Ah, starts! Here's how to get started taking first steps for creating a profitable online class–or first digital product for generating passive income.
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1️⃣ PROBLEM-PROMISE-PATH MODEL
Understand that your successful online course will address a PROBLEM (or aspiration) with a PROMISE of transformation and a PATH to that end.🛤️
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2️⃣ YOUR TEACHABLE TALENTS
Take a look at your own “teachable talents” from several different angles. Think about you walking around . . . you, yourself . . . and viewing all you can do from multiple angles: 🔎 your skills and talents and studies. Your beliefs, style, connections, systems and more. I've got a super-useful free worksheet for you to go through 9 key angles of your “teachable talents” at teachwhatyoudo.com/talents
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3️⃣ LISTENING STATION
Get to know your audience with an ear to hearing and understanding their frustrations and desires: 🎧 what do they want and what do they see as being in their way to getting it?
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Start this work by getting into the groups and conversations they're having online. Find them here on Instagram by looking at hashtags. See what their passions are. Figure out who their current gurus are and where everyone is hanging out and chatting. Set up a spreadsheet and record what you're hearing. Join and engage and listen.
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*️⃣ THAT'S IT
Those are the first key steps, and you can get started with them today. The understanding you get from engaging with your audience (#3 above 🎧) + knowing your teachable talents (#2 above 🔎) is how you're going to begin developing your own idea for a course which will address a problem with a promise and path (#1above 🛤️).
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⏳Are you listening to your audience? If not, let's get you started.