with minimal input, freeing you up to focus on other things. If you’re struggling to find the time to do everything you need to do in your passive income business, chances are you haven’t mastered the magic ingredient yet – automation. Automation allows the essential parts of your ...

How To Choose The Right Platform For Your Online Course

Excited about planning and launching your online course? You should be! With all the platforms available, it’s never been easier to create courses online. In fact, the hardest part might actually be choosing the right platform for your course! Yet this crucial step shouldn’t be rushed. It’s vital to find an online platform that suits your needs and works well with your business. So, should you self-host or use a platform like Thinkific or Kajabi? Read on to find out what you should look ...