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Research and validate your topic
Look for a topic that...
- ...excites you,
- helps your audience, and
- is worth paying for.
Validate your topic ideas:
- Set up a landing page and collect email addresses for people who are interested in a course on that topic to gauge interest.
- Survey your audience
- Look for existing courses
Write an outline
- Modules: three to eight steps that take brand-new students to the end of what you want to teach them
- Break modules into lessons
Tips:
- More isn't better
- Bite-sized content is easier to skim and process
Template for online course outline
Choose a format
- written materials
- video lessons
- recorded audio lessons
- a slideshow
- a live workshop or webinar
- a combination of some (or all) of the above
Tip: Mix and match different formats to get the best of both worlds.
Create the course materials
- Outline a lesson, then flesh it out
- Look for opportunities to add even more value with extra materials like workbooks, live sessions, community access, and high production quality
Rinse and repeat for every lesson.
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Research and validate your topic
Write an outline
Choose a format
Create the course materials
Bookmarks
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