Win-win partnerships with the accelerator method with Abdo Riani
The Online Course Coach Podcast
How do you handle your competition? What if you could find solutions where you both win and so do your students? Abdo Riani shares how to leverage the audience of indirect competitors instead of fighting for the attention of their audience.
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Teaching People How to Travel Full Time with Ashley Logsdon
The Online Course Coach Podcast
Have you thought of traveling and still being able to meet your job demands? In this episode, we get insights from Ashley Logsdon, who has been traveling full-time with her family.
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How to Automate Your Online Course Marketing
The Online Course Coach Podcast
Do your courses sell as many as you would like? Do you have a marketing strategy in place? In this episode, I share 3 effective strategies to automate your course marketing. Imagine having a marketing strategy in place that works FOR you 24/7?
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Copywriting for Course Creators with Paige Poutiainen
The Online Course Coach Podcast
Copywriting is critical for online business success in this in this digital age. A well-written copy goes a long way towards converting readers to customers, otherwise, people visiting your website or blog will scroll down and move over to the next one. In this episode, Jeff Long speaks to Paige Poutiainen about copywriting practices that sell.
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What I’ve Learned from being in Business since 2003
The Online Course Coach Podcast
I share some of the lessons have learned from being in business for 15 years now. I speak about why you should hire a coach or business consultants, why you should outsource some of your work, how to find your audience, having a success mindset, and generally how you can become successful in your course.
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How to know if you're "expert" enough to create a course
The Online Course Coach Podcast
Are you an expert? Do you get overwhelmed with all the parts in creating an online course? I give my honest thoughts on how to know if your "expert enough" and how to overcome imposter syndrome so you can serve your audience more effectively.
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How to Find Your Audience for Maximum Online Course Success with Anna Powers
The Online Course Coach Podcast
Struggling to find your audience? Not happy with the results you've gotten in your business and online course? Sara Anna Powers and I talk about these topics and she how has scaled to a multi 6 figure business so quickly.
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How to create multiple streams of income with online courses and corporate consulting with Kimanzi Constable
The Online Course Coach Podcast
Do you want to travel the world consulting with companies? What if you could license your courses to these companies who pay per user? In this episode, Kimanzi Constable shares how he does it.
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How to 10X Your Online Course Business
The Online Course Coach Podcast
This podcast is for beginners and experts alike. So whether you don’t have a course or have many you’ll learn something about how to 10x your online course business.
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The Top Traits of Successful Online Course Creators
The Online Course Coach Podcast
I’ve interviewed successful course creators. I’ve also coached course creators and created courses of my own as well as for large companies and have found that there are differences in ones that succeed and ones that don’t. And it’s not their fame, money or other factors. I’ll talk about those differences in this episode.
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One of the key factors in the success of an online course is how well put together the course content is in your videos. If it's thrown together or isn't done properly you could lose students and income. In this episode, I share 7 Tips to create effective course videos.
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1. Keep your ideas, script and course content outlined using Evernote or Google Docs.
By having your notes on these devices you can sync them anywhere on everywhere on any device. And that gives you peace of mind knowing that if your computer crashes that you haven't lost everything.
2. Survey your audience using Google Forms or Survey Monkey
We all know how important it is to survey your students to ask them what they want to learn and what their biggest struggles are (this is where your best course content can come from). But you can also ask what type of video they like most and would learn best from. You might learn that this type of video will take some time and work for you to complete but that will actually help you stand out from your competition who only created basic course videos and didn't go above and beyond like you will.
3. If you use slides, don’t have your slides be a brain dump of information.
Put a few key points, or even 1 statement that you talk about. Just like Ted Talks only have one thing per slide, your slides shouldn't have too much content. Use a mix of stories so you’re not just reading from slides. Your students will engage more with your course content if you relate stories throughout your course videos.
4. Use the Know, Feel, Do method to reach different learning styles
Are you only putting information in your online courses or are you engaging your students with different learning styles? Don't forget to use this method to improve your courses. For more information on this method, check out 3 Simple Teaching Tips for Better Online Course Videos.
5. If you don’t want to be on camera get creative with alternative videos.
While I recommend being on camera for some or all of your course videos, you can get creative. Create a video where you only show your hands or have someone ask questions to you off camera. But the main thing is to not underestimate the expertise that you provide. You don't have to be a world famous expert. You just have to be 1 step ahead of your students. Keep your focus on your students and not on you. Know that you are your worst critic. While you might think you look or sound strange, your students will not…I promise you!
6. If you’re filming with your iPhone or webcam, turn off notifications and put your phone in airplane mode
There's nothing worse than a distraction while you're filming so put your phone in airplane mode and turn off any notifications on your computer. This will make your course videos go a lot better and you won't be distracted by anything.
7. Buy an external hard drive to store your course videos
You never know when a computer will crash or fail. Plus video content will fill up your computer quickly so buy an external hard drive to store your videos. Even better, use Dropbox or Google Drive to store the files and sync them in the cloud. You want to be able to access these files in the future if you need to change something and having them synced online will greatly help. I recommend having a local backup AND a cloud backup. That way you reduce the risks.