How to Launch an Online Course – Ultimate Guide [Checklist Incl]

Success Unscrambled Podcast

Apr 24 2023 • 50 mins

This guide begins with a story about Sandra, a 25-year-old chef working at a local restaurant.  She is known amongst her peers and customers as the "genius behind the recipe."  To Sandra, cooking goes beyond simply heating up a collection of ingredients – it is an art that she’s perfected over the years. She loves cooking and is passionate about her craft. Through her experience and networking within the culinary world, Sandra meets a man named Kyle: the owner of a five-star restaurant downtown who loved the cinnamon rolls Sandra's restaurant is famous for.  Wanting to learn more about her and her style of cooking, Kyle offers her a lead role in the online culinary courses he manages for international students. Sandra began nurturing this idea of developing a course and selling it to people like Kyle and his students stationed all over the world. As Sandra considers making her first course she realizes that there is a lot she doesn't know about how to create one. Her knowledge of successful online course creation is not at the same level compared with her knowledge of cooking. It’s clear that there are many people like Sandra, armed with the perfect potential to excel in creating courses online but lacking the basic knowledge required to launch their course content onto the internet in the best way.   Here’s how to launch an online course with ease and transparent comprehension. What Are the Benefits of Launching an Online Course? Perfect Source of Passive Income One of the many advantages that come with launching an online course is that your presence isn’t needed in order to earn income.  You’ll need to invest in marketing, but after that, the course pretty much runs itself. It doesn't have to take up a lot of time. The simple fact of only needing to do it once makes the whole process much more straightforward.  If you are looking for the most effective way to earn a passive income with a smaller workload and less oversight, launching an online course is an ideal route to consider. Expand Your Audience  Building monetary value is common sense:  The bigger the market you cover, the more sales you accumulate. What better possible way can you reach more audiences if not online?  Online learning is available to anyone with an internet connection. By putting your course content online your list of potential students expands exponentially from just students in your local area, Work Remotely Like Sandra, it doesn't matter where you are. Just like your students can be anywhere with an internet connection, so can you. You can do a lot of work creating your course in a coffee shop or have your launch day on vacation in Bali You can be anywhere at any time and still make sales. If flexibility in where and when you work is important to you, creating an online course could definitely be the right decision for you. Creating online courses is one of the most highly recommended businesses for many such as those stay-at-home moms who wish to make a living while still keeping an eye on their kids. It is also great for those who travel frequently or wish to start living the digital nomad lifestyle. Self-Fulfilment Online course creation is for people who find joy in the ability to impact others by sharing their knowledge of a particular niche. A great course is made by someone who has a passion for sharing their knowledge with others. In any circumstance, you may have seen people quit their regular jobs so they may concentrate solely on creating course material on a particular topic. To these types of people, creating this material is more of a hobby than it is a business. When they made their first online course they discovered the joy of teaching others and they keep that positivity going through each new course they create. As the popular quote by Confucious goes, “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”