Welcome to the Course Creation Bites Trailer. I’m your host, Sam Winch, the course creator with a name that sounds like a lunch time food, and I’m delighted that you’re here!
In this brief episode, I share a little about myself and my passion for helping busy business owners create courses with great content. I cover what you’re going to get out of this terrific bite-sized podcast series.
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I’ll admit, it sends a shiver down my spine whenever I see someone in a big Facebook group as “What platform should I put my course on?”. Mostly, because I know the answers they receive will be biased. Other course creators will tell you the platform they are using is “the best, you should definitely
So, you’ve written a book… now what? Don’t get me wrong, writing a book in an amazing achievement (and definitely one that I can’t claim), but what comes next? What if your readers love your book, your content and your concepts, but they want to learn more? What if they are looking for a deeper
I know this is a question which goes through the minds of most course creators.“How much content should I include in my online course?” Should you build a 1 week intensive? An 8 week course? A 12 month program?Should it have dozens of videos and workbooks, or just a select few? It feels like a
Funnily enough, I spent A LOT of time talking to people who want to make an online course, but haven’t yet.In fact, I ask everyone who joins the Content into Courses Facebook group what’s stopping them from having an online course. And there are some common themes that come up when we talk about why
If you are a regular reader, then I’m sure you’ve heard me talk about support a hundred times before. Your students will get much better results from your online course if they have support as they work through your content. A study of Open Online Courses showed an average completion rate of just 10%. Yup,
I get it, creating a course is a huge investment, in time, and often in money as well. You need to create the content, record the videos, do the tech, buy the software and plugins, and maybe hire someone to help. It’s a big undertaking. BUT Oh yes, the all-important but… If this is your
A course doesn’t have to replace all of your existing clients and offerings. In fact, I highly recommend that it doesn’t. Having all of your eggs in one basket is risky, whether that’s only doing face to face training, or only doing online courses… whenever it includes the word “only” it opens us up to
I get it… if “create course” has been sitting on your to do list for a long time, it’s probably because it feels completely overwhelming. There are lots of moving parts, lots of things to make, then there’s the tech… and you feel like you just don’t have the time or know where to start.
When working with clients to create a course, we start with the Minimum Viable Product (mvp), or in this case, a Minimum Viable Course. Good old Wikipedia tells me “A minimum viable product is a version of a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers and provide feedback for future product development. “ I
