Comments on: 5 Steps to Create and Sell an Online Course

By: Dainis Graveris

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 14 May 2018 09:11:12 +0000

Hey Tom and Erik..
If I may add to this conversation.

I really disagree on Udemy being a great opportunity (and I’ve really tried it at the time).. The reason why people shouldn’t use Udemy is because you won’t sell your course for more than 10$ (because of their crazy discounting) and you DONT own students data. It’s a rented property.

There might be few outliers who succeed there, but it’s a bad business for anyone thinking long-term and creating quality courses.

And you cannot calculate how much instructor makes because of number of participants.

Every course creator tries to ramp up numbers with free coupon codes, asking for people to do positive reviews in exchange.

Then after this kickstart if Udemy picks it up then they will spam 10$ promotions everywhere with your course. It’s really not good and Udemy much less than you would think..it is still up to you to promote and you don’t get student’s emails..no way to directly promote.

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Online courses is no easy path, but it’s definitely a way to go – especially with a blog where you are known in your field with specific expertise.

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I like the approach of selling affiliate courses first to test market.. then maybe create a presell or free course…and only then go on creating a full-blown video course and there your tips Erik, are spot on!

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Lastly, I would again strongly advise AGAINST Udemy.. and then also against Kajabi (because of it’s pricing..check for yourself).

Thinkific or Teachable are really two no-brainer 3rd party course platforms you should explore. Either of it will do better than Kajabi or Udemy.

However if you wanna dive deeper and make better long term choice, this comparison will come handy – https://foundertips.com/thinkific-vs-teachable/

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Everyone really should become comfortable with video as online education is rapidly growing and truly is a way for people to leverage their time by creating quality training once.. and get that passive income in over time!

Just my two cents, eh!

By: Candis Ababa

Candis Ababa — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:37:20 +0000

Thank you for this gem. I’ve also thought about doing something similar to this but I find it difficult to come up with the content. I know it has to be unique and full of value for those who are going to pay money for it. Which is why I can’t pick myself to offer something that isn’t too great. What do you think about outsourcing this part?

By: Alok Rana

Alok Rana — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:59:34 +0000

Hi Erik,

I can see online courses are getting quite a famous source of income among bloggers and marketers. I myself have plans to create my own online courses regarding blogging in near future.

I am familiar with the sites like Udemy and Teachable. There I see all bloggers are making money with their online courses.

Online courses are one of the main sources of income after affiliate marketing.

By: Sagar Nandwani

Sagar Nandwani — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 06:35:47 +0000

I am deep in the course creation process right now writing a big course to help paramedics pass a professional certification exam. I’m on a time crunch because I’ve already Pre-Sold the course to “test the waters.” I wish I had thought to create a small course first to get my feet wet before jumping into such a large undertaking. Too late now.

By: Ryan Biddulph

Ryan Biddulph — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:13:08 +0000

Hi Erik,

I like the idea of tracing the content. Love ;em all, actually.

When I create a course I think of a pressing need I see arise again and again. Observing bloggers struggling to drive traffic and profits, I created the 11 Fundamentals of Successful Blogging. When you follow the fundamentals for months, then years, profits and traffic flows in.

Ditto for How to Get Featured on World Famous blogs. Folks wanted to know, I saw a few blog posts I published on the topic got traction, so I created the course.

Check out a few of your most popular blog posts. These posts have the idea seed within for a rocking course, once you flesh out those ideas through an outline.

Thanks for sharing Erik.

Ryan

By: Shantanu Sinha

Shantanu Sinha — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 07:26:33 +0000

Hello Erik,

Great tips over here 🙂

On line courses or E- books are now in a trend, people are looking forward to get on this track and get going with
creating an e book and putting it in front of people.

Tips like getting an Idea and tracing the content to structure our online courses are very important. We need to know
about what type of audiences we are going to hit, thus we need to structure our base like that so that, we do not face
trouble in getting out with our courses.

Making it reach out is the toughest job to do, this can be eased by social media platform, putting live videos about our
courses and sharing its shadow up here could really boost our sale process.

Thanks for the share.

Shantanu.

By: Priya

Priya — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:36:28 +0000

Hello Erik,

To be honest I was just trying to figure out how does people create online course and make money, I think you have cleared all of my doubts in a single post.

Thanks

Priya.

By: Robin Khokhar

Robin Khokhar — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:24:17 +0000

Hi, Erik,
Selling online is pretty hard these days. But you have shared a detailed post about it.
The like the tips you have a share. Thanks.
Have a good day ahead.

By: Tom George

Tom George — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 05:45:36 +0000

Hi Erik:

I am big fan of Udemy. I am a developer and enroll in courses time to time, since I have keep myself updated.

I noticed that the guy who created one of these courses, made more than $300K from just a few courses(my rough calculation based on number of participants). And this course was a popular one.

So it is true that you can sure make a good income creating online courses, if you have the passion.. And of course, hard work too.

Regards
Tom