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4 Ways to use Done-For-You Tools in Your Online Teaching Business Done-for-you tools give your students adaptable and even swipe-worthy content that they can use to execute on the...read more
5 Creative Teaching Approaches for Your Online Course You’ve got different course delivery tools and approaches available for online teaching than you do for live...read more
How to Design A Signature System for Your Online Course A “signature system” puts your expertise and best processes into a roadmap that your students can use to get to their...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 10 | Planners, 5-Day Classes, Divi, Making Lessons It’s a Course Builder’s Diary episode. That means a behind the scenes look at work I’m doing on my...read more
6-Step Soft Launch Process for Selling Your Online Course When you get started with online teaching by offering a “minimum viable product” (MVP) or beta version of...read more
Is This Why You Want to Teach Online? First: do you have “the bug” to teach? One sure piece of evidence is that you’re always having ideas...read more
Will You Build It? A Quiz and First Steps for Becoming an Online Course Builder Would-be or will-be? Are you a would-be dreaming-on-it course builder unsure of how to start taking real action? Or...read more
A Step-by-Step Process to Create Content that Builds and Nurtures Your Audience Here’s why you need to create regular and free content to build an online teaching business It turns out that in...read more
3 Ways to Design a First Mini Course for Your Online Teaching Business Last week you learned that creating a first small or limited online course is a great first step for your online...read more
How to Make First Online Teaching Sales with a Beta or MVP Offer Building an online teaching business entails both course creation and marketing activities. I’ve heard again and again...read more
6 Digital Formats Perfect For Your First Online Teaching Offer When you want to get up and running with a first online course offer, consider going with a digital product that you...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 09 | Prep to Teach Live + Email Planning With Thanksgiving (and those Cyber Monday and Black Friday sales) in the rear view mirror, this was a week of new...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 08 | Membership Content Planning & Creation This week was a productive one: a new class went up at my scrapbooking membership Get It Scrapped, planning for...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 07 This week is all about making offers. See how I went from a draft of lessons for a live workshop to a completed offer...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 06 This was not a smooth work week for me–forces out of my control threw me off my game. Partly, I think that if I...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 05 I was a little “Friday-afternoon-giddy” in this entry. It always feels good to be looking at the weekend with projects...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 04 This week was one with only a single scheduled webinar or meeting… And I took advantage of it to get a big tech...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 03 This week I didn’t get a lot of writing or creating done. But I did do a whole bunch of live virtual teaching:...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 02 Debbie here back with a second “entry” in my course builder’s diary. This week, I’ve got a...read more
Course Builder’s Diary | Entry 01 You might have a picture of what your life would look like if your main gig was creating and selling online courses....read more
Four Teaching Approaches That Belong In Your Online Course Your online course should be designed to deliver a path to transformation for your students. You’re not selling...read more
Design Your Online Course with Considered Incorporation of “Touch” “Touch” is an aspect of your online course, and it refers to how much you interact with and personally...read more
4 Ways to Create Video Lessons for Your Online Course Converting your knowledge and skills into “on-demand” lessons that your students can access at their...read more
5 Key Procedures (+ 10 Tools) I Use Daily to Manage My Online Teaching Businesses I run two teaching businesses: Get It Scrapped since 2007 and Teach What You Do since late 2015. These aren’t...read more
Be Able To Talk About Your Online Course Before It’s Created and Launched (When You Take These 4 Steps) There are two distinct benefits to talking about your online course once it’s designed and outlined–and...read more
4 Steps to Refine and Define Your Successful Online Course Topic Once you’ve got an idea for a course topic, it’s time to refine it, testing and tweaking to come up with a...read more
How to Sell Your Online Course The work of selling your online course starts as soon as–or even before–you start making the actual...read more
How to Make a Lead Magnet and Set Up Email Automation to Deliver It An engaged email list is key to selling your online course. The mechanics of it, though, get many would-be teachers...read more
How to Supplement Your Online Course with a Modern-Day “Reading Room” Your own focused lessons will be the core of your online course. With that core made clear, though, you will always...read more
5 Options for Building Your Online Course Portfolio As you define–and refine!!–your online course offering, a primary consideration is how the course fits...read more
Start Your Online Teaching Efforts with 7 Touches I spent a brief time this month in a new facebook group that I’d joined because it was about building online...read more
5 First Tasks to Create Online Teaching Momentum Abe Lincoln said, “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the...read more
6 Tips for Naming Your Profitable Online Course To offer your online course to potential students, you need something to call it. You need a name. William...read more
Create Your Online Course Lessons in Multiple Formats and Get Your Students to their Learning Goals The starting place for making an exceptional online course is the transformation you will bring about for your...read more
6 Reasons You Might Be Stalled on Making Your Own Online Course Since you’re a Teach What You Do reader, you likely already know that for anyone with a special skill, coaching...read more
How to Choose Your Online Meeting Platform and Tools for Live eCourse Teaching Adding a “live virtual event” to your online course lets you personalize your teaching and address...read more
What eCourse Lessons Look Like: 3 Kinds of Online Class Content If you’re ready to make your own online class, you’ve probably started envisioning the lessons...read more
4 Ways To Get Quickly Onto the Field of Play with Your Own Online Course While I’m not a fan of rushing headlong into creating an online course without researching your audience, their...read more
3 Ways to Build Your Own Online Classroom It’s never been easier to set up your own online classroom. . . unless . . . . . . you don’t...read more
How to Make Progress When Your Online Course Idea is as Big and Many-Armed as an Octopus If you’ve got a talent, skill or body of knowledge you’d like to put to work in courses for others,...read more
5 Ways To Increase The Price of Your Online Course Pricing your online course is a question many of us fret on. What if you charge too much and no one buys? What if you...read more
5 Steps to Get Your Own Online Teaching Business Started Today While building a successful online teaching business is a multi-step project, when you’re new to work of...read more
What to Teach Online: 9 Questions That Suss Out Your Teachable Talent Your successful and profitable online course topic will: come out of your special talents, knowledge and expertise,...read more
A System for Creating and Selling an Online Class–Plus 3 Tasks to Start Right Now There has never been a better time to develop your own online class. Technology as well as people’s online...read more
